Charting a course roughly post WW1 through to the mid-to-late 1930’s, The Harlem Renaissance was a movement which, above all else, demonstrated the stunning creativity of African-Americans despite the plethora of injustices and prejudices they faced, and in spite of a systemic racism – political, social and structural – that seemed committed to establishing a narrative of inherent racial inferiority/superiority. Indeed the literature, music, paintings, sculptures and photography that emerged from Harlem in these decades are a bold affirmation of life, a resounding challenge to the status quo and a showcase of the spirit, talent and artistry of Black America.
January 10, 2017 THE6BY6
Tagged African-American Art , African-American Culture , American Art , Archibald Motley , Art , Augusta Savage , Black Art , Black Culture , Black Experience , Black Renaissance , Bronzeville , Harlem , Harlem Renaissance , Jacob Lawrence , James Van Der Zee , jazz , Jazz Age , Jazz Age Art , Lois Mailou Jones , Palmer Hayden
Generally regarded as being one of the last great masters of ukiyo-e art – “pictures of the floating world” captured in hanging scrolls, woodblock prints and paintings- Tsukioka Yoshitoshi is one of the boldest and most celebrated Japanese artists of the last 200 years. In a tumultuous career in which the artist was well-acquainted with both relative fame as well as crushing obscurity, Yoshitoshi navigated loss, mental illness, and poverty in order to produce works that preserved the rich and vivid tradition of woodblock printing against the encroaching western techniques of ‘modernity’. Prolific, yet met with just as much ambivalence as acclaim, Yoshitoshi’s work has slowly but surely established itself as canonical in the ukiyo-e genre; indeed many modern critics claim that his vision and creativity was instrumental in imparting ukiyo-e with “one last burst of glory”.
October 29, 2016 THE6BY6
Tagged 19th Century Japan , 28 Famous Murders with Verse , Art , Feudal Japan , Japanese Art , New forms of 36 Ghosts , Traditional , Traditional art , Traditional Japanese Art , Tsukioka Yoshitoshi , Ukiyo-e , Ukiyo-e art , Woodblock Prints , Yoshitoshi
Time and time again, Adam Curtis has demonstrated an inimitable ability to delve into the heart of an issue – be it the manufactured and simplified story of militant islam as espoused by western powers in Bitter Lake , or the failure to harness the utopian potential of early technology in All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace – and sketch out the complex histories, mechanisms and important figures that underpin these particularly postmodern narratives. HyperNormalisation, which was released on BBC iPlayer on Sunday night, is Curtis’ latest attempt to trace the multifaceted malaise that seems to pervade overstimulated life in the 21st century.
October 19, 2016 THE6BY6
Tagged Adam Curtis , BBC , Documentaries , Documentary , Don Delillo , History , HyperNormalisation , Information , Internet , News , Politics , Post-modern , Thomas Pynchon
May 30, 2015 May 30, 2015 THE6BY6
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May 21, 2015 May 21, 2015 THE6BY6
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May 14, 2015 May 14, 2015 THE6BY6
Tagged 6 degrees of separation , Art , Canibus , Fugees , Hip-Hop , History , Lauryn Hill , Leonardo da Vinci , Madlib , Madvillain , Madvillainy , MF Doom , Music , rap , rap connections
May 5, 2015 June 15, 2015 THE6BY6
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March 25, 2015 March 25, 2015 THE6BY6
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March 23, 2015 April 15, 2015 THE6BY6
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March 18, 2015 March 18, 2015 THE6BY6
Tagged Andras , Belphegor , Christian Doctrine , Cult , Demonology , Demons , Devilish , Devils , Dictionnaire Infernal , Engravings , Hell , illustrations , Jacques Collin de Plancy , Myth , Occult , Religion , Superstition
March 17, 2015 March 17, 2015 THE6BY6
Tagged Irish Hip Hop , Irish Music , Music , My BLoody Valentine , Reggie Snow , St Patricks Day , St Patricks Day Songs , Teenage Kicks , The Dubliners , The Pogues , The Undertones , Thin Lizzy
February 9, 2015 THE6BY6
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February 7, 2015 February 7, 2015 THE6BY6
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January 19, 2015 January 19, 2015 THE6BY6
Tagged 6 degrees of separation , Anita Baker , bobby Womack , Damon Albarn , Demon Days , Figaro , Frank Sinatra , Gorillaz , Hip-Hop , Madlib , Madvillain , MF Doom , rap , Sweet Caroline , the bravest man in the universe
January 19, 2015 THE6BY6
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December 10, 2014 December 10, 2014 THE6BY6
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December 10, 2014 December 10, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 6by6 features , D Double , D Double E , Grime , Grime Classics , Grime History , London , Newham Generals , Nostalgia UItra , Street Fighter , Street Fighter Grime , Street Fighter Riddim , UK Grime , UK rap
November 28, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Black Bastards , Black Box Distribution , BLACK Dahlia , Black Flag , Black Friday , Black Sabbath , Blackfish , Blackfish Documentary , Fallen , Henry Rollins , Hip-Hop , James Ellroy , Jamie Thomas , KMD , Mystery , Skateboards , Skating , The Black Dahlia , Zero , Zev Love X
November 27, 2014 November 27, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Ace Hood Flow , BBK , Boy Better Know , Classic grime , Early Grime , Grime , JME , Meridian Crew , Mobos , Nostalgia Ultra , Practice Hours , Roll Deep , Skepta , That's Not Me , Wiley
November 16, 2014 November 16, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 70s Football , 70s football style , Andy Wilson , Benny Craig , Bobby Moore , football , Football fashion , Footballers style , George Best , Jack Charlton , Pele , style , suits , tailoring , Wavey , Wavey Garms , Wavy
November 14, 2014 November 14, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Al Green , Dark End Of The Street , Erykah Badu , Flying Burrito Brothers , James Carr , Jim James , Marvin Gaye , My Morning Jacket , Rock and Soul , Rock Covers , Rolling Stones , Rolling Stones Covers , Sam Cooke , Soul Covers , Talking Heads , The Animals , The Dark End Of The Street , The Rolling Stones , The Who
November 5, 2014 November 5, 2014 THE6BY6
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November 3, 2014 November 4, 2014 THE6BY6
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October 31, 2014 November 4, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Dizzee , Grime , Grime beef , London , Nostalgia Ultra , Radio 1 xtra , rap , Skepta , UK rap , Westwood , Wiley
October 28, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Art , English Skateboarding , LLSB , London , London Skating , Skateboarding , Skateboarding Culture , skateboarding history , Southbank , Southbank Centre , Southbank Undercroft
October 18, 2014 October 18, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Alan Turing , Benedict Cumberbatch , Bennett Miller , Channing Tatum , Christopher Nolan , Coding , Computer Science , Enigma , Exodus , Film , films , Foxcatcher , Inherent Vice , Interstellar , Joaquin Phoenix , Josh Brolin , Mark Ruffalo , Matthew Mcconaughey , Morten Tyldum , Nightcrawler , Paul Thomas Anderson , Reese Witherspoon , Steve Carrell , The Imitation Game , Thomas Pynchon , Upcoming Films , World War 2
October 16, 2014 October 16, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Birdman Of Alcatraz , Bronson , Charles Bronson , Charles Manson , Charles Salvador , Chopper , Crime , Criminals , Hurricane , Ian Brady , Manson Family , Mark Chopper Read , Michael Gordon Peterson , Murder , Myra Hindley , Notorious Prisoners , Prisoners , Robert Stroud , Rubin Carter , Rubin Hurricane Carter , Sharon Tate
October 8, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 1960s Music , 1970s Music , Blues , Booker T & The M.G.'s , Carla Thomas , Estelle Axton , Funk , Isaac Hayes , jazz , Johnnie Taylor , Memphis Soul , Motown , Northern Soul , Otis Redding , Record Labels , Soul , Southern Soul , Stax , Stax Records , Wendy Rene
October 1, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged American Indian Civil Rights , Black Flag , David Frost , Frost/Nixon , Godfather , Henry Rollins , Intense Interviews , Interviews , Malcom X , Marlon Brando , Political Interviews , Richard Kuklinski , Richard Nixon , Rollins Intense , Serge Gainsbourg , Whitney Houston
September 25, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 6DegreesOfSeperation , Benjamin Booker , Black Flag , Canada Music , Henry Rollins , Interviews , Journalism , Juicy J , Music Interviews , Nardwuar , Nardwuar The Human Serviette , NERD , Pharrell , Queens of the stone age , Snoop Dogg , Snoop Lion , Vancouver
September 24, 2014 September 24, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged clint eastwood , cool , dustin hoffman , hollywood , ivy , paul newman , preppy , reel art press , steve mcqueen , style , woody allen
September 24, 2014 September 24, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Boris Johnson , Ed Balls , Ed Miliband , English Politics , Fishing , Godfrey Bloom , Gordon Brown , Hunting , Man Of Action , Political Gaffes , Politics , PR moves , Tony Blair , Vladimir Putin
September 23, 2014 September 23, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 2012 Olympics , 6by6 , Boris Johnson , Gary Bauer , George Bush , Joe Biden , John Prescott , Karl Rove , Mayor Of London , Political Gaffes , Politics
September 23, 2014 September 23, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 6by6 , Aretha Franklin , Cover Songs , Hallelujah , Hendrix , Hey Joe , I Fought The Law , Jeff Buckley , Labi Siffre , Led Zeppelin , Leonard Cohen , Madness , Music , Otis Redding , The Clash , The Crickets , The Leaves
September 20, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Albums , Daniel Dumile , Doom , hiphop , King Geedorah , KMD , Madlib , Madvillain , MF Doom , NehruvianDoom , New Releases , rap , Viktor Vaughn , Zev Love X
September 19, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 6by6 , Aretha Franklin , Bob Dylan , Captain Beefheart , Carla Thomas , Duets , Ella Fitzgerald , Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong , Frank Zappa , jazz , Johnny Cash , Louis Armstrong , Marvin Gaye , Music , Otis Redding , Smokey Robinson , Soul , Soul Train , Tammi Terrell
September 18, 2014 September 18, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Bashy , Beef , Clashes , Crazy Titch , Dizzee Rascal , Footsie , Ghetto , Grime , Hype , Kano , Lethal B , Lord Of The Mics , Scratchy , Stormin , Trim , Wiley
September 16, 2014 September 16, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged 1936 Berlin , 1968 Mexico , FC St. Pauli , History , Joe Louis , Nazi Germany , Nelson Mandela , Olympics , Politics , Sport
September 10, 2014 September 10, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Austria , Bhutan , Coat of Arms , Design , Heraldry , History , Mexico , Republic Of Congo , Thailand , The Bahamas , Tradition
September 10, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Al Hirschfeld , Art , Bern , Chocolate , da Vinci , Flemish Art , Hidden Messages , History , Leonardo da Vinci , Margherita Luti , Michelangelo , Netherlandish Proverbs , Obscurity , Pieter Bruegel , Raphael , Renaissance
September 9, 2014 September 13, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Danny Weed , Dizzee Rascal , Garage , Grime , Jammer , Kano , London , Music , rap , Roll Deep , Skepta , Wiley
September 7, 2014 September 7, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Art , Boxing , Communism , Extinct Species , Henry Every , History , James J Corbett , John L Sullivan , Krushchev , Marquis Of Queensbury , Mona Lisa , On This Day , Pirates , Theft
September 1, 2014 THE6BY6
Tagged Bobby Fischer , Boris Spassky , Chess , Classical Music , Ernest Hemingway , flight , Germany invades Poland , History , King Louis XIV of France , Monarchy , Mozart , On This Day , World War 2
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