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Fast-tracking collection: Dubai changes the museum model
Saudi artist Moath Alofi's work The Last Tashahhud, courtesy of A.R.M Holding. The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority and Art Dubai will...
Sidney T.
Aug 15, 20212 min read
Interview with Kimia Jay
How Changing Musical Technology Impacts Emerging Musicians The way we listen to music now is vastly different from the ways our parents...
Ris V. Rose
Jul 28, 20215 min read
Hints of Feminism in Hilary Duff's "Dignity"
Listening to Childhood Albums as an Adult Really Makes You Think... I have a very vivid memory of carrying a CD player to every room of...
Ris V. Rose
Jul 21, 20217 min read
The Plight of the Tortured Artist
The myth of the ”tortured artist” is a label that not only appends suffering to the artistic process but becomes it. The Passion of...
Sidney T.
Jul 18, 20212 min read
Shame and Stigma: Japan’s History of Tattooing
Tattoos have long been an important part of Japan’s culture, dating back to the Jomon Period (10,000 BCE - 300 CE). The purpose of...
Sidney T.
Jul 7, 20213 min read
The Art of The 'True Story'
How true is a true story? The title card, “based on a true story”, is a comfort blanket-esque habit in Hollywood, acting both as a red...
Georgia Balmer
Jul 1, 20216 min read
Ancient art repatriated in Italy reveals trend in illicit artifacts
Approximately 800 rare artifacts were seized by Italian police from a Belgian collector’s estate on June 21st. The sheer number of...
Sidney T.
Jun 27, 20212 min read
Moira Rose's "Unrecognizable Accent"
A Relic of Older Canadian English in Schitt's Creek? Adapted from an academic paper I wrote for Marisa Brook's Canadian English course....
Ris V. Rose
Jun 22, 20217 min read
Greco-Roman mythos paves a long road of LGBTQ+ History
Happy Pride! Let's read some ancient myths, shall we? As knowledge of art history enters the mainstream little by little, the...
Sidney T.
Jun 16, 20214 min read
Book Review This I Can Tell You by Brandi Spering
This I Can Tell You by Brandi Spering is an incredibly intimate and compelling memoir told in the form of a poetic narrative that...
Kaila Gallacher
Jun 13, 20213 min read
Conlanging in Storytelling
Making New Languages as a World-Building Tactic What differentiates science fiction and fantasy from other genres is their need for...
Ris V. Rose
Jun 9, 20216 min read
What Makes a Good Sequel
(In My Humble Opinion) In my first blog with Culturally, I talked about how finding a good story to read or watch was challenging because...
Ris V. Rose
May 23, 20218 min read
NFTs seemed like the answer... what happened?
To the naked eye, Non-fungible tokens seemed perfect; a digital trading card or certificate to verify ownership of artwork could make...
Sidney T.
May 19, 20213 min read
Making Blackout Poetry
If you search for “Blackout Poetry” on Google or follow the hashtag through any social media platform, specifically @MakeBlackOutPoetry...
Kaila Gallacher
May 13, 20212 min read
Under-the-Radar Poetic Devices
Poetic Devices (and Forms) You Might Not Have Heard of Some poetic devices are simply Must-Knows if you want to even begin writing...
Ris V. Rose
May 9, 202110 min read
Three Nature-Inspired Creative Projects (For All Ages)
With everything that is going on lately in the world, and the strict lockdowns in many parts of the world, one thing that I’ve found that...
Kaila Gallacher
May 1, 20214 min read
The Nature and Origins of Paleolithic Cave Paintings
The settings of cave paintings not only contribute to the content of the paintings themselves but serve a fundamental purpose in...
Sidney T.
Apr 28, 20213 min read
Art-Related Events During Lockdown
And How to Find Your Own I don’t know about you, but where I live (Ontario, Canada), has just entered its third lockdown. And I don't...
Ris V. Rose
Apr 18, 20218 min read
And Yet...
Deeming Art "Unessential", But Still Relying on It A 1000-person survey published in Singapore in June 2020 shocked and angered the...
Ris V. Rose
Apr 13, 20216 min read
Is American Psycho the Ultimate Feminist Film?
There is an old urban legend that states if you say “American Psycho” three times in an empty room a chino clad man child, who spent his...
Georgia Balmer
Apr 11, 20213 min read
How the Louvre adapts to a shifting art world
The Louvre announced at a press conference on March 26 that they will be exhibiting over 400,000 works online. The very concept of...
Sidney T.
Apr 7, 20212 min read
Getting Creative With Prompts
A prompt is a tool many writers and artist use to generate and inspire more ideas for their work. Prompts can take the form of pretty...
Kaila Gallacher
Mar 31, 20213 min read
NFT's: How digitized collectible art may harm the environment
The age of cryptocurrency has dawned a new way of trading funds and with it a variety of opportunities and drawbacks. It was inevitable,...
Sidney T.
Mar 28, 20212 min read
Artist Morning: Review
The Magic that Happens When You Mix Writing and Meditation About a month or two into the pandemic I had a lot of difficulty falling...
Ris V. Rose
Mar 24, 20216 min read
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