The 10 best ...PaintingFrom sunrise to starry, starry nights, the most heavenly depictions of the skyHiroshigeSudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake, No 58, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1857) Brooklyn Museum
We say we see the sky, but where is it exactly? Hiroshige, Japanese master, had ways to make it appear all around us in his woodcuts, cross-fading land into sky, dark into light and air into moisture to radiant effect, partly by wiping ink from the block before printing. Read More...
MusicIn a revealing new book, the often overlooked input of queer men who helped advise, manage and steer artists in the swinging 60s is examined
The story of rock’n’roll in the 60s has been told countless times by the stars who sang the songs, spun the solos or thrashed the drums. In the UK at the time, that most often meant straight white men, as it did in the US. But the people who shaped and advised those artists – the ones who managed the stars of the classic rock age – were, by an outsized margin, gay men. Read More...
Wiley Lane, Helen Maria Chesnutt, William Sanders Scarborough, John Wesley Edward Bowen, John Wesley Gilbert, Frazelia Campbell, William Henry Crogman, Reuben Shannon Lovinggood, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Lewis Baxter Moore, Richard Theodore Greener, George Morton Lightfoot, Daniel Barclay Williams, James Monroe Gregory and William Lewis Bulkley. Photograph: Howars UniversityView image in fullscreenWiley Lane, Helen Maria Chesnutt, William Sanders Scarborough, John Wesley Edward Bowen, John Wesley Gilbert, Frazelia Campbell, William Henry Crogman, Reuben Shannon Lovinggood, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Lewis Baxter Moore, Richard Theodore Greener, George Morton Lightfoot, Daniel Barclay Williams, James Monroe Gregory and William Lewis Bulkley. Read More...
