Was Brazil the real birthplace of modernism?
A paradox of art history: to understand the artists of the past, it helps to study how, and where, they…
William Morris’s debt to Islam
When William Morris was born in Walthamstow, in 1834, it was little more than a clump of marshland at the…
Travels with Auntie
Tanjil Rashid on the BBC at 100
No country for old men
Tanjil Rashid talks to Kazuo Ishiguro about his long and underexplored love affair with film
Shooting star
Tanjil Rashid on the polymathic Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who spearheaded a new school of Indian cinema
Common prayer
When churches become mosques
In search of lost time
Tanjil Rashid on the vivid memory-scapes of Hong Kong master Wong Kar Wai
The Venus de Marlene
Tanjil Rashid on the legend of Dietrich
A salmagundi of tedium
The White Pube started life as an influential art blog, written by Zarina Muhammad and Gabrielle de la Puente. The…
Limelight and lucre
Italy has long captivated romantics from rainy, dreary, orderly northern Europe. Goethe, Stendhal, Keats and Shelley all flocked to Italy…
Hidden figures
The statue-topplers reveal a Eurocentric view of the world that ignores the achievements of black and Asian luminaries, says Tanjil Rashid
