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The City That Forgot Itself

Iason Athanasiadis | Critic | 10th March 2025

In a bid to be “resolutely Greek”, the historically cosmopolitan Thessaloniki is in self-inflicted amnesia about its past. Bustling with minarets and synagogues, this once majority-Jewish city was nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the Balkans”. It was emptied of Jews during a 1931 pogrom. Its two main universities have been built over Jewish and Muslim cemeteries. One last Muslim mausoleum remains today (4,000 words)

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Do You Want To See?

Alice Gribbin | Cluny Journal | 3rd March 2025 | U

Manifesto for the nude. Representations of the human form are as old as art itself, and reached their pinnacle with the Greeks of the 5th century BCE. A generation of feminist critics have reduced the artistic nude to an object stripped of humanity, a victim of the male gaze. Today, people’s primary visual encounters with the nude are not through art or worship but advertising, entertainment and porn (3,600 words)

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