A Spanish-language newsletter that explains famous European paintings and their historical context, such as Wappers's Belgian Revolution scene, Meyerheim's locomotive cycle and Menzel's steel mill. Each issue mixes art analysis with the political and industrial history behind the work, in a light, witty voice.
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Long-form essays that read video games through folklore, medieval art, mythology, cosmology and the occult. Readers get contextual criticism that ties specific games to their historical and cultural sources.
SAUCE Journal publishes long-form essays on skateboarding by academics, filmmakers and skaters, covering its culture, spaces, media and law. Readers get personal, scholarly writing that treats skateboarding as a subject of serious cultural analysis.
Alice Gribbin writes long-form essays on art, examining Renaissance and Baroque painters such as Raphael, Tiepolo and Delacroix and questioning what makes an artwork endure. The essays combine close visual description with broader arguments about aesthetics, metaphysics and the will required to look seriously at painting.
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