Art & Architecture

September 2026:Until then, almost everything I had been creating was centered on Iran, Israel, and the women fighting for freedom. Suddenly, I was thinking about Abraham.

May 2026:Children buried beneath indifference.

May 2026:I keep the Marquis de Sade in the background as a discipline rather than a hero, a knife laid on the table to cut through the alibis that usually protect such pleasures.

May 2026:A massive banner has been unveiled outside Houston, Texas featuring the face of President Donald J. Trump alongside a deeply emotional and controversial message: “President Donald J. Trump, the first recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize, in association with FIFA, solemnly honors the memory of the thousands of innocent children murdered by the Islamic regime and its proxies.”

April 2026:There is a moment when art stops asking permission. This is that moment. The 27th mural is not polite. It does not soften itself. It does not adjust for comfort. It says something people don’t want to hear.

March 2026:In two American cities hundreds of miles apart, two murals now stand as part of a growing global visual movement. One rises in Indianapolis, Indiana, the other in Austin, Texas—both created by international muralist Hooman Khalili.

May 2025:Many people, especially those unfamiliar with Jewish history or dance, see Jews as the “people of the book”—a people dedicated to study and reflection. What is absent from this image is the dynamic davening (rocking back and forth motion) accompanying traditional Jewish male prayer, and swarms of dancing ultra-orthodox Jews (including women) at weddings and […]

April 2024:In director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1970 Il conformista (“The Conformist”), based on Alberto Moravia’s 1947 novel of the same name, we follow the life of Marcello, an ordinary if psychologically damaged man in Italy in the 1930s.

February 2024:A new theatrical production devoted to telling the story of the White Rose—from their inception to their demise—has come to Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York City for a 12-week run.

January 2024:Jayeeta has woven disparate yarns of themes, stories and movements which are very Indian and very Kathak, with the surreality of Western classical music to create a confluence which is absolutely sacred.

November 2023:Exploring the art of Indian classical dance, particularly Kathak, through an interview with renowned dancer Simran Godhwani.

October 2023:We present a brief conversation with the global Bharatnatyam icon, Harinie Jeevitha.

September 2023:In Indian spiritualism, you just can't escape God. Even turning away from God is a path to God. A total disbelief in and denial of an anthropomorphic form of God is a valid path to God too. In the Hindu point of view, you cannot escape God because, God is all there is.

February 2023:This is the unlikely report of survival—of an artform, of the methodologies that inform it, and the body of knowledge, that it gives form to. It’s a report about the persistence of illumination: the decorative illustration of religious manuscripts, but also the endurance of interpretation in an age that often claims to be beyond history.   […]

August 2022:“…there is a surprisingly rich and layered heritage of modern buildings proving our connection to contemporary architectural thinking which makes me wonder why we have so lost touch with this spirit. So many current new buildings can’t make up their minds what they want to be other than parochial regionalism… the meek wallpaper contextualism of […]