Perfection Across Time

As the Belvedere Torso inspired Michelangelo, Michelangelo inspired Robert Mapplethorpe.
The Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, Italy, has never exhibited a contemporary artist in the revered museum that houses Michelangelo’s “David.” Until now.
Nearly 100 Mapplethorpe photographs — with an emphasis on nudes — join Michelangelo’s “David” and his other works permanently housed in the church-like Galleria. [...]

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Snapshots from the Muslim-Punk Underground

This week on Studio 360, Nick Heling talks to Muslim punk rockers The Kominas about taqwacore, the movement inspired by novelist Michael Muhammad Knight’s 2002 novel The Taqwacores. Photographer Kim Badawi met Knight shortly after Taqwacores was published, and in 2006 began tagging along on tours with taqwa bands The Kominas and Secret Trial Five, [...]

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