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A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler

A Cowboy in Winter | Martin Filler

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Among the most memorable interactions I’ve ever had with artists occurred during a trip I made to New Mexico in August 1992 to interview Susan Rothenberg for a Vanity Fair profile. It had been three years since she wed her fellow artist Bruce Nauman and moved from New York City to New Mexico, where he’d resettled from Pasadena a decade earlier. Together they bought a seven-hundred-acre spread in Galisteo, a half-hour’s drive south of Santa Fe, and built a compound with a ranch house, corrals, stables, and separate studios. At the time they were the contemporary art world’s golden couple, not least because this unexpected midlife second marriage for both of them was an attraction of opposites so extreme that those who knew them deemed it perfect. Even more remarkably, it lasted three decades, until Rothenberg’s death in 2020 at age seventy-five. She was petite, Jewish, voluble, and a quintessential livewire New Yorker. Nauman is tall, Gentile, taciturn, and a classic self-contained Midwesterner. He’s also a genuine cowboy, having raised cattle and trained quarter horses for resale as …

Cowboy hats, the Hulk and short shorts: the final days of Olympics fashion – in pictures | Fashion

Cowboy hats, the Hulk and short shorts: the final days of Olympics fashion – in pictures | Fashion

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Teams including France, pictured here, have been competing in the artistic swimming – formerly known as synchronised swimming – at the aquatics centre north of Paris. When synchro was introduced at the 1984 Olympics, the New York Times declared it one of the new Olympic ‘glamour events’. A focus on the bedazzled costumes and aesthetics, according to Time, cemented ‘the idea that the world of competitive synchro was a feminine, performative domain’. This year, for the first time, men were allowed to compete, although none did. Watch this space for LA 2028 Source link

Hollywood’s First “Black Singing Cowboy,” Herb Jeffries, Would Have Loved Beyoncé

Hollywood’s First “Black Singing Cowboy,” Herb Jeffries, Would Have Loved Beyoncé

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In 1935, Herb Jeffries was a jazz vocalist touring with Earl “Fatha” Hines and his band through the American South. As Jeffries recalled in a documentary on his life, on a break between sets one evening, he and the other musicians stood at the stage door and watched as a group of kids playing in the alley ran off, leaving one boy behind crying. Jeffries asked him if the others had hurt him. “No, they’re my friends,” the young boy replied, “but we’re playing cowboy, and they won’t let me be Tom Mix.” Herb Jeffries asked why, and the boy’s voice broke as he replied: “Because Tom Mix ain’t Black.” Westerns were the most popular film genre of the 1930s, with plots that offered escapism, romance, and adventure amid the Great Depression. Audiences of all kinds thronged to theater rows and balconies to watch stars like Mix play the Hollywood-embellished myth of the cowboy as a timeless and heroic figure. Yet movie theaters were still segregated, and Black and brown audiences watched actors and storylines …

‘Space Mountain’ Movie Lands ‘Cowboy Beebop’ Showrunners (Exclusive)

‘Space Mountain’ Movie Lands ‘Cowboy Beebop’ Showrunners (Exclusive)

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Action scribes Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec are going to Disneyland. The prolific team behind Amazon’s high-profile spy series Citadel and showrunners on Netflix’s adaptation of Cowboy Bebop have been tapped to write Disney’s live-action adaptation of Space Mountain. Jonathan Eirich from Rideback, the banner that is behind Netflix’s hit live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series, is producing the feature, which has been in development for several years, along with Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures. Harold was the project’s previous writer. Rideback’s Ryan Halprin is exec producing. Space Mountain is the venerable space-themed indoor roller coaster that was first introduced in Florida’s Walt Disney World Resort in 1975, followed by an installation in California’s Disneyland in 1977. It became a fixture in the Tomorrowland section as other parks opened up and is now in five of the six parks around the world.  The ride has no overarching theme nor memorable characters seen in such rides as Pirates of the Caribbean. In fact, Space Mountain in Disneyland has been turned into Hyperspace Mountain and …

Paris Hilton poses in an animal-print string bikini and harness for ‘Cowboy Barbie’ Coachella snaps

Paris Hilton poses in an animal-print string bikini and harness for ‘Cowboy Barbie’ Coachella snaps

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While “that’s hot” may mean one thing for attendees at the desert music festival Coachella, it certainly means something else for Paris Hilton. The 43-year-old hotel heiress and DJ attended the music festival in Indio, California over the weekend for its first three days, and was even a surprise guest for Vampire Weekend’s set. While she brought a host of looks that spanned her flowy and colorful range to black on black ensembles, for one of her many photoshoots, she took things up a notch considerably. Paris shared new snaps on her Instagram rocking a purple animal-print string bikini near a hot tub, completing her look with a heart-shaped purse with the word “PARIS” on it. She added to the ensemble a black harness above her waist, suede cowboy boots, a wide-brimmed hat, and her signature nude makeup look, calling the ensemble “CowboyCore Barbie does Coachella.” Fans immediately raved over the fit in her comments section, with Lauren Sanchez leaving a flame emoji. A fan added: “Ahhhh slayed the house down booots!!!” with another saying: …

‘I saw hip-hop street style and cowboy culture merge. I felt I belonged’: Ivan McClellan on his images of America’s Black cowboys | Photography

‘I saw hip-hop street style and cowboy culture merge. I felt I belonged’: Ivan McClellan on his images of America’s Black cowboys | Photography

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For a man who spends a lot of time around horses, Ivan McClellan isn’t much of a rider. “The last feedback I got was that I sit on a horse like a sack of potatoes,” he says. “I’m also a big fella, so people always put me on the biggest horse they have, some giant dinosaur of a horse. A fall from that height would be devastating, so I’m nervous. The horse knows I’m nervous. There’s a lot of work I need to do.” Since 2015, when McClellan first attended the Roy LeBlanc Invitational in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, “the Super Bowl of Black rodeos”, the US photographer’s name has become synonymous with Black cowboy culture in the country. “It was a culture I knew nothing about,” McClellan says. “I saw young men riding horses around with no shirt on, wearing diamond stud earrings, gold chains and Jordans. I saw women with braids and long acrylic nails riding 50mph. People were frying chicken, barbecuing, dancing … There was gospel music, R&B and hip-hop in the air. It was an …

“We all have power:” Michelle Obama says Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” reminds us of voting power

“We all have power:” Michelle Obama says Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” reminds us of voting power

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Michelle Obama, a long-time Beyoncé fan and supporter, praised the musician’s new country album “Cowboy Carter,” while also calling for voters to use their power and vote. The former first lady took to Instagram on Wednesday to shower Beyoncé with praise, telling the Texas pop star, “You are a record-breaker and history-maker.” She continued that “Cowboy Carter” has “changed the game once again by helping redefine a music genre and transform our culture. I am so proud of you!” Moreover, Obama said the album is a “reminder that despite everything we’ve been through to be heard, seen, and recognized, we can still dance, sing, and be who we are unapologetically.” Outside of praising the singer, Obama used the post as a rallying call to appeal to voters, stating that “Cowboy Carter” reminds us that “we all have power. There’s power in our history, in our joy, and in our votes — and we can each use our own gifts and talents to make our voices heard on the issues that matter most to us.” Obama urged voters …

Beyoncé’s new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ is a statement against AI music

Beyoncé’s new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ is a statement against AI music

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Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” has been out for only a few days, yet it’s already obvious that we’ll be talking about it for years to come — it’s breaking records across streaming platforms, and the artist herself calls it “the best music [she’s] ever made.” But in the middle of the press release for “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé made an unexpected statement against the growing presence of AI in music. “The joy of creating music is that there are no rules,” said Beyoncé. “The more I see the world evolving the more I felt a deeper connection to purity. With artificial intelligence and digital filters and programming, I wanted to go back to real instruments.” Beyoncé rarely does interviews, giving each of her comments about the new album more significance — these remarks are among few jumping-off points fans get to help them puzzle through each element of the album, and how they all fit together. So her stance on AI isn’t just a throwaway comment made in conversation with a reporter. It’s deliberate. The central backlash …

The lost history of Linda Martell, a pioneering country artist who helped shape “Cowboy Carter”

The lost history of Linda Martell, a pioneering country artist who helped shape “Cowboy Carter”

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Country music’s history is just as vast and varied as its genre’s tastemakers and icons. However, in Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” the mega-sized album acts as a history lesson educating us on the genre’s pioneers. On the album, which features country greats like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson, the Texas pop star also made sure to include Linda Martell. The country music pioneer is featured on the album in two songs: “Spaghettii” and “The Linda Martell Show.” Her single “Color Him Father” reached No. 22 on the Billboard country music charts . . . the highest a Black woman would chart for more than a half-century. Martell’s inclusion in Beyoncé’s sprawling journey into country music pays homage to the groundbreaking artist who revolutionized the genre. But Martell has mostly flown under the radar of country music fans and history, remaining as a lost part of crucial music history. Her large cultural impact and her musicianship played a significant role in the ’60s and ’70s. Most importantly, Martell is a Black country musician who is receiving her flowers …

Jon Batiste hails Beyoncé for breaking music stereotypes with new album Cowboy Carter

Jon Batiste hails Beyoncé for breaking music stereotypes with new album Cowboy Carter

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Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Jon Batiste has hailed Beyoncé for breaking the barriers of music genre with her new country album Cowboy Carter. The 27-track album released on Friday and Beyoncé’s single “Texas Hold ‘Em” quickly made history by climbing to the top of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart and making her the first Black woman to achieve the feat. Batiste, one of Beyoncé’s collaborators on the album, commended the singer-songwriter for shattering stereotypes in the industry. Batiste is himself a five-time Grammy winner. He also won an Oscar for his work on Pixar’s 2020 film Soul and was nominated for an Oscar for the song “It Never Went Away”. The song is featured in the 2023 documentary American Symphony, which follows Batiste composing his first symphoney as his wife Suleika Jaouad battles leukaemia. “This is the moment yall, where we dismantle the genre machine,” Batiste posted on X. “Quincy Jones told …