Speed of Life

With strings of pearls and collars of lace - #SargentAndFashion is now open at Tate Britain. ✨ Discover Sargent’s use of fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality with nearly 60 portraits ➡️ https://t.co/JzJOYA2XCU Until 7 July 2024. Members go free. 💅 pic.twitter.com/52lHp8FgAB — Tate (@Tate) February 22, 2024 With strings of pearls and collars of lace - #SargentAndFashion is now open at Tate Britain. Discover Sargent’s use of fashion as a powerful tool to express identity and personality with nearly 60 portraits https:// bit.ly/3RTc3iA   Until 7 July 2024. Members go free.   As everyone on TwiX seems to be an expert on the subject of John Singer Sargent - see my timeline! - here are some more of my favourite works in the big Tate Britain tribute to Sargent and Fashion. I know they are all portraits of women but that’s where Sargent hit his bullseyes! pic.twitter.com/aboj665YNq — WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK (@JANUSZCZAK) February 22, 2024

‘Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - into something whole.' - Louise Bourgeois, born on Christmas Day in 1911. #LouiseBourgeois , Maman, Outside Tate Modern 2008 https:// bit.ly/3xN04J1

The Airborne Toxic Event played at the Music Box @ the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood last night. The evening was a homecoming of sorts for The Airborne Toxic Event as members of many of their fellow bands from L.A. were in attendance. The sold out crowd at the concert spanned all ages from kids to grandparents which contributed to the musical reunion vibe. Mikel Jollett, the lead singer and writer, in his drive to connect with the audience, reminded me of a young Bono or Springsteen blended with the bittersweet romantic yearnings of Smiths era Morrissey. Mikkel has a gripping but sweetly humble stage presence that projects power but not swagger. Guitarist Steven Chen lays down a sonic field that gives air and space for Jollett's searching soul to roam. Chen's guitar opens up ambient washes as well as chiming lines that bring to mind the Australian band The Church and the vast spaces found in their song Under the Milky Way . But even with the lyrical guitar and all the st...