July 2021

Culture

The Love and Beauty of Wedding Suzani from the Collection of the Russian State Museum of Oriental Art

July 29, 2021

Russian State Museum of Oriental Art (Gosudarstvennyi Muzei Vostoka) has an extensive collection of Central Asian suzani—a type of richly embroidered textile that once served as wedding embroidery to protect…

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Contemporary art

The Comfort Zone of the Artist Alexander Barkovsky

July 1, 2021

In this essay, artist Alexander Barkovsky writes about his comfort zone, his attempts to escape it, and the reasons why he ultimately had to return to it.An artist must deceive…

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The Love and Beauty of Wedding Suzani from the Collection of the Russian State Museum of Oriental Art

The Comfort Zone of the Artist Alexander Barkovsky

Barzu Abdurazzakov as a Lone Voice of the Tajik Creative Intelligentsia

War, Post-War, and Peace in Eurasia: An Interview with Jesse Driscoll

Saints, Scholars, Poets, Jurists, and Politicians of the Sufi Hidden Caliphate: An Interview with Waleed Ziad

Want to Understand Industrialization in Resource-Rich Countries such as Uzbekistan? Read Marx (and Iñigo Carrera)

Zoroastrianism and Islam: How They Interacted, Clashed, and Accommodated One Another. An Interview with Andrew Magnusson