Stay updated with breaking news from கேய்ட் ரைட்சன். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Since 1922, The Magazine ANTIQUES has been America’s premier publication on the fine and decorative arts, architecture, preservation, and interior design. ....
Taiwan’s next stage of democracy By David Pendery 潘大為 To borrow from historian Keith Wrightson, society can be viewed as a process. It is never stationary, and even seemingly unchanging structures and institutions possess a blend of stability and dynamism. One of the most challenging tasks in viewing and interpreting society’s development and growth is discerning continuing shifts in its organization and social relations, and from there determining how this affects a commonwealth. A view like this can provide insight into Taiwanese life and culture. In a word, the “process” of Taiwan’s politics and culture seem never-ending. Taiwan is making the right progress in this respect, and any alert observer can see this. Has this not long been the way viewers have seen its democracy and politics, admittedly young and in some senses inexperienced though they might be? ....
In the Museum of London there is a white earthenware plate bearing the inscription ‘You & I are Earth 1661’. Recovered in modern times from a London sewer, the plate is made of earth; it has come out of the earth and with an unwavering gaze (or glaze) confronts the viewer with their own earthliness. It is a reminder of mortality, at once accusing and sympathetic: not ‘as I am, so will you be’, but ‘as I am, so are you’. For me, this plate has always distilled the shock of recognition and excitement inherent in the study of material culture: the way ‘things’ can stitch up time, joining two very distant moments and people through a single object. ....