Category: Art
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Should white people review black art?
Over the past week or so I have had quite a few interactions on social media about whether or not white people should review black art. It originated from an interaction I had on Twitter with supposedly “The Internet’s busiest music nerd,” aka Anthony Fantano, a YouTube music journalist who…
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I May Destroy You: love, trauma and vulnerability in its purest and most human form
Minutes after watching the series finale of Michaela Coel’s flawless new masterpiece I May Destroy You, I’m sat in my bed, speechless. There’s not much new I can say about the show that hasn’t been said by many already, but I wanted to say this: this TV show is one…
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Spirit Wrestlers Present The 52 Card Trick
DiY free-party collective’s Pete Woosh, now known as The Peaceful Ones has announced the launch of “The 52 Card Trick,” a weekly-drop of music over 52 weeks to help raise funds and awareness for natural healing and holistic approaches to living with cancer, recovery, and prevention. From inter to outer-dimensional…
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Exhibition Review: Bass Culture 70/50
On the 25th October, I was lucky enough to be invited to the opening of a new exhibition exploring the impact of Jamaican and Jamaican-influenced music on British culture. The exhibition is staged by Bass Culture Research, a three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project set up to explore the impact…
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Profile: Enjoy The Noise of Space with Moon B
Heavy themes on space and machinery have been exploding over the past couple of decades. After the postmodern revamping of popular culture, new ideas and results have been articulating those themes and topics in the changing world. A world which people anticipate new machinery and other solar systems they’ve…
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EVENT: UNDRCONSTRUCTION
Recently, I have been working with UNDR LNDN, the film collective who wowed audiences in venues across London, from Whirled Cinema to Battersea Arts Centre. They are back this year with their first event of the autumn. Taking place at Genesis Cinema Saturday 6th October, UNDRCONSTRUCTION will be a dazzling…
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Exhibition review: Basquiat – Boom For Real
Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of the most significant and influential artists of the 20th Century. Born in Brooklyn in 1960 to a Haitian Father and Puerto Rican mother, he grew up in the lower side of Manhattan, and was heavily involved in the new wave an post-punk scene. He first…
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Exhibition review: Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
“Superman never saved any black people” – Bobby Seal. Soul of a Nation, a new exhibition which opened its doors to the Tate Modern in London on the 12th of July, embraces and empowers black artists during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Separated in 11 rooms, each showcases…
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