Author: Ewang Johnson
“People perceive that an anatomical illustration is an objective depiction of the human body to the best of the artist’s abilities,” says Gann, which is something that the exhibition seeks to “break apart”. “In truth, they are subject to culture and tastes and artistic movements as any other form of art and illustration.” A nameless black figure in Maclise’s book, thought to be the only black body in anatomical works of the period, is a case in point, having been removed from the edition created for pre-abolition America.His depiction, notes Keren Rosa Hammerschlag in her 2021 essay, Black Apollo: Aesthetics, Dissection,…
Geneva, Switzerland, 04 February 2026-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-“When I heard the town crier announce that health workers were coming for free screening, I felt afraid: if they told me I had the disease, how would I get treated? But I thought of my children and decided to go,” says Awa, 48, a mother of six living in Ipendo, in Burkina Faso’s Centre-West region. Like Awa, thousands of women in the country have long lived with this concern, given the challenges in accessing health services. Their situation illustrates a major issue: cervical cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers among women in…
It isn’t often that a book series written by a conservative Catholic goes viral on BookTok and BookTube.One of the series’ boldest thematic choices… has to do with what the protagonist believes God has sent him to do: To wipe out an alien race.But after nearly getting canceled due to low sales, Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series has become a surprise hit, garnering tens of thousands of raving reviews, and even boasting a “Best of BookTok” badge on Amazon. Nor can this be chalked up to the author hiding his faith. The longer the series goes on, the more theological…
In this edition of our arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim is joined by co-presenter Marjorie Hache to talk about the biggest night in music: the 68th Grammy Awards. It was a night of musical milestones, mishaps and sharp commentary on the political situation in the United States. Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny became the first Spanish-language artist to win Album of the Year for his critically acclaimed “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”. He dedicated his award to immigrants, and called out the US administration’s current immigration crackdown. Source link
Forging a singular path as an independent filmmaker whose minimalist, bucolic style has impressed the critics at the Berlin and Cannes film festivals, Kelly Reichardt shows us another America: a land of wondering outsiders and protagonists plagued by doubts. For arts24, she discusses her latest film, “The Mastermind”, a timely heist movie starring Josh O’Connor as the unsuspecting orchestrator of a robbery in an art gallery. Source link
Heathcliff lives a life of torment and uncontainable grief, but inflicts that suffering on everyone around him and feels no remorse in doing so. By not righting his wrongs, and letting him die without further punishment, O’Callaghan says, Brontë poses more complex questions to the reader, rather than giving them answers: What is love? Does the marriage system work? What are the limits of violence?That’s part of the complex legacy of the novel. “Popular culture tends to tell us it’s this great romance… when [readers] are encountering it for the first time, that jars, because the book is so different.…
For our inaugural Spotlight, François Picard is pleased to welcome Ellis Cashmore, Sociologist, Honorary Professor at Aston University, UK and Author of “Celebrity Culture”. As music is a conduit for political expression, explains Mr. Cashmore, sport is becoming a “hugely influential platform for people to display, and to exhibit, their political and moral leanings.” And so it goes, fresh off winning album of the year at the 2026 Grammy Awards in historic fashion, Bad Bunny is set to kick off an NFL Super Bowl halftime show for the ages that fuses music, sports and sociopolitical artistry. Source link
More than just a few bad applesSerpico, partially deafened in one ear by the shooting, testified in the inquiry himself, saying: “I hope that police officers in the future will not experience the same frustration and anxiety that I was subjected to for the past five years at the hands of my superiors because of my attempt to report corruption. I was made to feel that I had burdened them with an unwanted task.” He urged police hierarchy to create “an atmosphere in which the dishonest officer fears the honest one and not the other way around”.Durk told the commission:…
A Film That Needs No Introduction (So Here You Go Anyway)Released twenty-five years ago last month, Joel and Ethan Coen’s O Brother, Where Art Thou? has since become something of a cult classic. Lauded by critics for its soundtrack—which launched a bluegrass revival—and its groundbreaking approach to color editing, the thing is otherwise essentially Coen: lovable freaks, strangely arresting camera shots, astute social commentary packaged in razor-sharp comedic dialogue. Set in Depression-era Mississippi, the film follows Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) and his two sidekicks, Pete (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson). The trio—escaped convicts first chained together on a prison…
Bad Bunny won album of the year at the 2026 Grammy Awards, becoming the first Spanish-language artist to claim the top prize. Accepting in Spanish and English, he dedicated the award to migrants. Billie Eilish won song of the year for Wildflower and criticised immigration authorities. The prize was presented by Harry Styles, who beat Bad Bunny in 2023. Source link