Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE SESSION MAN , a brilliant documentary about one of rock’s great unsung heros.
What do Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones, The First Cut is the Deepest by P P Arnold and Jealous Guy by John Lennon have in common? The answer is that they all contain iconic piano riffs by one of the most gifted pianists ever, Nicky Hopkins. You might not have heard of…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘THE BEST FRIEND’ a colourful Brazilian film about queer relationships. @ Miami’s fabulous Outshine Film Festival.
Long-term romantic relationships elude many these days. Many of the reasons for this, financial and societal, are beyond our control. Other reasons we can, however, control, a main one being a lack of satisfaction with your present options for long-term love, and the wait for ‘the one’, the perfect person. Can we have it all?…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘CECIL BEATON’S FASHIONABLE WORLD’, a retrospective of the legendary Vogue photographer, artist, costume designer and illustrator.
Glamour and queerness have long been interesting bedfellows. One of the pioneers of such fabulousness was Sir Cecil Beaton, the iconic British fashion, portrait, and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer, and costume and set designer. This autumn, the multiple Academy and Tony award-winning talent is being honoured by London’s National Portrait Gallery with a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘NIGERIAN MODERNISM’ an excellent show about the development of modern art in Nigeria @ London’s Tate Modern
Nigerian Modernism is a new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern gallery. Tracing the development of modern art in Nigeria, the show spans a period from the 1920s to the 1990s. This was a time of huge political and social change in Nigeria as the country went from indirect colonial rule through to independence, civil war…
