Building to Inspire
Some of the most important spaces on campuses are the spaces in between the buildings, the walkways, plazas, green spaces. For the buildings within the Athenaeum to be successful, they need to be connected to these exterior spaces.
The Dragon’s Pearl
Unlike the dragons of the West, the dragons of East Asia are benevolent, compassionate creatures, combining the best attributes of several animals: the talon of the eagle, the head of the lion, and the body of the serpent.
Classicism by Decree
Greenberg dwells on the current function of “kitsch,” which he defines as “academicized simulacra of genuine culture,” and “vicarious experience and faked sensations.”
Nowhere at Home: Albert Einstein, the ‘Gypsy’ Who Became a Citizen of the World
Towards each and every one of these countries in which he lived or travelled, he felt an ambivalence. With the possible exception of Switzerland, Einstein felt nowhere at home throughout his life.
The Man Who Insulted Shakespeare
The old system of aristocratic literary patronage was on the wane; Greene and his friends still sought patronage by attaching fulsome dedications to their works, but with slender or no results.
My Detroit, My Afghanistan
Despite enforced school segregation, my father became a diligent and helpful high school teacher at all-black Miller High, where he taught kids like jazz great Kenny Burrell.
Dispatches From the Emotional Rollercoaster
Two decades of concentrated empirical research into the history of emotions has armed historians with broad knowledge claims about what emotions are, how they work, and upon what they are contingent.
From the Outside In: A Foreigner’s Education in American History
As I’ve grown more familiar with the colonists’ habits and beliefs, however, I’ve become increasingly skeptical of the Americanization thesis.
#MeToo Books: Entry Points for Men’s Understanding a Women’s Movement
More than any of the other books above, Speak enables a reader (female or male) to immerse in the experience of having been assaulted—and the traumatic aftermath.
The Incursion of Administrative Language into the Education of Artists
In effect we teach strategies of disunity in the place of the Aristotelian unities, and our students practice making disunified works as soon as they become aware of the possibility.
Geology of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex: A Primer
One reason that population and economic activity in north central Texas focused on the Metroplex is because the Trinity River is short and does not flow over the salt deposits to the west.
What Does Charlie Hebdo Have To Do With U.S. Campuses?
Charlie’s total emancipation from civilized society’s hang-ups, our complexes, the sheer and wanton self-expression of its cartoonists, had stood—briefly—as a universal banner uniting all “free” people, countered by cold and calculated murder with military-style weapons perpetrated in the name of a religion that the attackers claimed to be defending.
Photography as Representation and Presentation
In Adams’s work the spectator enjoys the crystalline and fresh water of the river and she has the freedom of moving her gaze far away, toward the rocks, in the direction of an infinite and boundless space.
Home, Tradition, and the Mediterranean Landscape: The Uncanniness of the Italian Woman
On the one hand the contemporary Italian woman is exposed to the current debate about gender roles and emancipation and, on the other, her identity is still profoundly influenced by a traditional model to which she feels attached.
The Best Painting in Naples
In Caravaggio’s painting there is not even an apparent connection between heavenly and terrestrial worlds. The heavenly observers look down, but no one looks up to them. The long outstretched right hand of the lower angel descends, but he, unobserved by anyone below, does not act on the human world.
The Substance of Sicilian Puppet Theater: Past and Present
In Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part II, a Mafia boss walking through New York City’s Little Italy stops in front of an outdoor puppet theater performance to watch two knights wielding swords, then quickly turns away, remarking that the action is too violent for him.
