The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was pervasive in the Jim Crow South. In Selma, Alabama, on 7 March 1965, he led ...

Among​ the poems Edward Thomas drafted in 1916, shortly before he was posted to France, was ‘As the team’s head-brass’. The poet, seated in the boughs of a fallen elm, watches a ploughman at work ...

Controversy over Cecil Rhodes began long before the recent campaign to remove statues of him from the University of Cape Town ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...

Gustave Flaubert’s first three novels, Madame Bovary, Salammbô and L’Éducation sentimentale, were all published ...

A version in Scots of a Sumerian hymn to the goddess of love and war, attributed to the priestess Enheduanna of Ur (fl. 2255 ...

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had ...

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to ...