William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Beat Hotel
In a piece I wrote last month on William Burroughs, and the composition and publication of his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, I noted his defining relationship with the artist Brion Gysin. Burroughs...
In a piece I wrote last month on William Burroughs, and the composition and publication of his 1959 novel Naked Lunch, I noted his defining relationship with the artist Brion Gysin. Burroughs...
The South Asian rooms of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London revel in the rich splendour of Mughal painting, with its flattened perspectives, bustling locales, and bold colour palettes made up...
Prinsengracht is the outer canal, and therefore the longest, of the four major canals which together comprise Amsterdam’s canal belt. Its northwesterly section passes by Westerkerk, Amsterdam’s famous Dutch Protestant church, designed by...
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...
The etymology of the word ‘apple’ takes us back to the Early Middle Ages, when it appeared in various related forms across the Germanic languages: as ‘apful’/’aphul’ or ‘apfel’/’aphel’ in Old High...
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...
The following documents are intended to be viewed and read in conjunction with my piece ‘Art and Architecture Towards Political Crises: The 1937 Paris International Exposition in Context’. They consist of pictures...
The 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (‘International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life’) was held in Paris: the French capital’s sixth and latest International...
ast summer, my partner and I spent a week in New York City. This was our first time visiting the city; and for me, despite having covered the breadth of Europe, my...