East Meets West

The peculiar eclecticism of some eccentric villas in the Salento region of Puglia, which look like fantastical palaces belonging to an imaginary Orient.

The massive monument called The Chronicle of Georgia, by Zurab Tsereteli dominates the city of Tbilisi.

An extraordinary Mexican photographic campaign and two learned articles revive the poetics of Hungarian artist and designer Géza Maróti.

Magnificent painted folding screens tell the tale of sixteenth-century encounters between the cultures of Portugal, Japan, and Mexico.

Giuseppe Castiglione, an eighteenth-century Jesuit painter and missionary in China, is now considered one of the glories Chinese national art.

The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.

Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.

The joyful Parisian years of Tsuguharu Foujita as recalled by his most renowned model and evoked in a witty and refined article.