Category : ARTS & CULTURE

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...

Marwan Hamed’s “The Blue Elephant” has been named the best feature film at the 4th annual Luxor African Film Festival, which concluded on Saturday. The...

St. Patrick’s Day 2015 Who was Saint Patrick? And why do we celebrate him every March 17th? March 17th marks the day we don green...

On 11 March 2015, the Saatchi Gallery will open Pangaea II: New Art From Africa and Latin America, the second instalment of the Gallery’s museum-scale...

“Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There’s nothing bad in...

Documentary These Girls by Egyptian Canadian filmmaker Tahani Rached is an intimate portrait of the lives of several street-involved girls in Cairo who range in age...

  Kamal Haasan, who is awaiting the release of his upcoming film “Uthama Villain”, will next be seen in a Tamil thriller film set in...

Tayo Olayode can create forms and non forms to create depth, movement and perspective ? very creative, but can anyone relate to this experience or...

 Credit: YouTube still Photo: Daryl Dixon Hangs Out on Porch in The Walking Dead Season 5, Episode 12 How do you solve a problem like...

*(Los Angeles) – The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), the premiere organization of film media professionals, set a goal last year to expand its...

An eight-year-old Nigerian girl in Germany has a bright future as an artist. Chioma loves painting and drawing, and has within a very short time,...

As she wrote Lyrics Alley, now longlisted for the Orange prize, Leila Aboulela could not have known that the era in which she set her novel...

France’s Alma Chamber Orchestra played the Radio Algeria auditorium on Tuesday under conductor Lionel Bringuier and the artistic direction of lead violinist Anne Gravoin, the...

 His Royal Highness Oba (King) Ofuntola Oseijeman Adelabu Adefunmi I, born Walter Eugene King on October 5, 1928 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He graduated from Cass Technical...

Rome – A hugely valuable painting believed to be the work of Leonardo da Vinci has been seized from a Swiss bank on the orders...

            Here is a partial list of winners of the 57th annual Grammy Awards, presented òn Sunday at the Staples...

Celebrated South African writer and outspoken apartheid critic Andre Brink, author of the novel “A Dry White Season”, has died, his university said. He was...