Contemporary artists

"We Will Not Die Like Dogs" profiles AIDS activists from Nigeria, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Zambia. Honest and provocative testimonies of individuals living with the epidemic include two HIV-positive women fighting stigma and discrimination, a doctor working to care for HIV-infected children in rural villages, and a reggae artist using his status among youth and the media to bring awareness to HIV/AIDS. Conceived of by two African medical students at Yale who were tired of African portrayed only as victims to the epidemic and directed by international health specialist, Lisa Russell, "We Will Not Die Like Dogs" helped launch the National Black Programming Consortium's new television series AfroPop that focuses on contemporary pop culture in Africa.

A short film about the art and working methods of Paul Housley. Born in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester in 1964 Paul studied at the Royal College of Art. He has an interest in observing the everyday and a penchant for humble mass-produced objects. Like a number of other young UK artists, Paul is returning to figurative painting, at a time when video, photography, installation and new media have attracted increased attention as art forms. Since the popularity of the young British artists, the rise of ?Brit Art? and the controversy of the Turner Prize, painting has taken a back seat. Damien Hurst was famously quoted as saying that painting was dead. Housley, however works with traditional materials, proving that painting is alive and has an energy and power of its own in today?s art world. His paintings plays with our notions of taste, finding novelty in cliché and lyricism in mundane, blank objects like sports bags and light bulbs.

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Huey loves it when the ladies at his high school 'Pop, Lock and Drop It.'

A Danish art collective N55 explores nomadic living in the 21st century,by designing a walking house, which is inspired by a Utopian idea of the future where the whole world would be free to roam. (Nov. 20)

Teen rockers Jonas Brothers sing about relationship troubles with their girlfriends in 'SOS', the second single from their self-titled album.

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