Category Archives: Culture

“Observation is everything to me”: In conversation with artist Lauren Tamaki

    Illustrations by Lauren Tamaki     Seen and Unseen, by Elizabeth Partridge, explores a grave moment in world history, the Japanese American incarceration as captured by three photographers, Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams, beautifully balancing their … Read More →

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September Newsletter: Made in Milan, A Hell of a Good Life, and Outlaw Blues

    Photos: Classiq Journal     ”I think of myself as someone who is a beginner, not as someone who has already said a lot.” Giorgio Armani, Made in Milan       Viewing Fatto a Milano (Made in … Read More →

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August Newsletter: Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em wait, and Silkwood

    Photos: Classiq Journal     “The authors of genuine children’s literature, then, are only rarely and indirectly educators… Jules Verne is perhaps the only one. They are poets whose imagination is privileged to remain on the dream wavelength … Read More →

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July newsletter: Leigh Fermor’s Mani, Jules Dassin’s Athens, and Moondance

    “All at once a further wonder came to increase our well-being: a cool breath of wind. This is one of the seldom-failing blessings of midsummer in the Peloponnese.” Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese   … Read More →

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“Life, with all its ups and downs, is what fascinates me”: In conversation with Raluca Harabagiu

Photo: Desene cu lumina     How can I be who I am? There is no single answer to that, just as there is no single way to be happy. But it is a question we all should ask ourselves … Read More →

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