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• My monster fairytale

  

  Once upon a time, a foetus was conceived without her mother’s knowledge. One day, the mother had a tummy ache and so she went to see a doctor, not knowing that he was evil. Using his high voltage X-ray machine, the doctor secretly planted a horrible monster in the foetus’s stomach that feeds on human…

  sarahmarusek

  June 6, 2026

  Uncategorized

  books, fantasy, fiction, horror, Ice Therapy, writing

• Review: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

  

  I recently attended the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Harlem, New York and was absolutely blown away by the quality of art on show. First launched back in 2013, 1-54, the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora, now takes place annually in the cities of Marrakech,…

  sarahmarusek

  June 1, 2022

  Arts

  1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, 193 Gallery, African Art, Bertina Lopes, Decolonization, Elias Mung’ora, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski, Galerie Eric Dupont, Leila Rose Fanner, Montague Contemporary, Richard Saltoun Gallery, Roméo Mivekannin, Thandiwe Muriu

• Decolonizing Classical Music: Some Reflections in the Year of the Tiger

  

  Last month, the US-China Music Institute of the Bard College Conservatory of Music in upstate New York presented The Sound of Spring concert. The program of Chinese classical music was performed by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) and featured some of the most breathtaking sounds I have ever heard live. Organized to celebrate the Chinese New…

  sarahmarusek

  February 24, 2022

  Arts, Music

  Bard College, Classical Music, Decolonization, The Orchestra Now, Year of the Tiger