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This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

As the Sama Gazette was created by Max Dana, an artist herself, we had to also mention Art in our coverage of what is currently happening in Sudan on ‘En Route To Sudan’. So today we are glad to introduce you to Sudanese artist Ahmed Abushariaa, born in 1966 in Sudan and graduated in fine and applied arts from Sudan University, Khartoum in 1990. An introduction to Abushariaa’s paintings by Prof. Elimo Njau, Director, Paa Ya Paa Arts ...

More than three years ago, we read just like you maybe also did if you are a regular of her blog, a post Max Dana wrote about the American jazz singer: Dianne Reeves: Good vibes, and Good work. We watched the movie Good night, and Good luck and we also noticed this beautiful voice; it was Dianne Reeves‘. We still listen to the album “New Morning” (Blue Note Records) and some of us just got their tickets for the concert the artist is giving in ...

Let’s talk about Art, contemporary African Art. AfricanColours is ‘the premier internet space for the promotion of contemporary African art since 2000. With a central office in Nairobi, its work is supported by representatives  in Africa, Europe & America.’ The Portal of contemporary African Art offers news and articles about African artists and exhibitions. AfricanColours The Power of Colours is your ultimate guide to contemporary ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Jean Paul Gaultier has launched his own furniture line two weeks ago at New York’s Kips Bay Decorator Show House and it is already a success. The fashion designer teamed up with French interiors firm Roche Bobois and the result is truly awesome. The renowned French designer created a furniture line using the same fabrics and prints from his fashion work and if you are a fan of Gaultier’s style, then you will like his furniture (bedroom set, ...

We really, really like Jon Burgerman and Joe Ledbetter (remember Beer Can chicken: A Bit of the Good Life with Joe Ledbetter?). And we are definitely not the only ones. So if you are also a fan, don’t miss two big news: Burgerman Screen Print available at Concrete Hermit Shop Home, and Eighty-Sixedgiclee prints (which, by the way, reminds us a lot about Max Dana’s ‘Sama in the Sky’…) available on Joe Ledbetter’s ...

Today we suggest you to follow South African band BLK JKS (pronounced Black Jacks) on Twitter @BLKJKS although they don’t tweet so much. But it doesn’t mean they don’t do much, on the contrary. The first time we mentioned BLK JKS on the Sama Gazette was in June 2010 in: 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: hopes and concerns. But the first time we read about BLK JKS was on Max Dana‘s Blog with Music of Africa: BLK JKS, from South ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

If you had a bad start to the day, if the weather is cold, rainy and grey outside and if you are not in a good mood, then we have something to show you. Her name is Jen Stark and she hand cuts sheets of paper to make amazing and colorful paper sculptures. In an interview with ARTLURKER in 2008, when asked: ‘What draws you to color?‘, Stark said: ‘I have done one or two black and whites but I like using color a lot more. I am really ...