Mid-Week Libation: From Kate Bornstein to Ben Okri!

Put on our percussive playlist, enjoy a glass of Marsala, check out the art of Lisa Alvarado & watch a jaw-dropping Lip Sync for Your Life!

Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!

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This Week’s Words of Wisdom:

“Your life’s work begins when your great joy meets the world’s great hunger.” — Kate Bornstein

Official Site of Kate Bornstein

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Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Cantine Florio, Marsala Fine Dry N.V. (Sicily, Italy)

Purchase via Vivino or Wine-Searcher

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Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: Shamans of Art

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The Art of Lisa Alvarado

Whitney Museum @whitneymuseum

Meet the 2022 #WhitneyBiennial artist: Lisa Alvarado. Alvarado's suspended, abstract paintings function as stage sets for musical performances, exploring how sound and color vibration may affect the body.

Frieze @friezeofficial

Lisa Alvarado's paintings activate the canvas as body frieze.com/article/lisa-a…

Block Me, I'm Irish (℠) @dimension_tide

from my trip to @ICAPhiladelphia earlier this month - "Traditional Object", Lisa Alvarado, 2013

REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) @CalArtsREDCAT

Opening April 1, “Pulse Meridian Foliation” is a new exhibition from visual artist + performer Lisa Alvarado, marking her first solo show in #LA. On April 6, join us for an opening reception + musical performance by Alvarado + Joshua Abrams! LEARN MORE: redcat.org/events/2023/li…

Ace Hotel @acehotel

Lisa Alvarado, Represencing. 2011, acrylic, flash, and ink on banner.

Art in America @ArtinAmerica

Review | Thea Ballard (@tbird_news) on Lisa Alvarado at Bridget Donahue (@bkdnyc): bit.ly/2syaGsg

Alex Kittle @alexxkittle

Paintings by American artist and musician Lisa Alvarado, 2020s, who describes her practice as “rooted in Mexican American art traditions and the histories that ground them" incl. textile traditions of the Americas, the Chicano civil rights movement, and public mural painting

• Official Site of Lisa Alvarado

• Lisa Alvarado at Bridget Donahue Gallery

• Lisa Alvarado - Works for Sale (via Ocula)

• Rooted in Her San Antonio Childhood, Lisa Alvarado’s Art Transports and Transforms (via Texas Monthly)

• Lisa Alvarado’s Mystical Screens at Bridget Donahue (via Arte Fuse)

Also, check out Lisa Alvarado’s band, Natural Information Society (she plays the harmonium):

• Official Site of Natural Information Society

• Purchase albums here (vinyl & multiple platforms)

• Pre-order Natural Information Society’s new album via Bandcamp!

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Poem of the Week: “In Praise of Notre Dame” by Ben Okri (from his collection, A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn)

Click here to listen to Ben Okri reading “In Praise of Notre Dame.”

Purchase here.

Official Site of Ben Okri

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Drag Performance of the Week: Anetra & Marcia Marcia Marcia - “Boss Bitch” by Doja Cat

• Anetra on Instagram

• Marcia Marcia Marcia on Instagram

• Buy Anetra Merch at MyBestJudyMerch

• Buy Marcia Marcia Marcia Merch at MyBestJudyMerch

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A post shared by RuPaul's Drag Race (@rupaulsdragrace)

Support the ACLU Drag Defense Fund here!

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Happy birthday to two of our favorite writers, Kate Bornstein and Ben Okri! Today is also the birthday of Harriet E. Wilson, Élisée Reclus, Lady Gregory, Anna Cassel, Sui Sin Far, Grace Chisholm Young, Gerda Wegener, Gilberto Freyre, Colin McPhee, Bertha Hill, Margaret Lefranc, Lightnin' Hopkins, Marjory Collins, Richard Ellmann, Ben Johnston, Maija Isola, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Pratt, Howard Greenfield, Charles Lloyd, Atukwei Okai, David Cronenberg, Sly Stone, Ry Cooder, Howard Devoto, Sananda Maitreya [aka Terence Trent D'Arby], Eva Longoria and will.i.am!

What brings you joy this Wednesday?