Dazzled by Art

The International Folk Art Market 2025, the largest folk art market in the world, takes place between July 10 and July 13, 2025, at Santa Fe Railyard Park. International Folk Art Market guests in front of the IFAM marquee. © Gabriella Marks; Courtesy of IFAM Look beyond the art. Beyond the dazzling technique and skill. Beyond the individual artist even. Look all the way back to community. See heritage and ancestors. There, visitors to the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe will find the event’s greatest beauty. International Folk Art Market artisans were asked by organizers in 2024 how many people help make their art? How many other people their work supports? Collaborators dwarf independents. Many of the juried artists work with family members. More work in large, community cooperatives. “Last year, we had 165 artists, and they employed almost 12,000 people, and of those, 83% of them were women,” Stacey Edgar, Executive Director, International Folk Art Market, told Forbes.co...

Kenyan-American Artist Wangechi Mutu Makes Rome Debut with Groundbreaking multi-sensory Solo Exhibition at Galleria Borghese. Galleria Borghese. Wangechi Mutu. Poemi della terra nera - Installation view with Older Sisters © Galleria Borghese © Galleria Borghese Wangechi Mutu–the Kenyan-American artist internationally celebrated for her visceral, genre-defying works–exhibits in Italy for the first time with Black Soil Poems. Mutu’s debut Roman exhibition is currently on view at the historic Galleria Borghese. Curated by Cloé Perrone, the exhibition unfolds like a myth unearthed in fragments—emerging from the villa’s Baroque opulence, threading through its ornate interiors, ascending to its façade, and finally settling into the Secret Gardens like memory returning to land. With this site-specific intervention, Mutu reshapes not only the physical spaces of the museum but also the historical and symbolic narratives long rooted within them. Galleria Borghese. Wangechi Mutu. Poemi della t...

You don’t have to battle tourist hordes in the world’s most-visited country. Here are 10 of its relatively less-visited but underrated regions. Where A marshy coastal region between Montpellier and Marseille where the Rhone river – forming one of Europe’s largest deltas – meets the Mediterranean. It’s a peaceful enclave near tourist-busy Provence and the French Riviera. Why we love it This sliver of the much-visited Mediterranean manages not just tranquillity but unusual, almost wild-seeming landscapes that are home to wild horses and abundant waterbirds, none more striking than flamingos. A cowboy culture, Spanish cultural influences and Romany festivals add to its oddities. Lake swimming makes for a change, too, though there are Mediterranean beaches. Don’t miss Horse riding through the wetlands and visiting a traditional ranch with the cattle-herding gardiens (cowboys) is a must. Kitschy seaside Le Grau-du-Roi (popular with French beachgoers) is best for surrounding dunes, while ...

Research shows that protestors who perform attention-grabbing stunts create public awareness for their cause. Climate protesters hold a demonstration as they throw cans of tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's ... More "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London, United Kingdom on October 14, 2022. The gallery said that the work was unharmed aside from some minor damage to the frame. (Photo by Just Stop Oil / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu Agency via Getty Images As pro-Palestine and anti-ICE protests command our attention, climate protests have receded into the background. Yet not so long ago, the world was captivated by two climate activists who smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and enclosure of Degas’ “Little Dancer” sculpture at Washington’s National Gallery of Art, and by activists who appeared to splatter Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” with tomato soup at the British Museum. What in the world were these protesters thinking? To answer this ques...

Also: Sister Nancy’s eternal party, the acoustic sculptures of Jennie C. Jones on the Met roof, American Ballet Theatre’s season at the Met, and more. With his sallow face and boulder-like forehead, John Cazale was one of the indelible character actors of the nineteen-seventies, but his career was tragically brief. He appeared in only five feature films—all Oscar nominees for Best Picture. He played, most famously, Fredo Corleone, the weakling brother, in the first two “Godfather” movies, as well as antsy sidekicks in “The Conversation” and “Dog Day Afternoon,” and the guy who doesn’t go to Vietnam in “The Deer Hunter,” which came out eight months after he died, of cancer, in 1978. He was forty-two. Cazale excelled at playing men with pronounced frailties—timidity, cowardice, dimness—in contrast to the more charismatic hero, the part taken by Al Pacino or Gene Hackman or Robert De Niro. But he did so with pathos and humor and a kind of heartrending innocence, even when portraying cr...

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management saw an ethical and a political minefield. The Mütter, a museum of medical history, is stranger and less clinical than that description implies. Its dimly lit rooms are crowded with specimens of physical anomalies and pathologies: stillborn fetuses in jars, slices of faces suspended in an alcoholic solution, a wall of nineteenth-century skulls. One display case features the livers of Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins who were widely exhibited as curiosities during the nineteenth century; in another is the corpse of a woman whose fat transformed after death in an unusual form of natural preservation called saponification. The Soap Lady, as she is known at the Mütter, has rough, blackened skin, and her mouth is open, as if in a scream. A banner outside the museum, which was founded more than a hundred and sixty years ago, reads “Disturbingly informative.” Ever...

From special exhibitions to crazy golf and live sport, there’s plenty to discover and enjoy in the city All of the following businesses have paid to feature in this article. As the summer holidays approach, you’ll undoubtedly be looking for things to do with the kids and ways to keep them active and entertained. Luckily, Manchester is a hub of activity with an incredible range of activities and events happening all over the city. Whether you’re looking for outdoor forest adventures, the chance to deep dive into history and science, or get competitive with a game of footy and crazy golf, you’ll be spoiled for choice. Check out our round-up of places to visit and activities to try this summer - perfect for the whole family to enjoy... Footy fun at the National Football Museum This summer, step into the story of football at the National Football Museum with its blockbuster exhibition, ‘From Pitch to Page: The Magic of Football Annuals’. Explore four zones filled with iconic moments, in...

FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 26 (IPS) - Living with her neighbours, getting to know them and chatting with them is what Lucila Neves enjoys most in the community orchard of Portal de Ribeirão, a neighbourhood in the south of Florianopolis, considered the most sustainable of Brazil's 27 state capitals. Read the full story, “Brazil's Most Sustainable Capital Puts Value on its Waste”, on globalissues.org → by Mario Osava (florianopolis, brazil)Thursday, June 26, 2025Inter Press Service FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 26 (IPS) - Living with her neighbours, getting to know them and chatting with them is what Lucila Neves enjoys most in the community orchard of Portal de Ribeirão, a neighbourhood in the south of Florianopolis, considered the most sustainable of Brazil's 27 state capitals. The biodegradable packaging entrepreneur chose to live in the capital of the southern state of Santa Catarina, where she came from Ribeirão Preto, 950 kilometres to the north. She is one of the pe...