Reading Time: 4 minutes The world of arts and culture offers lots of examples of gross expense and imported notions of what’s important. But there are alternatives
Tag: Arts
Comic superheroes are the modern era’s version of Greek gods
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this new religion, heroes speak the truth and model the behaviours, values and norms of an increasingly diverse society
The nomadic life of retirement tourism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Among the many fascinating people found in San Miguel de Allende was a couple who sold everything to travel the world
Staying when the government tells you to move
Reading Time: 4 minutes How a decision to remain in an ancestral village helped ensure a family maintained strong ties to a culture
Rhodes cultural policy is a template for Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Greeks believe that supporting the arts and culture is not a luxury but an investment in human progress
Turning an inner-city wasteland into a thriving cultural hub
Reading Time: 4 minutes How the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a bastion of contemporary art, resurrected a community and why others should follow its lead
Don’t blame academic malaise on the male ‘genius’ cult
Reading Time: 3 minutes Those teaching the humanities have abandoned attempts at outlining the grand narratives, the threads that link important events and people in art and history
Visiting Liverpool in search of John Lennon’s first muse
Reading Time: 5 minutes Sixty years ago, John Lennon’s mother Julia was killed. He never got over the loss and you can find echos of her influence in Liverpool
Giverny and Monet’s Gardens
Reading Time: 3 minutes TRAVEL: Stop in Giverny at least for a few hours to wander among Monet’s gardens and you’ll feel like you’ve entered one of his paintings
Painting a masterpiece: the art of dissent in search of truth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Freedom of expression in the arts is as fragile as freedom of the press, and it’s just as vital to human rights as freedom of thought