The Irish-Dutch multi-instrumentalist is set to launch his new album, featuring guest performances from a variety of talented young Irish artists. ‘This Is Me Telling You’ is to be the first single from the project, starring Ciara Adamson.
Imagine a life spanning some of the most important events of the 20th century, working with three of arguably the most iconic artists of that century and creating images of important modernist architecture. This was the life of the photographer Pedro E. Guerrero.
Largely unknown during his lifetime, Mr. Guerrero's life and work will be seen in a new documentary in partnership with "American Masters," and VOCES tonight on PBS.
Brazilian Angelica Dass launched an investigation of identity, culture and skin color simply by lifting her camera. The granddaughter of black and native Brazilians and the daughter of a black father raised by white adoptive parents, Dass created the Humanae Project with the intention of recording and cataloging all possible human skin tones, highlighting true tones rather than clichéd colors. The 2000 image-strong initiative is a series of portraits, all with the exact Pantone® tone of the subject pronounced in the background; the color extracted from an 11x11 pixel sample of the subject's face.
Madonna reveals that she likes to listen to music that is different from her own when working out. She's sick of her music but does enjoy mashups and remixes that reinvent songs.
Transgender artist Jorge Cruz captures with his camera...yet, there still seems to be something greater occurring. There's the vibrant subject(s); the engaged photographer; but, also, the enlivened photos, which wake and writhe whenever they gain an audience -becoming a personality independent of the artist and the subject. Cruz's prints, like his music, his writing, his creative directioning, his... ongoing list of artistic occupation, is created in the avant-garde realm of ambiguity, analysis, experimentation and counter-culture.
Ethno-politics, immigration, technology and language happen against the canvas, in an opus, or in any medium, when you are an artist. And, if you are Guillermo Gomez-Pena, you could address societal concerns regarding Latinos through performance art, audio, video, installations, poetry, journalism and cultural theory. A writer, a MacAuthor fellow, and an editor, Gomez-Pena brings style, energy and heritage to everything that he completes.
During Tuesday night's episode of "The Voice" it was revealed that Adam Levine, front man of Maroon 5, has been named "The Sexiest Man Alive" by People Magazine (Channing Tatum '2012' & forever). The 34-year old recording artist and "The Voice" coach jokingly told Carson Daily, host of "The Voice" who held up the magazine-hitting newsstands on Friday, "Carson, you just had that made, that's not real". When Daily asked him how he felt about his new title he answered "sexy".
