Arts & Culture

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Arts & Culture

Escaping the bad news cycle

Henry David Thoreau used to make fun of people like us.
Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy

ROME - While many Christopher Columbus statues were toppled this year in the United States - dragged into Baltimore's Inner Harbor, beheaded in Boston - the towering marble monument to the explorer in his hometown, Genoa, Italy, is disturbed only by pigeons.
Museums sell Picasso and Warhol, embrace diversity to survive

The one-two punch of Covid-19 and the racial-justice movement has upended huge swathes of society -- work, school and health care. Below the radar, it's also shaking the foundations of another set of U.S. institutions -- museums -- forcing them to sell prized works and broaden the definition of great art.
Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück

Louise Glück has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
Dovumentary, panel discussion on Oct 10 to reinforce EU campaign to end death penalty

Escaping the bad news cycle

A statue of Christopher Columbus is dumped into a lake in Richmond, Va. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by John McDonnell

Much of America has stopped celebrating Columbus Day, but the explorer remains revered in Italy

People sit on the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Aug. 29, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Nina Westervelt.

Museums sell Picasso and Warhol, embrace diversity to survive

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Louise Glück

Dovumentary, panel discussion on Oct 10 to reinforce EU campaign to end death penalty

Emily Jungmin Yoon (Yolimwon)

Connecting ‘comfort women’ and present-day experience through the eyes of a Korean immigrant

Mouawad to unveil Miss Universe Thailand’s Bt3.5m diamond crown

Participants look at the works on display at the Zaha Museum in Seoul during 2019 Korea Art Week.

2020 Korea Art Week to kick off Thursday

An exhibition marking the 600th anniversary of the completion of the construction of the Forbidden City opens in Beijing on Thursday. [Photo by Jiang Dong/China Daily]

Forbidden City's 600 years focus of show

Exhibition offers insights into the renaissance works of princes Damrong and Narisara

James Seet - Sabi no.14, 2020, Ceramics, 31 x 17 x 29 cm

Zen and the art of clay in KL

Take in 80 years of Thailand Post history via a virtual exhibition

Somtow Sucharitkul, founder of Siam Sinfonietta

Mahler to bring light after Covid darkness at Thailand Cultural Centre

Cambodian makeup artist Apple (left) with Charli Hueston as the ‘Apsara Robot’. Courtesy of Dillon Morningstar

Cambodian artist finds Hollywood success

Photo: Screengrab via Matterport

An interactive virtual exhibition that reflects the diversity of Himalayan culture

Phichit monks revive old tradition of beating drums at twilight

Trump's niece can publish and promote her book about president and his family, judge says

Putin's People
Photo by: FarrarStraus and Giroux — handout

Book World: How Putin pushed aside the oligarchs and made Russia his own

Clifford Price or Goldie.

Renowned British DJ launches Bangkok’s first gallery with a difference

America through Foreign Eyes

Book World: What's gone wrong in America? An outsider explains, and offers a warning.

Changing times, changing traditions

President Trump/ File photo

A newspaper cartoon with a swastika-wearing Trump roiled a Florida community

Ifeoma Ozoma's private information was leaked by a Pinterest co-worker and posted on extremist forums. She says the company did nothing to help her. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Adria Malcolm for The Washington Post

Black women say Pinterest created a den of discrimination -- despite its image as the nicest company in tech

The fireworks show June 27 at Mount Vernon, George Washington's home near Washington. Attendance was restricted to 600, from the normal 2,700, and fireworks were launched from a barge anchored in the Potomac River. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Kevin Ambrose

July 4th pyrotechnics ﬁzzle as the show can't go on

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