‘I would like a coffee with milk and a sandwich with ham and cheese please.’
‘Bitte?’
She stood there, pen and notepad in hand, her...
In July 1961 Grace Bumbry strode onstage at the Bayreuth Festival. She was 24, and had earned positive reviews at a few major opera houses...
We are always burying the dead. In this way, we are like the church interiors of old Dutch prints. Often in the background, workers have...
As Rob Dückers, our tour guide for the day at the Amsterdam Museum, explained the Dutch’s practical mindset of making money, I couldn’t help but...
Auguste Rodin’s well-known bronze sculpture, The Secret depicts a mysterious object held between two hands [iii]. The hands around ‘the secret’ belong to two individuals....
In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...
High above the sun pulses in the haze of an ash-grey sky. It’s a Thursday in late August 1998, nearing one o’clock in the afternoon,...
“Potverdomme!” Marty pounded his fist on the antique table, knocking books to the floor.
Used to the interjection, I murmured, “What happened this time?”
I...
Amsterdam’s Museum Van Loon, a mansion built in 1672 and previously inhabited by descendants of one of the Dutch East India Tea Company founders, was...