The Art of Destruction
A Libyan engineer-turned-artist has transformed a former outpost of intimidation into a museum devoted to memorializing Libya’s civil war.
View ArticleA Mecca in London
Cultural events are fostering a lively and provocative debate on Islam’s role in Britain.
View ArticleTreasure Hunters
Turkey’s effort in fighting over long-lost objects in Britain would be better employed on improving the deplorable state of cultural management at home.
View ArticleA Kaleidoscope of Charms
No one wandering the backstreets of Istanbul chancing upon Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence will feel diminished. Its success makes us all richer.
View ArticleAt Peace With the Past
A special exhibit in Dresden about the battle of Stalingrad suggests that, in Germany today, historical self-awareness means neither forgetting the past nor getting stuck in it.
View ArticleFrom Church to Mosque to Museum Back to Mosque
Demands by Turkey’s religious right that former churches and mosques that have been turned into museums be converted back into mosques are producing architectural disasters.
View ArticleStatue Symbols
Another Lenin effigy is dismantled, in Kiev, but can Ukraine do better than Russia at shedding the Soviet legacy?
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