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Hams Khamis, a student at the American University of Cairo, interviewed her mother as part of our projects on well-being.

Many of William Hogarth’s prints call attention to social ills within 18th-century British society, thereby paving the way for healing. Here, Hogarth represents the dire effects of gin consumption, which had risen steeply in the first decades of the…

The Baule people believe that all individuals have spirit mates in the ‘other world'. Under normal circumstances, these spirit spouses reside in their own place and aid the individual. However, due to certain circumstances, the spirit mate may become…

A selection from "The Poems of Dylan Thomas".

"David” by Bernini is a life-size marble sculpture depicting the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, whom he then beheads. Compared to earlier works on this subject such as the David of Michelangelo, the sculpture…

Romare Bearden's collages are some of his most powerful and expressive works. Stylistically, they reference the Cubist works of Picasso and Braque, whom Bearden met in Paris in 1950, and the photomontages of the Berlin Dadaists whom Bearden was…