by Alexandra Marie Daniels Arts and Culture Editor “What’s your dream?” she asks. I look at my friend Marjon across the table at the little café on Second Avenue, where we regularly go for an affordable bowl of pasta and…
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Life’s Work: Gudran Artistic Collective Promotes Culture as Development in Egyptian Fishing Town
by Michelle Chen – USA – The sun pounds down on El Max like a scalding flint. The tiny Egyptian fishing town bordering the Mediterranean seems little more than a narrow valley of cascading cement houses. But unexpectedly, the village…
Tagged with: activism, Art, Arts & Culture, Development, Egypt, Gudran project, Mediterranean
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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Exploring the Edge: Young Couple Brings the Rita Project and Birth Write to Los Angeles
by Sarah McGowan Features & Photo Editor, The WIP – USA – Recently relocated to Los Angeles, artists Kim Strouse and Joseph Michael Lopez are no strangers to the often aggressive nature of both “big city” life and life itself.…
Tagged with: Abortion, activism, Art, Arts & Culture, Los Angeles, Mental Health, photography, United States
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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Unreal Beauty Is Dangerous to the Soul
by Nancy Van Ness – USA – I know what I look like, more than most people. I study photographs and film footage of myself dancing in a unitard assiduously, in order to hone my work. Not many people scrutinize…
Tagged with: Art, Arts & Culture, beauty, Dance, film, self image, The Beauty Myth, United States
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Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES
Art Against Forgetting: stumbling over Germany’s sordid past
By Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany – Ever since the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe was inaugurated in Berlin two years ago, it has become a major tourist attraction. The vast monument consists of a sprawling field of…
Tagged with: Art, Arts & Culture, Europe, Germany, Gunter Demnig, holocaust
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, The World
A Chair Can Be a Powerful Symbol
by D-L Nelson – France – Geneva, Switzerland – “The chair is back,” Geneva residents are saying to each other. They are referring to a 12-meter (39-foot) wooden chair that stands between spouting fountains at the recently renovated Place des…
Tagged with: Art, Arts & Culture, Europe, landmines, Ottawa, Switzerland, UN
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
Posted in FEATURE ARTICLES, Politics, The World
