Janus, the Roman god of transitions and passages, of beginnings and endings, gave us the name January for the first month of the new year. It marks the end of ...
Each year as we approach the new year, I note a few cultural markers to set the tone for a new, wide-open year. This year I’m struggling with what these ...
As a child, I gazed at the evening stars, wondering what was out there in the universe. Were there people on other planets? Did they resemble us, talk like us, ...
A recent TV program about restoring Notre Dame de Paris after the 2019 fire made me reconsider the meaning of “restoration”: is it possible? The near-finished work on Notre Dame ...
He spoke of the event as an Attentat, “propaganda of the deed,” an assassination for political purpose. Inspired by the idea of revolt that permeated his native Russia, when he ...
As the days get longer, the cold gets stronger.” That old weather nugget certainly had January in mind, as the average temperatures keep tumbling through the 19th for maximum daily ...
In 1971, art historian Linda Nochlin wrote a groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” describing how social, cultural, and political forces created barriers for women in ...