Pro-Assad Cleric Killed in Blast in Damascus

Mohammad Said Ramada al-Bouti in April 2010

Source: Youssef Badawi/European Pressphoto Agency

By: New York Times

Date : March 21, 2013

Author :  Hania Mourtada, Rick Gladstone

Extract : "A large explosion killed at least 42 people inside a central Damascus mosque on Thursday, including the top Sunni cleric in Syria, one of the major remaining Sunni supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s embattled government in the civil war."

Index Terms : murder, explosion, chemical weapon, mosque

Site : http://nytimes.com/

URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/middleeast/senior-pro-assad-sunni-imam-in-syria-is-assassinated.html?_r=0

Found with : Google Alert

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Weedie Braimah and Amadou Kouyate’s Blends

Author:   Tom Devriendt

Date of publication: March 8, 2013

Title : Weedie Braimah and Amadou Kouyate’s Blends

Abstract: " “I grew up in an African house, true enough,” Weedie says. “But at the same time when I walked out of my door, I had a whole different world. I grew up in the Hip-Hop age.” That’s a paradox they’ve been living with all their lives.

But it’s one to which these uniquely placed artists have reconciled themselves. Masters of their craft — and just as comfortable on snare and guitar as on calabash and kora — they’re one more example of artists experimenting with a fusion of African and American musical influences. Inheritors of those two traditions, they move between them like there were no boundaries at all."

Index Terms :  Hip-Hop ; African Art ; Weedie Braimah ; Amadou Kouyate’s Blends ; Africa-US music

Found with: Courrier International

Web site: Africasacountry.com

URL: http://africasacountry.com/2013/03/08/weedie-braimah-and-amadou-kouyates-blends/

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Treasures - Exhibition of National Museum of African Art

Author:  National Museum of African Art

Date of publication: / 

Title : Treasures

Abstract: "Treasures marks the National Museum of African Art's 25th anniversary as a Smithsonian museum. The first in a new exhibition series, Treasures is an old-fashioned show about African art, reminiscent of the exhibitions that represented avant-garde opinions of the early 20th century. In 1926, Paul Guillaume, Parisian connoisseur and collector, cautioned readers to defer learning about the history and meaning of African art until they had studied African art purely as an art form, because to do otherwise "tends to obscure one's vision of the objects as sculpture." "

Index Terms :  Gallery ; African Art ; Exhibitions ; Treasures ; National Museum of African Art

Found with: Google Actualités

Web site: Africa.si.edu

URL: http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/treasures/text.html

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African Art, New York and the Avant-Garde - The Metropolitain Museum of Art

Author: The Metropolitain Museum of Art. 

Date of publication: / 

Title : African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde. November 27, 2012– September 2, 2013

Abstract: "This exhibition highlights the specific African artifacts acquired by the New York avant-garde and its most influential patrons during the 1910s and 1920s."

Index Terms: Metropolitain Museum ; African Art ; Exhibitions ; New York

Found with: Google Actualités

Web site: Metmuseum.org

URL: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/african-art

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Le salon des vins

Author : J.B

Date: Tuesday march 13th , 2013

Abstract: The purpose is to : present and value wines elaborates by the high school students who intend to resume exploitations or to join the sector. Today the business requires knowledge, marketing, sale and communication.

Index terms: Wine tourism, Champagne-Ardenne,

Found with: Scoop.it

Site: L'hebdo du Vendredi

Url : http://epernay.lhebdoduvendredi.com/article/6203/

By T.D.M

Disney turns away from hand-drawn animation

Author : Ben Child

Date : Thursday 7 March 2013

Extract :  " Disney, the Hollywood titan which brought the world classics such as Fantasia, Bambi and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has admitted it has no current plans to make hand drawn animated films.. "

Index terms :  Disney movies, hand draw techniques,  traditional techniques

Found with : Netvibes

Site :  The Guardian

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar/07/disney-hand-drawn-animation 

By : B.M