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"� l'Affiche Plan�te Afro" : la renaissance de Fabregas Le M�tis Noir avec l'album "Gomme"

Boursorama 20 Mar 2023
... street art à Kinshasa, dont la 5ème édition se déroulera le mois prochain.
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‘Giving homage to the past’: Nyugen E Smith’s fascinating found object art

The Observer 17 Feb 2023
It incorporates bits of things, like fabric, tarp, rubber hoses and old bottle caps, that he found while in Kinshasa ... “I was a budding artist and didn’t have much money for art supplies,” he said ... He first discovered these objects during a visit to the Congo’s national art museum in Kinshasa ... Kinshasa Memory, 2023.
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'Our pope': DR Congo dandies honour fallen icon

Urdu Point 11 Feb 2023
Kinshasa, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Feb, 2023 ... - 'Show of force' - Andre Yoka Lye, a director at the national arts institute in Kinshasa, said the sapeur phenomenon became more pronounced during the post-World War II economic boom in colonial Belgian Congo.
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Curiosity sparks growing demand for African art in the UAE

Arab News 18 Dec 2022
... all former students of the Academy of Fine Arts in the DRC’s capital, Kinshasa — to escape the restrictions of their academic training ... The exhibition was staged by Yetu Management, an organization that promotes Congolese art and which recently opened its own gallery in Kinshasa.
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The Book Pages: Cartoonist Tom Gauld explains why librarians are out for ‘Revenge’

Daily Bulletin 22 Oct 2022
... largest collection of comics and comics ephemera and art and stuff,” says the London-based artist and writer ... The author grew up in South London, Innsbruck, and Kinshasa and studied for a fine art degree, before beginning a 20-year career as a secondary school teacher.
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‘We like the sound of PVC tubing’: Fulu Miziki, the band who make music out of trash

The Observer 29 Jul 2022
The band began making their own instruments in 2016, out of necessity in Ngwaka, an area singer and drummer Sekelembele describes as “a bad neighbourhood in the middle of Kinshasa with a big dumpster in it” ... Their work fuses music, performance art and fashion, with the environment at its core.
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New Colombian President Pledges to Protect Rainforest

WhoWhatWhy 27 Jun 2022
“It started as a countercultural art movement in 2001. After years studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kinshasa — following teachers’ advice on creating work with ‘proper’ materials, such as resin and plaster of paris — some students in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to do something different.
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Belgian King Regrets Colonial 'Humiliation' in Landmark Congo Trip

Voa News 09 Jun 2022
Philippe landed in Kinshasa on Tuesday afternoon for a six-day visit, billed as a chance for reconciliation between Congo and its former colonial master ... Looted art. Earlier Wednesday, Philippe visited Congo's national museum in Kinshasa, where he handed over a mask the ethnic Suku group use in initiation rites.
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Belgian king decorates last Congolese WWII vet

Urdu Point 08 Jun 2022
On Wednesday morning, Philippe visited a memorial for combat veterans in Kinshasa and laid a wreath ... - Looted art - King Philippe afterwards visited DRC's national museum in Kinshasa, established in 2019, where he handed over a mask the ethnic Suku group use in initiation rites.
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Belgian King to Visit DR Congo

Beijing News 07 Jun 2022
in Kinshasa on Wednesday during a ceremony with Tshisekedi at the Congolese parliament, then Friday before students at the University of Lubumbashi in the south of the country ... A stop on Wednesday at the National Museum in Kinshasa will also address the issue of the restitution of art objects to the former colony.
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Belgian king, in shadow of colonial past, to visit DR Congo

The Times of India 04 Jun 2022
in Kinshasa on Wednesday during a ceremony with Tshisekedi at the Congolese parliament, then Friday before students at the University of Lubumbashi in the south of the country ... A stop on Wednesday at the National Museum in Kinshasa will also address the issue of the restitution of art objects to the former colony.
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DR Congo student unveils painting dedicated to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

People Daily 18 Feb 2022
KINSHASA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- A student of the Art Academy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Thursday unveiled a painting dedicated to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Chinese Embassy in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC ... Xia Peiyao, Liang Jun). .
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Two men playing draughts on an abandoned train: Gosette Lubondo’s best photograph

The Observer 19 Jan 2022
This image, part of a series called Imaginary Trip, was taken in an abandoned train outside Kinshasa station in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1993. Learned with father then studied communication and visual arts at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa.
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Ready to rumba: Congolese dance added to UNESCO heritage list

Manila Bulletin 14 Dec 2021
KINSHASA, DR CongoThe United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO on Tuesday added the ... The modern version of rumba is 100 years old and symbolises cities and bars, Andre Yoka Lye, a director at the DRC’s national arts institute in the capital Kinshasa, told AFP.
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Congolese rumba fans aim at coveted UN culture list

Taipei Times 13 Dec 2021
AFP, KINSHASA ...Rumba is a passion shared by all CongoleseIt reaches into all areas of national life,” said Andre Yoka Lye, director of the National Institute of Arts in the DR Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and president of a “joint commission for the promotion of Congolese rumba.”.

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