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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

Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Nov 03 2015

Sri V. Ganesan: The Ultimate Question

Paula Marvelly, Sri V. Ganesan.
Photograph: [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 Bogaerts, John Cage.
Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief,
[CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons

How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

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

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

To write is to live, and to live is to write

Oct 20 2015

Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty

Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.
Photograph: Janus Films

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

Oct 15 2015

Alan Jacobs: Heart of Heart’s Chalice of Love’s Fire

Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

How the Victorian poet Swinburne inspired a Postmodern Formalist’s work

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

Detail of the portrait of a young woman
(so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets.
Photograph: Wolfgang Rieger, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Arseny Tarkovsky. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Jean Cocteau. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

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

Rob Bogaerts, John Cage. Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief, [CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons

Alexandra David Néel.Photograph: Preus Museum, [CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke. Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.Photograph: Janus Films

Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs. Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

Detail of the portrait of a young woman(so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets.Photograph: Wolfgang Rieger, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Arseny Tarkovsky.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

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

Rob Bogaerts, John Cage.
Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief,
[CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons

Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.
Photograph: Janus Films

Paula Marvelly, Alan Jacobs.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

Detail of the portrait of a young woman
(so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets.
Photograph: Wolfgang Rieger, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons