Sei Miguel RIP

Soube agora da morte de Sei Miguel (1961-2025). Artista singular, que fez do pocket trumpet veículo de expressão única, gestando fina música que merecia maior repercussão. Nasceu na França, cresceu no Brasil e fez sua história musical em Portugal. Dia de celebrar sua música. RIP. pic.twitter.com/AMkTaLZztY

— FreeForm, FreeJazz (@freeformjazzy) November 12, 2025

Sei Miguel





Sei Miguel - pocket trumpet
Fala Mariam - alto trombone
César Burago - small percussion; various
Pedro Lourenço - bass

Toni Morrison, God Speed!

photo Damon Winter/The New York Times

My love for Toni Morrison began with reading Song of Solomon as a teenager. Few novelists wrote about the unique cultural inheritance of the African-American experience with the multilayered nuance like Toni Morrison.

Thank you for everything, and may the Almighty receive you. pic.twitter.com/3NcggqXygp

— Chris O. Ògúnmọ́dẹdé (@Illustrious_Cee) August 6, 2019

Okwui Enwezor: the Nigerian who confronted the European art canon

“The way I see it, it is like night and day. The 80s and before was the colonial, Jim Crow, and apartheid days put together,”.
“It was completely acceptable to the curators of the period that contemporary art did not happen in places like Africa, Asia, South America or the Middle East … globalisation transformed the myopia that previously ruled.”

                                             - Okwui Enwezor said in 2005


By Oliver Basciano

Okwui Enwezor, who has died aged 55, was a peerless, charismatic Nigerian curator who helped place non-western art histories on an equal footing with the long-established narrative of European and North American art. Part of a generation of auteur curators who rose to prominence in the 1990s, he, more than any other, was one with a mission.

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Enwezor refused to be defined by his two landmark exhibitions. For him just as important was his direction of the Johannesburg Biennale in 1996 and the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea in 2008, as well as Meeting Points 6, an exhibition which took place over 12 months from April 2011 in eight cities across Europe, the Middle East and north Africa, including Damascus, Tangier and Berlin. …

Glenn Branca RIP

from theWire

Glenn Branca 1948–2018. By Alan Licht - (The Wire contributor on the life and work of the high volume composer)

Glenn Branca interview with Marc Masters

Hugh Hefner

I called Hugh Hefner a pimp, he threatened to sue. But that’s what he was || Suzanne Moore || TheGuardian

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NYT : Hugh Hefner, Who Built Playboy Empire and Embodied It, Dies at 91

Chuck Berry - The Father Of Rock And Roll || RIP

NYTimes: Chuck Berry, Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer, Dies at 90

via accras:

The One and Only King of Rock & Roll.
RIP Chuck Berry, 10/18/26 - 3/18/17.

RIP Günter Grass

• Critical Thinking :

NYT : Günter Grass, German Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

                                                                 Martin Luther King, Jr

Crass and stupid people keep on digging in the dirt of their lies and manipulations.