JUNE 20, 2020 – JAN. 10, 2021 Music rules! In the exhibition ‘Black Album / White Cube’ at Kunsthal Rotterdam 35 internationally renowned artists and musicians present almost 200 works of contemporary art – multimedia installations, sculptures, videos and paintings. The exhibition reveals what happens when the worlds of art and pop music meet.…
It’s been 30 years since Dick Tracy hit the big screen, introducing a new generation to the exploits of the yellow coated-detective and his rogue’s gallery of truly disturbing looking villains. The film starred Warren Beatty, Madonna, and Al Pacino, and remains one of the most visually striking comic adaptations ever created. While it might…
6. “Express Yourself,” Madonna (1989) “Madonna’s Pride anthem about expressing your real and true self, ready or not. Along with its homoerotic video, this song has gone on to be an LGBTQ+ anthem with lyrics about not settling for second best and getting what you deserve in life. You can be the queen on a…
The album to start with Like a Prayer (1989) Madonna: Like a Prayer – video Madonna’s 1980s hits such as Holiday, Into the Groove and Like a Virgin are brilliantly captured on The Immaculate Collection (1990). If you want a deeper exploration of her musical psyche and kinetic songwriting though, I’d advise listening to the…
Gigi Goode of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Breaks Down Her Madonna Performance Because let’s be honest, “Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical” was one of the best parts of Season 12. If anyone could do a backflip in heels, it’s Gigi Goode, one of the top contestants from season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. But that actually wasn’t the…
A year has passed since Madonna released Madame X on June 14, 2019 and the world is a very different place. We’ve had a global pandemic, UFOs and a righteous uprising of citizens demanding change and justice. It’s noteworthy then, that the Queen of Pop’s 14th album feels more timely now than it did upon release. Madame X is essentially a…
Revisiting Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy In 1990, Warren Beatty came out with yet another of his wildly ambitious projects in which he himself served as director, producer, and star. That was Dick Tracy, which arrived a year after Tim Burton’s Batman, at a time before comic book adaptations were nearly the cultural force that they would eventually become. …
30 YEARS AFTER ITS RELEASE, WARREN BEATTY’S STAR-STUDDED, LOVINGLY FAITHFUL COMIC ADAPTATION IS STILL ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE EXAMPLES OF ITS GENRE. (Photo by Buena Vista Pictures) In the summer of 1989, Tim Burton’s Batman took the box office by surprise, decades before movies based on comic books could be counted on to draw in…
“Dick Tracy’s” star studded cast featured Warren Beatty, Al Pacino and Madonna CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES Despite what you may have heard, comic-book movies peaked 30 years ago, well before the genre would go on to dominate multiplex screens and cultural conversations. On June 15, 1990, the third film directed by and starring Warren…
