May 18, 2007
Art and War
NYT brings to our attention a retrospective of 18th-century Japanese painter and calligrapher Ike Taiga at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On the exhibition page, you can listen to a podcast on the collection by Museum Director Anne d'Harnoncourt, curator Felice Fischer, & assistant curator Kyoko Kinoshita.
Nicholas Schmidle's Dispatch from Karachi: Did Pakistan's president provoke an ethnic war last weekend? is an account of the May 12th riots in Karachi, Pakistan. One reading of the background for the current conflict is available at Chapati Mystery.
Nicholas Schmidle's Dispatch from Karachi: Did Pakistan's president provoke an ethnic war last weekend? is an account of the May 12th riots in Karachi, Pakistan. One reading of the background for the current conflict is available at Chapati Mystery.