January 2010
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Gary Younge on Obama, one year after his election →
“To ask where racism ends and politics begins in all of this is to set up a false dichotomy – America’s politics has always been steeped in race and racism is a political force. The psychic scars of centuries are not removed in one election or as a result of one person. Indeed they may be deepened and made even more raw as a result of them.” - The Depressing Truth
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I DID NOT mention Meryl Streep →
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Friday 1 January 2010
At 5pm on the first day of the new year I went to visit a bunch of well hung women in the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
ELLES@CENTRE POMPIDOU
Prints, drawings, installations, video, design, graphics. An exhibition of women artists from 20th Century to the present day. Organised chronologically and thematically, it was one of the first exhibitions I’d been to where the space made sense and the...