Month: May 2023

Tadao Ando: The Urban Guerrilla 

Husband and wife Jay Z and Beyoncé recently purchased a beachfront mansion in Malibu for $200 million, and it currently stands as California’s most expensive home ever sold.

The property spans 30,000 square feet, and the structure itself is made of almost entirely concrete – one of the most expensive construction materials currently on the market. And guess what? This home was designed by an architect with no college degree and no formal education in architecture.

It was designed by the self-proclaimed “urban guerrilla” aka the samurai architect: Tadao Ando. 

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Tobias Jesso Jr.: Backstage is Where the Talent Lives

We often tend to admire famous lead singers and performers on stage without realizing that their support system is usually standing right behind them. 

One of the most underrated categories when it comes to music are singers and songwriters despite the fact that they are responsible for the biggest chunk of a singer’s career.

Tobias Jesso Jr. made his way from a singing solo career through the hotbed of the music industry and received the very first Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical Grammy Award. 2023 is the category’s inaugural year and it rewards the written excellence, profession, and art of non-performing songwriters.

“This is more for all the other songwriters out there and all the other years that this category could have been a thing…I’m more grateful for the win for all of us,” Jesso said, according to Pitchfork.

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Pennylane Shen: Each One, Teach One

Being an outstanding artist and being a successful artist is not always the same thing and finding your way to the artists’ hall of fame is not self-evident. 

Pennylane Shen, artist consultant, curator and educator founded her business Dazed & Confucius back in 2006 and created an artist consultant space dedicated to assisting artists with their careers and gaining exposure in world famous galleries. 

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Johnny Crawford: The Perfect Gift

Organ donations are far and few, and those who need them can be waiting years to receive the life-saving surgery. Of all those organ donations and transplants in America, over half of those procedures are performed on African Americans. Located at the Albany State University Fine Arts Center in Albany, Georgia, the African American Organ Transplantation Project displays a one-of-a-kind photography exhibit with photographs of African American recipients, donors and family members of deceased organ donors.

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