Thames & Hudson has published Matisse in the Barnes Foundation
edited by Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in
the School of Historical Studies. The Barnes Foundation's Matisse
collection, comprised of fifty-nine works from every stage of the
artist’s career...
Anyone leafing through the pages of this volume cannot but
be struck not only by the pace at which the artist’s production
evolved during this early period of his career but also by its
diversity—with the exception perhaps of the paintings
he...
Mikhail Gorbachev defied every expectation at home and abroad by
permitting the Berlin Wall to be breached in November 1989. He had
finally allowed the imbalance of military power in Europe, which
had stood provocatively and overwhelmingly to Soviet...
I had the privilege of being a Member at the Institute for
Advanced Study from January to April 2015, during which my main
research project concerned a corpus of Arabic documents from
medieval Nubia. I had the opportunity to make a presentation
at...
What makes a digital Ottoman project different from other
digital projects and why isn’t it a straightforward endeavor but
rather one that will probably take several years to develop
successfully? And why isn’t there one already? Why would
twenty...
“When Paul Cézanne wants to speak ... he says with his picture
what words could only falsify.” In The Voices of Silence
(1951), French author and statesman André Malraux expressed his
view that the Post-Impressionist painter could only “speak”
with...
We should not assume that making sense of post-Soviet Russia was
ever going to be easy. Great Powers that lose empires bear grudges
and the speed with which an empire is lost can exacerbate the
problem. No one can expect that a powerful country run...
During Augustus’s reign (late first century B.C.E.), the
philosopher Athenodoros returned from Rome to his hometown Tarsos,
in southwest Turkey. When he found the city dominated by the poet
and demagogue Boethos, he used the authority given to him...
