2022 October: Eight Essential Releases by Detroit Producer Apollo Brown, 2022 October: Gas Mask | The Left (2010), 2019 May: Sincerely, Detroit (2019)
Sardines - Apollo Brown & Planet Asia (2023)
Lady Pink Paints Berlin Facade as 'Love Letters to the City'
Lady Pink. Detail. WIP. Urban Nation Museum Berlin. Love Letters To The City.
10 Homemade Musical Instruments That Rocked The World
Close-up of Bo Diddley's Gretsch Guitar
Over Man: On Nietzsche and our crisis of masculinity
2016 April: Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche, 2021 February: Walter Kaufmann’s Classic Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960) 2023 May: The Portable Nietzsche
A Digital Archive Features Hundreds of Audio Cassette Tape Designs, from the 1960s to the 1990s
Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune - Blue Heron (2022)
"From Cicero to Shakespeare to the television game show Wheel of Fortune, the figure of Lady Fortuna—the ancient Roman goddess of luck and chance—has been an enduring literary and cultural symbol for over two millennia. In Guillaume de Machaut’s (1300-1377) long-form narrative poem, Le remède de fortune (The Remedy for Fortune), the Lady personifies capricious love, a force which, like luck, subjects those in its orbit to the mercy of unseen forces. Machaut’s dit, including its seven lyric poems set to music, is now a collaborative project between two of America’s leading historically informed ensembles, Blue Heron and Les Délices. The partnership has resulted in a captivating new album, Remede de Fortune, released on the Blue Heron label. ..."
Ci commence Remede de Fortune’ (Illustration from Machaut MS C, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France)
When Art Evolves, We Evolve: The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront
The Telescopic Aulos of Atlas - Lukas De Clerck
Literary World: New York publishing in the late-aughts
The filmmakers Steve Buscemi considers his favourite to work with
How the Weimar Republic’s Hyperinflation Transformed Gender Relations in Germany
Otto Dix, Metropolis (1928).
A House That Memorializes a Vanished New York
A Lawrence Weiner text painting across the facade of what was once the Fluxus artist Geoffrey Hendricks’s Manhattan townhouse.
Phillip Ward, the executor of the actor and writer Quentin Crisp’s estate, now resides in what was once Hendricks’s children’s room.
BSA Images Of The Week: 09.01.24
Joe Iurato and Logan Hicks. Detail. Wooden Walls Project. Asbury Park, NJ.
Solastalgia - Altus (2024)
YouTube: Solastalgia 59:45
Intifada: On Being an Arabic Literature Professor in a Time of Genocide
The First Intifada in the Gaza Strip, 1987.
A Scientist’s Quest to Decode Vermeer’s True Colours
2009 September: Vermeer's Masterpiece, The Milkmaid, 2011 February: Vermeer: Master of Light, 2013 October: Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis, 2015 December: This Is Not a Vermeer ™, 2017 January: The Art of Painting (1665–1668), 2021 December: Museum rivalry ‘could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind’, 2021 December: Okay Cupid: Reopening Vermeer’s love letter to contradiction, 2022 October: A New Brushstroke Analysis Reveals Vermeer., 2023 May: Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer
Lêkê
Young players wearing lêkê in Abidjan, where worn soles and scars from the sandals’ metallic clasps are a point of pride.
120 Years of New York’s Subterranean Literary Muse
"Within a day of its opening on Oct. 27, 1904, the New York City subway was already inspiring lyricism: The Times marveled at its 'olive-green woodwork, the unfamiliar air, the darkness alongside, and the sudden shooting into beautiful white stations like nothing that the elevated ever had.' That’s just one day. Give novelists 120 years of packed daily commutes, late night rides home from bars and restaurants, early morning trips to the beach, and now the subway isn’t just buried in the bedrock of Manhattan, it’s burrowed deep within New York novels of the last twelve decades, a source of wonder, despair, quotidian boredom. Join us as we ride alongside fictional characters plucked from the works of Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison, Sylvia Plath, Lee Child, James Baldwin and so many more. ..."
How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
In Quebec’s Casse-Croûtes, Fast Food for a Short but Sweet Summer
The daytime line outside La Mollière.
A "guédille," or lobster roll, from La Mollière.
Field Days (The Amanda Loops) - Fred Frith
Urban Narratives: Sebas Velasco Connects in Brixton With “A Lasting Place”
On Immigration, Harris and Democrats Walk a Delicate — and Harder — Line
The U.S.-Mexico border in June, as seen from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Ray's Pizza
Greenwich Village
End Nears for a Pizza Landmark
In search of Monet’s wild landscapes: a glorious art adventure in central France
The ruins of Crozant castle, the loop of the Creuse and junction with the Sedelle.
Rapids on the Petite Creuse at Fresselines, 1889.
Love More, Judge Less: How Budots Music Informs Understandings of Intersectionality
"Manila Community Radio volunteers Sai Versailles and Sean Bautista explore artistic influence, individual agency, and community by immersing themselves in the world of budots, a Filipino grassroots dance music genre. We follow them as they undertake a trip to the Bisaya-speaking region in the Philippines to visit and interview one of budots' pioneers, DJ Love, and share their excitement as they prepare for a Boiler Room showcase that also features budots sonics. They ponder questions of mediating local subcultures and genres and transplanting them to middle-class, urban audiences. »Budots is the hardship of Filipinos. It’s one scratch, one peck. It’s the noises you hear in your surroundings,« says DJ Love. »It reflects the state of a person’s life.« ..."
How ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ became a full-circle moment for Stanley Kubrick
"He was hardly one for sentimentality or emotional attachment, but a regular collaborator of Stanley Kubrick at least appreciated how the final film of his career became a full-circle moment for the legendary director. Never one to do things by halves, even by his standards, Eyes Wide Shut evolved into a mammoth undertaking. Kubrick’s precision and meticulousness had been hallmarks for decades, but the lengths he went to to realise his vision for the existential psychodrama pushed his creative partners to the limit. Tom Cruise did at least view it as one of the most important and inspiring productions he’ll ever be lucky to be a part of, but it was taxing nonetheless. Cruise and then-wife Nicole Kidman dedicated years of their lives to the project for the sole purpose of working with Kubrick, and for better or worse, it’s an experience they’ll remember forever. ..."
YouTube: Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Official Trailer, Eyes Wide Shut | Moral Of The Story (Film Analysis)
2008 August: Stanley Kubrick, 2010 September: 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2011 February: A Stanley Kubrick Odyssey - A Tribute, 2011 April: Killer's Kiss (1955), 2011 December: Chicago (1949), 2012 October: Dr. Strangelove (1965), 2013 April: Stanley Kubrick - LACMA, 2018 June: Through A Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs (2018), 2019 August: Barry Lyndon (1975)
Scientists Seeking Life on Mars Heard a Signal That Hinted at the Future
In 1924, a radio receiver built for the battlefields of World War I tested the idea that humans were not alone in the solar system, heralding a century of searches for extraterrestrial life.
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