When ISIS fighters seized the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, they tried to destroy the Great Mosque of al-Nuri’s minaret, regarding it as idolatrous. But residents formed a human chain around it, ...
On Monday, many of us will remember the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., by listening to his iconic speech from late August of 1963. And, pointing to slow curtailment of voting rights and to the ...
It’s tempting to think of ancient Egypt as a static, monolithic entity. A new exhibition, Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, however, challenges the viewer to ...
A statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond was defaced and pulled off its pedestal earlier this week. (John McDonnell/The Washington Post) Perspective by Sebastian Smee You’ve seen ...
Introduction: Clean Cuts -- Using and Abusing Images and Objects: After The Destruction of Art -- Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Iconoclasm and Institutional Integrity -- Iconoclasm's Geographies: ...
The first artifact you see in the fascinating exhibition “Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt,” at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, is a head of Hatshepsut (reigned c. 1478-1458 B.C.) of the 18th ...
WITH BREATHTAKING contempt for history, culture and world opinion, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are destroying the nation's ancient Buddhist statuary in the name of Islamic purity. It is mindless ...
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