Category: The Beat
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Ten Things I loved About Summer…
Now that summer is officially, though not really, over I’m loathed to see it go because this is one of the best summers I’ve had in a long time possibly since the pandemic and it did not involve getting on a plane. I did, on occasion, but not as much as I’ve done in the…
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Marilyn.
Before she was Marilyn, she was Norma Jean just a girl from a small town with a big smile and big dreams. I wonder what Marilyn would have thought her life, her short life, that even before her untimely and tragic death would be so fully lived. That we would talk about her for decades…
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London – Whistler At The Tate
This is the most insightful exhibition into an artist that is both well-known and one that flies somewhat under the radar. I’ve always thought James Abbot McNeill Whistler ought to be more widely known that he currently is. Whenever I visit Paris, I always make a stop at the Musee D’Orsay to see one painting…
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Good Golly Ms. Dolly,
You did not have to go and die like that. Today and every day for a long time to come, we mourn and will mourn the death of our dearly departed and much-loved Dolly Parton. Our Dolly. A woman for whom the word icon is an inadequate definer. She was so much more; from this…
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HURVIN ANDERSON AT THE TATE
The thing about being an immigrant is that home becomes a place of conflict in one’s mind, when considered in the fullness of the word, a conflict of dualities because, where is home? The one we left behind in hopes of a better place on foreign shores? Or the foreign land upon which we hope…
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Thank You, Ms.Hill
Having watched and rewatched the tribute to Lauryn Hill at the BET awards, I cannot help but feel nostalgic about growing up in late 90s London. This album was the mission statement when it was released, and I remember everything about that time. I remember where I was when I listened to The Miseducation of…
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MATISSE AT THE GRAND PALAIS, PARIS
Rarely has an exhibition been so well curated, so justifiably attributed to an artist’s life that it makes you want to go back every day to stand close to each and every painting, every artwork, every expression of the artist, if only to see right through to their mind’s eye. And when you leave, it…
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The Devil Wears Prada 2.
If we don’t evolve, we die. But what gets left behind? What do we take with us into this new innovative world that’ll make a lot less use of our senses and brain power? That removes humans at the core of its mission? Miranda and Runway are in trouble; because they have profiled a rather…
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Scarpetta’s Scapula
I’m watching Scarpetta on Amazon Prime. Watching it and enjoying it for all its worth; the story is gripping, the cinematography is wonderful, the foreshadowing is perfection because I am drawn into both timelines, the family drama is bonkers, it drives me insane but I love it; Jamie Lee Curtis should always play the batshit…