Art Worldwide

Art in the Wake of the World Cup

June 2010 -

Countless, loosely associated cultural surprises have been drawn into South Africa in the wake of the World Cup Soccer 2010. One of these is the pan-African SPace exhibition, with works from more than twenty-five artists displayed on three floors of the Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg.

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"Feature films drown out documentaries in South Africa"

June 2010 -

The Beeldvoorbeeld festival is devoting a great deal of attention to South Africa. Three films by François Verster are being presented. Verster has been the recipient of a number of awards, including an Emmy for A Lion's Trail.

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Engagement dominates in Dak'art

May 2010 -

The biennial for contemporary African art brings many young artists together. They select their themes based primarily on current issues.

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Julia Solomonoff: "Argentine men suffer from machismo themselves"

May 2010 -

One of the jewels of the sixth Latin American Film Festival is El último verano de la boyita by the Argentine film director Julia Solomonoff. It is a tender dual portrait of city girl Jorgelina, who spends a summer in the country, and Mario, a boy her age, who is wrestling with a big secret.

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Latin American Film Festival focuses on adolescents

May 2010 -

Many films that are currently being made in Latin America deal with bored adolescents who do not know what to do with their lives. The sixth edition of LAFF tries to discover why.

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The Lebanese music industry: commerce and emancipation

April 2010 -

For many years the Egyptian pop music industry was in the vanguard, but now Lebanon seems to have taken the lead. An exponent of this are the provocative video clips by popular female singers.

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Pop music from Iran: both ordinary and unusual

April 2010 -

Rather quickly after the Iranian revolution, there was a genuine revival of classical music from Iran. Of course, there is also pop music in Iran, but people are less familiar with it. But that is about to change.

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Son of Babylon: a plea for mutual understanding

March 2010 -

When Mohamed Al-Daradji returned to his native Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, he was filled with desire for revenge. He incorporated his emotions in a film in which, surpisingly, mutual understanding is the theme.

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Salif Keita sings of his pride at being an albino

March 2010 -

After considerable successes in the eighties it appears that the Malinese Afro-pop singer and song writer Salif Keita is returning to his tradition.

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Turkish-Kurdish singer Rojin: "I don’t want to be treated like a criminal"

March 2010 -

Relationships between Kurds and the Turkish authorities continue to be turbulent and this affects the career of the popular singer.

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