CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?

Posted on 2019-01-14

Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack (Richard E. Grant).

In theatres February 1st, 2019

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GREEN BOOK

Posted on 2019-01-14

When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on “The Green Book” to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger—as well as unexpected humanity and humor—they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey of a lifetime.

In theatres January 30th, 2019

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AUNTY! AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE FRAME, 1870 TO THE PRESENT

Posted on 2019-01-14

Curated by photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, this exhibition from the collection of Catherine E. McKinley, centers images of African women and engages with the nuances of the “Aunty” as both a colonial construction and honorific of African womanhood.

This exhibition takes up the idea and figure of the Aunty and the duality of this naming. At once an expression of love and affection, Aunty is an honorific across most Black world cultures, a recognition of a feminine power rooted in indigeneity. As powerfully, it connotes the violence of the original colonial construction of the word: the corporeal, dark, servile figure, buffoonish in her role of colonial nurse. It is also a name burdened by African and Diaspora grapplings with gender and often troubling constructions of motherhood, sexuality, etc.

Opposite – Abderoumane Sakaly, “Two Young Ye-Ye girls with sunglasses,” Bamako, Mali, 1965

Exhibition runs through to January 31st, 2019

United Photo Industries
16 Main Street
New York
11201 NY

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WEN-HAN CHANG – STRANGE WORLD

Posted on 2019-01-14

No one can be exempted from the need of sleep. In sleep, we are restored and refreshed while suspending between bodily functions and consciousness. We do not know what was happening when lying asleep. Further, those almost in trance are cut off from the reality. What is the relationship between the actual world and the realm reigned by Hypnos?

As a photographer, the camera was applied to expend my vision. It record what was going on when I was in deep sleep and visual sensation was closed. The camera lens was set up to focus on the surroundings such as ceilings, walls, and corners of my room. The shutter of camera would take pictures when I was not awake. When my perception was limited and cut off from the usual, the camera started to see, to reveal the world I never saw.

Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2019

Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
01890 MA

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MEMPHIS BARBREE

Posted on 2019-01-14

Barbree is a landscape and documentary photographer, traveler, and explorer who photographs the interplay of life’s essential elements and natural forces – earth, sky, wind, water, fire, light and time. Memphis’ life experiences have given her a deep sense of unity with these forces. Her landscape images express the power, beauty and mysteries she finds as she journeys in communion with the world around her. Her training as a writer and background as a newspaper reporter draw her to also explore and document places and events of significance in the journey of humanity.

Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2019

Edition One Gallery
1036 Canyon Road
Santa Fe
87501 NM

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NATE YOUNG – VOLUME ONE: DILEMMAS OF IDENTITY

Posted on 2019-01-14

Nate Young presents the first two parts of a new multi-part series of solo releases. Built from the influence of synth soundtracks, ambient and electronic body music, Nate filters these through a typically off-centre Michigan underground sensibility.

Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity sculpts out the bones of noise, techno, ambient and all manner of wonderful and frightening sounds to produce the most otherworldly and personal recordings from the Wolf Eyes frontman yet.

Volume Two: Nightshade takes in 80s VHS horror and corroded electro vibes, making for a perfect companion piece to Dilemmas Of Identity.

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