Ruby Dee, a ringing voice for Civil Rights, onstage and off, dies at 91. Ruby Dee had a long successful acting career, most of us as students may have read Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun and was shown in class the movie based on the play in which Ruby Dee played the memorable role of Ruth Younger, more recently she was in 2007’s American Gangster playing the role of Mama Lucas. She was also known for her work in …
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See you there. Conscious Mind Records presents: B.Y.O.C Fest – (Bring Your Own Crew) at the Beacham on June 12, 2014 hosted by Madd Illz. Performances by: Solillaquists Of Sound, Casual (of the Hieroglyphics), Qwel & Maker, J-Live, and Jawaan LaRue, all in one room!Music by DJ T-Rexz & DJ Jay Mob holding it down on the 1’s & 2’s$20 tickets in advance, $25 at the door. go to http://ticketf.ly/1nmrGMG to purchase them online Doors at 8pm. 18+ B.Y.O.C. Fest is: …
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Cocaine Piñata Spotify Stream Music Videos from Cocaine Piñata – Rapper Freddie Gibbs (Gray, Indiana/ L.A.) teams up with L.A. producer-rapper Madlib, creating that next level gangsta blaxploitation rap sound on the collaborative album Cocaine Piñata. Folks have mined blaxploitation soundtracks in Hip-Hop before (Dr Dre, Snoop, Ice Cube, Ice-T, Too $hort, and etc) but Madlib dug deep in his crates for this, putting the quirky Madlib touch to the style. Mix Madlib’s beats with Freddie Gibbs’ lyrics gives us …
Artists are no strangers to using bodily fluids such as blood, sweat and tears (figuratively and literally) in their work. In the case of artist EA Conner, he uses human semen mixed in his paints for his artwork. Because of the quantity he needs for his paintings, EA Conner receives donations of semen. The first thought from someone finding out that the paintings EA Conner makes contains human semen is probably “gross,” but it makes his artwork intimate and allows …
Six artists (Jonathan Meese, Bill Viola, Leigh Ledare, Elina Brotherus, Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist) talk about decisive moments in their life and work. Art is expression, the concrete, social, imaginary, fantastic, and the gray areas of life. Louisiana Channel interviewed these artists getting them to discuss the events that influenced them in making choice of living the Artist’s life, and the influences on the kind of art that they make. Here are the individual full interviews of the six artists featured in the video below …
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