Cultural Dispatches

Osman Hamdi Bey’s Ladies Taking a Walk, 1887, depicting women in colourful dresses and veils carrying parasols beside a stone wall with geometric grilles.
Ten black-and-white manga character portraits in turquoise panels on a yellow background, promoting Art of Manga at the Brooklyn Museum.
Nilima Sheikh wearing an orange sari, standing among her suspended painted scrolls in Fractured Skies at MoMA.