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 | Culture Global culture, including music, art, film, music, the producers and the consumers, this is our entertainment section. | |
| | | | | Star Wars by The Ovi Team May 25th; on this day in 1977, Memorial Day weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas' blockbuster Star Wars movies hits American theatres. | | | STEPS2 Exhibition - Opening by The Ovi Team On Friday May 19th, the latest EU-MAN group exhibition, STEPS 2, opened in London, UK, to remind us that even in the darkest times of global pandemic creators constantly produce art! | | | Ovi Bookshelves: Mother and daughter by D. H. Lawrence by The Ovi Team "...she was head of a department in a certain government office, held a responsible position, and earned, to imitate Balzac and be precise about it, seven hundred and fifty pounds a year." | |
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| | Maybellene by The Ovi Team May 21st 1955; John Lennon once famously said that "if you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry.'" That's how foundational Berry's contributions were to the music... | | | My Generation by The Ovi Team May 19th 1965; from the Bible to Oedipus Rex to King Lear, literature has long concerned itself with the difficult relations that sometimes arise between members of different generations. | | | Protecting Cultural Heritage in Time of War by Rene Wadlow War and armed violence is highly destructive of the lives of persons but also of works of art and elements of cultural heritage. The war in Ukraine has highlighted the destructive power of war in a dramatic way. | | | Museums for Our Entry into the World Society by Rene Wadlow 18 May is the UNESCO-designated International Day of Museums. Each year, there is an overall theme but presented in many different ways by museums throughout the world. This year, the theme title is "Museums as Cultural Hubs". | | | Mods and Rockers by The Ovi Team May 18th 1964; Scores of youths have been given prison sentences following a Whitsun weekend of violent clashes between gangs of Mods and Rockers at a number of resorts on the south coast of England. | | | Frank Baum: The Father of the Wizard of Oz by Rene Wadlow L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1916) whose birth anniversary we mark on 15 May is largely forgotten as a writer while his 1899 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz lives on through the 1939 film with Judy Garland as Dorothy and references... | | | Bob Marley: a seer of human nature by Ovi Magazine Guest Bob Marley was not only a music maestro, a deity or demi-god but a seer who in his revolutionary songs disparaged those who revel in camouflaging as friends only to be later unmasked and found to be the generation of vipers. | | prev | | next | |
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