Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

From Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson to Johann Jakob Bachofen, “Mutterrecht”, and Basel

Sixteen concerts so far this year

The social and communal experience of musical transformation at the Bird’s Eye concert by Swiss-South African band Skyjack, 15 March 2025

Don Q, Lone Odor, and the cars outside Hush Money House

Don Q, the water flowing down, and the little fish

The extraordinary differences between two altarpieces from the mid-fifteenth century and Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece from the 1510s