Required Reading
This week: Nancy Spero’s pro-choice art, Valentina Di Liscia on “Casa Cueva,” Brooklyn’s smallest museum, Jamaica Kincaid’s eyebrows, Israeli cuisine and Palestinian erasure, and more.
Senior Editor Valentina Di Liscia recently discussed the controversial destruction of Juan O Gorman's Casa Cueva, one of the last works by the architect, on the Atlas Obscura podcast. The painting, Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci, has recently been sold for $450.3 million by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Sculptor Elliott Arkin has turned his museum lobby into the Salvator Mundi Museum of Art, hosting various exhibitions, including one on orbs and another inspired by the crystal sphere in the painting.
Jamaica Kincaid, author of postcolonial literature, shaved her eyebrows for a personal reason, wanting to write in a certain way and say things she truly believed. In New York City, Israeli-owned restaurants have often misrepresented the origins of Southwest Asian and North African dishes. Over a century since the Armenian Genocide, Western Armenian language speakers continue to work to revitalize their language.
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