All posts tagged Culture
A Clockwork Orleans, The Drowned and The Fury, Kanye Shrugged #bushlibrarybooks
#icymi The G.W. Bush Library opens: “a huge, glitzy, glam museum of spin; a giant campaign commercial in museum form” — Kari (@swiper_bootz) April 24, 2013 A Clockwork Orleans, The …
The Facebook Phone: because Tamagotchi needed a 21st Century rebrand
The Facebook Phone: because Tamagotchi needed a 21st Century rebrand… I’d get a Facebook phone but then I’d have to buy a Twitter wallet, a Tumblr coffee pot… and that …
#secretproject … #questionmark #period
Hey, hey, hey, hey – hey: So … that’s involving GaGa, Rihanna, Naomi, Cher, and 36 others … non-commercial “artistic and political” #secretproject directed by Steven Klein. A rumor has …
RAP GENIU$
And it’s back and forth all day like Red and Meth, I joke when I say I’m the best in the booth, But a lot of truth is said in …
Let it be the new cliché: Art Basel wasn’t seen in a day
Let it be the new cliché: Art Basel wasn’t seen in a day. That’s the first of many startling realizations that overcome you while cruising and perusing a pulsating Miami …
Do Artists Have Time For Love? #questionsthatneedanswers
I’m going to start this piece by changing the subject… Am I throwing you off yet? I want to take this back to square one, wherein lies our original question, …
Hugh Leeman had to kill a bird for this
Epilogue is a fully immersive art installation created by Hugh Leeman, Eddie Colla, and D Young V in downtown Los Angeles. It opened September 8 at Hold Up Art Gallery. “Icarus and the …
What I Do, How I Do It, and Why It Means So Much To Me
As a music writer, I find myself writing more album reviews than anything else. Yes, I often am writing manifestos that draw from my own musings as a listener and …
Is Reagan wacker than crack? #QuestionsThatNeedAnswers
Is Ronald Reagan wacker than crack? #QuestionsThatNeedAnswers The L.A. Times [recalled], “Hero though Reagan was to so many Americans, his legacy is marred. Economically, the Reagan years were epitomized by …
Foreword Story: Most Expensive Meme Ever
Freedom, that glorious word which drives America through each day and each era and is so important to us… it’s been completely revoked from our new milieu, and we’re totally …
In A World Desperate For Uniqueness & Originality, The Greatest Irony May Be That We Ultimately Succumb To “Following The Herd”
In a world desperate for uniqueness and originality, the greatest irony may be that we ultimately succumb to “following the herd.” Whether we like it or not, we the “sheeple” …
Foreword Story: That’s Death Over Designer
When I received our assignment sheet from our editor-in-chief, I saw the headline “Foreword Story: That’s Death Over Designer” and I immediately reply. Ironically, I was having a conversation just …
Foreword Story: The Hands of Jezebel
Boy does my mother love Jesus. Growing up the tough macho male that was imprinted in my mind wasn’t Hercules, it was Samson. The tale of betrayal that I was …
Strange Fruit: Interview with Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas latest body of work Strange Fruit expresses the historical truths blacks had to endure throughout their journey here in the United States. Hank created vivid comparisons of …
Femme Fallahs distinctly placed against the vivid–A look at Kehinde Wiley’s latest body of work “The World Stage”
Painter Kehinde Wiley is known for his vibrant, large-scale paintings of beautiful young black and latino men, masterfully rendered in the self-confident, empowered poses seen in classical European portrait painting. …
Street Brilliance: A Trip to São Paulo Courtesy of Street Artist Bruno Dias
Bruno Dias lives in a tropical country, a fact that inspires and drives his work to explore themes of regional Brazilian culture in a free, personal and playful manner. His …
19. Touché, Kehinde, Touché
The silhouette or shadow of any particular culture is ever changing and can be misleading if judged just by what you see on the wall. If the sun is too …
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