Where: The Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York City through Sept 30, 2018. What’s cool about this? Reminds of you of the art and mad artists who that were the reason you wanted to move to New York city in the first place. Reminds us that we shouldn’t let history repeat itself.
Read MoreI am a big fan of Cary Fukunaga. I think the guy has everything going for him. He’s a great director, writer, producer, with an edgy sensibility and stylistic approach I really dig.
Read MoreTrippy, eccentric, disobedient music delivered by an elusive, sexually ambiguous black artist whose mad aesthetic is like Prince on acid or Grace Jones in a David Lynch sci-fi short.
Read MoreManohar Lal Prasanna plays a hypnotic flute, and comes from a long line of classical musicians of the Banarasi Gharana, which also also includes the master of shehnai, Bismillah Khan.
Read MoreMy mother wouldn’t let go of my hand. Six years ago, at Delhi airport, I put her on a flight to Heathrow, to my sister, a doctor, who would get her properly diagnosed.
Read MoreThis man, Munna Lal, in my hometown of Lucknow, is at the very bottom of the food chain in a country whose corrupt politicians manipulate and exploit the poor to make themselves and the rich even richer.
Read MoreSometimes I disappear into the wilderness of Namibia, the sanctuary of solitude or the shapeless innocence of music because the realities of our pitiless world are too heavy, too hard to handle.
Read MoreIt’s with exhilaration but also sobriety I return from Africa. It’s a continent of limitless potential and beauty but also riddled with cruel injustices.
Read MoreIn my wanderings in Africa I've discovered the continent itself is an electric, ever-morphing, seething, burning, cooling, evolving work of art.
Read MoreIt’s a joy for me to see black people en masse. But also White Africans, Indian Africans, Afrikaner, coloreds, Cape Malays, Chinese, Muslims, Arabs- the entire spectrum of humanity rubbing against each other.
Read MoreMy first visit to the Mother City is colored with deep sadness at the passing of Anthony Bourdain, one of the few truly inspiring personalities in media.
Read MoreThis improbable country is blessed with surreal beauty but has a painful history of colonialism and apartheid. Miraculously, it has retained its innocence and sweetness and is the only nation which has the conservation and protection of its natural heritage written in its constitution.
Read MoreThe fiery Herero tribe of southern Namibia, along with the Nama, rebelled against their German oppressors during 1904-1907.
Read MoreOn my first trip to Austria, I arrived from rain-drenched Paris to snow-covered Graz and of course KLM lost my bag so I’ve been walking around jetlagged, surrounded by beauty but freezing my ass and in the same outfit for 3 days.
Read More(The Magical Music of “Shithole” Countries that Our President and Other Clueless Americans Have Not Heard and Never Should)
Read MoreYesterday morning around 8 am, not even 24 hours after a terrorist gleefully killed eight innocent people and injured many others, my teenage daughter reached her school near Cooper Union to see police swarming around a horrific crime scene right outside the main entrance.
Read MoreMomentarily sad to leave this extraordinary place. While Indonesia has its troubles like any other country, it also has some of the last remaining pieces of heaven on earth.
Read MoreBali seems like a lost paradise for an infinite number of reasons including its stark contrast to the crudeness and plasticity of some other Asian cities and the instant pleasure and sugar high of the West.
Read More"Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you"
After 21 planes, 7 trains, 18 taxis and 55 variations of sky I'm back to the slow magic infuriating inequity, illogical reality stranger than any fiction, the too-loud airport music with its many flavors of the same endless nightmare Bollywood-lite song…
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