Photo: Indians Migrating by Alexander F. Harmer, n.d., Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum.(Credit Image: © Album via ZUMA Press) Jeff Fynn-Paul, Not Stolen: The Truth About European Colonialism in the New World, Bombardier Books, 2023, 386 pp., $17.26 (paper) The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, opens every public lecture with this: In the spirit of
Follow these tips to make perfect cocktails at home. (Image Credit: Istock) Making cocktails is nothing short of an art form. You need to strike a balance between the liquor, sweetener, and other ingredients to make that perfect glass of cocktail. The best part is that you can experiment with them in endless ways –
New York’s Metropolitan Museum houses a pair of 2,000-year-old earrings from South India. About 3 inches wide and 1.5 inches in length, the earring seems small compared to the wide variety of monumental and magnificent objects from South Asia that surround them. Yet, for ear ornaments they are large – each one is about the
When priests at the Krishnaswamy temple in Attingal in southern Kerala summoned gods through rituals, a young A Ramachandran watched in quiet wonder. Years later, his sculptures still reflect those cosmic arrangements — the precision with which the sanctum was adorned for worshippers to be mesmerised by the idol that shone in the light of
The artist Corita Kent went by several names in the course of her lifetime. As a little girl growing up in Iowa in the 1920s, she was Frances Elizabeth Kent. On entering the order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) in Los Angeles, aged 18, she became Sister Mary Corita (the name likely a
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Amazon, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet look set to ramp up capital spending, as the world’s biggest cloud computing groups build up capacity to serve the growth of generative artificial intelligence. The Big Tech groups,
You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here. Download the free LiSTN audio app on Google Play, Apple or here. RYK VAN NIEKERK: Welcome to this week’s edition of the Be a Better Investor Podcast. It’s a podcast where I speak to finance professionals about their views on investments – not only in their professional capacity, but also
After having spent around fifty years in a dimly lit, cloistered flat, the Shahs had a simple yet non-negotiable vision for their new Mumbai home. They wanted an airy space flooded with natural light—open, expansive, and unrestricted—a true luxury in the Maximum City. Farheen Nanji and Naasish Nanji Reshamwala of FN Design Studio ran with
Louisa Lorenz from Bountiful, Utah explains her technique to admirers at a “quick paint” plein air competition in Capitola Saturday afternoon. The competition was part of the annual Capitola Plen Air art festival hosted by the Capitola Arts and Cultural Commission. (Aric Sleeper/Santa Cruz Sentinel) CAPITOLA — The annual Capitola Plein Air art festival, which
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – One local artist is doing her part to bring back a rare form of art, and she does it all from her home in Manhattan, Kansas. Brianna Spraque, who got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kansas State back in 2012, brings books to life with something called ‘hidden fore-edge painting.’