Arts, Culture & Media

Our stories range over music, dance, the visual arts, design, books, media companies and much more

A Montreal man is #ErasingHate with a power washer and his Instagram account

January 31, 2019

Corey Fleischer removes graffiti whenever he sees it — and then posts to his Instagram account, which has amassed more than 55,000 followers.

Putting the legend of Pancho Villa to song

PRI's The World

January 31, 2019

Pancho Villa's legendary drama became the perfect subject for an opera created by composer Graham Reynolds called, "Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance."

Arts

Cutting a rug

Studio 360

January 31, 2019

Art made out of carpet that is full of contradictions.

Arts

Behind ‘Behind the Sheet’

Studio 360

January 31, 2019

Imagining the women who paid the price for a medical breakthrough.

Books

Translating Roberto Bolaño into English

Studio 360

January 31, 2019

How translator Natasha Wimmer brought Roberto Bolaño posthumous fame.

Immigration Rewind

Ignored and deported, Cree 'refugees' echo the crises of today

PRI's The World

January 31, 2019

Indigenous Crees lived in the northern Plains long before the US-Canada border divided the region. But bisected by the line and labeled “foreign” Indians in the US, Cree were denied basic necessities, work — and eventually, even the right to stay in the country.

Religion

The ‘father of mindfulness’ prepares for the next life

PRI's The World

January 30, 2019

The world is watching as Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist monk with celebrity followers, hovers near death. He was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and a key figure during the Vietnam War.

Saudi Arabia isn’t known for fun. It has a $64 billion plan to turn it around.

PRI's The World

January 29, 2019

Is this a genuine attempt at an image makeover?

At The France Show in London, fears, optimism and shrugs about Brexit

GlobalPost

January 29, 2019

In addition to all the French fare, this time around, the question of what impact Brexit will have on the two countries’ relationship weighed on a lot of people’s minds.

Conflict

Melbourne’s immigrant communities fight back against the rise of white supremacy in Australia

GlobalPost

January 25, 2019

Vietnamese, Sudanese and South Sudanese communities have lived in Melbourne, Australia, for decades and often face racism and discrimination. With the rise of white supremacy in recent years, Indigenous and immigrant communities have united to denounce a false "race wars" narrative.

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