/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BRAZIL: Black, Gay and Illiterate – Now a Big Screen Legend

"Madame Satan" is this year's Brazilian cinema novelty, a film that portrays a reality that contributed to the construction of the national identity seven decades ago, through a figure who, in his own way, overcame all the prejudices against him.

/ARTS WEEKLY/AFRICA: Women Inseparable from the Art they Create Each Day

The photograph shows the bright primary colours of a southern African Ndebele mural done in the traditional earth-based paints that must be renewed after the rains.

/ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-PERU: Simon Bolivar as Othello of the Americas

South American liberator Simón Bolívar, who fought to free Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela from the Spanish colonial oppression, is the jealous "Othello" in a bold staging of the William Shakespeare classic by the Catholic University of Lima.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BRAZIL: Black, Gay and Illiterate – Now a Big Screen Legend

"Madame Satan" is this year's Brazilian cinema novelty, a film that portrays a reality that contributed to the construction of the national identity seven decades ago, through a figure who, in his own way, overcame all the prejudices against him.

/ARTS WEEKLY/AFRICA: Women Inseparable from the Art they Create Each Day

The photograph shows the bright primary colours of a southern African Ndebele mural done in the traditional earth-based paints that must be renewed after the rains.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-VIETNAM: ‘The Quiet American’ Creates a Stir

The screening here of the latest Hollywood adaptation of 'The Quiet American', based on Graham Greene's 1955 novel, is a long-awaited one after the Vietnamese authorities gave the film the ideological green light.

/ARTS WEEKLY/JAMAICA: Groups Work to Preserve Jonkunnu Christmas Event

Neville Gordon still laughs when he remembers the first time he saw a Jonkunnu parade nearly 40 years ago in his community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ART-MEXICO: Quality Copies of Masterpieces at a Modest Price

Museum quality reproductions of the works of old masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir can now be purchased legally in Mexico at affordable prices ranging from 4,000 to 15,000 U.S. dollars.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-LATAM: Brazilian Stories Conquer Havana Festival

Two Brazilian films, one a bold incursion into violence and the other the story of a homosexual man who seeks stardom, captivated audiences and critics alike at the 24th Festival of New Latin American Film.

/ARTS WEEKLY/BOOKS-AFRICA: A Day in the Life of the Continent

A new book presents a multi-dimensional perspective of Africa - a continent often depicted as a one-dimensional basket case.

BOOKS-AFRICA: A Day in the Life of the Continent

A new book presents a multi-dimensional perspective of Africaa continent often depicted as a one-dimensional basket case.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-VIETNAM: ‘The Quiet American’ Creates a Stir

The screening here of the latest Hollywood adaptation of 'The Quiet American', based on Graham Greene's 1955 novel, is a long-awaited one after the Vietnamese authorities gave the film the ideological green light.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ART-MEXICO: Quality Copies of Masterpieces at a Modest Price

Museum quality reproductions of the works of old masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir can now be purchased legally in Mexico at affordable prices ranging from 4,000 to 15,000 U.S. dollars.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-LATAM: Brazilian Stories Conquer Havana Festival

Two Brazilian films, one a bold incursion into violence and the other the story of a homosexual man who seeks stardom, captivated audiences and critics alike at the 24th Festival of New Latin American Film.

JAMAICA: Groups Work to Preserve Jonkunnu Christmas Event

Neville Gordon still laughs when he remembers the first time he saw a Jonkunnu parade nearly 40 years ago in his community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland.

BOOKS-AFRICA: A Day in the Life of the Continent

A new book presents a multi-dimensional perspective of Africaa continent often depicted as a one-dimensional basket case.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM: Born Into Fear, U.S. Citizens Arm Themselves to Death

On the same day in April 1999 that the United States conducted its most intense bombing of Kosovo, two teenagers shot to death 13 others and then killed themselves at Columbine High School in the western state of Colorado. But first they went bowling.

/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-COLOMBIA: Annual Showcase for Crafts-cum-Art

Colombia's urban dwellers, peasant farmers and indigenous communities are taking advantage of the Expoartesanías crafts fair this month to exhibit their best hand-made decorative and practical objects, expressions of their unique cultures.

/ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-CHILE: The Reunion of a Lost Lieutenant Bello

The innovative theatre troupe Lieutenant Bello, which erupted on the scene in the 1980s when Chile was beginning to rebel against the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), is preparing the debut - after 16 years away from the footlights - of "La pieza que falta" (The Missing Piece).

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-ASIA: Animation Houses Turn to Cross-Cultural Content

''With more than 5,000 years worth of conflicts, conquests and cultural developments, Asia's cultural heritage is a treasure trove of plots and stories waiting to be discovered and brought to life,'' said David Lim, Singapore Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts.

/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-COLOMBIA: Annual Showcase for Crafts-cum-Art

Colombia's urban dwellers, peasant farmers and indigenous communities are taking advantage of the Expoartesanías crafts fair this month to exhibit their best hand-made decorative and practical objects, expressions of their unique cultures.