Art ‘As Bare As You Dare’ But Don’t Forget The Mask Naked cyclists, some wearing face masks to protect against the spread of coronavirus, riding through … [+] Madrid’s downtown during the Naked Bike Ride 2020, LightRocket via Getty Images The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international, summer, clothing-optional cycling event that usually takes place in as many as 80 cities across 20 countries. […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
Art Q&A With Gerald Passedat, Chef Of Three Michelin-Star Le Petit Nice In Marseille Gérald Passedat’s cuisine has always been a reflection of the Mediterranean Sea and all the incredible treasures it offers, highlighting over 70 species of fish, some forgotten or little known, brought directly to the restaurant by local fishermen. I sit down with the 60-year-old chef of three Michelin-star restaurant Le Petit Nice and Le Môle Passedat in […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
Art It’s Time To Face The Facts, Kanye West Doesn’t Love You Back North Facade of the White House, 1800, by James Hoban (1762-1831), Washington DC, District of … [+] Columbia, United States of America, 19th century. De Agostini via Getty Images By now, you’ve seen all the countless articles since Kanye West tweeted his presidential candidacy as apparently this is how world decisions are announced in 2020. […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
Art Trump’s New National Garden Of American Heroes? Make It A Graveyard For Toppled Monuments Standing in front of Mount Rushmore last weekend, President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to thwart a “left wing cultural revolution” that he said was “determined to tear down every statue, symbol and memory of our national heritage”. Threatening to deploy Federal law enforcement to protect monuments depicting Confederate generals and other dead white men, […] Written by imesocial July 7, 2020July 7, 2020
Art The Bizarre Beyoncé Conspiracy Theory Explained Look away, before she hypnotizes you. (Photo by BET Awards 2020/Getty Images via Getty Images) You might have seen an amusing Twitter post that went viral over the weekend, from Florida politician KW Miller (who is verified by Twitter and is currently running for congress), making the unhinged claim that Beyoncé isn’t actually African-American, but […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art Starting Blocks For Transatlantic Slave Trade Explored By Artist Paa Joe At High Museum Of Art Paa Joe (Ghanaian, born 1947), ‘[Fort] Gross – Friedrichsburg – Princetown.’ 1683 Brandenburg, 1717 … [+] – 24 Ahanta, 1724 Neths, 1872 Britain, 2004 – 2005 and 2017, emele wood and enamel. Peabody Essex Museum, gift of Jack Shainman Gallery, 2019.58.2 . Photo © Paa Joe, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art Annie Lennox On Recruiting Taylor Swift, Sting And More For Charity Auction To Help Women NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 09: Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics performs onstage during the The … [+] Rainforest Fund 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert Presents ‘We’ll Be Together Again’ at Beacon Theatre on December 09, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Kane/Getty Images for The Rainforest Fund) Getty Images for The Rainforest […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art Remembering Ennio Morricone Through His Best Soundtracks Italian composer Ennio Morricone (Photo by Jim Dyson/Redferns) Redferns The Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who famously wrote music for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns and Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in America, has died in Rome aged 91 in the early hours of July 6. Morricone was hospitalized after having fractured his […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art What To See And Do In The Capital As London begins to open up, here’s some physical (and a few digital) things to see, do and experience across the city. Visit The Langham, London: After celebrating their 155th birthday during lockdown, the five-star London hotel, The Langham, London is reopening in stages. In the first of many stages, the hotel will consciously evolve […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art Ennio Morricone, Oscar-Winning Italian Composer Famous For Spaghetti Western Scores, Dies Aged 91 TOPLINE Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, one of the world’s most famous screen composers whose pre-eminent scores for Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly helped cement the genre, died on Monday aged 91. Italian composer Ennio Morricone poses during an interview in Rome on July 3, 2017. (Photo by … [+] […] Written by imesocial July 6, 2020July 6, 2020
Art An‘Unfair Game’ Of Breeding Lions To Be Hunted Photo: Pedro JARQUE KREBS, @pjarquek It’s a damning book by British wildlife philanthropist author and pollster Lord Michael Ashcroft that blows the lid off the lucrative industry of ‘canned lions,’ exposing the horrors of farms where, for exorbitant prices, hunters shoot and kill lions bred in captivity for sport. The recently published Unfair Game: An Exposé of South […] Written by imesocial July 5, 2020July 5, 2020
Art Is Kanye West Really Running For President? Kanye West, future president? (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images) GC Images For years, Kanye West has teased fans with the prospect of running for president, claiming to have been inspired by President Trump’s bizarre blend between reality TV melodrama and successful political strategy. Yesterday, West finally announced his 2020 presidential run. Or rather, he typed […] Written by imesocial July 5, 2020July 5, 2020
Art Watching Hamilton Will Give You What You So Desperately Need This Pandemic: Hope Lin-Manuel Miranda resumes the role of “Alexander Hamilton” in “Hamilton” on Disney Plus this week, … [+] a role he has not played since his final performance on Broadway on July 9, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) Getty When Hamilton premiered on stage almost 5 years ago, it became a […] Written by imesocial July 4, 2020July 4, 2020
Art The New Bikini Museum Bares (Almost) Everything Brigitte Bardot caused a sensation at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival in a tight, flower-patterned … [+] bikini, © AURIMAGES Bikini Museum The world’s first bikini museum is opening in the small town of Bad-Rappenau in Germany on July 5, which is International Bikini Day. The Bikini Art Museum is the first world museum devoted to bathing culture, set in a 19th […] Written by imesocial July 4, 2020July 4, 2020
Art A Haunting German Movie To Stream This Weekend Godehard Giese, Paula Beer and Franz Rogowski in Christian Petzold’s ‘Transit’ ©Music Box Films German film, Transit, starring Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer, is now on MUBI, from the director of Barbara and Phoenix, Christian Petzold. The film forms part of what its director calls his “love in the time of oppressive systems trilogy.” Transit […] Written by imesocial July 4, 2020July 4, 2020
Art Why The 4th Of July Is Fake News John Trumbull’s 1818 painting depicts not the signing, but the presentation of The Declaration to … [+] Congress by the writing committee on July 2, 1776. Getty The 4th of July has been celebrated with great fanfare since the very beginning. John Adams, who many consider the father of American Independence, wrote to his wife […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art Talking About Broadway’s Most Popular Musical Coming To Television Okieriete Onaodowan, second from left, performing as Hercules Mulligan in HAMILTON, the filmed … [+] version of the original Broadway production. Courtesy of Disney+ Broadway is shutting down until 2021, but its most popular musical, ‘Hamilton,’ is coming to television, premiering on Disney+ on July 3rd. Okieriete Onaodowan portrays both the Revolutionary War spy Hercules […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art CreatiVets Partners With Big Machine For Debut Album ‘Veteran Songs’ Since 2013, CreatiVets has connected veterans with ace songwriters to pen over 100 songs. Here, Dan … [+] Couch, Daniel Hebert, Richard Casper and Jesse Taylor pose after co-writing “Unbroken” featured on new album Veteran Songs available via Big Machine. Richard Casper CreatiVets launched in 2013 with the mission to reach every veteran in the […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art 80 Artists Expose Abuses In U.S. Detention Centers By Using Skywriting A massive art project is trying to cast light on the mistreatment of immigrants in detention cells … [+] across the country using skywriting airplanes Getty A massive art project called In Plain Sight has hired virtually every skywriting plane in the nation to spell out artist-generated messages in the sky above detention facilities, immigration […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art CloZee Releases New Album ‘Neon Jungle’ CloZee. Courtesy of Pierre Beteille. Pierre Beteille Today, French producer CloZee released her latest album, Neon Jungle, on her imprint Odyzey Music. The 10-track body of work boasts ambient, worldly, rhythmic and lucid sounds in true CloZee style. The record, which is the first release on Odyzey Music, follows her debut album, Evasion, that was […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art Sian Releases ‘X’ Album Sian. Courtesy of Sian. Sian Modern techno producer and Octopus Recordings label boss Sian released his latest album, X, today. Though Sian is typically known for creating songs made for dance floor domination, the 18-track body of work features slower tempo and more melodic songs—making for an interesting pivot for the techno producer. “I’ve been […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art The Top 5 Best Films You Have To Watch This Fourth Of July This is no ordinary year, and this is no ordinary movie list. With our nation shutting back down again and the COVID-19 pandemic showing no signs of slowing down any more than the runaway train of daily madness that is our political condition, this Fourth of July weekend requires a movie viewing list to both […] Written by imesocial July 3, 2020July 3, 2020
Art Ava DuVernay’s Array, Participant And Color Of Change, Launch Social Impact Guide And Online Prosecutor Directory For Netflix’s ‘When They See Us’ ARRAY and Participant developed a social impact learning guide, which includes episodic recaps of … [+] When They See Us, outlines key themes from the series and provides resources to further explore systemic injustice and identify ways to take action. Participant Media Array, the multi-platform media company and arts collective of filmmaker Ava DuVernay has […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art Support Black Artists By Placing A Bid In ARTNOIR’s Artsy Auction Girl Talk by Tiffany Alfonseca. Courtesy of the artist and ARTNOIR. ARTNOIR started with a group of friends who noticed the lack of diversity in the art world. “Art is a tool for social change and yet, seeing a truly diverse crowd at art world events is still rare.” said Folake Ologunja, one of the […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art I Scream. You Scream. The Meltdown At The Museum Of Ice Cream Maryellis Bunn, 28, built a business that promised customers happiness, sprinkles and ice cream. The playground-meets-art installation was an instant hit with the Instagram generation. But ex-employees say that a darker reality lives under the gauzy filters. Amid the complete disruption of brick-and-mortar commerce over the past decade, social media generated a highly-ironic byproduct: the […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art Rocker Suzi Quatro’s Groundbreaking Career Is Subject Of New Documentary ‘Suzi Q’ Suzi Quatro credit: Gered Mankowitz copyright: Bowstir Ltd. 2016/mankowitz.com (provided by Sicily Publicity) The singer and bassist Suzi Quatro is undoubtedly a musical pioneer, even if she’s not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Having established herself as a star during the 1970s glam rock era, Quatro had a remarkable run of British […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art Free Virtual Preview On MUBI Yuishi Ishii and Mahiro in ‘Family Romance, LLC’ (Photo credit: Lena Herzog/MUBI/Film Constellation) Lena Herzog/MUBI MUBI is hosting a free exclusive online premiere of Werner Herzog’s latest film Family Romance, LLC on July 3. The film is free to view on the streaming platform in the U.S., the U.K., and more than 150 countries, in […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art Tom Morello Enlists Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds And More For Fiery New Song, ‘Stand Up’ NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 19: Audible celebrates Tom Morello at Minetta Lane Theatre In NYC on … [+] September 19, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Audible) Getty Images for Audible With a presidential election many have dubbed a fight for the soul of America coming in November, […] Written by imesocial July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Art 3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can “Win The Quarantine” “The path of least resistance is a terrible teacher.” – Ryan Holiday Mick Batyske (who performs as MICK) walks a tightrope between entertainer and entrepreneur. His deejay gigs helped pay for his marketing MBA and subsequent classes at Harvard Business School. The Ohio native used his marketing skills to create his big break with the […] Written by imesocial July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
Art This New Fashion Council Say #BlackOutTuesday Is Not Enough — Here’s Why Lindsay Peoples Wagner, Editor-in-Chief at Teen Vogue Black in Fashion Council Last Wednesday Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner and fashion publicist Sandrine Charles announced the launch of the Black in Fashion Council on Instagram with the aim to “represent and secure the advancement of black individuals in the fashion and beauty industry”. The initiative […] Written by imesocial July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
