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Why are Swedish bands so great?
ARTS HUB UK — The Knife, The Sounds, Soundtrack of Our Lives, Jose Gonzalez, Crazy Frog, the list goes on.…
Asian Art Report
With June dominated by the “European Biennale Circuit” and all focus on Venice and documenta, let’s take a look at…
Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art — Part 1
The Brooklyn Museum is certainly one of the least risk-averse of the major New York museums. After all, it hosted…
A degree of talent: studying for a life in the theatre
Flicking through American Theatre magazine, one’s eye is assaulted with a glossy panoply of advertisements for various theatre degrees. One…
Artist's Voice: Annie Leist — Closing the door
As we began the fourth and final semester of our MFA program, my classmates and I were in the throes…
Trip report: The Future of Electronic Literature Symposium
"Electronic Literature? Is that like e-books?" you ask. Well, yes and no — in a sense, electronic writing has been…
Art and the Desert: Welcome to Dubai
Gordon Finlayson takes us on a journey to the rapidly growing arts scene in the United Arab Emirates in the…
Ad Hoc Choirs
Usually the one thing all choirs have in common is singing — recognizably musical activity of some sort. But the…
Protecting Endangered Species: The National Endowment for the Arts
Modern dance is one of the enduring creations of the American twentieth century. And yet many of the greatest dances…
The cruellest month
Early on, April seemed to defy T S Eliot's characterization of the month that begins with All Fool's Day and…