Category Culture

The online tributes to Frankie Beverly in the wake of his death on Wednesday offered a fascinating study in contrasts. Black Americans wrote about his band Maze as a fact of life, invoking memories of family parties, summer barbecues and…

Performeuse, sculptrice, dessinatrice, réalisatrice de films, l’artiste allemande Rebecca Horn est morte vendredi 6 septembre. Ni le lieu ni la cause de son décès n’ont été communiqués. Son œuvre est l’une des plus intenses et provocantes de son temps. Elle naît le…

[…] And out of nowhere a girl receives an ovation from her rescuers, all men on their knees and bellies clearing the man-made rubble with their bare hands, disfigured by dust into ghosts. All disasters are natural including this one,…

Not unlike A Story of Bones from a few weeks back, which focused on an island (Saint Helena) in another ocean, this film offers a thoughtful, somewhat downbeat story rooted in colonialism and its aftermath. The island in this case…