The Power of Culture

SUSPECT is an evolving, international art collective that wants to uncover the subtle beauty in everyday objects. Recently it opened its first exhibition in Mumbai.

Slavery, revolution and isolation are the themes at the big Cuba exhibition in the Groninger Museum. The exhibition covers the period 1868 to the present day, but it focuses mainly on the years after Fidel Castro's assumption of power.

Three Rotterdam art institutions have joined forces to introduce to the general public Brazilian artists, architects, photographers and designers.

Syria has always had a lively visual arts scene. Appreciated by regional Arab collectors it failed in turn to attract the attention of the West. Over the past two years Syrian artists and galleries have rejoined the Middle-Eastern avant-garde, which is slowly but surely establishing itself internationally.

Indonesian artist Samuel Indratma likes to work with scrap iron, but his honorary nickname is 'the fresco president' because of the murals he creates with the people of Jogjakarta.

The Malinese actor who was recently twice awarded is determinded to give West Africa an infrastructure for the theatre. 

Cardboard is to Namibian grafic artists what stone is to Zimbabwean sculptors. Once born out of necessity, because of the high price of linoleum, cardboard printing has developed into a powerful art form.