The Many Victims Of Oscar Pistorius
The instant that Oscar Pistorius pulled the trigger, killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, everything changed. Let me preface this piece by stating that by far the most affected victims in this whole tragic affair are, unquestionably, Steenkamp, her family, and her friends. Nobody in the sporting world (or out of it) have suffered and are...
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Sonos Studio, First-Ever Listening Gallery, Opens in Los Angeles
May 13th marked the official opening in Los Angeles of Sonos Studio, the first-ever acoustically-designed gallery to celebrate music listening – or, more precisely – listening out loud. The space will explore the intersection of music, art, and technology by hosting exhibitions, intimate concerts, listening parties, film screenings, lectures, workshops, and more. Strategically located in...
Beauty & Brains: still an impossible concept (in a woman)
As I was perusing the newspaper stands on Sunday, 20th May 2012, I spotted the front cover of the Mail on Sunday’s ‘Live’ magazine: Lily Cole, a high-profile English model and actress, has earned a double first degree from Cambridge University. Rather than address Cole as the clever, mature adult that she is, the Mail...
Successful Nakba event in Amsterdam
An event was held in Amsterdam at Argan Youth Centre on May 12th, in commemoration of the 64th year of the Zionist Nakba against the Palestinian people. The event was organized by the Musical Intifada’s central committee in cooperation with Argan, and featured a unique line-up of speakers and performers. Overall, approximately 90 people were...
Art War: Casoria Art Museum v Italian Govt
Antonio Manfredi of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples has burned a painting today in protest at the budget cuts that the Italian government has imposed. He plans to burn three paintings a week, saying that the museum’s artworks were ‘headed for destruction anyway because of the government’s indifference’. The first painting burned was...
Imminent arrival of Broken Fingaz Crew in London!
In their first major exhibition inside Europe, the pioneering group (Unga, Kip, Deso and Tant) present a new large-scale, mixed media installation CRAZY EYE HOTEL, in the heartland of London’s street art scene, The Old Truman Brewery. Regarded as the first collective of their kind to emerge from Israel, “the Haifa based BFC stand at...
Declared: the War between Women
‘You have got to stop calling each other sluts and whores. It just makes it OK for guys to call you sluts and whores.’ Tina Fey, Mean Girls Women of today face many threats; the assault on abortion rights (globally 67,000 women die each year due to complications related to illegal abortions), domestic violence (the...
The Artist as Activist (or George Clooney gets arrested)
Last week Hollywood actor George Clooney was arrested after failing to comply with police at a protest outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington DC. He told journalists he was “just trying to raise attention” about the situation in southern Sudan where military action supposedly targeting terrorists is devastating civilian populations, and aid is still...
