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I’ve been reading about, and watching, the very interesting stand-up routine of Adrienne Truscott: Is it ever ok to laugh about rape? Having watched the Youtube video, below, and Adrienne Truscott’s ‘One-Lady Rape About Comedy‘, I’m still not sure. I do like the way she skewers the hypocrisy about attitudes to women, rape and sexism […]
MoreThere’s a nice review today on a documentary film, Looking for Light, about photographer, Jane Bown, by Hayley Ellis Jones at the-f-word: Inconspicuous presence behind the camera. The promotional clip for the film from Youtube is below and there is a lot more about her to be found on The Guardian website: see Jane Bown in their […]
MoreAdam is just my favourite person in Girls – he was so sweetly adult in last week’s penultimate episode of Girls and juxtaposed against his otherwise wild boyishness … what’s not to thank Lena Dunham for in creating him and Adam Driver for bringing him to life onscreen? See them both, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, […]
MoreI came across Wangechi Mutu’s art a few years ago and thought it was really interesting. Her base references to women, Africa, nature and science are always intriguingly represented, subverted and integrated into complex and startlingly beautiful savage, colourful art that I find fascinating. This week, I watched the Blouin ArtInfo interview “A Fantastic Journey” […]
MoreI love the series of figurative works by American artist Aleah Chapin, entitled Aunties, of which The Tempest, above is one. I love the warm happiness, the genuine laughter juxtaposed against the veracity of ageing bodies, sturdy in function, glorious in utility. All denied the status of beauty in a society which values the unblemished firmness […]
MoreI thought Melissa McCarthy looked fab in her – apparently self-designed – dress at the Golden Globes last night. Always tricky for plus-sizes who are so cruelly scrutinised at such events, she managed both glamourous and comfortable, in my opinion. Slightly sad that Chewetel Ejiofor didn’t win Best Actor as I’d been blown away by […]
MoreLove this look on Bridget Sojouner seen on Advanced Style yesterday. She is such a positive representative of how to age with style. Would that we might all look so good at her age, clothed – mostly – from charity shops! If you haven’t seen her before, Bridget was one of the women featured in […]
MoreAnOther Magazine have been featuring some of their archived articles in a retrospective celebrating 25 glorious editions … and more to come, I hope. I picked up on this beautiful photo of Angelica Huston who just seems to get more magnificent as the years roll by. I suspect she has had a little face work […]
MoreGreat article in The Times at the weekend about Fabulous Fashionista’s featuring a number of women answering questions on: how to be a style queen in your seventies? Agree with them or not, they are a lot of fun to read about: Bridget Sojourner, 75: “I never go into ordinary shops,” she says. “I don’t […]
MoreI have just been re-acquainting myself with Maira Kalman’s fabulously funny illustrations and ‘stream of consciousness’ words. Amazing how much you both forget and are familiar with when you really start looking at something, no? If you are not aware of her and what she does, you might want to start by looking at this […]
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