Anouk Piket, manager of the graffiti project during Brazil Rotterdam, explains why graffiti has a different and especially better image in Brazil than in the Netherlands.
The Bamako Photo Biennial is enjoying increasing popularity. In Mali itself, however, little enthusiasm is shown for the event. Neither by the audience, nor by local photographers, says Amadou Sow.
From punk musician to neo-traditional folksinger is a radical change. Especially when the musician is a young Chinese with Mongolian roots from Beijing.
During the Indy India film programme, April 2009 in The Hague, rare movies, produced independently from Bollywood, were shown. Shai Heredia put the programme together.
The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Lagos, Nigeria is placing its bets on contact, exchange and cooperation in the southern hemisphere. Director Bisi Silva recently compiled an exhibition featuring seven African artists.
If Peru's top chef Gastón Acurio has anything to say about it, the international success of Peru's cuisine will have a positive effect on other sectors in his country.
"After so many years, the cultural sector has still failed to place the discussion on culture policy in the spotlight of public debate", says Uruguay's Gonzalo Carámbula. Carámbula is a consultant in the field of culture policy and one of the authors of Agenda 21 for Culture (2004).