Arts stories & interviews articles
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🇵🇹 Iolanda Interview: "I think art is what makes us human."
If you've been with us thus far, or if you are tuning in just now, our interviews galore continue! Today we had the pleasure of sitting down with Portugal's r
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The art of resistance: desert film festival showcases stories of the Sahrawi people
Exiled from their home since it was occupied by Morocco in the mid-70s, nearly 200,000 Sahrawis live in camps in Algeria. Now in its 18th year, the FiSahara festival is a window to the world • Photographs by Susan Schulman for the GuardianFrom the outside, Asria Mohamed’s tent in a refugee camp in south-west Algeria could be mistaken for a typical four-door nomadic dwelling used by Sahrawis, people from Western Sahara, though it is smaller in size.Inside, however, is a series of QR codes...
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An Interview with Destination Crenshaw Senior Art and Exhibition Advisor V. Joy Simmons
Joy Simmons is an art collector and senior art and exhibition advisor for Destination Crenshaw, an open-air public art corridor down Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. She also serves as a commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and on the board of the California African American Museum. Before participating in the Zócalo/Destination Crenshaw program “How Do You Grow a Rose From Concrete?,” she sat down in our green room to chat about her trip to Ghana, who inspires her, and that...