Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

In language, the worlds of art and sports are not so far apart. Both speak of heavyweights, maestros, masterful technique, and the exhibition of talent. Their ends, too, have drawn closer in the age ...

History doesn't just happen. It pivots on moments when someone made a choice that changed everything. Some decisions were made in boardrooms, others in laboratories, and a few on battlefields. Think ...

"This book is devoted to documenting the tremendous discursive energies of modern artists and critics who lived and worked in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Middle East and North ...