In cooperation with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, we are organizing an exhibition of works by photographers of Hungarian origin who emigrated to the United States.This large-scale exhibition, featuring nearly thirty artists,aims to showcase the extremely rich Hungarian-American photographic heritage.
The ringing of the stream of things. High among the stars... A duel on an empty island sets the course for one of the greatest romances ever told. As the lovers of legend meet, something new is born, and something eternal is revealed. Their names will forever be spoken as one. This modern re-telling of Tristan and Yseult sheds a stark light on the ......
What do Winston Churchill, Rosa Parks, Emile Zola, Billy Beane and Christopher Hitchens have in common? They are all Contrarians. This book is about the people who do not quietly slip into the shadows, who revel in playing devils advocate, who zig when everyone else zags and who dare ask the question.
In an art world that has lost itself to gimmickry and the distortions and hallucinations of Capitalism on crack, here is an artist who values depth and integrity, and is patiently and powerfully reminding us of what art is and can be.
Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great Exhibition
The year 2023 sees the 150th anniversary of the death of William Harry Rogers. Rogers was one of the fi nest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, someone to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. His designs won several prize medals at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event ......
Growing up with Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family
In An Irishman Abroad, Tarka King recalls his feral youth on the periphery of the Anglo-Irish world, his brief UK public school education and a period of extensive travel, followed by a period of soldiering in the Middle East at the height of the Cold War before returning to Ireland. The book identifies the pre-Belfast Good Friday Agreement ......
Since 2003 Hong Kong has changed dramatically. In recent years the city has been rocked by social instability and Covid-19, yet Hong Kong endures, evolving as it always has. This book is a window to the events of a city that has been the author's home for over two decades. It captures the events that at times shuddered the city to others that ......
A woman lies unconscious on the carpet of a smart Westminster apartment, one red high-heeled shoe has fallen off... A younger woman lies with her eyes closed, half-hidden under a drinks cabinet... Her fingers clutch an empty bottle... What happens when a mother withholds her love? When she has no love to withhold? When she sees her three daughters ......
