Even before they argue about “Contemporary Art”, the survey respondents are all at pains to come up with a succinct definition of the word “contemporary” or its local equivalents. Li Xianting does not ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

What does it mean to live and dine in community? That’s the question being addressed by the Residential Experience Working Group—18 students, faculty and staff whose official charge is to examine “how ...

Professor of History Ayesha Jalal spoke in the Coolidge Room yesterday on the historical evolution of the concept of jihad and its implications for modern Islam. Jalal couched her largely historical ...