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Government announces new awards for arts, culture sector
Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Zizi Kodwa has announced that government will be hosting an all-encompassing awards ceremony to recognise those who exhibit outstanding artistic and technical achievement in the arts and culture sector. “The creativity and imagination of the South African designers, artists, producers, writers, and performers are continuing to shine the light…
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Puerto Rico’s maestros: Allentown Art Museum’s exhibition celebrates island’s famous artists
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Celebrate the beauty and rich culture of the Isla del Encanto at a new exhibition. “Nostalgia for My Island,” a display at Allentown Art Museum, features 20 creative works by well-known Puerto Rican artists. The works were created from 1786 to 1962 and divided into three themes — “My island,” “My home”…
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Word & Image: McLean Fletcher
“I was in DC and I was a working actor and was pleased to have finally gotten to that point. Then I hurt my back opening night of a dance theater show that I was in and I couldn’t walk for eight weeks. Looking back on it, that doesn’t seem like a great deal of…
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Arts and crafts are alive in Kanazawa, Japan, living museum of Edo culture
But the Tokugawas need not have worried; the Maedas wanted to secure their region’s future by investing in crafts rather than weaponry. Doing so not only transformed Kanazawa into one of Japan’s most prosperous cities (even today, 99 per cent of Japan’s gold leaf is produced here), but also afforded a certain amount of protection…
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WATCH LIVE | Sport, arts and culture minister Zizi Kodwa makes ‘important’ announcements
Sport, arts and culture minister Zizi Kodwa is briefing the media on Tuesday to announce “important developments” in South African sport, arts and culture. “Among several matters to be addressed at this media briefing, minister Kodwa will make an announcement on the inaugural South African Creative Arts Awards, and the appointment of a new Boxing…
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Greeks broke promise not to raise Parthenon Sculptures, No 10 says
By Henry Zeffman, Harrison Jones & Chris MasonBBC News Getty Images No. 10 is embroiled in a deepening row with Athens after cancelling a meeting between Rishi Sunak and the Greek PM. Downing Street believed it had assurances that Kyriakos Mitsotakis would not speak publicly about the Parthenon Sculptures – also known as the Elgin…
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Ebony Roots celebrates Vancouver’s Black community and culture
Music has always been a huge part of Leo D.E. Johnson’s life. The Vancouver-based trans, non-binary, Black rock n’ roll artist explores identity and belonging with passion in his songs. “Both of my parents are artists: My mother is a blues musician and my father is a music maker and producer,” Johnson says in an…
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‘Madame X’ Makes Rare Trip from The Met to MFA, Boston as Part Of ‘Fashioned By Sargent’
Wall power. What the art world calls a painting jumping off the wall, demanding to be recognized. The visual equivalent of Whitney Houston’s voice. No picture ever painted has more of it than John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Madame X (1884). Not Mona Lisa. Not Starry Night. Not Birth of Venus. Madame X exudes–with a…
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City seeking to fill spots on arts grant juries
The Greater Sudbury Development Corporation (GSDC) is seeking local members of the public to sit on two volunteer juries to assess Arts and Culture Grant Program applications. In 2023, 32 organizations benefited from the Greater Sudbury Arts and Culture Program, creating a positive economic impact in our community, the city said in a news release.…
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Classes, community show ‘Ukraine is not only a country at war’
A few times a week, songs from Ukraine can be heard coming from a classroom in Goldwin Smith Hall, as Cornell’s Ukrainian program brings the country’s culture to campus through language learning, folk tradition and history. The effort is led by Krystyna Golovakova, visiting lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature in the College of…
