Tag: Africa
Over the past 44 years, Eric Edwards has acquired over 2,500 pieces of art from every country in Africa, dating back 4,000 years. Now, he wants to give what he touts as “one of the largest African artifacts collections in the United States” a permanent home in the Cultural Museum of African Art. Edwards is […]
Comedian/street artist Hanksy pasted up this “Eazy-E Bola” on the corner of Division and Canal Streets in Chinatown and posted it on his Instagram with the caption “Straight Outta Congo.” The piece mashes up the Ebola epidemic that has been spreading through West Africa with Eazy-E, the rapper who died from that other Africa-originating plague, AIDS. Forgetting for […]
An Algerian refugee camp hosted the 11th annual Saharan National Film Festival (known as FiSahara) last week, bringing films from around the world to Sahrawi community, who have been exiled from West Sahara for decades and have made their home in the Dakhla refugee camp. For five days, guests flown in by plane or driven […]
First things first: photographer Nick Brandt posed those dead, petrified birds and bats above before he took pictures of them. But everything else that happened to the animals was wrought by Lake Natron, a body of water in the north of Tanzania that kills its victims, then calcifies them. The lake’s deadly nature lies in […]
