Eng705 Visual Culture

The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born fro

Most of us do not, today, live in desperate need of maps. On the internet we can easily find not only the current maps we need to navigate most any territory on Earth, but also an increasing proportion of all the maps made before as well.

In Stanya Kahn’s earlier films, Los Angeles seems ready to spark a revolution at any moment. But in the newest adventure, the urban sprawl creeps into the inhabitants’ states of mind, and everything languishes.

We Fight to Build a Free World prompts the question of whether political artworks can truly convey their own radicalism within the halls of an Upper East Side museum.

It turns out that we Homo sapiens are not the only species to explore art and its abstractions.

The ancient paintings depict close relationships between humans and animals

If contemporary echoes of fascism have brought the 1930s and ‘40s troublingly to mind, it’s worth recalling that modern propaganda became a

A rock structure, built deep underground, is one of the earliest hominin constructions ever found.

The initiative, the largest in the organization’s history, will support the creation of new monuments, as well as the relocation or rethinking of existing ones.

The National COVID-19 Remembrance will remember lives lost to Covid-19, honor frontline and essential workers, and demand elected officials

Along the Mississippi River, between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, land where black people were once enslaved on plantations is now being poisoned by petrochemical plants that have given …

In Potential History, the violence of photography saturates the very idea of European “progress,” resonating from Palestine to the Congo to

We may take it for granted that the earliest writing systems developed with the Sumerians around 3400 B.C.E. The archaeological evidence so

'Great literature is one of two stories,' we often quote Leo Tolstoy as saying: 'a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town

In the September 1989 issue of the Monthly Film Bulletin, John Akomfrah and Lina Gopaul talked to Julian Petley about Handsworth Songs, the resilience of the past and their efforts to embed political and cultural address in an expanded cinematic language.

The documentary Skin spurs the viewer to think about what kind of bodies are usually naked in movies.