As in many other countries, football is one of the most popular sports in South Africa. The nation’s passion for this sport is relentlessly on the rise now that the 2010 FIFA World Cup has just kicked off in South Africa, for the first time on the African continent. However, the month-long, $1.7 billion event [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on June 15th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: art, FIFA World Cup, sports
Sundance Film Festival organizers stated this week that they’d failed in some respects over the last few years and were vowing to improve.
Festival founder Robert Redford took the stage at the festival’s opening news conference and offered his mea culpa. “I felt we were sliding. We were beginning to flat line and we needed a [...]
Change came to the art world in 2009. Sculpture moved away from room-filling installations and found objects in individual works. Painting became more pliable, viable, and visual. Video explored the world as a living specimen, probing into culture, ethnography, anthropology, and sociology. Performance went beyond mere navel gazing to look at the bellybuttons of [...]
The longest bull run in nearly a century of art-market history ended at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008 with the sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst. With all but two pieces sold, the collection brought in more than $70 million, a record sale for a single artist. The event also marked the [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Business, News on December 2nd, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
Tagged with: art, Business, economy, innovation
I’ve been highlighting some of thoughts from around the web on topics ranging from business and philanthropy to art and society. I hope that by sharing these insights, I’m contributing to the pool of knowledge that is freely accessible to everyone online and creating an environment for discussion. To that end, I’ve recently participated in [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 11:14 am
Tagged with: art, discussion, forum, insights, interview, knowledge, opportunity, philanthropist, philanthropy, sharing, The Importance of Art, thought, video, web
The Young Creative Entrepeneur Awards are based in the UK and support creative entrepreneurs in the development of a “competitive and sustainable creative economy that extends cultural engagement and supports cultural diversity through the development of a strong independent creative sector.” Within the fields of visual arts, communication, interactive technology, design, music, fashion, and publishing, [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 28th, 2009 @ 10:30 am
Tagged with: art, Business, creative capital, creative economy, economy, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, leadership, people, profits, success, United Kingdom, Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards
Ever since the Academy Award-winning song “Jai Ho” made it to hit charts, the music world has been wondering if other South Asian talents can go global as well.
Envision Solar, a San Diego-based company known for its solar-powered carports, has announced a new product in line with the company’s goal to make use of solar energy in unconventional places.