While the weekend is once again upon us, I can’t stop thinking about an intimate, site-specific, one-night-only performance I experienced last weekend. Before I jump into that, let’s get into the arts and culture news you might have missed and some can’t-miss events in and around Los Angeles. I’m staff writer Ashley Lee, here with…

Amherst Bulletin – ARTS & CULTURE <!– –> <!– –> Gallery A3, at 28 Amity St. in Amherst, will have two exhibitions in November: “Ukraine” by Keith Hollingsworth and “From There to Here” by Ron Maggio.  CONTRIBUTED/KEITH HOLLINGSWORTH Amherst Cinema will screen the movie “Sweetheart Deal,” a documentary about four sex workers in Seattle who are…

Few would dispute that the people of Northeast Ohio enjoy access to some of the finest arts and cultural organizations, performances and exhibitions in the country, along with a host of educational and participatory opportunities. From the internationally acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra to the Cleveland Art Museum to Playhouse Square to the Cleveland Institute of Art,…

This year’s edition of the Lusofonia Festival will take place at the Taipa Houses from 25 to 27 October and from 1 to 3 November. The event was organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and Galaxy Entertainment Group, and Co-organized by the Macao Government Tourist Office and the Municipal Affairs Bureau. Culture of Goa, Daman and…

Shamshad Abdullaev’s very name was a confluence of cultures. A Persian first name (“a pine-like tree”), an Arabic last name (“A servant of God”), and a Slavic “ev” ending that simply means “of”. This combination was possible in the former heart of the Great Silk Road, in ex-Soviet Uzbekistan, a Central Asian nation once associated…

Kelly Wang, as photographed by artist Maleonn. It is hard to define Kelly Wang, as she has held many different roles in her career. Wang is a patron and board member of several international art museums. As a veteran collector of contemporary art, she will open her private art museum to the public soon. She…

Moorabool’s musicians, artists and wordsmiths are out of hiding, and it’s time for everyone to seek them out as they gear up to perform in townships across the shire for the second annual Hide and Seek Festival. Organised by Moorabool council, Hide and Seek is dedicated to celebrating arts and culture in Moorabool, bringing together…

The cultural life of the Netherlands is varied and lively. Dutch painting and crafts are world renowned, and Dutch painters are among the greatest the world has ever known. The Dutch themselves take great pride in their cultural heritage, and the government is heavily involved in subsidizing the arts, while abjuring direct artistic control of…

Early history and colonial administration Mauritius was long uninhabited, though it was probably known to Arab seafarers from the 10th century or earlier. It was visited by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, but they did not settle the island. The Dutch took possession of it from 1598 to 1710, called it Mauritius for…

Cultural milieu The birthplace of the modern printing press and of influential schools of philosophy and artistic styles, Germany has long played an important role in Western culture, and the arts have been central to Germany’s idea of itself. Indeed, the historian Hagen Schulze observed that the German nation was born in the minds of…