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Music
In My Mody, a musical, takes us on a journey, through song, spoken-word, movement, and art, about the experiences of aging, dying, gender-identity, infertility, and the confines of social standards.
Imagining all the best artists to co-tour with, touring with Tricky is "seriously, an honor," said Terra Lopez, lead singer of Sacramento-based band Rituals of Mine (f.k.a. Sister Crayon) during their opening act at Underground Arts for the Bristol-based heavy-bass-heart-of-darkness. A heckler in the crowd yelled,"We Love Tricky, and we love you!"
This Friday, October 28th, Black Kids are back in Philly with new tracks from their upcoming (yet to be named) 2017 album, including their latest release: Obligatory Drugs, headlining at Kung Fu Necktie.
Art
You would never put fake books on your bookshelf, so why would you put fake art on your walls? Having original art in the home is as vital as having a quality bed. Not only is art is a key piece of furniture for your home but is essential to your mental health.
For most artists, no matter what stage along their path, the take-it-or-leave-it and nearly self-destructive question continuously persists: what happens if nobody sees it? As the Senegalese and Philadelphia based artist Michel Delgado nonchalantly puts it, "You gotta be cool with it." Unsettling? Yes. Refreshing? Most certainly not. Worth it?
According to Richard Ross: darkness breeds disease.
Dread Scott-the artist who sparked controversy in 1989 as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, snowballing to national debate with his installation What is a Proper Way to Display a US Flag? - is currently exhibiting his work at Rowan University Art Gallery at High Street.
Upon viewing Artship Olympia, a reminiscence of a favorite quotes came to mind. In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the narrator Ishmael begins by telling us why he seeks comfort from the sea: "Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
"He said something like, 'if we are to change our world view, images must change. The artist now has a very important job to do.' " David Gleeson states, trying to remember Vaclav Havel's quote on the artistic response to Communism, as we wrap up our conversation on Gleeson's recent exhibition at Crane Arts: T.Rump - America on the Rag.
While every lonely housewife and intellectually-repressed book club member in America flock to see the premier of 50 Shades of Grey, the adapted film of E.L. James's book, I pull out of my bookshelf a copy of The Marquis De Sade's Justine and say (pointer finger up): actually this came first.