June 6, 2024
The Tyranny of the Straight Line: Mapping Modern Paris is a cross-disciplinary investigation of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space. Here, author Min… READ MORE
January 12, 2024
Jonathan Petropoulos— The evening was planned as a form of theater, a series of carefully staged scenes. Each room, or set, in the extraordinary eighteenth-century Parisian hôtel particulier featured a… READ MORE
December 19, 2023
Katlyn Marie Carter— According to recent reports, a woodworker, maid, and plumber may be among those called to testify against former U.S. President Donald Trump as he stands trial for… READ MORE
July 14, 2022
Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown— Can a friendship forged in your early twenties change the course of your life and career? For members of the Nabi brotherhood, an… READ MORE
August 25, 2021
Hector Guimard (1867-1942) was one of France’s greatest Art Nouveau architect/designers. In an exhibition organized by the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in… READ MORE
May 18, 2018
Interview with author Michele Greet By David Ebony At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris was electric in many ways. Electric street lights replaced gas lamps, and the hyper-energized… READ MORE
November 29, 2016
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers’s iconic Centre Pompidou in Paris will celebrate its 40th anniversary in January 2017. Francesco Dal Co, author of our newly published book on the building,… READ MORE
August 25, 2015
Mark Polizzotti— The Paris of Patrick Modiano’s fictions is a city that no longer exists, and perhaps never did. There is a character and a topology typical of his version… READ MORE
Deobandism, Islam and the Religious Narratives of the Taliban
