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Watch a life-affirming short film about drag kid Desmond Is Amazing
At the 2017 DragCon, RuPaul called Desmond is Amazing “the future of America�. Desmond was born in June 2007, appropriately during NYC Pride Week, at St Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan. He claims on his website bio that “he came out of the closet when he was born� and has, since then, with the help of his mum Wendy Napoles (aka his 'dragager') started to build an empire.
Olafur Eliasson on his daring melting ice blocks installation
Tuesday (December 11) marked the launch of renowned Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson’s new major piece of outdoor public art in London. Ice blocks sourced from the waters of the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland have been placed outside the Tate Modern and around the rest of London, in a visual call-to-arms against climate change. They are just 30 of the 10,000 that are falling into the sea every second. Scary, isn’t it?
Female and non-binary artists are selling affordable work for human rights
Riposte has long celebrated smart, positive, and truthful women in each of its issues. In recent years, the magazine has widened this support to beyond just the printed page, to events, talks, and partnerships. To mark the 70th anniversary of the declaration of human rights, Riposte has teamed up with Amnesty International, the world’s leading human rights organisation, to host a group exhibition titled Protection, which launches today.
A new installation outside the Tate Modern is confronting climate change
As much as we’d like to forget all about the pressing and suddenly very real effects of climate change, installation artist Olafur Eliasson is making us confront our worst fears head-on. In response to the October 2018 report that warned us that we only have 12 years to really turn things around for our planet, Eliasson is launching an installation on December 11 2018.
All you need to know about Turner Prize winning artist Charlotte Prodger
This year the Turner Prize shortlist was comprised solely of artists working in film. All of which visually tackled the politics of our times, namely identity, race, sexuality, and world migration. However, it was 44-year-old Charlotte Prodger, the iPhone artist that wowed the judges with her two film works, Bridgit and Stoneymollan Trail, and took home the £25k prize money.
Natalie Portman sings new Sia songs in the latest clip from Vox Lux
Bringing the almost omnipresent phenomena of viral stars to the big screen, Vox Lux follows the story of Celeste and her rise to fame after she went viral performing a song at the memorial service of a horrific school tragedy. The second official trailer for the film, in which Natalie Portman plays the protagonist, has just been released, revealing that there will be new music from Sia.
Jordan Peele to make a ‘spiritual sequel’ of 90s cult horror Candyman
It is a wonder what an Oscar can do for your career. Director Jordan Peele has been busy since his 2017 release of Get Out which won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2017.
Margaret Atwood is writing a Handmaid’s Tale sequel
After hinting at a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale in her recent audiobook adaption for Audible, fans will be pleased to hear that author Margaret Atwood has confirmed that she will return to the world of Gilead, with a book sequel titled The Testaments. It’s to be set 15 years after Offred’s final scene, and is expected to be published in September 2019. Since The Handmaid’s Tales initial release in 1985, it has sold more than eight million copies around the world.
This book documents 30 years of Rankin’s groundbreaking fashion photography
Over the last 30 years Rankin Waddell has been at the forefront of fashion photography, from shaping the aesthetics of the 90s and 00s, to dominating contemporary fashion editorials, cinematography, graphic design, and music videos for artists such as Kelis and Azealia Banks. To coincide with his 30th year of shooting, the photographer has published the first retrospective of his work titled Rankin: Unfashionable: 30 Years of Fashion Photography.
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