Visual Arts
Consumed by passion of the carnivale
Carnival arts is a celebration of communities and culture. Value for money when it comes to investing public money in…
The Cultured Tourist
The World Tourism Organisation (WTO) forecasts that 1.6 billion people will travel as tourists by the year 2020 - a…
When worlds collide and lovers meet
Starting an arts career is like having a new lover - especially if you've hopped from one field to another,…
Ancestral voices speak the language of science and art
Science and art are branches of the same root watered and nurtured in different ways. After centuries of utilizing science…
Counting Culture
It is said that everything has its price, but should that be the case with art? Putting a value on…
Building a future
A climate of dwindling subsidies and fierce competition for corporate sponsorship has left many arts operators struggling to stay afloat,…
Outside the Square
Outsider Art? The term spanks of marginalization and disempowerment. Indeed this form of art has been known by many names,…
Play it again, Sam
The practice of borrowing from older works to create new ones is well-established among artists. And contemporary performers and artists…
But is it ethical?
According to Thomas Shanks, S.J., executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics: "Ethics is intimately bound up with…
Intellectual fakes
On November 23 and 24 the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Italy's Ministry of Productive Activities and the Italian Institute…