It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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the small picture“When words become unclear, I shall focus with images. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence” – Ansel Adams openDemocracy’s image of the week. Land, sea, sky and a solitary monk mark the height of German Romanticism
Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans to search for a better life in the north.
Seventy years since the bombing of Guernica, Picasso's masterpiece stands as an iconic condemnation of the suffering caused by war.
A land, a people and a society through the lens of David Goldblatt.
What is life like at Guantánamo Bay? Photographer Paolo Pellegrin offers a rare glimpse: over 100 photos inside the prison complex, plus audio interviews with human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and former Camp X-Ray detainee, Moazzam Begg.
Departure, transit and arrival: photos and relics from the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
On a recent visit to Poland, openDemocracy’s Rafael Broch is quietly inspired by an exhibition exploring the lost Jewish culture of Galicia.
“From the shores of the Mediterranean, I prefer to remember the warmth and the dance. From Beirut I do not want to speak of missed opportunities, but of a city that was opened to travellers, a tolerant harbour.” Artist, entrepreneur, writer, and openDemocracy friend, Mai Ghoussoub explains her love of words, images and ideas.
How does one tell the story of war? Nominated for the 2007 Photography Prize, Walid Raad’s visual records of modern Lebanon attempt to address the issues of retelling and representing a bloody history.
Will there be war between the US and Iran? Who – other than Paul Rogers – knows? As the storm clouds gather, the Small Picture looks back at Bahram Beizai’s masterful anti-war work.
Today, the ICC ruled that Thomas Lubanga, notorious child soldier-enlister, would be the first suspect to stand trial for his role in the Congolese civil war. From Kinshasha to Freetown, former child soldiers draw their experiences.
An intense cultural creativity underlined the troubled political peace of 1920s Germany. A new exhibition highlights art from the short-lived Weimar Republic.
“Dear customer, for a thousand and one reasons, all prices are final.” Niki Akhavan photographs everyday signs in Iran.
As civil war threatens to overwhelm an increasingly volatile Iraq, what is life like for the Kurds? A series of animated snapshots of life in northern Iraq.
Storyboard stills from Rajko Grlić's "Border Post", a film focusing on a group of soldiers in the final years of the Yugoslavian republic.
From a new exhibition by Milton Rosa Ortiz: eight ethereal sculptures, suspended by filaments, made from hundreds of coral and glass shards gathered from the Puerto Rican coastline.
A new photographic series by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, Abbas Kiarostami.
Portrait by Santiago Rusiñol, a Catalan modernist painter, poet and playwright.
John Vink photographs government-enforced evictions in Cambodia’s urban poor community.
The 50th BFI London Film Festival opens this week, showcasing the work of the best new directors and revisiting old masters.
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