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Thursday, 13 July 2023

Artlyst: The Art Diary July 2023

My July Art Diary for Artlyst includes exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Salisbury Cathedral, Gloucester Cathedral, Firstsite, y Gaer Museum, Fry Gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Newport Street Gallery, The Arx. Read about work by Brian Clarke, Deborah Harrison, Neo-Romantics, EVEWRIGHT, David Jones, Sean Scully, and Ella Baudinet, among others.:

'‘Life Is More Important Than Art’ claims the title of the latest exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery. Taking inspiration from African-American writer and novelist James Baldwin, who proposed that life is more important than art which is why art is important, the exhibition explores the intersection of art and everyday life and the role of contemporary art institutions in a time of uncertainty and change. As Whitechapel Gallery Director Gilane Tawadros has explained, Baldwin “meant that we have the bare necessities of life —a roof over our head, food to eat and so on—but life should be more than the bare necessities” and that’s “where art comes in”. So, when the cost-of-living crisis is causing severe financial hardship and the after-effects of the pandemic are still being felt, the exhibition asks what importance we can attach to art alongside more pressing concerns.'

My Artlyst interview with Sean Scully can be found here, another Artlyst piece is here, and my review of Scully's 'Endangered Sky' is here. My writings about David Jones can be found here, here and here. 

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Candi Staton - Revolution Of Change.
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Thursday, 5 April 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.: Epistles & Prophets

Peter Challen writes that in observance of the lasting impact of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s ministry, Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City is offering a new video curriculum free of charge.

Martin Luther King Jr.: Epistles & Prophets brings together an interview with Civil Rights icon and theologian Ruby Sales and expert speakers exploring contemporary black/white relationships through writings by James Baldwin, Thomas Merton, and King that resonate powerfully today.

Use the segments in faith-formation educational settings large or small, or on your own. Each video comes with a set of questions to help facilitate further reflection.

The material can be viewed online or downloaded at www.trinitywallstreet.org/mlk.

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Marvin Gaye - Abraham, Martin And John.
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Sunday, 7 June 2009

Do you love me?

This evening's service at St John's was a meditation on love based on the repeated question of James Baldwin's Ears to hear me:

The joint, as Fats Waller would have said, was jumping ...
And during the last set, the saxophone player
took off on a terrific solo.

He was a kid from some insane place like Jersey City
or Syracuse, but somewhere along the line he had disco-
vered he could say it with a saxophone.

He stood there, wide-legged, humping the air, filling
his barrel chest, shivering in the rags of his
twenty-odd years, and screaming through the horn,

"Do you love me?" "Do you love me?" "Do you love me?"
And again - "Do you love me?" "Do you love me?"
"Do you love me?"

The same phrase unbearably, endlessly, and variously
repeated with all the force the kid had ...
The question was terrible and real.

The kid was blowing with his lungs and guts
out of his short past; and somewhere in the past,
in gutters or gang fights ... in the precinct basement,
he had received a blow from which he would never
recover, and this no one wanted to believe.

Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me?

The men on the stand stayed with him, cool and at a
little distance, adding and questioning ... But each man
knew that the boy was blowing for every one of them ...

The reading of this poem followed an instrumental piece played by Floyd, a saxophonist who had travelled from Bexley to be with us for this service. Maddy Channer who led the service spoke about the way in which so many of our actions are a cry for love and linked the poem to the repeated question that Jesus asked Peter as he restored him following his denial.

"Love ... is tried and tested by those nearest to us. True love needs the discipline of demand, the nag of domesticity, and the failings of those dearest to us. This means pain, the pain of growth and perfecting ... The Easter Christ wore the scars of human brutality, for his love had been perfected in the fires of human malice and meanness." (Hugh Lavery)

The service ended with prayers based on 1 Corinthians 13 and another marvellous saxophone solo from Floyd. It was a simple, profound and life-giving, reflective service.

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Albert Ayler - Summertime.
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