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Brut, My Beauty: Jean Dubuffet and Jean-Michel Basquiat
This weekend’s your last chance to catch Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty in the Barbican Gallery in London. It is the first major UK exhibition of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years. One of the most provocative voices in postwar modern art, Dubuffet rebelled against conventional ideas of beauty, hoping to capture the poetry…
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Queerguru’s Allison Ananis with her Music Picks for PTown’s Carnival Week
Last month gay icon Melissa Etheridge shared her new video for “For the Last Time,” the second single from the singer’s upcoming album One Way Out. The video shows Etheridge and her band recording the bluesy rock track in the studio. On One Way Out, Etheridge revisited nine tracks she wrote and demoed in the late 1980s…
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Sir Elton John sings for his lunch in Cannes
Sir Elton John may have put his long-awaited Farewell Tour on hold because of the pandemic but it seems like he’s still not averse to doing the odd impromptu performance. Like the other day when he entered the lunch-goers at the La Guérite beachfront in Cannes View this post on Instagram A post…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward discovers ‘Mae West (is) Better than Sex’
Better Than Sex ☆☆☆☆ The Story of Mae West The Cockpit Theatre, London Better than Sex – The story of Mae West is a one-woman cabaret performed by Bella Bevan. It opens with several of her most famous quips at which Mae says defiantly “You can leave now…that’s what you came for isn’t it?”.…
