How samba schools in Brazil are teaching Black history through the parades at Carnival.
Culture
How the ephemerality of the internet has warped our ability to know who we are.
Unlearned historical lessons from Jacques-Louis David’s retrospective at the Louvre.
Third and last part of an article discussing Imperia, the large concrete statue of a semi-fictional medieval sex worker. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here. A Clandestine Erection Imperia went up in April 1993, and I won’t even try to explain the insane backstory. Short version: some people in Constance wanted a […]
Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately! As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond. So, here’s a European culture story. (This is Part 2, You can find Part 1 here.) Okay, so Imperia! Big concrete statue on the shore of Lake Constance. Medieval sex worker. 9 meters tall, weighs […]
A memoir interwoven with historical research that might leave you wondering if anything really changes in these United States.
Just north of the Alps, on the border between Germany and Switzerland, lies beautiful Lake Constance. And on the northwest shore of the lake is the lovely small city of Constance, Germany. Constance is well worth a visit. A lot of German cities have rather bland or unattractive centers, thanks to the American and British […]
A look at the cross-continental sloshing of capital beneath the art market bubble.
While at surface level, #WeirdTok is all fun and games, it also cuts to something deeper about being human.
A memoir that grapples with changing ambitions and the myth of having it all.