New York African Film Festival 2018 Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories Valérie Osouf May 15, 2018 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Places/Review Abderrahmane Sissako: Beyond Territories May 18 – 5:30 pm Francesca Beale Theater, Film Society of Lincoln Center (Q&A with Valérie Osouf) U.S. More
“PARADOX, PARADIGMS AND PARASITES” – A PRELUDE by Remi Vaughan-Richards April 29, 2018 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Music/Places/Review Summary: “Short documentary on the work of visual artist Peju Alatise. Directed by Remi Vaughan-Richards. The documentary marks Peju’s 20yrs as a More
Happiness: A Novel by Aminatta Forna March 31, 2018 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Music/On Trend/Review/Style “Not since Remains of the Day has an author so skillfully revealed the way history’s layers are often invisible to all but More
Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos performing Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major – Movement III. January 8, 2018 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Music/On Trend/Review Leonidas Kavakos, Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax: Brahms, the Piano Trios by Tim Homfray 4 January 2018 The Strad Issue: January 2018 Description: More
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos & Yo-Yo Ma: Brahms Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Movement I (excerpt) October 23, 2017 Arts/Culture/Music/On Trend Brahms: The Piano Trios CD review – faultless, larger-than-life music making by Andrew Clements The tradition of leading soloists joining up to More
PARADIES | Trailer August 19, 2017 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Music/Review/Style PARADISE tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war. Olga, a More
BRONX GOTHIC: Okwui Okpokwasili July 1, 2017 Arts/Culture/Music/Review/Style BRONX GOTHIC: Okwui Okpokwasili Summary: From director Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times, The First Monday in May) comes More
Fela Sowande: Past, Present and Future June 10, 2017 Arts/Culture/Music/On Trend/Review/Style Fela Sowande: Nigerian musician and composer. Considered the father of modern Nigerian art music. Born in Abeokuta, near Lagos, 29 May 1905. More
What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah May 6, 2017 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Music/On Trend/Review/Style Named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, Time Magazine, Elle, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Millions, Nylon, the Minneapolis More
Devils in Daylight by Junichiro Tanizaki: translated by J. Keith Vincent May 6, 2017 Arts/Culture/Galleries/Music/On Trend/Review/Style A suspenseful early novella about obsession, voyeurism, and Tokyo’s seedy criminal underworld One morning, Takahashi, a writer who has just stayed up More