Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys plan to wake up sleepy New York town with new arts and music centre
An old industrial park on Route 31 in Macedon, New York isn’t the place you’d expect to see turned into an arts facility but that’s exactly what Alicia Keys, the […]
170 artworks gifted to Mead Art Museum by anonymous donor
Often times, when a museum receives a sizable donation, it’s a fairly established, publicized event. Sometimes, the process begins years before the gift ever happens and it’s a foregone conclusion […]
Billie Eilish accused of stealing artists work, pulls clothing line from website
Just a week ago, 17-year-old singer Billie Eilish released a capsule apparel collection that she created in collaboration with Siberia Hills, a fashion company founded in 2017 by designer Daf […]
Nine Nazi-looted artworks returned by Munich institutions
Over eight decades have passed since Julius and Semaya Franziska Davidsohn, Jewish art collectors, were arrested by the Gestapo. On that day in 1938, the entirety of their possessions were […]
Jamaica calls on British Museum to return artefacts
Amid heightening tensions concerning the repatriation of items currently residing at large institutions, Jamaica has joined the list of countries looking for the return of culturally significant items. Before Jamaica’s […]
Haida language films- a new voice in cinema
Recently screened at the J.A. Bombardier Theatre of the McCord Museum were two Haida language films, a phrase which until the passed few years was relatively nonexistent. The language of […]
The most influential American author of her generation, Toni Morrison’s writing was radically ambiguous
Paul Giles, University of Sydney Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, was the most influential and studied American author of her generation. Born as Chloe Wofford in Ohio in […]
