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In this feature at Book Riot, we give you a glimpse of what we are reading this very moment. Here is what the Rioters are reading today (as in literally today). This is what’s on their bedside table (or the floor, work bag, desk, whatevskis). See a...

Within Our Gates: A Counter-History Through A Counter-Cinema STREET DATE: July 26, 2016/KINO LORBER Arriving as a 5-disc series which includes more than 20 features, short films, and documentaries, Kino Lorber’s Pioneers of African-American Cinema...

Detail of Madame X. John Singer Sargent, 1884.   To us in the 21st century, masterworks in painting convey a classicism and elegance that seem nonexistent in the modern world. But in the case of Madame X, the scandal caused by John Singer Sargent...

Srivilliputhur Temple By Sampatkumara Ramanuja Dasan(Adv.Ashwin S) About 74 km south of Madurai, in the district of Virudhunagar of Tamil Nadu, is a town known as Srivilliputhur where Lord Vishnu resides as Vatapathrashayi. It is the birth place of...

In my last blog I talked about my visit to the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro and featured one of the great Brazilian artists, Victor Meirelles.  Some would have us believe that he was the greatest Brazilian artist of all times...