A report by Fred Pearce for The New Scientist. Who killed the giant ground sloth? Or the mammoth and sabre-toothed cat, come to that. Was it humans or a natural event, like the end of the last ice age? The question is endlessly debated. But the answer, at least in the Caribbean, now seems certain: […]
In Italy, photographer Lissette Solárzano won the “Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico” award for photography at the 2017 Florence Biennial. According to Cuban Art News, Solárzano won for two works in her 200 ... Read more
[See previous post here; read book online here.] Question I’d never thought to ask before: are we sure it’s a good idea to let people know what the laws are? The Chinese legal system origi ... Read more
A report from Trinidad’s Guardian. Rasa in Sanskrit connotes a concept in Indian art about the aesthetic flavour of any visual, literary or musical work, that evokes an emotion or feeling in the ... Read more
A report by Scott Smith for BTN. If a Lifetime Achievement Award carries with it an impulse to look back and measure one’s accomplishments, poet Nancy Mercado isn’t feeling it. “Maybe people expect me ... Read more
Centro Voices presents the third interview in a series that focuses on contemporary Puerto Rican authors. As Ivelisse Rodriguez explains, Noel Quiñones is an Afro-Boricua educator, writer, and perform ... Read more
Alitalia in Northern summer 2018 season plans to resume service to 2 African destinations, subject to Government Approval. Opened for reservation this week, the airline plans to offer flights to Johan ... Read more
A report by Neil Armstrong for Jamaica’s Gleaner. Toronto-based author, musician, and educator Nadia L. Hohn’s Malaika’s Costume received an honourable mention at the 2017 Ame ... Read more
Cuban Art News reports several awards for visual arts, curatorship and criticism in Havana, Cuba. Visual Arts Award. The 2017 Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas was awarded to Eduardo Roca Salazar, kn ... Read more
Art Africa Miami helps create change through arts and culture. The 2017 Art Africa Miami Arts Fair takes place December 5-10, kicking off Miami Art Week and Art Basel 2017. The art fair is housed betw ... Read more
After you’ve spent countless hours crafting the perfect resume, and a few more sending out those perfectly crafted resumes to potential employers,… Read more
Last season’s Thanksgiving episode saw Modern Family dig into the little details of interpersonal, familial relationships in a meaningful way. There was the usual craziness that accompanies any episod ... Read more
Guyana, through its public security forces, has been battling to control the prevalence of criminal activities. But the possibility of this situation becoming even more daunting is not unlikely. This ... Read more
The winding mythology of Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington’s On Cinema At The Cinema is one of the most in-depth gags of either man’s career, a long narrative of deaths, medical maladies, and the occ ... Read more
A report by Saeed Saeed for The National. Toto La Momposina wants to go outside. We are seated in the lobby of the Abu Dhabi hotel for our interview when she abruptly stands up and strides to the outd ... Read more
We’ve posted several times recently about the Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne, in which Muslims have been illegally occupying the streets for public prayers every Friday. In the following brief c ... Read more