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Known as Mama B to her friends and family, Cedella Booker, the mother of legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, was an accomplished artist. In addition to penning two biographies of her world-famous son, the Jamaican native recorded albums, including Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song. Married to Bob's father Norval Marley for nearly 30 years, until his death in 1955, she later remarried and moved to the U.S. Like her son, who died in 1981, she passed away in Miami...
...life there, mostly in Toledo, and his high-key palette, flickering brushwork and twisted Mannerist figuration were perfectly suited to Spain's militant piety and the strain of Catholic mysticism spreading there through the writings of St. Teresa and St. John of the Cross. A cooler, more classicizing artist would not have answered so well to the emerging Spanish taste for religious ecstasy...
...course, is nothing like it was 30—or even 15—years ago. For one, Rakowitz simply couldn’t afford to live in his old neighborhood in 2008. Furthermore, the old culture and climate of downtown Manhattan doesn’t exist anymore. Artist Dash Snow’s 2005 installation, “This Was Your Life,” takes the events of Rakowitz’s life as inspiration and tries to recreate the East Village of yesteryear. The piece is an amalgamated portrait of junkie life: a cheap leather couch held...
...Gavin DeGraw is, in fact, a widely-known major contemporary music presence. His first album, Chariot, went platinum and sent four singles to the top of the Billboard music charts. And unlike last year’s artist, Third Eye Blind, DeGraw can’t be called “out of date”; he will release a new album in just two weeks. Its first single, “In Love with a Girl,” is already climbing the charts...
...York City, he enters the apartment he owns (but rarely visits) to find two strangers living there. Illegal immigrants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman, “24”) and his girlfriend Zainab (Danai Gurira) discover that they’ve been renting the place from a scam artist. They agree to leave, but Vale, feeling sympathetic, invites them to stay. The interactions between Vale and his guests possess both the awkwardness and the warmth that such a situation would invite. As a result, the middle part of the film is the most nuanced and engrossing portion. Though Zainab?...