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Aimé Mpane remembers when he first saw the old statues. It was 1994, and the Congolese visual artist had just moved to Belgium, which once ruled his country. Growing up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mpane says he had been taught in school that the Congolese were descended from the Gauls — "that they were our kings." "In our schoolbooks, it was as if the Congolese did not exist without Belgian colonialists," says Mpane, 50. His work ...
Filippo Palizzi (Italian, 1818 - 1899) La ragazza sulla roccia a Sorrento 1871
Jackson Pollock's painting Number 1, 1949, is a swirl of multi-colored, spaghettied paint, dripped, flung nd slung across a 5-by-8-foot canvas. It's a textured work — including nails and a bee (we'll get to that later) — and in the nearly 70 years since its creation, it's attracted a fair bit of dust, dirt and grime. That's where conservator Chris Stavroudis comes in: His job is to clean the painting using swabs, solvents, and tiny brushes. ...
Musicians and music from South Asia have influenced contemporary music for generations. Norwegian Wood, anyone? But do the people from a specific culture own it? Who can and should use this music? And where is the line between appreciation and appropriation in art? What should we make of practices when people who are not of South Asian descent put on a bindi, like ...
Mt. Hood covered in a blanket of clouds
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