Artist, activist, musician, filmmaker, peace campaigner and so much more, Yoko Ono has crammed a lot into her life. Now in her tenth decade, the ninety-one-year-old is being honored with a beautiful retrospective of her life’s work, Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, at London’s Tate Modern gallery, which opens this Thursday, February … Continue reading
There always seems to be an exhibit of Andy Wahol‘s iconic art somewhere around the globe at any given time. We wrote about the retrospective this summer at The Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Chicago, and now it’s Dublin, Ireland’s time. Just opened at the city’s Hugh Lane Gallery is Andy Warhol … Continue reading
Renowned filmmaker Isaac Julien’s biggest show to date, What Freedom Means To Me, is currently on at London’s Tate Britain. Julien’s films tell important stories – queer stories, black stories, and social justice stories. Julien, himself a gay black man, has a 40-year story-telling history, including Derek, his 2008 film narrated by Tilda Swinton, about … Continue reading
It is so heartwarming to see all the attention still given to celebrate the life and work of the celebrated queer activist, filmmaker, and artist DEREK JARMAN who died of AIDS in 1994. Earlier this month Queerguru’s Ris Fatah gave a ☆☆☆☆☆ review to MARK FARRELLYs tour-de-force performance in his one-man play JARMAN. We also … Continue reading
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