Landscapes of Creation
June 21, 2021
Anthony Aveni— Where did it all come from? What are we doing here? What will happen to us? There’s Genesis—a creation story (actually, an amalgam of stories) told in the… READ MORE
Tag: mythology
Political Obligation: An Ancient Illustration
October 15, 2019
Judith N. Shklar— Obligation may lead to conflict. It implies, on one hand, the duty to obey the law, to keep promises, to follow social rules generally, because society depends… READ MORE
A Maya Child’s Tale: The Origin of the Sun
June 21, 2017
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos— In his field diary entry of October 30, 1960, ethnographer Marcelo Díaz de Salas wrote down a brief story that he’d been told by Miguelito, a young… READ MORE
Hawthorn Power in Fairy Tales, the Cult of the Virgin, and the Cult of the Undead
July 20, 2015
Bill Vaughn— In “Hawthorn Blossom,” the Brothers Grimm rewriting of the folk story Sleeping Beauty, a queen is informed by a frog that the royal couple finally will have a… READ MORE
![Ed Ruscha, The Old Trade School Building, 2005. Acrylic on canvas, 54 x 120 in. (137.2 x 304.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc., Leonard A. Lauder, President. [P2005.01]. © Edward J. Ruscha IV/Gagosian Gallery. Photo provided by Ed Ruscha Studio.](https://dhjhkxawhe8q4.cloudfront.net/yup-wp/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/20135340/quickfig1172-copy-scaled.jpg)
The Pull of Design: Notes on the Exhibition Ed Ruscha/Now Then