Culture Canvas

_A roundup of the week's arts and culture headlines._ _Click to enlarge._ "The India Art Fair":http://www.indiaartfair.in/ opened this week, bringing disparate works from around the country to New Delhi, via "The Wall Street Journal":http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/01/26/a-quick-guide-to-the-india-art-fair/ Above, visitors take pictures of a sculpture depicting a newborn by Australian artist "Sam Jinks":http://samjinks.com/ at the fair on Thursday. Photo by Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty Images. * The Oscar nominations "are in":http://artinfo.com/news/story/757553/oscar-nominations-the-heavyweights-outsiders-and-surprise-up-and-comers, along with "subsequent dissent":http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/25/oscar-nominations-2012-snubbed-actors over the Academy's omissions. * Younger Los Angeles artists weigh in on "Pacific Standard Time":http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/, via "The Los Angeles Times":http://www.latimes.com/la-ca-young-artists-20120122,0,5946294.story. * "Poetry Magazine":http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ is 100 this month. "WBEZ":http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2012-01-25/century-poetry-95806 assesses the work of the Poetry Foundation and speaks with the magazine's editor, "Christian Wiman":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/11/poet-christian-wimans-every-riven-thing.html. * The "Sundance Film Festival":http://www.sundance.org/festival/ is in full swing in Park City, Utah. "NPR":http://www.npr.org/2012/01/25/145859955/whats-hot-at-the-sundance-film-festival surveys the films, while NewsHour alum "Steve Goldbloom":http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/goldbloom/ of "ITVS":http://www.itvs.org/ released his own hard-hitting report about what attendants are saying.
* WBEZ's "Eight Forty-Eight":http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/2012-01-25/discussing-race-and-stage-geoffrey-owens-95809 talked with actor Geoffrey Owens, who is starring in the Goodman Theatre's production of David Mamet's "Race."