NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner’ which premieres worldwide on May 25. Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the Guinness Book [...]
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]
New Delhi: India is fast losing its sense of humor. And the Indian parliament, it appears is only hastening the death of tongue-in-cheek caricature. At a time when the top political executives in the country including Home minister P Chidambaram faces corruption charges in a telecom scam, the Prime Minister is accused of sheltering the [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Coalition of the Artists of the Revolution announced on its official Facebook page that it supports presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi as the next president of Egypt, under the slogan “Moving towards a better future with Sabahi … we support you.” The Coalition said in a statement that it decided to support the long-time [...]
CAIRO: On the occasion of the launch of her photographic exhibition and book named ‘DUST’, Swedish photographer Xenia Niokolsaya will participate to a symposium on May 12th at Rawabet Theatre on Egypt’s abandoned architectural heritage, during which she will present her recently published book. Together with historians, architects, artists and theorists, the panelists will discuss [...]
NEW DELHI: This middle-aged engineer from Chennai is out on Tamil Nadu’s roads not building or repairing them, but training this south Indian state’s folk artistes and groups to create awareness on issues such as the importance of educating girls and against social-ills like dowry and child marriage. R Kaleeshwaran, who is 48, formally taught [...]
Goa (INDIA) Two of India’s greatest creative talents, master cartoonist and illustrator Mario Miranda and legendary music composer Anthony Gonsalves have been honored posthumously with a varsity chair in the state of their birth, Goa, in Western India. Goa’s chief Minister Manohar Parrikar handed over a $ 1 million (approx) for establishing three chairs, the [...]
Egyptian freedom of expression advocates are in an uproar over the banning of a play over its alleged use of “foul language.” 24 rights movements issued a joint statement condemning al-Sawy Cultural Center in Cairo for banning the play “Mono-drama Auto bus” from showing at the center’s 7th Mono-drama theater festival taking place this month. [...]
CAIRO: Tonight, April 2, and as part of the In Translation Lecture Series, the Center for Translation Studies and the Department of Rhetoric and Composition are hosting a panel of artists who collaborated in painting the murals on Mohamed Mahmoud Street, which is next to The American University in Cairo (AUC) Tahrir campus. Artists Ammar [...]
A multimedia exhibition to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade will open in the Main Gallery of the Visitors Lobby at the United Nations on Tuesday. This exhibit will showcase a retrospective on the scope and abolition of the slave trade with maps, photographs, illustrations [...]
CAIRO: Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai opened the sixth edition of Art Dubai 2012 held under patronage of Vice- President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The event, which will run till March 25, will bring together [...]
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s contemporary art scene is to get a monumental boost later this month when a volume on the subject is to be published. The independent art initiative Edge of Arabia announced this week that they are publishing a book on contemporary Saudi art at Art Dubai on March 22. “Edge of Arabia: Contemporary [...]
NEW YORK: Seven works by six Iranian artists from three generations comprise the installation Contemporary Iranian Art from the Permanent Collection, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 3, 2012. Of the six artists—Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Parviz Tanavoli, Y. Z. Kami, Shirin Neshat, Afruz Amighi, and Ali Banisadr—four live and work in [...]
In his book “Trial by Ink”, Egyptian writer Yahia Lababidi offers us an intimate look into the world of self-censorship and sexual morality in the Arab world from the perspective of a man himself and he begins his reflection by speaking with brutal sincerity about the new morality of Egypt: “Much of the new morality [...]
Phnom Penh: From the artworks of the capital’s burgeoning galleries to the distinct school of design evolving in the north-western town of Battambang, Cambodian art is increasingly reaching a global market. Cambodia’s home-grown artists are showing in major Asian cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore. A season of Cambodian art is also planned for [...]
Hanoi (dpa) – The image of a bird in a cage is familiar across cultures. However, when artist Lai Dieu Ha took off all her clothes, smeared herself in clear oil and got covered in blue feathers, for many Vietnamese in the audience, the medium obscured the message. The performance Fly Up was part of [...]
The history of thought and the history of music are not the same. While thoughts always require adjectives to qualify them and yet are immune to the effect of such qualifications; the adjectives that apply to music are in most of the cases pre-ordained: Thoughts might be beautiful, haunting, dazzling, innovative, imperative, and ugly; but [...]
CAIRO: “Politica” is a new exhibition taking place at Zamalek’s Safar Khan Gallery throughout February featuring a series of interesting and slightly comical paintings by the young painter Ahmed Kassim. In essence, it could be thought of as a caricature taking the form of a painting with its cunning use of the social patterns and [...]
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