I’ve got 99 problems but feminist guilt ain’t one
There is lavish killing here, perhaps enough to satisfy all male black readers. These are the words of Zora Neale Hurston, in her contemporary review of Richard Wright’s Uncle […]
There is lavish killing here, perhaps enough to satisfy all male black readers. These are the words of Zora Neale Hurston, in her contemporary review of Richard Wright’s Uncle […]
It didn’t take long for Kofi Annan’s article for the Guardian on Monday on how ‘The World Cup is Africa’s chance to show how it has changed’ to amass pages-worth […]
‘It always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.’ – Diane Arbus This quote, which is displayed on one of […]
Compare the number of times you have read phrases like “the album has something of an African influence” to the number of times you have read about actual African music […]
Earlier this month, Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum opened an exhibition entitled “Pioneering Painters: The Glasgow Boys 1880 – 1900.” On the whole, I tend not to agree with […]
IN A STATION OF THE METRO The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Ezra Pound’s 1913 imagist masterpiece, In a Station of the Metro, […]
Edinburgh-based indie band We Were Promised Jetpacks are not solely riding the zeitgeist of their chosen musical genre. The four-piece’s name also points to a school of thought that started […]
It was fifteen days into the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art’s exhibition ‘multi-story‘ that the news arrived concerning Serguei Serykh, a resident of the city’s Red Road estate who was […]
Last week, the second series of Russell Howard’s Good News began on the BBC. According to the iPlayer blurb, this signified the return of ‘the hit show whose debut run […]
No, no, NO! It’s hard to know where to begin criticising Anish Kapoor’s projected ‘ArcelorMittal Orbit‘, a 115-metre tall red steel tower to be constructed on the site of London’s […]