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When he was a teenager, finding hill country blues changed The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney s life - it was a foundation of the band. Things have now come full circle - they ve just released a covers album of their favourite songs.
Their 10th studio album,
Delta Kream, features eleven Mississippi hill country blues standards including songs by R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, among others.
Delta Kream was recorded at Auerbach s Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville, where they were joined by musicians Kenny Brown and Eric Deaton, who are long-time members of the bands of blues legends including R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough.
How can photography be used to rehabilitate in prisons?
A new book, The San Quentin Project, addresses this. It features a largely unseen archive of daily life inside one of America’s oldest and largest prisons. Here, we chat to the book’s author Nigel Poor about why the archive proved to be the perfect “bridge for conversation” between her and her incarcerated students.
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“Prison changes everything. This is what people who have done time understand,” writes Reginald Dwayne Betts, a poet, lawyer, memoirist and teacher in the foreword of
. As a formally incarcerated person, Reginald is privy to the fact. He understands that any interaction with the prison system, be it positive or negative, leaves an imprint. It’s something artist and professor of photography Nigel Poor understands too, but from a different perspective, as collaborating with incarcerated people has been a large focus of her work since she first began volunteering at San Quentin State Pr
‘The Hard Crowd’ Reveals Rachel Kushner s Literary Life Through Death
Her latest book, a collection of 19 essays that spans art criticism, journalism and memoir, is an exhaustive examination of what it means to write
‘Neither tragic nor legendary, I myself will never die,’ writes Rachel Kushner in ‘Made to Burn’. She means that no one will write about her death. Her subjects, though – the rough-housers, activists, nihilists and stoics that people her first nonfiction collection,
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–
2020 (Simon & Schuster, 2021) – are another story. Her dope-using neighbours from the Tenderloin in San Francisco are dead. So are the bartenders and regulars at the Blue Lamp, a dive where she poured drinks before she moved to New York to be a real writer. Her father-in-law, a lifelong trucker, died at 48, and his trucker brother died, too, still trying to shift gears on his gurney: their deaths haunt the kindness of strangers she encount
What Kenzo Left Behind
An auction of the estate of Kenzo Takada, who died last year, was a lot more popular than anyone expected.
The fashion designer Kenzo Takada, who succumbed to the coronavirus, in the garden of his loft in Paris in 2009.Credit.Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
By Tina Isaac-Goizé
May 13, 2021, 7:51 a.m. ET
This week, the vestiges of a colorful life went under the hammer in Paris. Just over six months after his death at the age of 81, the designer Kenzo Takada’s estate was auctioned, and it turned out the fashion pioneer the first Japanese designer to achieve success in the French capital was still a major draw.