Paula Marvelly, Editor, The Culturium

Nov 10 2015

Arseny Tarkovsky: Life, Life

Arseny Tarkovsky.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

How a father’s poetry inspired a son’s cinematic art

Nov 05 2015

Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema

Edgardo Cozarinsky, Autobiography of an Unknown .
Image: © Edgardo Cozarinsky

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Nov 03 2015

Sri V. Ganesan: The Ultimate Question

Paula Marvelly, Sri V. Ganesan.
Image: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

Sri Ramana Maharshi’s great-nephew expounds the teachings of India’s greatest guru

Oct 29 2015

John Cage: Silence

Rob Croes, John Cage.
Image: [CC0 1.0 Universal] Public Domain

How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David Néel.
Image: Public Domain

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Oct 22 2015

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Rainer Maria Rilke.
Image: Public Domain

To write is to live and to live is to write

Oct 20 2015

Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty

Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.
Image: Janus Films

Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye need to know?

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

John William Godward, In the Days of Sappho.
Image: Public Domain

The six types of Greek love and why Plato revered a female poet from Lesbos