Category: Visual Art
Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment
At the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, a new exhibit just opened that features an Indigenous artist’s exhibition, Royal Portrait, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous matriarchs through reimagining royal regalia and portraiture. Source: Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment
Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US – BBC Culture
“With Studio Ghibli,” says Napier, “you have a sense that, contrary to the Judeo-Christian Western point of view, humans are not necessarily the dominant creatures in the world.” It’s an ethos with arguable roots in Japan’s history of ecological disasters, and in Shintoism, the animistic folk religion of Japan, based…
What Was Hygiene Like In The Aztec Empire?
The Aztec, a collective of Mesoamericans who thrived from the 14th to the 16th centuries, were the inheritors of ancient cultural traditions from their Olmec, Mayan, and Toltec predecessors. Aztec hygiene practices reflected earlier practice, continuing a dedication to cleanliness and purity. Source: What Was Hygiene Like In The Aztec…
Cult designer Shayne Oliver on his return to fashion| Hood By Air | PLATFORM
Interview by Martin Lerma Shayne Oliver is ready for a comeback. His New York-based label Hood By Air changed fashion by unapologetically showcasing Black thought and queerness when it launched in the early 2010s. But the brand has been on hiatus since 2016. Platform spoke with Oliver about why now…
Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (@kalhoroanthropologist) • Instagram photos and videos
Explore the rock art of Pakistan with the only archaeologist documenting and preserving these to date.      View this post on Instagram            A post shared by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (@kalhoroanthropologist) 675 Followers, 254 Following, 2,471…
The evolving image of the European in African art from antiquity until the 19th century: from Roman captives in Kush, to Portuguese traders in Benin, to Belgian colonialists in Congo. | Isaac Samuel
While studies of “otherness” have been recently popularized across various fields, they often focus on the images of foreign individuals or groups made by artists living in the western world (such as the depictions of people of African descent made by artists of European descent living in places where the…
Home EN — Design Fest Gent
Design Fest Gent demonstrates what design can (and indeed should) be: inquisitive, experimental and activistic. The festival encourages creativity and will become a matchmaker for new collaborations between designers, knowledge institutions, organizations and the industry. These parties join forces because design is so much more than making objects. Source: Home…
Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment
At the Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, a new exhibit just opened that features an Indigenous artist’s exhibition, Royal Portrait, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous matriarchs through reimagining royal regalia and portraiture. Source: Royal Portrait: The Regality of Indigenous Women | Arts & Entertainment
Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US – BBC Culture
“With Studio Ghibli,” says Napier, “you have a sense that, contrary to the Judeo-Christian Western point of view, humans are not necessarily the dominant creatures in the world.” It’s an ethos with arguable roots in Japan’s history of ecological disasters, and in Shintoism, the animistic folk religion of Japan, based…
What Was Hygiene Like In The Aztec Empire?
The Aztec, a collective of Mesoamericans who thrived from the 14th to the 16th centuries, were the inheritors of ancient cultural traditions from their Olmec, Mayan, and Toltec predecessors. Aztec hygiene practices reflected earlier practice, continuing a dedication to cleanliness and purity. Source: What Was Hygiene Like In The Aztec…
Cult designer Shayne Oliver on his return to fashion| Hood By Air | PLATFORM
Interview by Martin Lerma Shayne Oliver is ready for a comeback. His New York-based label Hood By Air changed fashion by unapologetically showcasing Black thought and queerness when it launched in the early 2010s. But the brand has been on hiatus since 2016. Platform spoke with Oliver about why now…
Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (@kalhoroanthropologist) • Instagram photos and videos
Explore the rock art of Pakistan with the only archaeologist documenting and preserving these to date.      View this post on Instagram            A post shared by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro (@kalhoroanthropologist) 675 Followers, 254 Following, 2,471…
The evolving image of the European in African art from antiquity until the 19th century: from Roman captives in Kush, to Portuguese traders in Benin, to Belgian colonialists in Congo. | Isaac Samuel
While studies of “otherness” have been recently popularized across various fields, they often focus on the images of foreign individuals or groups made by artists living in the western world (such as the depictions of people of African descent made by artists of European descent living in places where the…
Home EN — Design Fest Gent
Design Fest Gent demonstrates what design can (and indeed should) be: inquisitive, experimental and activistic. The festival encourages creativity and will become a matchmaker for new collaborations between designers, knowledge institutions, organizations and the industry. These parties join forces because design is so much more than making objects. Source: Home…