Artist Yinka Shonibare MBE tolerated a discussion at the Hirshhorn last night with Karen Milbourne, a curator at the National Museum of African Art, but the effort strained him. To be fair, it must be terribly frustrating to spend your career making art that defies the stereotype of "African Artist," only to be asked all [...]

A while back I bought a big stack of Nigerian highlife 45s. It's a genre I can't profess to know very much about and many of these artists are nigh-ungooglable. Still they sound good. I ripped them into my itunes because 7" vinyl is a frustrating format that will destroy your life with carpal [...]