Mahlet Fasil
It is not often that one finds an artist audacious enough to immerse his artwork in a realistic portrayal of landscape and cityscape in the current Ethiopian art scene. Fitsum Tefera is all too aware of the prestige usually associated with a variety of abstractism.
Andrew DeCort When watching Twelve Years a Slave, the question subtly presents itself, “What does it mean to be enslaved?” To be sure, the film leaves no room for ambiguity in antebellum America: slavery was the ownership of one human being (the black “slave”) by another
After watching The Son of God, one could quibble with the film’s interpretive liberties/inaccuracies. One might poke fun at the fake looking computerized images of Jerusalem. One might even cringe at the choice of Roma Downey to play Mary the mother of Jesus – a
