SXSW 2013 Showcases Megastars, Unknown Artists SXSW started out as a way to promote unknown and unsigned artists. But these days, more and more megastars are grabbing the headlines. Prince and Justin Timberlake were arguably the hottest tickets this...
Buddy Holly's Widow Helps Mentor New Artists Many parties and concerts at SXSW feature new music. One of them honored Holly, though, the great singer-songwriter who died in 1959. He was only 22 when he died in a plane crash while on tour. Foundation'...
Artist Creates Wood Sculptures With a Chainsaw Long shows off his skill, speed carving an owl in just 45 minutes. I love chainsaw carving. Its art. Its fun. People love it. It makes people smile, he said. Long began his career carving ice sculptures,...
Young Kenyan Artists Face Tough Market At the Kuona Trust, a visual arts center in a Nairobi suburb, artists work out of converted shipping containers. Kuona's mission is to provide opportunities for its artists to produce world-class art in Kenya. S...
Malawi's Muslim Artists Experiment with New Sound Among the artists who have taken the countrys Islamic song industry by storm are Ishmael Katawala, Ahmed Pilo and Ishmael Mtenje. Mtenjes popularity is owed to his hit RB tune Ka Hijab which is sung i...
Kenyan Hip Hop Artists Praise Inspirational Town Kenyan hip hop took off in the mid-1990s, when the group Kalamashaka started rapping in informal Swahili, instead of English. The musicians were from the low-income suburb, Dandora, which is now widely...
Artist Carves 1,600 Eggshells a Year Carving and sculpting eggshells, with a dental drill and sanding disk, is not a job for the heavy handed. For Tina Kannapel, it's a passion. Because an egg is a continuous arch, it has a lot of natural strength, s...
Artists Preview London Cultural Olympiad in New York Participating artists and journalists gathered Wednesday at New Yorks Gramercy Park Hotel to talk about the event. Festival director Ruth Mackenzie said 25,000 artists, representing all 204 countri...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Artists Paint the Town in Baltimore JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im June Simms. This week on our program, we talk to Ben Nichols, lead singer and songwriter for the band Lucero. We also repo...
Artist Reinvents Herself After Near-Fatal Accident Ruffner is one of the best-known glass artists in the United States. Her one-of-a-kind sculptures are vibrant, exquisitely detailed and often humorous. Over the years, she became famous for a techniq...