Category : ARTS & CULTURE

auction house in Paris A photo taken in Paris on June 1, 2015 shows Ta-Nedjem’s funerary linen, a rare Egyptian polychrome linen square with a...

Drawing inspiration from the Seattle Art Museum’s celebrated African collection, Disguise: Masks and Global African Art (opening June 18, 2015) is a groundbreaking exhibition that...

Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting the first UK exhibition of French-Algerian artist Djamel Tatah whose work has been widely exhibited in France and abroad....

Leo Barraclough The British Council has launched a U.K.-Nigeria screenwriting partnership program, Script Junction, which will run from June to November. The aim of the...

Mohamed Maarouf Egypt’s antiquities minister issued orders on Wednesday to intensify security at antiquities sites across the country in coordination with the Interior Ministry, in...

BOOK REVIEW: Meditation in the workplace  Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out, by David Gelles THE author of this book,...

Breathe Umphefumlo reimagines Puccini’s La Bohème in the TB-wracked township of Khayelitsha In 2008, a wave of violent, xenophobic attacks on migrant workers in South...

African song, dance, taste and language have all been welcomed into many aspects of U.S. culture, even when the actual people of African descent have...

Not many in her homeland appear to know about her unique story. But in other lands, especially Europe and America, she is a ‘goddess’ whose...

  BB King has died in his home in Las Vegas at the age of 89. Photograph: Ricky Fitchett/Zuma Press/Corbis Blues legend BB King has...

Picture: THINKSTOCK IT WAS the best experience of my life, says artist Ilka van Schalkwyk of the Paris residency that comes with winning the Barclays...

As Charlotte Campbell-Stephen sat in a Kenyan police station reporting the brutal attack and gang rape she endured over an eight-hour period, the police interview...

GETTY Picasso’s Women of Algiers was last auctioned in 1997 – it tripled the expected price Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O) fetched a staggering...

Amjad Hemidach Hemidach Amjad is a teacher of English. He is Morocco World News correspondent in Fez. Fez – The twenty-first Fez Festival of World...

By R.P. Sevadjian Special for the Armenian Weekly At the beginning of March, a Requiem was offered for my parents and for the Sevadjian clan,...

I’m up here at the Stanley Film Festival in beautiful Estes Park, CO (if you’re unfamiliar, it’s based at the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write...

At the entryway to the Quesada Gardens, taking over the location that had been home to the Howard family’s “Wendy’s Cheesecake Bakery” for many years,...

Basim Magdy becomes the seventh artist to win Deutsche Bank’s ‘Artist of the Year’ award since it was launched in 2010 (Photo: from The Many...

The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has released a list of journalists that have qualified for the final scrutiny for this year’s awards. According...

The finalists for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize were announced in Cape Town on Tuesday, with 10 authors from around the world contending for...