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ART-PERU: Reproductions – Thin Line between Journalism and Commerce
A lawsuit brought by artists in Peru against an architectural magazine to demand payment for publishing photographs of paintings by Pablo Picasso has triggered a contentious debate about the limits between commerce and the journalistic dissemination of works of art./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-THAILAND: Malls Threaten to Edge Out Modern Art
Chumporn Apisuk is a rebel with a cause. Armed with 100 paintings, this Thai performance artist wants to shake up the authorities running Bangkok for their lack of aesthetic sensibilities./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-JAMAICA: Jazz, Blues Fest Returns
Jamaica's tourism, which has taken a beating in wake of the country's frightening crime rate and last year's terrorist attacks in the United States, is gearing up for a period of relief with the return of the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Montego Bay./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-FINLAND: Exhibition Launches Fresh View of Africa
Popular images of Africa in Finland remain rooted in crude cultural stereotypes despite, or maybe because of, years of development cooperation with different African countries./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-ZIMBABWE: Promoting Local Talents
Foreign music is rapidly dwindling on the airwaves in Zimbabwe as government embarks on an aggressive programme to promote local music./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/LITERATURE-CUBA: International Book Fair Rivals Film Festival
The International Book Fair of Havana, which this year has been expanded to include 17 other Cuban cities, has become a rival of the world-renowned Havana Film Festival among the island's most popular major cultural events.CULTURE-TRINIDAD: Gypsy Rides Out the Storm
His was the most anticipated performance. But when Winston Peters, the singer-politician, took to the stage last weekend, the expected hostility towards him failed to materialise./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-PHILIPPINES: Humanising Conflict in the Muslim South
When Filipino director Marilou Diaz-Abaya went on a sabbatical from making films a few years ago, little did she know that it would bring her into the Philippine government's war against Muslim rebels in the south -- and right into yet another movie project./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-COSTA RICA: Radio Broadcasts the Voice of Colombia
Two Colombian radio announcers have become a symbol of culture and good news for the thousands of their compatriots in Costa Rica who seek to leave behind the decades-long armed conflict of their native country./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-VENEZUELA: The Political Gaze of Director Chalbaud
The films of Román Chalbaud have pulsated alongside Venezuelan history for more than four decades, and this tight relationship between art and reality has now been set down in a book that highlights the best of this prolific filmmaker./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-MEXICO: Religious Tourism Gets a Boost
The Mexican capital is set to transform the Basilica of Guadalupe, a historical and cultural emblem of the nation, into a centre of both religious expression and tourism, similar to the grottos of Lourdes in France and of Fatima in Portugal./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-CHINA: Politics Dances with Art in New Ballet
Film director Zhang Yimou, a pioneer of the Chinese cinema in the West who has won accolades at the Berlin, Cannes and Venice film festivals, has proven his critics at home wrong./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Overseas Devotees More Taken with Reggae’s Past than Present?
A fun-loving deejay and some old stagers with a new look were the stars in the world of reggae in 2001, a year in which some of the leading names in the local dancehall made more headlines in the courtroom than for their music./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-TRINIDAD: For Local Bands, Desperation Precedes Carnival
They had taken Paul Richards from his home, the four gunmen, and brought him to a cremation site to underscore their threat to kill the radio disc jockey if he didn't meet their one demand: to play local music on his popular morning programme. Then they let him go./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-JAMAICA: For Reggae, A New Box Populi?
Reggae, currently on a high in the United States with the mega success of rapper Shaggy, is the subject of a new box set, "The Reggae Box: The Routes of Jamaican Music", which distributors hope will get U.S. listeners tuned into the history of this Caribbean nation's music./ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT/ART-CUBA: 2002 Is Painter Wifredo Lam’s Year
Wifredo Lam, considered the most important and universal of Cuba's painters, will receive tribute from his fellow Cubans and from art lovers around the world in 2002 as they mark the hundred-year anniversary of his birth./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-CHILE: Disabled Boy on Road to Fame
"Mas alla de las estrellas" (Beyond the Stars) is the first album by Juan Diego Alarcon, an Ecuadorian- born adolescent with muscular dystrophy who, in spite of the limitations imposed by his wheelchair, is attempting to launch a career as a professional singer./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ FILM-NICARAGUA: Heirs to the Sandinista Revolution
Mexican filmmaker Yazmín Ross has completed a new documentary that follows the lives of the now young adults who were born in Nicaragua on July 19, 1979, when the rebel Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) took over power, overthrowing dictator Anastasio Somoza./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-UAE: Architecture Blends Tradition and Modern Conveniences
A 20-year passion in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to preserve its impressive old buildings has provided cities here with a face that is a harmonious blend of its traditional and modern architecture./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-INDIA: Oscar Winner Makes Movie Magic with Naipaul’s Novel
What happens when an Indian Oscar- wining filmmaker adapts on celluloid a novel by a controversial Indian Nobel laureate on the immigrant Indian community in the Trinidad of the 30s?/CORRECTED REPEAT/CULTURE-JAMAICA: Today’s Main Event, Patois vs. Queen’s English
Patois, the Jamaican dialect, has consistently stirred heated debate here as to whether and what its place should be in modern Jamaica. A U.S. college student, however, is keen to make it fashionable among his compatriots.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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