Postcard from Marseille, France: Unmasking cultural richness of overseas indigenous peoples

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Above: Display in Musee d’Arts Africains, Oceaniens, Amerindiens housed in a portion of La Vieille Charite

Stunningly exquisite, feathered pieces; masks meant to placate gods or frighten enemies; and skulls and shrunken heads all abide together in the city’s Musee d’Arts Africains, Oceaniens, Amerindiens. With dramatic lighting illuminating its exhibits, Marseille opened the museum in 1992 in the renovated Vielle Charite.

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Postcard from Bilbao, Spain: Vitoria-Gasteiz showcases contemporary art

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Above: Videostills from Soneto de Alimanas, Naomi Rincon Gallardo, 2022, at Artium

Soneto de Alimanas depicts a group of underground, marginal characters who conspire to celebrate ‘delirious entangled re-existences’ amidst a world subjected to the logics of exploitation. It generates a solidarity of rejected beings who communicate across airwaves and defend their existence and the potential driven by their otherness to resist violence and dispossession.”

Curator’s Notes at Artium

It’s hard not to get shoved into the backseat of the artworld when your city lies in the shadow of Bilbao’s Guggenheim. Vitoria-Gasteiz is forty miles away, yet the ambitious leadership of Alava province saw an empty hole – the opportunity to promote the flourishing contemporary art scene of Basque Country.

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Postcard from London, England: Italian, Philippine, seafood and cheese, please

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Above: All-you-can-eat cheese on conveyor belt at Pick & Cheese Seven Dials

Restaurant listings arranged alphabetically might not prove user-friendly in a city as sprawling as London, but I’m stubbornly persisting in that practice. As in the earlier part one, these are scattered all over the map.

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