it was an age of miracles it was an age of arts and an age of excess that's what f. scott fitzgerald wrote about the jazz age of the 1920 s. a glamorous decadent hedonistic decade that had a profound effect on popular culture. without welcome to the show and on the eve of the year 2020 it's no wonder it's in the air they need to look back on the golden twenties of a century ago and so more on a brand new show in a moment and also coming up. british photographer tim moore curry is the talk of the town in london with 2 major exhibitions each showing a different side of his remarkable effort. and homeless artist shows art creates art for his cohorts on skid row in l.a. to raise awareness of the widening gap between rich and poor.

well they were golden they were roaring and before everything came crashing down in october of 1929 the 1920 s. were a dizzying time of liberation and boundary busting in a frenzy of post-war euphoria many people lived with a devil may care sort of attitude which had an incredible influence on the arts and nowhere where these extremes more palpable and in berlin. she's back the iconic dancer who took 19200 by storm josephine baker. thanks carolyn goes wild josephine baker on this very stage stop right up. i think it was 1st berlin appearance in 1926 the dancer was celebrated like a goddess. prelim berlin a new show at the city's i mean lives palace theater revives the spirit of the roaring twenty's the theater itself played no small part in those days as

a venue for the wild cabaret show us filling was a city famous for arts nightlife and individual 3. this is the most wonderful celebrates free moment in our recent history for me it's my absolute favorite time of song composition with. christ is the time when people just exploded with positive energy and because of everything yeah the world to see. i think that's. right. in the years between the 1st layer and the global financial crash of this night life was bursting at the seams 1920 berlin also enjoyed a brief moment as the center of the art world now the show berlin berlin has revived some of the best songs international performers and popular constitutes. josephine baker's famous banana skirt for instance recreated by none less than

investors the legendary head designer at paris is blank range. performer dominic jackson travelled to paris for the fitting essential to her transformation as josephine baker left the racism of the united states to find her spotlight in europe had she stood out so much i think that was the biggest thing about her her energy was so fake that people couldn't help but watch will she was full of life. a lot of fun and crazy on the stage actually. fun crazy and full of life that was joseph in baker and brooklyn the show wouldn't be complete without some of berlin's very own icons. actress malinda d.t.s. . the berlin star went on to become a global sensation. great

about the 1920 s. is that they brought us the 1st big stars the 1st real superstars like my lena d.t.s. or the comedian harmony or just say they became the people we could project our fantasies onto it's. like i think of the film i think i got a comedian harmon ists at that time became something of an early boy band though they toured from germany to the u.s. and appeared in $21.00 films but their success came to an abrupt end in the 1930 s. after the nazis took panels i think that the show focuses on their heyday feeding off an ever growing appetite for all things to 20. if ever you're having a bad moment pronouncing twenty's music. and smile i think the show is almost enough to make one want to travel back in time a century ago to the dawn of the wild 1920 s. berlin i care for

a few short years anything seemed possible. well amazing things are possible also on skid row that's a district of los angeles perhaps best known for having the largest concentration of homeless people in the united states but crusoe herring is trying to change the face of his neighborhood as an artist and a community leader he's been living in the area for the past 2 decades and under the artistic name shows art he draws attention to its plight. around 3000 people sleep rough here on skid row in downtown los angeles it's the highest concentration of unsheltered people in the u.s. crew so herring has lived here for the past 20 years nowadays the father of 2 is a kind of community leader drugs and violence are part of daily life on skid row but herring believes they don't have to be for everyone. i was successful.

i made out with i wasn't arrested for selling drugs. you know i helped my people i transition into something else. in 2006 when his 1st son was born he decided to stop selling drugs and continue his life on skid row as an artist he adopted the name shows aren't i we don't have a style. or a preference but i always want to make sure that. what art makes a statement. to where someone gets something out of it but the same thing with the artist to strike an emotion many of his artworks are inspired by his personal life and by african-american figures who have made history in the us around 60 percent of skid row residents are black i still try to get that shows arts of art and his raps led him to participate in the good to institute's los angeles symposium worlds

of homelessness a 4 day project addressing inequality racism migration and gentrification. well make sure that equal rights for everyone else to be doing this some people tend to step down from where they're at like i mean i'm not an artist trying to make the bloody awful art of an artist try to make money for people homelessness in los angeles goes beyond just skid row l.a. has the 5th highest rents in the united states with a $1.00 bedroom home in l.a. averaging $2000.00 in monthly rent homelessness has risen to critical levels in the city of l.a. alone 36000 people live on the streets the organizer of the worlds of homelessness project says it's not just unemployed people who either is people here in los angeles that are working. on a salary and they cannot afford to rent anymore universities are also addressing the issue because they have students to pay tuition they come to university but

their whole lives $1.00 of shows arts friends has been allowing him to use his studio but in a month he'll have to find somewhere else to paint i have to figure out where a lot is going is other than that it's back to back to the corner but that's where just the best production that's where i get to where i'm at now i got here from the corner so i'm not really worried about it. for shows art skid row is more than just a place to sleep it's where his friends are and it's his inspiration. when no one else is there for you the street is there for skid row as a mother for me as she brought me back to life when there was lost but i wasn't i wasn't realizing that art was my way. and she showed me the art was my way. shows art is one of 800 artists registered in the district people who attempt to tell their experiences their stories of skid row

a place that for most is synonymous with misery a place very few people associate with. well over now to london in the u.k. which is having a bit of a love affair with one team walker he's hailed as one of the world's most inventive photographers and while the victoria and albert museum hosts a huge solo exhibition of his new a work called wonderful things the michael hoppen gallery has its own repeat wonderful people focuses on the long list of extraordinary personalities that walker has managed to capture with his lens over the years but. his picture has graced the covers of glossy magazines like vogue idea and love magazine.

walker doesn't give interviews but he doesn't mind us looking over his shoulder while he works. he gets all the big names to pose for his lens tilda swinton kate moss or street artist banksy whose real identity is a secret. the exhibition of wonderful people in london's renowned michael hoppen gallery focuses on his striking portraiture with 60 photos of prominent personalities many of them being shown for the very 1st time the portraits are unique whether madonna or margaret atwood 1st he studies the person intensely before inviting them into his whimsical world. this intimate show in london's chelsea district shows that it's worth taking the. time to see his pictures close. it's the sight lines you can studs and sudden picture and look at that come up close to something cool but you could look especially with his show

there's somebody as you've seen many angles to look at and that is part of the experience of seeing something in its physical nature because these shows a very carefully designed for personal experience. meanwhile walker's dazzling solo exhibition at the victoria and albert museum is also the talk of the town wonderful things features 150 new works the largest show yet for the 49 year old artist on. the show takes us on a journey through walker's life starting with his 1st photographic experiments and his grandmother's garden. with this 1962 photo walker transports fellow photographer sessile beaten into his surreal fantasy world together with his muse tilda swinton filling an entire room with eccentric motifs. this small lacquered snuff box was used in 18th century france and walker and his

team are always on the lookout for unusual props which gradually find their way into a wild collection of images this one depicts ancient china as it was once imagines by the west tim walker's singular strength has been to create his own personal iconography. she invites the viewer to dive into his wonderful pictures of wonderful people and wonderful places and to be the richer for it. along that wild and wonderful note it is time for me to sign off but not before wishing you all the best for the festive season and until the new year hopefully a little mint or 2 to continue with elements and if you miss your fix of culture news way you can always find us on our website at e.w. dot com slash cults. best buy did out and buy.

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