What we do in Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional holiday in China, celebrated with a…
Predatory capital in music
When discussing classical music, two dominant perspectives emerge. The first claims that lower social classes with limited cultural capital do…
Bridging differences and Building Understanding through Cultural Dialogue
Cultural dialogue refers to the exchange of ideas, beliefs, values, and practices between people from diverse cultural backgrounds. In a…
Women of the First International
The First International, founded in London in 1864, and the anarchist ideas associated with this organization, took barely four years…
Giotto, the Seed of Humanism in Art: The Nativity of Jesus in the Scrovegni Chapel
The painter Giotto di Bondone (1267–1337) represents a fundamental break with the artistic tradition of medieval religious art, which was…
The subsistence strategies of the Neanderthal groups
The discovery of a partial skeleton in the Feldhofer cave in Neander Valley in 1856 placed the Neanderthals at the…
Traditional Basque Costumes
The clothing a person chooses to wear can say a lot about their personality, as it reflects their tastes, values,…
What are social artists like?
Until the 16th century, painting and sculpture were not considered arts but manual labor. None of the nine muses were…
E. P. Thompson and “The Making of the English Working Class”
The book The Making of the English Working Class by Edward Palmer Thompson, published in 1963, is a classic of…
Felix Woyrsch, hidden figures by Nazism since Kristallnacht
Felix Woyrsch’s (1860–1944) was a German composer, organist, and choir director renowned for his dedication to traditional forms in German…