While you were away from the Internet watching football, "Elf," exercising and/or eating, songwriter and indie folk figurehead Ani DiFranco was drowning in a public-relations nightmare in the wake of the announcement that her forthcoming artists' workshop would be held on the grounds of a former slave plantation in Louisiana.
Aussie deck-slaying sistas NERVO have just hit the streets (and subsequent interwebs) with news that their forthcoming debut artist album, Collateral, has found a release home on the American juggernaut label Ultra Records.
The forthcoming show has artists from a much wider regional range than before, with Texas as the clearest beneficiary.
Jutting out from it was a hanging light box advertising the dates for the artists' forthcoming show in Japan, and on the reverse, a graphic designed by Braetsch and Roeder.
Last year, James Franco announced that he had bought the film rights to The Disaster Artist; the forthcoming film, now titled The Masterpiece, also stars Seth Rogen.
With the forthcoming silent movie The Artist proving to be critic-proof, the pre-sound era will soon enjoy one of its regular turns in the spotlight.
Bands, the first single from the British-Nigerian artist's forthcoming second EP, quakes and squelches with experimental beats (courtesy of producer HLMNSRA), while she spits lines such as: "Grenfell Tower couldn't burn me out/ and I send mad love to who's mourning now".
Hear the first single from the Russian artist's forthcoming LP on 2MR.
Batmania, Federation Square, Melbourne, from 1 April to 28 April Known for pulling together intriguing group shows, Hobart's Despard gallery forthcoming exhibition Weather combines artists Andrew McIlroy, Tony Barrow, Peter Hjort, Dale Richards, and Catherine Woo.
He did not allow convention to lead him, but was a true artist, honest and forthcoming in everything he did".
