Here, I explore the kinds of objects healers used when practising apotropaic magic to treat mental, spiritual, and/or physical conditions, their meaning and uses, and their role and place in the wider therapeutic landscape.
Two bronze mirrors in the Islamic art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) raise questions about their meanings and uses among the Armenian, Byzantine, and Persian-Islamic communities in Anatolia between the late eleventh and early …
The earth, our home, is facing urgent environmental crises: calamitous climate change, deforestation, earthquakes, floods, pandemic outbreaks, animal and plant species extinction, water shortages, and wildfires. To tackle this pressing issue, the …
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘Armenia!’ exhibition is the first significant attempt in the United States to explore the legacy of Armenian artistic and cultural productions.