Finding an Audience
On the laws that kept Saadat Hasan Manto’s stories and the work of his successors out of readers’ reach.
Monday, January 25, 2021
Northern view of the cantonment, Karachi, from the sea shore at Clifton, by Henry Francis Ainslie, 1851. British Library.
Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the history of best sellers, exploring the circumstances that might inspire thousands to gravitate toward the same book and revisiting well-loved works from the past that, due to a variety of circumstances, vanished from the conversation after they peaked on the charts. We are also publishing a digital edition of one of these forgotten best sellers, Mary Augusta Ward’s 1903 novel Lady Rose’s Daughter
New Telfair Museums leader: Museums can be a safe haven for dark times
Savannah Morning News
According to Ben Simons, Savannah has a safe haven, a refuge if you will, from the chaotic world we ve all found ourselves living in.
Simons, the new executive director and CEO of the Telfair Museums, said that haven can be found at any or all of the museums sites.
Whether it s a visiting piece by Picasso (coming this year), an Italian sculpture, a self-portrait by poet and novelist Kahil Gibran or a Regency-style 1819 mansion, all three sites of the Telfair provide a calm and unhurried bit of wonder.
Welcome to the first Essential Arts newsletter of the President Biden era. I’m Times arts writer Jessica Gelt, filling in for the indefatigable Carolina Miranda with a rundown of the week’s culture news the Bernie memes edition.
The Biden inauguration, with L.A. assists
The inauguration proceedings were a little surreal, what with the National Mall largely empty and the ceremony at the Capitol filled with ex-presidents in face coverings reminding us that we might have a new administration, but we’re still in the same old pandemic times.
Arts staffers here, like the rest of Twitter, were amused by the presence of the famously irascible
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Escape to this Jacobean Manor in Oxfordshire that once hosted King Charles I For £9 million this Norman home could be yours â and not only has it hosted a late King, but also the writers John Betjeman and Iris Murdoch By Annabel Sampson
Born a free black man in antebellum America, Duncanson painted utopian vistas of the American Mid-West and was supported by abolitionist patrons in both America and England. Art historians widely agree that Duncanson was the first African-American artist to be internationally known and was particularly popular in 1860s Londonâ where the cityâs prestigious
Art Journal declared him a master of landscape painting.