Year: 2025
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Felix Hidalgo, Un Rio
The enigmatic painter Felix Resureccion Hidalgo captures a river veiled in the quiet of early evening. The viewer’s gaze glides over the water’s surface, mirroring the way our eyes perceive the fading light by fluidly dissolving into darkness. The glow trembles in the foreground, absorbed by the landscape rather than resisted, as if the deepening…
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Muhammadan Mysticism in Sumatra
R.L. Archer’s 1937 article, “Muhammadan Mysticism in Sumatra,” provides an early and detailed inquiry into the forms of Islamic mysticism as they emerged and took root in the Malay world. Drawing principally on Malay-language manuscripts held in Leiden and elsewhere, Archer situates these texts within a broader genealogy of Sufi metaphysics, while also attending to…
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Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern
Through March 29MoMA, Floor 2, The Paul J. Sachs Galleries The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Lillie P. Bliss and the Birth of the Modern offers a long-overdue reconsideration of a figure whose impact on the institution—and on modern art in America—cannot be overstated. Much like the uprooted pine tree that symbolized the Armory Show, Bliss stood…
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Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico (Amara Solari, 2022)
Amara Solari’s Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Yucatán, Mexico examines the role of Marian devotion in colonial Yucatán, focusing on the Virgin of Itzmal. The book explores how Maya communities integrated Catholic iconography into their existing religious traditions, aligning with precontact notions of sacrality, ritual purity, and divine intercession. The study centers on the 1648…
Geronimo Cristobal 