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New in Ceasefire, Radical Aesthetics - Saturday, April 23, 2011 0:00 - 2 Comments
Radical Aesthetics The View from Lebanon
In a new column on art and politics, art critic Daniel Barnes explores the work of two Lebanese artists, Walid Raad and Rabih Mroué, who bring to the fore, in his view, the crucial role of art as a tool of resistance.
Deserter's Songs, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, November 13, 2010 20:43 - 4 Comments
Deserter’s Songs Free Music: A Price Worth Paying?
Should music be free? Should anyone have a right to listen to any music they like? Is giving away music for free a guarantor of cultural stagnation and death both for artists and listeners? David Bell takes a look at the arguments.
Arts & Culture, Features - Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:09 - 2 Comments
Arts & Culture: Redo Pakistan
With Pakistan now a major item on the news agenda – instability, violence, and recently, of course, the devastating floods – what hope is there for Pakistani artists? Can they hope to address the situation of the country in a way that could possibly make a difference? Is the contemporary art world just too Eurocentric to let them in?
Musab Younis, Ceasefire deputy editor, speaks to the curators of an innovative new art project, ‘Redo Pakistan’, which has issued a call to artists to ‘Declare War Against the Present Time.’
