Cultural Capital
By JIALEI TANG, 6/11/2016. I visited Wuzhen on a gloomy day. The moisture from the raindrops permeated my skin as my soaked feet trace the [...]
Chinese-Indian life in New York, or at least a taste of it
By DOUGLAS PIZA, 6/09/2016. In my last week before departing to Kolkata, anxiety is a difficult element to control. But the best solution to this [...]
Himalayan Art
By SHIRIN MAZDEYASNA, 5/13/2016. At The Rubin Museum, I visited the Gateway to Himalayan Art a couple of weeks ago. The exhibition was curated by [...]
Drawing Near
By JIALEI TANG, 5/11/2016. The semester is ending and as my finals conclude one after another, my mind can draw more attention to my study that [...]
What makes a city a home?
By JIALEI TANG, 4/29/2016. What makes a city a home? As I continue refining my research question, I begin to dig into the heart of [...]
Still in NY
By LILIANA GIL, 4/25/2016. “Baboon and Young (1951) shows Picasso's power of metaphorical transformation at its height. Now please look closer...” I stopped paying attention [...]
Exploring The Sacred Art of Tibet
By SHIRIN MAZDEYASNA, 4/22/2016. My ticket to New Delhi and Ladakh is booked, and I'm super excited. I will be in New Delhi for two [...]
Kolkata’s three Chinatowns
By DOUGLAS PIZA, 4/05/2016. This title is perhaps more a provocation than an accurate statement. It is probably truer to say that Kolkata has only [...]
Geographies of improvisation
By LILIANA GIL, 3/28/2016. As a Ph.D. student in anthropology at the New School for Social Research, I have been developing a project about idioms of [...]