Performing Arts
Podcast away!
Podcasting is the latest techno innovation to go mainstream and, just as camera-enabled mobile phones have allowed anyone and everyone…
Culture and the Rings
Sport and culture have long converged in the Olympic arena. The world's largest public event, the Olympic Games, is pillared…
Cultural activists are jammin'
In a week that has seen global attention focused on Bob Geldof and the Live 8 series of concerts it…
Two bars
The 2005 Brit Awards were their usual combination of drunk, daft pop singers, pseudo-goth guitarists and drummers who spent much…
Generation W
Western marketing firms have made their business out of understanding generations that come in letters of the alphabet such as…
Listen Up
Hovering on the cusp of the arts world, audio artists manipulate sound to create unique aural landscapes with the aim…
Charitable Instincts
Increasingly, art and artists are being used as financial tools for charity groups and organizations. Charity art is any art…
Art for the Market’s Sake?
Even the most idealistic and independent artists in the US must rely more and more on private sources of funding…
Art in China – the lotus is in bloom
That China will become the next world superpower has been the argument of economists for decades, and few now doubt…
An Ancient Prejudice: Women Artists and the Struggle for Equality
In 1989, New York feminist collective The Guerrilla Girls dared to ask the question, 'Do women have to be naked…