Author: Ewang Johnson
1. Daydream (c 1870–1890), anonymousTwo realities collide in this 19th-Century carte de visite that was most likely purchased to be collected and traded. Cartes de visite were small mass-produced prints mounted on card, and were very popular in the Victorian era. In this one we see the present: a woman and her partner both with the tools of their trades; and an imagined future: her daydream of becoming a mother. The image, explains Rooseboom, was “a darkroom trick”, achieved by shielding part of the photographic paper from the light and then adding a second negative to it later. Such images…
Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held a meeting with the newly appointed governors and their deputies following their swearing-in ceremony. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, and Minister of Local Development and Environment, Dr. Manal Awad. Spokesman for the Presidency Ambassador Mohamed El-Shennawy said the President welcomed the new governors and their deputies and stressed the vital need for each governor to utilize their governorates’ resources and tools to achieve tangible results that serve the public interest. The President emphasized the pivotal role of every governor and the necessity of working with sincerity and dedication, free…
In this fifth installment of our series, we compare 1985 to 2025 through themes of hope and despair, or what I call hope/lessness. For some, the year’s worst news was learning, “Those of us born before 1985 are now officially older than Mr. Belding,” and for others the best thing about 1985 was the premiere of Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.Hope is found in our past, present, and future.For those like film critic Sarah Welch-Larson, it was “a dark year in a dark decade in history.” Or, in the words of my writer friend Kristin Saatzer, good times can quickly…
Iceland’s award-winning Ásgeir rose to fame over the last decade thanks to his stunning falsetto voice and intricate guitar melodies. He popped by the FRANCE 24 studios to tell Marjorie Hache about his fifth album “Julia”, which is the first he has composed fully in English. We also hear from Australia’s Chet Faker and take a look at electroclash queen Peaches’ new release “No Lube So Rude”. Source link
They were directed to the isolated farmhouse of racehorse breeder Jeremy Maxwell, about 30 miles outside Belfast near Downpatrick. On the way, they were in the countryside when five masked men carrying machine-guns stopped their car. Thompson said that when he wound down his window, one of them asked him if he was Derek Thompson. “I looked at him and said, ‘Yes,’ and he said, ‘We’re the police.’ To which I replied: ‘Thank God for that!'”Over the next eight hours Thompson took between 10 and 12 more phone calls, each beginning with a different password, while police tried to trace…
The Thirty-Ninth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) concluded today at the AU Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, following two days of high-level deliberations by African Heads of State and Government. The Session was held under the outgoing Chairmanship of H.E. João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, President of the Republic of Angola and Chairperson of the African Union for 2025, and welcomed the assumption of office by H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi, as Chairperson of the African Union for 2026. The Assembly was preceded by a State Dinner hosted by H.E. Dr. Abiy…
From the helmet that got a Ukrainian athlete banned from the Olympics to the start of Carnival to US Attorney General Pam Bondi’s disastrous Epstein testimony, FRANCE 24 looks back at the week’s most striking images. Source link
Bill Evans was a boundary-breaking US pianist who contended with multiple personal tragedies, and a serious drug problem. This new drama about him will draw you to his hypnotic music.While they may be a favourite of awards season, musician biopics have become an increasingly maligned genre, with their clichéd tropes – the sudden creative revelations, the tortured rise-and-fall-and-rise narrative arcs. The big problem – as with films about any type of artist, frankly – is: how do you really go about conveying and exploring their genius, ineffable as it may be?This drama about tortured US jazz legend Bill Evans, played…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday evening met with the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Chairpersons for districts, cities, municipalities, and divisions at State House Entebbe. During the meeting, President Museveni, who is also the National Chairman of the NRM, congratulated the leaders upon their victory in the recently concluded elections. The President also noted that he detected greater national cohesion in the recent elections compared to previous cycles, likening it to the unity witnessed during the 1996 elections, where, he noted, the population strongly rallied behind the NRM due to its problem-solving approach. He explained that this cohesion was built on…
Across the discipline, designers are breathing fresh perspectives into Haute Couture. Kevin Germanier repurposes Berluti outfits worn by the French Olympic team. Stéphane Rolland encourages model Farnoush Hamidian to talk out about her native Iran. Julien Fournié extols the virtues of diversity. Yuima Nakazato battles AI with dresses made of ceramics. Charlie le Mindu makes masterpieces from hair. Finally, Imane Ayissi expresses his African identity through an unveiling of the creative process. Source link