Tag: Culture

Athens, Greece – Beirut-based sound artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan has become known as the “Private Ear”, as his research-based, investigatory work has been used to investigate killings and expose other human rights abuses. Sonic Detective, a retrospective of two key audio-visual works by the 37-year-old Jordanian-born artist, is now on show at the newly-revamped National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens – which ...

President Biden signed a law Monday establishing a commission of experts to study the creation of a museum dedicated to Asian American and Pacific Islander history. The group, which will include experts of AAPI history and museum administrators appointed by lawmakers, will weigh various factors related to how the proposed institution would be funded and managed. If realized, the institution will be apart of ...

Alexander Si operates as something of an anthropologist, examining recent phenomena in popular culture. Si trained in media studies at the University of Toronto before completing an MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and now researches the impact of technology and media onour well-being. The multimedia artist is an observer who commands a deft ability to capture horrific qualities of ...

Access to arts and culture in areas with low levels of cultural engagement to be boosted through the £30.8 million Cultural Development Fund Local library services to be improved with £20.5 million Libraries Improvement Fund Urgent museum maintenance and infrastructure works to be funded through £63.3 million Museum Estate Development Fund Cultural venues including museums, galleries and public libraries are to benefit from up ...

In an interview with the press agency dpa this week, German cultural minister Claudia Roth defended the famed quinquennial Documenta, which is currently facing allegations of anti-Semitism from Jewish advocacy groups. Documenta first came under scrutiny in January, when the group Alliance Against Anti-Semitism Kassel accused the quinquennial of “involvement of anti-Israeli activists,” referring to the Palestinian roots of two artists in this year’s ...

Artist Derrick Adams has been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York to develop an archive that aims to document the activities of Black artists and creatives in Baltimore. The archive aims to catalogue records and materials related to the work of past and current Baltimore-area creatives, as well as other figures spanning science and sports. In ...

I recently went to The Rooms in St. John's, to see a new exhibition I had been looking forward to viewing, called Helping Hands: 30 Years at Kinngait Studios. Master printmaker William Ritchie kept a copy of every print he worked on at the studio in Nunavut. His donation of nearly 400 prints — by dozens of Inuit artists — is one of the largest and most significant ever made ...

Northern College's Indigenous Services Department hosted an art lesson for students and staff to learn more about Indigenous art and culture.  Local artist Justice Sutherland guided the participants through the painting of a turtle and a medicine wheel. Sutherland says she turned to art to learn more about her Indigenous roots. “My grandfather who was from Fort Albany-- he unfortunately passed ...

In the years between the start of the 20th century and the mid-1970s, more than six million African Americans left the rural South in what is known as the Great Migration. Forced from their homes by limited economic opportunities and legalized segregation, they settled primarily in towns and cities in the North and West, creating a new Black urban culture. At the Mississippi Museum ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--High Art, an innovative collaboration of philanthropists and entrepreneurs founded to showcase upcoming artists and businesses, announced today its first annual “Our Angeles” art show. The unique exhibit created for Angelenos by Angelenos will run from Saturday, March 19, 2022 through Sunday, March 27, 2022 at Art Share L.A. in Downtown, Los Angeles. To commemorate the launch, an Opening Ceremony Party bringing ...