Refigure E14 – Latinos & Widows

Rifa and Christopher's weekly misadventures in the arts, culture, tech and diversity. Episode #14 – our penultimate episode of Season One. This week we went to the cinema to check out Steve McQueen's intense new heist thriller Widows, starring Viola Davis. We also took another trip up to Tate Modern to look at Christian Marclay's wonderful 2010 piece Clock, built from cut up clips from throughout cinema history. Rifa watched John Leguizamo's acclaimed one-man Broadway show Latin History For Moron's, which is now up on Netflix. In What You Reading For? Rifa highlights Ayoola Solarin's Dazed Digital article 'Frida Kahlo Is Not Your Symbol' about the commercial commodification of a communist art icon. http://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/40259/1/frida-kahlo-is-not-your-symbol Chris also read a magazine article this week; April Ryan's essay in the Washington Post, 'I'm A Black Woman, Trump loves insulting people like me.' https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/11/10/im-black-woman-white-house-reporter-trump-loves-insulting-people-like-me/?utm_term=.80a0d6c4dcd2 Thank you for listening. Please 'like', subscribe, leave a nice rating and review – and best of all tell your friends about us. We'd love to hear your favourite arts of 2018 for our end of year review – visit the Facebook page to contribute. http://facebook.com/refigurepod and you can also follow us on Instagram @refigureuk. Cheerio.