Geographical Magazine Geographical books to get you through lockdown this February Written by Geographical
THE VOLGA: A History of Russia s Greatest River by Janet M. Hartley
From the Nile to the Danube and Amazon, mighty rivers have shaped world history. The Volga, the longest river in Europe, at 3,530 kilometres (2,193 miles), is well and truly in that category. Flowing from the northwest of Moscow to the Caspian Sea, ‘through the forest zone of northern European Russia to the steppe and then to arid semi-desert in the south of Russia’, the Volga shaped the patterns of trade and exchange for both Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and is still of great importance today, writes Janet M. Hartley.
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Lehmann Maupin opens an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña
Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Girok (Knot Record). Installation view, Lehmann Maupin Seoul, February 18 April 24, 2021. Photo by OnArt Studio. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, and London.
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.-Lehmann Maupin is presenting Quipu Girok, an exhibition of new work by Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña featuring her first painted quipu, a recent video, hand-painted prints, drawings, and an installation of precarios that will engage a dialogue between Korean and Andean textile traditions and techniques. An artist, filmmaker, poet, and activist based in New York, Vicuñas work ranges from performance, to painting, to poetry, to large-scale installations that address pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. The exhibition marks Vicuñas second with the gallery and is her first solo presentation
Pakistani artist Salman Toor makes it to Time100 Next list Super excited to be included in TIME100 Next 2021 among emerging leaders who are shaping the future, Toor shared.
Pakistani-born American artist Salman Toor has been featured in the TIME100 Next list. The artist took to Instagram and expressed gratitude for the honour. Super excited to be included in TIME100 Next 2021 among emerging leaders who are shaping the future, he wrote.
The publication lauded Toor s brilliance and penned, Toor, who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and lives in New York City, has made his career subverting the styles of old paintings by centering openly queer men of South Asian descent in an attempt to, as he says in the audio guide for The Star, “play with the idea” of societal norms.