In this summer’s globally successful film productions, Barbie and Oppenheimer, darkness and brightness, depth and surface confront each other. It...
Why were Steiner’s ideas for the visual arts so relevant for early twentieth-century artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian,...
“Sahara” is the main theme of this year’s Culturescapes festival in Basel. A series of films by Tunisian filmmaker Nacer Khemir was offered at the local cinema, Stadtkino. I saw Bab’Aziz (2005) as a poem as much as a film. Gentle, unprovocative, deeply sensorial, it’s the story of the present-day...
The Sahara is particularly well-suited to questioning our ideas of boundaries and transitions, of the future, of freedom, and of...
Novalis’ poetry and prose reveal a master of inner development. His entire inner life was directed towards the blue flower,...
One hundred years ago, in August 1923, Rudolf Steiner held the lecture cycle “Initiation Knowledge” in the Welsh coastal town of Penmaenmawr as part of a Summer School organized by Daniel Nicol Dunlop. While there, he visited the megalithic stone circles located in the mountains above the conference site. This...
Fairy tales are a path of thinking with the heart: living pictures that carry us beyond the sensory world and...
True art surprises us, calls on us to set ourselves in motion, takes us to the limits of the familiar,...
“I can – whilst facing thee – but weep – and cry –.” These are words spoken by Strader, the natural scientist, to Ahriman at the moment in Rudolf Steiner’s third mystery drama when Strader realizes that this being is trapped within the limits of calculating intellectual thinking. But the...
Anthroposophy in places around the world faces challenges with respect to the culture of those particular places. One such place...
Upon his death in 1986, an extraordinary gift was made by an extraordinary personality: Mart Stam gave the Goetheanum the...
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