Black and White
Date:
19-02-2010
Author:
John Lee
Hidden in the 'Film not in English' category of Sunday's BAFTAs and of next month's Oscars, is probably the most extraordinary and thought-provoking offering of 2009 - 'The White Ribbon'...
Connecting with Culture: Arts
Welcome to the Arts section of the ‘Connecting with Culture’ online article library. All the articles in this category are listed below, beginning with the one most recently added. You can search the entire category using the search facility below. Remember, every week a new ‘Connecting with Culture’ article is added to the online library, so it’s well worth visiting frequently.
Pretenders to the Throne
Date:
08-01-2010
Author:
Naomi Carle
We love to crown kings. This week alone, cricketer Graeme Swann was hailed as England's 'spin-king saviour', a posthumous 75th birthday bash was thrown for Elvis Presley - the king of rock 'n' roll - on the lawns of Graceland, and, as his latest film Avatar amassed record box office receipts, speculation mounted that Titanic Director James Cameron ...
Asterix the Racist?
Date:
30-10-2009
Author:
Brett Jordan
It was just over 50 years ago that the first Asterix adventure was published in Pilote, a French comics periodical. The brainchild of scriptwriter René Goscinny, Asterix and his friends were illustrated by his good friend Albert Uderzo.
Design for Life
Date:
23-10-2009
Author:
John Lee
By now we should be familiar with the idea of created human beings sharing certain characteristics in common with our Creator God. These characteristics are crucially important in allowing our God to reveal himself to us meaningfully so as to accomplish his purposes for humanity.
The Soloist
Date:
09-10-2009
Author:
Ian Hamlin
Whether it's the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle we're completing, or the flavour lacking in the meal we're preparing, all of us are familiar with the anxious sense that something is missing. Frequently, our anxiety stems from not being able to place exactly what it is that's missing - that one thing without which the whole seems incomplete.
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