We hear from Erin L. Thompson, Molly Crabapple, and Mansoor Adayfi, who was detained without charge at the military prison for almost 15 years, on how art is a lifeline for those incarcerated there.
Erin Thompson
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How a Tweet Led to the FBI’s Return of a Looted Nepalese Sculpture
The looted status of the stele has been well documented since the 1980s, but it wasn’t until this year that the FBI and Dallas Museum of Art collaborated to return the religious artifact.
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In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past
In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.
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What’s in Your Junk Drawer?
In my grandmother’s house, in the second bedroom, there is a drawer. Whenever we visit her, I derive a small thrill from opening it: the amount of random crap accumulated there is simply stunning. Pens and clips and crumpled-up paper — more misplaced miscellany than I can describe. This is the junk drawer.