topic: aesthetics
December 27, 2018
If Romanian and Western African musical traditions were blended together, what sorts of new sounds and aesthetics might it generate? The...
Reviews
February 24, 2017
The only prospect more enthralling than a last stand is a Hollywoodized version of it. Zulu (1964) portrayed the 1879 battle at Rourke’s...
Reviews
October 13, 2015
The Past is a Foreign Country , which closed this past weekend, was French-Ivorian photographer François-Xavier Gbré’s first solo...
Literature
October 2, 2014
Preface Frankétienne (1936-) is considered one of the most important figures in twentieth and twenty-first century Haitian literature and...
Reviews
April 4, 2014
In his new book Trash: African Cinema from Below , Kenneth W. Harrow examines trash as a notion that allows him to assume a valuable...
Art
January 21, 2014
Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes comprises photographs and essays documenting the separation barrier that divides and...
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