If You Are Lucky Enough To Be In LA...
...and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. But more recently, defying artistic boundaries, Genesis has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits...
Things to Come
...music, Western musicians like P-Funk and Sun-Ra. So there’s that, it’s a Western form of writing, and science fiction has to come to Africa in that regard. But I’ve always...
Red Holidays of Genius
...everyday habits. All of this discombobulating, disordering, and unmooring they believed advanced a risorgimento, a wholesale remaking of Italian thought and culture. "Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and...
Fringe Feminists: Patti Smith
...her music is something, finally, to rally around. For one thing, she has certain qualities that can make her a hero to a whole generation of young girls; Patti has...
Our Fellow Travelers
...entire screen with all the gestures and grace of a sweaty black club. At times, especially during the genius pajama-party scene, when that paleo-twerk classic of D.C. go-go music, “Da...
Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop
...novelty,” then they aren’t people who could threaten her artistic credibility; they are people who overtly don’t give a damn about music. Haters no longer police the essence of a...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.13.12
...out when you've been loosely protected from it. Hold onto your hats, folks: Research has proven that music videos objectify women. Shocker, I know. But what's interesting here is how...
Opening Reception: Yto Barrada & DJ /rupture @ Walker Art Center 11/21
...Yto Barrada In conjunction with the exhibition An Album: Cinematheque Tangier, join artist Yto Barrada and special guest DJ/rupture, referred to as “a thoughtful pipeline for music from...
Black Mirrors
Queer ways of seeing can be tools of decolonization for the African diaspora
A Summer Fête: The New Inquiry's First Annual Summer Benefit
...invite you to our first annual summer benefit, for hors d'oeuvres, music and an open bar to enjoy the sunset on the Sackett Farms balcony. The event will feature music...
Get real
...belonging, not the acts of an egregiously desperate victim of image culture. The moral tenor of the novel is that America has been swept over by superficiality, by artificiality, by...
Boy Problems
Gay male intimacy across stark differences of age, power, and money does not transcend these inequities; it depends on them.
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We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films
...Lab coats in Hollywood: Science, scientists, and cinema . MIT Press, 2011. Inness, Sherrie, ed. Geek chic: Smart women in popular culture . Springer, 2016. Lady Science is an independent...
Beauty Blogosphere 1.11.13
...Side of the Moon?" (Um.) Slow violence: We're finally having necessary conversations about our culture of violence. Minh-Ha T. Pham asks us to look at the gendered "slow violence" we...
The Alienation of Mary Kay
...the gap between what a buyer is promised with a beauty product and what she actually receives; the gap our culture has created between being the smart girl and the...
Cookie Cutters
...temporary employment, rented houses, longer work lives, failed states, and consumer culture. Perhaps consent is no longer available for purchase; maybe we can now only— from time to time—subscribe....