As the poorest state in the Western hemisphere, Haiti has been suffering from a lack of basic resourcse for many years.
In the town of Croix Des Bouquets, just outside the capital, 70 per cent of the population is unemployed.
But a group of hundreds of artists have created a community of craftsmen – turning oil steel drums into art – in an effort to change that fact.
Teresa Bo reports.
Over the past few days, there have been many protests and events to mark the Nakba.
The memoyr of the flight of those Palestinian refugees has also been captured in a haunting art isntallation that will be displayed in Jerusalem.
It has taken almost a year to put together and is the work of a Scottish artist and thousands of young Palestinians.
It makes for one of the most evocative commemorations of this collective tragedy.
Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports.
It is said that a picture paints a thousand words.
So imagine what a picture from Iraq, one of the bloodiest countries in the world, has to say.
Al Jazeera’s Owen Fay reports.
The Indonesian scandal involving a royal family and the international art market.
The Indonesian scandal involving a royal family and the interantional art market.