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An art festival has a way of transforming a place.

Projects and art exhibitions, work that’s usually hidden away in an artists studio, take their place for a moment out in public, revealing the oftentimes hidden layers of culture in a place.

Matador covers local and international culture and art festivals with ground level reports, interviews with festival organizers and participating artists, and photo essays to help share these places and their culture with our community worldwide.

I hung out with a giant puppet with a head the size of a car.
Surreal life experience #242: Riding an open-top bus in the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
An inter-festival road trip around Africa isn't as straightforward as packing beer into a...
The rules: No throwing opponents to the floor, no rapping, and 3 minutes per poem.
Documenting some of the city's holistic practices and cultural festivities.
The Matador crew has been representing at Burning Man for several years straight.
Check the following advice to avoid getting pissed on at the Ghent Festival.
"The Daddy of ‘em All" goes down during the last two weeks in July.
Actual athletic events taking place this summer in and around London.
What you need, and what you can expect at the Stampede.
The Seventh Movement creates a thumping party vid of the Golden Gate's 75th.
A few months of electronica, garlic bouquets, and random acts of queerness in the Great...
Keep your hat on at one of summer's biggest parties.
Their religion is so open and accepting. Shoot away, they say. Shoot the gods.
Then I hip check an Asian girl out of my way and move in to get the shot.
2 kilometers of firecracker wall blasts Paramaribo at noon on New Year's Eve.
Comedian Duncan Trussell talks about what it's like to get invited to SXSW.
The Dr. Seuss classic as told by the whimsical citizens of Black Rock City.
Burning Man, the emerging paradigm shift, and how your mind has become occupied.
For many Bahamians, Junkanoo is a part of their lives from an early age.