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Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks Rashid Johnson: Message to Our Folks is the first museum exhibition to survey the career of this Chicago-born, New York-based artist. Using photography, painting, sculpture, and video, Johnson challenges entrenched ways of thinking…
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Despite everyone thinking Kanye West’s new album cover would feature a gold melted Jesus piece, the rapper has squashed the metallic rumors by taking to his website to post what’s being billed as the official artwork. West is apparently adopting a minimalistic…
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LACK OF DIVERSITY IN THE FASHION WORLD? We spend a lot of time chronicling the lack of diversity in the fashion industry. And for good reason–it’s a major problem. When top fashion magazines aren’t using models of color because they’re…
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Nigerian performance artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji comes to St. Louis to perform her work, A tortoise walks majestically on window ledges, which explores her parents’ relationship that began in St. Louis in the 1960s.  Ogunji examines her family history, making use of family…
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Copeland, 30, is working on a memoir for Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone imprint and picture book for G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers, part of Penguin Group (USA). Copeland helped break ground as an African American female soloist for the American Ballet Theatre. According to a release Wednesday by the two publishers, both of her books are scheduled for 2014.
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The Progress of Love The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts presents the exhibition The Progress of Love, on view from November 16, 2012 to April 20, 2013. As part of an unprecedented transatlantic collaboration, The Progress of Love at the…
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Dance party in the street, fashion, interactive live art, bikes, games, great local bands, DJs, brews, and food, national headliner Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, over 250 performers … plus painted women, mimes, a mechanical bull and mustaches? It’s that…
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Shopping For Diamonds & The Four C’s When picking out a diamond ring, there are a number of different factors to consider, and you may quickly become overwhelmed by the number of options facing you. Of course, if you want…
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WE ❤ STL “Amid all the shootings and negative publicity about our city this shows how great St. Louis is and can be” – David Fingal [vimeo id=”48890472″ width=”600″ height=”350″] From Anastasis Films: Out of our love and passion for St….
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No No words need to be spoken. Its the Roc In HERE. Jay-Z went deep in his arsenal and brought all hits. From the classics to the new. There’s a reason he’s KING. Here it is Jay-Z Full Set from…
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CARMEN THE COMEDIAN St. Louis’ Queen of Comedy. Interview by: Chris Renee | Photo: Lawrence Bryant First and foremost, Carmen the Comedian, does not want people to think that she is just a pretty face. She’s actually funny without having…
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Imagine you’re a passenger on a plane somewhere in Australia. Maybe you’re watching a movie, maybe you’re enjoying some peanuts or a ginger ale or something. Or, like one guy, maybe you’re on your way back from the bathroom when…
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[vimeo id=”46245522″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Nicole Naone: Mass “My portfolio hopes to amplify my construction of home in a climate of confusion, of extremes, of nothing moderate, of everything certainly itself. With the pieces that are present, which are…
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Esperanza Spalding On her natural hair story… I’ve been natural my entire life! My mother didn’t believe in relaxers, and vowed never to put lye on her child’s scalp. Lye is very toxic and your scalp is among…
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The story goes: A journalist attending a listening party for the new Frank Ocean album, Channel Orange, noted to Frank that several of the songs were composed to a male love interest. Frank then chose to turn to his own…
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