The Wiradjuri artist SJ Norman is the recipient of the biennial Blake Prize, a A$35,000 (around $26,300) award granted by the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre in Sydney that recognises artworks exploring ...

IBADAN, Nigeria — The wail of 6-week-old Quari Babaola cut through the air like the blade that had just sliced through his chin. His mother Kafilat shuddered but kept a determined grip on the tiny ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Characterized by slit eyes, which appear as convex ...

"No pain, No gain"-- they have taken it seriously... It may seem ridiculous but for some people pain and torture are a part of their culture... of their prestige. Many communities around the world ...

It would not involve tortuous scarification, the filing of teeth, circumcision, or the use of mind-altering drugs, but the idea of a universal coming-of-age ritual that ushers young people into ...

A TRIBE in Papua New Guinea carries out one of the world’s most extreme initiation ceremonies on boys as young as 11 which sees their skin sliced open with razor blades so their scars will resemble ...

The process recognises the tribes' ancestral connection to crocodiles, who are believed to have migrated from the Sepik River onto land DEEP within the jungle of Papua New Guinea there is an ancient ...

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