Visual Arts
Hip-hop you don't stop
Hip-hop artists dominate the charts. In Detroit, America’s first ‘hip-hop’ mayor has just celebrated winning a second term. Hip-hop historian…
Heritage Counts 2005
Heritage definitely counts, and unless the needs of our rural heritage in particular is addressed, its long term survival is…
Art transforming the culture of living and dying
The staff of Rosetta Requiem are in the midst of a cultural revolution. Not only are they in the vanguard…
Nature's own art form
For years strange shapes have been appearing in the endless fields around Kansas, courtesy of local and internationally renowned Land…
Art, thought and memory in a time of terror
In this time of war, uncertainty, random terrorist acts and media-fanned fears of avian flu pandemics, questions and suspicions are…
Out of the ashes - the rise and rise of Al-Jazeera
Out of the ashes of BBC Arabic Television and rubble of Afghanistan and Iraq, Al-Jazeera has risen like a phoenix.…
Volunteers: Your arts need you!
Many of us undertake some form of creativity at one point in our lives. Indeed how many of us secretly…
Communities creating for themselves
Much has been written about creative communities but the stories don't always relate to the same thing. A look at…
Collecting oneself in the presence of others
Leafing through the glossy ensemble photography of Vanity Fair – you know the sort, pages packed with film industry scions,…
Celebrate: Homotopia Festival!
From a country that once imprisoned Oscar Wilde for committing the supposed crime of the “love that dared not speak…