Roberts, who is forty-two and grew up in Miami, joined the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre at nineteen and danced there for nearly two decades, until 2021. He began to make dances in 2016, and his early choreography-astonishingly original and powerful-was inextricably tied to his own dancing and the ways he could morph his majestic six-foot-four body as if it were molten.
At the sixth edition of the Aichi Triennale, which opened in Japan in September, wars and their effects loom large. The exhibition's title, A Time Between Ashes and Roses (until 30 November), comes from a line in a poem by the Syrian poet Adonis about the cycle of destruction and rebirth, observed through nature. It resonates throughout this year's event, where war, displacement, memory and the natural world are interwoven across venues in Aichi Prefecture, located to the west of Tokyo.
The tech bros want to go to Mars, so we're sending them there. There's room on the rocket for a few more souls so they're being joined by Trump, Netanyahu, Vance, Farage and Rowling - just some of the people who in recent years made life on Earth more difficult for us.
Corita Kent's artistic journey showcases a profound connection to both the natural world and contemporary society, evolving from intricate early serigraphs to politically engaged works.
