Morena Films’ 7 Days in Havana opens with El Yuma, directed by Benicio Del Toro, in which the introduction spans a montage of many iconic locations that have come to make the city identifiable. However, one brief clip highly unseen by tourist eyes was a ten-second shot of the skate park a little ways outside the city center. It is essentially a collection skeletal ramps and rails arranged in a …
Art Basel Miami Beach has been considered North America’s most prestigious art exhibition, and is well known for the scrutiny of its selection committee. Among the galleries accepted, four give us an insight into what attracted them to the art and artists that secured their inclusion.
For some time now, Sweden’s war on gender inequality has been a process of pawn-move followed by controversy, recently playing out in schools and books, like Jesper Lundqvist’s Kivi and the Monster Dog, and centered around the word hen. This gender-neutral pronoun was conceived in the 60s to alleviate situations in which gender might be seen as either unknown, inconsequential or politically…