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In Brazil, besides the economic booming, there is another market that is growing fast: the art market.
In big cities like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, artists are founding more and more opportunities to sell their work. Most especially in Sao Paulo,.
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Tunisia’s Revolution woke up the entire Arab world. The region seemed to reach a nadir in its political life. Regimes bereft of any purpose expect maintaining...
made popular Mar 22 2011
Welcome to the creations of a modern-day archaeologist whose quest for signs left over by the energy of ancient civilizations in old electronics and computers. This...
made popular Feb 8 2011
Every single Gulf nation is lousy, even Qatar. These are contemporary protectorates under American auspicious. But Qatar is the least lousy in an awful bunch.
Unlike...
made popular Jan 3 2011
Over 5000 years ago, when the Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations were taking root, a more evolved and elaborate civilization was taking shape in the Indian...
made popular Dec 17 2010
The Noble prize for literature is announced tomorrow...
Syrian poet Adonis (real name Ali Ahmad Sa’id) is widely considered to be on the short list for...
made popular Oct 7 2010
In a White House where first lady Michelle Obama’s relationship to the arts strives to be both rarefied and common, cerebral and pragmatic, the cultural program...
made popular Jul 21 2010
A Melbourne artist Jane Korman’s European family tour included Auschwitz, Dachau, Theresienstadt, and a memorial in Lodz, Poland, resulted in Dancing Auschwitz,...
made popular Jul 14 2010
Elie Wiesel is one of the biggest unsubtle frauds in America. This is a guy so talks a good game about standing up for justice, standing up for the suffering, standing...
made popular May 21 2010
Source: Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851–1914): The Arab Jeweler | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | New York - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Arabs are...
made popular May 10 2010
At this moment in time the fool is following the fool. By this statement I mean that the blind is ruling the blind in practise it determines the narrowness of mind that...
made popular Apr 23 2010
All ancient civilizations across the world have been subject to ruthless plundering by unscrupulous elements in the world. The greatest plunderers have been Europeans...
made popular Mar 11 2010
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) has one of the most incredible and engaging collections of paintings. Art is all subjective, of course. So that is my opinion. I...
made popular Jan 28 2010
The era of Byzantine art that is well-known for the lavish use of gold and silver in the works of art dates back from 4th century to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453....
made popular Jan 23 2010
James Cameron’s Avatar is an exhilarating cinematic experience that has to be seen on the Big Screen and in 3-D. Considering that this is that this is his first...
made popular Jan 4 2010
Despite the image here in America, Land of the Arab world as uncouth and uncultured, the Arabs have a rich cinematic history. Arabs have been making movies and hundreds...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Very few Arabs or thoughtful Westerns view the Palestinians as one-dimensional resistance fighters or, worse, terrorists. The Palestinians are known for their poetry -...
made popular Aug 27 2009
Calligraphy is the art of the Arabs. That is not an accident of history, but a direct consequence of the arrival of Islam. Pagan Arabs had long drawn images of...
made popular Aug 22 2009
Thanks to the wisdom of the late Saudi Mufti Bin Baz, cinemas are banned is this awfully repressive Kingdom.
Photo Credit: www.benettontalk.com
The Wahhabi clerics...
made popular Jul 21 2009
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Mahmoud Darwish was born in northern Palestine, in what is today referred to some by “Israel.” In 1948, with the al-Nakba [The Catastrophe] resulting from...
made popular Jul 16 2009
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed,” said William Blake. But the moral guardians of daytime TV take a different view. The Channel 4...
made popular Jul 13 2009
Van Gogh and Gauguin forged a deep friendship
during the two years they lived and painted, sharing a place in Arles, in the south of France.
The two had built the...
made popular May 20 2009
Studio3 presents “Stillness Speaks” an exhibition of Buddha Paintings
by Umakant Tawde at Jehangir Art Gallery.2nd AC Hall from 3rd June...
made popular May 14 2009
London is hosting a Palestinian film festival for its tenth year. Not an Arab film festival, but a Palestinian one. Chicago and Houston also hold their annual...
made popular May 2 2009
Sussane Wenger, painter, sculpture and artist of Austrian origin, but who lived almost all her adult life in Osogbo, Nigeria has died in Osogbo on January 12, 2009 at...
made popular Jan 29 2009
Lahore is Pakistan’s leading center of art and culture. Recently, on January 09 2009, two theaters in Lahore were targeted by what are thought to be fundamentalist...
made popular Jan 12 2009
The dancing girls of Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, are on strike in protest against the tide of Talibanisation that is threatening to destroy an art form...
made popular Dec 12 2008
I was in a haze staring at my monitor when I had this phantom scenario in my head one morning, where me and a couple of friends were in a round table chatting and...
made popular Oct 16 2008
L’atelier WM is a a group of young artists founded in Paris in 2008. They have a line of colorful candles, both in looks and attitude. Hands making gestures cast...
made popular Oct 8 2008
With the end of the Summer Salzburg Festival, I think back to the founders of such an event. Two of the prime movers were Jews: the magnificent theater director Max...
made popular Sep 15 2008
This is probably one of the most famous squares in Italy and in the world: St Mark’s Square, one of the symbols of Venice. However, the 900-year-old piazza, which...
made popular Sep 1 2008
The crucified frog will be staying where it is. A statue representing a frog on a cross like Jesus Christ, with eyes and tongue lolling out, will remain displayed in...
made popular Aug 31 2008
In yesterday’s Times Of India the “Speaking Tree” section espouses the merits of knitting . In a US church they have something called the...
made popular Aug 29 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
Last year there were indications of the beginning of a great boom in the Indian art market—or, so it seemed. It soared like the stock market. ...
made popular Aug 6 2008
“The Golan Heights is a plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The Syrians attacked the Golan with 1,500 tanks and 1,000 artillery pieces.
made popular Aug 5 2008
Hannes Broecke, a German artist, figured out how to create works of art that people could not only consume with their eyes, but also with their mouths!
made popular Jul 28 2008
Kathakali literally meaning ’story-dance’ is the dance-drama of Malabar which is now culturally and politically known as Kerala’s soul.It is one of the...
made popular Jul 17 2008
I am amazed at the number of film people turning ‘political’. Anybody can become a politician. But nobody will invite a beggar on streets to lead the country if he...
made popular Jul 11 2008
Mr Ashish Ghosh is again set to keep the Indian Tricolour flying in the Olympic Fine Art ~ 2008 at Beijing.
made popular Jul 6 2008
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A visitor walks over an illusionary art work of an alligator painted on the floor at the Trick Art Museum at the foot of Mount Takao on the outskirts of Tokyo, Japan, Sunday, May 3, 2009.
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