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Return of colonial-era statue to Congo fuels environmental revival

Philenews 22 Apr 2024

Joyful singing and cheers echoed around the hills surrounding a small village in western Democratic Republic of Congo as a procession emerged from an underground cave bearing an antique wooden figure of a Belgian colonial officer.

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Forget Marrakesh — try this easy-going, coastal city

The Times/The Sunday Times 22 Apr 2024

Day one. • Morning. Take a cooking class ... Amazigh and Moroccan heritage — as well as colonial and post-colonial artistic influences from France’s rule in the first half of the 20th century — are explored at the Agadir Art Museum which opened in 2023 ... .

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Armed guards, reparations and the lives of others: Venice Biennale 2024 – review

AOL 21 Apr 2024

The living artists (and many of the dead, museumised in the vast central pavilion) are preoccupied by colonialism, migration, queer and Indigenous rights, climate crisis and the restitution of ancestral objects.

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Seaport exhibit reframes Black and Indigenous maritime history

The Day 20 Apr 2024

Akeia de Barros Gomes, senior curator of Maritime Social Histories at the museum, said earlier in April that the three-year project brought together Indigenous and Black artists, craftspeople, and ...

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Interplay of lights and arts at CCP Earth Day celebration

The Manila Times 20 Apr 2024

The Dagitab Digital Earth Day show begins on April 25, following the opening of the CCP Earth Day art installation, featuring visual artist Leeroy New's Mebuyan Colony, at the CCP Front Lawn.

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Émigrés, exiles and refugees: Venice Biennale welcomes foreigners

France24 19 Apr 2024

... selection of artists this year; we hear about the Ethiopian, British and Canadian pavilions who are changing the face of post-colonial art.

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Romanian rhapsody

China Daily 19 Apr 2024

Establishing sustained cultural ties with a country like Romania augurs well for Hong Kong, not the least because such ties encourage Hong Kong's artists and audiences to look beyond their colonial legacy.

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Arts Notes: Williamsburg Players wrap up musical this week

Daily Press 17 Apr 2024

Williamsburg Artists Group. The Williamsburg Artists Group is showcasing 20 artists in a display running Friday and Saturday ... Offerings include hand-painted notecards, landscapes, colonial scenes, interpretations of ancient Mayan art and portraiture.

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British Pavilion at Venice Biennale review — a jumble of gibberish

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Apr 2024

It is about cultural memory and planetary reflection, historical milestones and listening as activism — it is also about post-colonialism, ecology and “the sonic” ... Yinka Shonibare’s colourful and provocative look at a colonial past.

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John Akomfrah’s British pavilion at Venice Biennale review – a magnificent and awful journey

The Guardian 16 Apr 2024

The artist’s nightmare of colonial exile, ecology and globalisation – recurring endlessly over six interconnected video installations – leaves you unsettled, unhinged and gasping for air Trucks pass ...

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Alserkal Initiatives partners bodies for show on solidarity in Venice

Gulf Today 15 Apr 2024

The show aims to offer a counter-space to agendas of war, patriarchy and colonialism, and their toxic impacts on human and non-human ecosystems ... The Cité international des arts is the largest artists’ residence in the world.

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Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States review – gorgeously recognisable, but is that enough?

AOL 14 Apr 2024

... little to do with Africa or colonialism ... The artist is against colonialism, racism, imperialism, war ... The question is whether it speaks of far-reaching colonialism more than Famous Artist these days.

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Summer in Scandinavia: five eco-friendly ideas to holiday like a local

The Observer 14 Apr 2024

Bornholm is is officially the Danes’ favourite holiday spot and has an artist colony vibe ... Bornholm has an artist colony vibe reminiscent of parts of Cornwall and is well known for its ceramics.

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Local author travels back four generations to understand the woman who left it all behind

Monterey Herald 14 Apr 2024

Yet relatively little has been written or said about artist Jane Maria Gallatin Powers, who remained at her husband’s side, from their marriage in 1891, until his passing in 1920 ... The Untold History of the Carmel and Berkeley Art Colonies.

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Ed Ruscha’s ‘Chocolate Room,’ Maurice Sendak and the week’s best L.A. culture

The Los Angeles Times 13 Apr 2024

The authors set out to preserve the history of Terminal Island — not just the Japanese American village notoriously uprooted by government order, but also the land's past as a resort, artists colony and more.