Arts

Brighton Mapfumo 4 BY CHIEDZA MAZHANGARAFILM director and actor Brighton Mapfumo says he is following his passion in the world of showbiz. For him, being both a film director and an actor is confirmation that he was born a content creator. Starting the journey at a tender age, Mapfumo said …

For years, China has left a loophole open for people to access unauthorized video games, but it’s ready to close it. Many foreign titles lack a Chinese publishing partner like Tencent to help them obtain the government-issued license needed to operate in the country, so players normally rely on an …

Gamuchirai “Ladyg2” Gundiza BY AGATHA CHUMAUNITED KINGDOM-BASED Zimbabwean female wheel spinner Gamuchirai “Ladyg2” Gundiza has said the arts industry and society at large must respect women in deejaying rather than label them as people of loose morals. Speaking to NewsDay Life & Style, Ladyg2 said it was time society cast …

Social media give us responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine almost instantly, but some of the most moving responses I’ve seen come from the young Ukrainian artists who’ve managed to make new work documenting events as they unfold. What follows are four accounts run by Ukrainian artists — one …

You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth Green buying a set of speakers designed …

The owners of Yves Klein’s invisible art were encouraged to burn their receipts. The artist, meanwhile, threw half of the profits from the sale—paid in solid gold—into the Seine. Chesnot / Getty Images Before NFTs upended the art world, the artist Yves Klein sold nothing in exchange for solid gold. …

At the bottom of the Met Gala invitations sent every spring is an inscription small in size but vital in importance: the dress code. In 2020, for “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” it was studied triviality. In 2021, for “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” it was American independence. And come …

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