Visual Arts
The Art of Memory
It’s been five years since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, where nearly 3,000…
Between kitsch and avant-garde
"Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind." So wrote Guillaume Apollinaire in 1912, in an effort to…
The art of reinvention
Just what are the forces driving our obsession with the contemporary art of adaptation? For up until recently and historically,…
The Changing Face Of Environmental Art
Since the turn of the millennium, world concern over environmental issues such as pollution and global warming has increased exponentially.…
The new diversity of superheroes - from Gotham City to Bollywood
That stalwart of superhero pulp, America's DC Comics, sent tongues a'wagging when they recently ressurected a long dead character. But…
What is “Sacred” Music, Anway?
Since the reforms of the 1960s (when the Second Vatican Council curtailed the use of Latin), Catholic parishes and dioceses…
Nearing the Edge!
"Arts funding is an issue that is always high on the arts agenda; how to deliver it, finding a balance…
Branding Culture
The idea that one city can have more culture oozing from it's Central Park than anywhere else has been fueling…
Cultural Places: For a new demographic
"'New demographic' is a term blissfully unknown in the academic literature; Google Scholar, the standard source, contains not a single…
Art in the aftermath
In the aftermath of terrible disaster, art and artists often play a role in providing relief for trauma victims and…