Cultureteca 14.06.20
South Asia and Latin America endured another turbulent week at the heart of the global coronavirus pandemic, while COVID-19 increasingly roiled the southern and western United States. Cases were rising fastest across...
Cultureteca 19.04.20
The new phase of life under coronavirus no longer sees rapid societal shifts and exponential spread, but rather stolid perseverance under creeping restrictions as deaths and rates of infection stabilise while exacting...
Cultureteca 21.05.17
Best-Preserved Nodosaur Goes on Display in Alberta This week the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada unveiled what has been described as the world’s best-preserved armoured dinosaur. A newfound species...
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Obscured
The 2015 supermoon lunar eclipse – the rare conjunction of a total lunar eclipse, with the Moon turned red in the full shadow of the Earth, and a ‘supermoon’, where the Moon...
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1980 by William Eggleston
What is it that makes this image – New Orleans, Louisiana, 1980, taken by the American photographer William Eggleston – so utterly compelling? Immediately it is pure colour: the vivid shift of red of the first lady’s...
Daily Visual 30.07.15: Ai Weiwei and Facing History
A major Ai Weiwei retrospective will open at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on 19 September. Billed as ‘the first major institutional survey of his work ever held in the UK’...
Cloughton Wyke: Instagram X
This series of seventeen photographs, taken at the beginning of last summer, incorporates a York sunset in bands of gold, pink, and blue; a Mallard duck and her ducklings; three views of the countryside...
Springtime in England: Instagram IX
gainst a context where there is springtime in both Alaska and Paris, in the Rockies, and for Hitler, but ‘Summertime in England’, ‘Springtime in England’ seems neither here nor there. Indeed, there are...
Umeå 2014 and Jokkmokk Winter Market: Instagram VIII
meå stands alongside Riga as one of two European Capitals of Culture for 2014. Since its introduction in 1985, when Athens served as the first official European Capital of Culture, the designation...