This article looks at contemporary artworks that utilise re-enactment as scenes of learning to engage with feminism’s histories. Virginia Woolf’s call for ‘a room of one’s own’ is re-imagined for today, when we might have a room, but often not the time to use it. Re-ena...

AbstractBased on considerations of the connection between fascination, crisis, and the “Medusa effect,” this paper argues that contemporary drama tends to challenge the audience’s sense of safe spectatorship by stimulating perceptual crises, returning the spectators’ ga...

Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) drew on the Italian Renaissance tradition of the Man of Sorrows to advance the Christological message within the altarpiece context of his Pietà with Saints (1585). From its location at the high altar of the Capuchin church of St. Mary Magd...

Both tomatoes and recipes are relatively recent British imports to the Indian subcontinent. Neither was commonly used by locals in the region until the late 1940s. Yet in less than a hundred years, the tomato has become an everyday ingredient in the Indian pantry, and I...

Few musicians of the twentieth century are as recognisable as Jacqueline du Pré. Her dazzling and distinctive talent, said to have enraptured audiences the world over, was overcome by a tragic diagnosis of MS. This sense of tragedy was all the more heightened by Du Pré’...

This article presents a case study of a decolonized curriculum development in the Art History programme at the small liberal arts institution Kalamazoo College (Michigan, USA). It discusses the curriculum plan, methods for learning, assessment and potential applications...

Sertanistas e missionários na América do século xviii continuaram uma tradição castelhana de cultura visual baseada em esboços, desenhos de itinerário e mapas que comunicaram seu sentido de espaço, território e lugar vinculado às suas memórias. Com o peso político alcan...

Since the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic workers from the Philippines have moved to Hong Kong. As they filled the city’s growing demand for care work, they also altered the city’s art practice and cultural landscape. In this article, I propose to consi...

"The article deals with the issue about the relationship between the notions of “monumental” and “miniature” in various types of art. A very conditional division of these notions is noted. These notions are characteristic of artistic creativity in general and, as a resu...

My paper analyses the 15th-century seven-sacraments font at the medieval church of St Peter and St Paul at Salle in Norfolk (England). The church guides and gazetteers that describe the font, and the church in which it is situated, owe both their style and content to Ar...