Lanre Bakare
Arts Reporter at The Guardian
Arts reporter @guardian 🇳🇬🇬🇧 We Were There coming 2025/pre-order https://t.co/j9z98QvBzQ) agt=@mfredturner
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1 week ago |
thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Lanre Bakare
Lanre Bakare’s book looks at how Black culture, community and resistance shaped modern Britain. Photos: Karis Beaumont IN October 2020, I interviewed Steve McQueen for The Guardian ahead of the premiere of Mangrove, one of the five films that made up Small Axe, his BBC series about Black British life. As a Black Bradfordian, I couldn’t resist asking McQueen why all five films were set in London.
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theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. I’m Lanre Bakare and I usually cover arts and culture for the Guardian, but I’m taking over the newsletter this week to tell you about my new book, We Were There, a cultural history of Black Britain.
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theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
Sitting in the belly of north London’s Islington Assembly Hall in the middle of four sold-out nights, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe is recalling the precise moment he wanted to quit his band – and music – for ever. It was 2019 and the group, an art-rock four-piece who haven’t made a record that wasn’t adored by critics since emerging from Brooklyn in the early 00s, were opening for Weezer and Pixies at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
A giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London. The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who died from it. By the end of 2011, 20,335 people diagnosed with HIV had died in the UK.
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theguardian.com | Lanre Bakare
The British artist called “truly the worst” by the US president, Donald Trump, after he derided a portrait she created of him, has said the criticism called her “integrity into question” and is threatening her career. The British-born artist Sarah A Boardman painted Trump’s official portrait for the Colorado state capitol building in Denver, where it hung for six years from 2019. In March, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform, that the portrait had been “purposefully distorted”.
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