In the winter and spring of 1974, Christian Norberg-Schulz was guest professor of Architecture at MIT and I had the chance of taking the two courses he taught during that semester.

One In recent decades the topic of the “end” or even the “death” of art has been a frequent subject of debates in aesthetics and art criticism. Although it was proliferated in its present form mainly in the United States, it of course has its historical roots in Hegel’s notion of the end of art as he developed it in the first decades of the nineteenth century.

One of the fundamental artistic categories of the twentieth century was avant-garde art. Although it was not necessarily linked to the political avant-gardes (and social theories, philosophies of history, and ideologies on which they relied) it shared with them its belief and orientation towards the future.

War and its sacrifices have repeatedly constituted the subject matter of artistic endeavors.

The Baluchi Zahirig as a Modal Landscape and the Emergence of a Classical Music Introduction: Professional Baluchi Musicians1

Sometimes in the history of art everything seems to be happening everywhere, all at once. The 16th century was like that.

How do legends make use of historic events? What role does the collective memory of nations play in this use?

Acquaintance with cinema and the first steps of filming and filmmaking in Iran