This article is based on an analysis of the story shown on the documentary film "Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor," directed by the author and produced by Soledad Liendo with support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation

A conversation with architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson recently illuminated the complex web of cultural influences that shaped Louis Comfort Tiffany's celebrated fascination with the Orient. Wilson, author of "Mysticism, Alchemy, and Architecture: Designing Laurelton Hall," offered insights that extend far beyond the individual artist to reveal a broader intellectual cosmology of 19th-century America.

When Borges declared 'I'm fed up with him' about his own persona, he didn't imagine it would become my documentary title. 25 years later, 'Harto the Borges' remains relevant—a polyphonic portrait using multiple voices that resist synthesis, mirroring Borges's own literary techniques. My reflections on the methodology and complete transcription now available on Academia.edu to mark the anniversary.

In our current moment of global migration and cultural displacement, Lisboa offers a nuanced portrait of what it means to build a life across borders. Rather than presenting immigration as either triumph or tragedy, the film shows it as an ongoing process of adaptation, loss, discovery, and creative transformation.

I find myself trapped in 1898, not by choice but by some strange force, as if the year itself were a lucid dream from which I cannot—or perhaps do not wish to—wake. Every path of research leads back to this temporal crossroads, this pivot point where centuries collide in the most unlikely symphony of events.

Two decades have passed since the premiere of Testigo del Siglo at the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival, where the memoirs of Ismael Viñas—a man who shaped Argentina’s intellectual and political landscape—first flickered on screen. Viñas, the founder of Contorno magazine, a collaborator of Arturo Frondizi, and the creator of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN), left Argentina in 1976, never to return.

A mysterious letter arrives from Berlin, sent by Albert Imhoff, a blind critic and old friend of the filmmaker's father. Discover his profound analysis of the documentary "Rita Dove: An American Poet," a journey through memory, the "American dream", and the poet's quest to find a "different way out".

On a February evening in 1913, New York’s bohemian elite gathered at Tiffany Studios for one of the most dazzling spectacles the city had ever seen. The New York Times reported breathlessly on the event, describing it as an “Egyptian fête” held in a “riot of color.”

Explore Louis Comfort Tiffany’s stained-glass windows in their original settings with Tiffany in the Wild. At Woodlawn Cemetery in New York and other historic sites across the United States and Havana’s Colón Cemetery, Tiffany’s opalescent glass transforms mausoleums into living museums of light and memory. From Woodlawn’s Belmont, Woolworth, and Gould mausoleums to the Lewis Ginter Mausoleum in Richmond, these radiant works reveal the collaboration of architects, sculptors,

We can no longer remain silent in the face of Europe’s rising antisemitism. What once passed as neutrality or cultural critique now emerges as open hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people. To be silent is to be complicit; to speak is to stand against the distortion of history and the legitimization of terror. This declaration affirms my refusal to accept antisemitism in any guise, and my commitment to name it whenever and wherever it appears. -- Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Tiffany in the Wild: La Habana is both a search and a testament. A search for what remains, and a testament to what endures despite the passage of time and the weight of history. My hope is to share these rare survivals before they vanish from the living world, to let audiences see and hear Tiffany as I first did — in the wild.

In the annals of American art preservation, few stories are as compelling as Hugh McCain's personal connection to Louis Comfort Tiffany and his subsequent mission to save the master's work from destruction. Through a remarkable interview conducted by Les Anderson, we gain intimate access to McCain's memories—not just as a scholar and museum director, but as one of the last people to know Tiffany personally and witness the splendor of Laurelton Hall before its tragic demise.

Between 1898 and 1933—spanning thirty-five years until Tiffany's death—Arlington Street Church commissioned what would become the largest collection of single-themed Tiffany windows in the world. Sixteen magnificent panels, conceived and executed as a unified narrative, demonstrate what becomes possible when patronage extends beyond individual commissions to embrace a complete artistic vision.

Tiffany Studios flourished through the collective brilliance of its diverse workforce. The “Tiffany Girls” movement has rightfully spotlighted the contributions of women designers, but a complete picture of the studio’s legacy demands recognition of the talented men and women who worked side by side. This exploration celebrates the collaborative synergy of artists, craftsmen, and innovators who together forged Tiffany’s legendary success. These are the names and faces I want

Today, The Dream Garden remains in situ at its original home in Philadelphia's Curtis Center, its 100,000+ pieces of glass catching and transforming light just as Tiffany intended. Visitors come from all over the world, just as Bok hoped they would more than a century ago.

In the 1880s, Louis Comfort Tiffany lokking at this 700-year-old tradition would asked: “What if we could bring this magic into people’s daily lives, and into their homes?” The question lead Tiffany to reimagined the medieval trinity for a new world.

Perhaps, we have to stop swimming and let the current take us to safe harbor, or to a sandy beach somewhere. Come to think of it, it was in fact Aronovich who explained to me once how Weinschenk himself used to talk of shades of gray in film as beaches. And here I go again! drifting in free association when I should be getting ready to pick my daughter from school and talk about what we're going to do once we move to Madrid.

The next chapter in our nearly forty-year journey is being written now. If we are to continue thriving in this mission to ensure that art, culture, and social consciousness find their place in our rapidly evolving media landscape, we need a broader audience, international partnerships, and you.