21 February, 2015

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Oliver Mtukudzi: Wonai Steven Johnson: Emergence

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”  
–Edgar Degas

 

14 February, 2015

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Leonard Dembo & The Barura Express: Chitekete Debbie Tucker Green: Stoning Mary

“In the morning there are lovers in the street, they look so high. You brush against a stranger and you both apologize”
— Joni Mitchell, Down to You

 

31 January, 2015

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Nas: Illmatic Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Like a Calgon commercial I’m gonna get up out of here.”
— Mariah Carey

24 January, 2015

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Nas: It Was Written Barney Simon: Born in the RSA

“Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”
–Bertolt Brecht

17 January, 2014

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The Roots: Things Fall Apart Marcus Gardley: The House That Will Not Stand

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
— Gustave Flaubert

27 December, 2014

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Ani Difranco: Canon Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes: Mule Bone

“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
–Virginia Woolf