The Moment of Impressionism

 Camille Pissarro, The River Oise near Pointoise (1873)

“Théodore Duret, one of Impressionism’s most impassioned champions, wrote in his famous brochure of 1878, Les Peintres impressionnistes: The impressionists didn’t come into being by themselves, they didn’t shoot up like mushrooms. They are the product of a regular evolution of the modern French school. Natura non facit saltus any more in painting than in other things. The impressionist descend from the naturalist painters, their fathers are Corot, Courbet, and Manet. It’s to these three masters that the art of painting owes the simplest procedures of facture and that spontaneous touch, proceeding by large lines and by the mass, which alone brave the passage of time. ...”

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Claude Monet, Parc Monceau (1876)

John Ashbery’s Music Library: A Playlist

 

“During the more than thirty years that the American poet John Ashbery (1927-2017) served as an art critic for New York Herald Tribune, Art News, Newsweek, New York and other publications, the highest compliment he gave to a work of art was that it achieved ‘the condition of music.’ ...  Ashbery was not a trained musician, but he had a musician’s ear, which he developed further by listening.  He first heard songs on Sundays, accompanying his grandparents to the famous St. Paul’s Church in Rochester (which had a great organ) or the more modest St. John’s in nearby Sodus where the Ashbery family lived on a fruit farm.  His first exposure to classical music was through movies. ...”

Evergreen Review (Video)

A Study of New York City’s Belgian Block Heritage

 

“Belgian block streets are still found in every corner of New York, sometimes paving an entire street or other times, only being revealed by some pavement which has worn off, revealing the roadbeds of the past. These streets are found both inside and outside of designated historic districts. In historic districts, these historic pavers are protected as part of the sense of place just as much as the architecture. Historic neighborhoods like SoHo, TriBeCa, the Gansevoort Market and DUMBO are just a few places around town where these types of streets characterize the look and feel of the place. Although protected features in historic districts, many of these stones are being eroded from the streets. ...”

Historic Districts Council

Ephemeral New York: A downtown alley’s Belgian block paving stones

When Pavement Was Pretty: New York’s Cobblestone Streets

Nicola Cruz

 “An interest in ancestral Latin American cosmology has always run right through the music of Ecuadorian music producer Nicola Cruz. His creative process involves an attentive, careful search for the living roots and rituals that are part of South American identity—its Andean and African origins in particular—valuing its rhythms, its oral traditions, its instruments and the energy they transmit. His first record, Prender el Alma (2015) explored the development of the consciousness and spirituality, and how they connect with music. In Siku, his most recent production, Cruz continues this exploration, expanding his vision towards new stories and other cultures as sources of inspiration. A crucial aspect on this journey is his collaboration with other artists from around the world. ...”

Nicola Cruz

YouTube: Nicola Cruz & FE (Live A/V Show) | Boiler Room: Streaming From Isolati 44:34, Nicola Cruz & Fidel Eljuri • DJ Set • Le Mellotron 1:11:03

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'A parallel universe': the rickety pleasures of America's backroads - in pictures

 

“From rundown churches to shuttered stores, this road trip across America offered up countless visual gems – as long as you opened your eyes to them. ... Gas station, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 2013. Ruins often provide an uncanny meditation on time and the ephemeral nature of life. ... Shingle clad, double-wing house, West Fulton, NY, 2016. There’s a bittersweet ambiance to rounding a bend and suddenly coming upon a tilting old wooden church or shuttered general store on a lonely stretch of road. ...”

Guardian

Parting Shot By Mikhail Horowitz

 

“... For well over a century now, baseball and the month of April have been happily intertwined. After a punishing winter, in which we paid court to cardiac arrest by shoveling immovable mounds of snow, or slogged through slush to free a Civic entombed in a dolmen of ice, we suddenly joy, one day, to the Eternal Return of Spring: a vee of Canadian geese heading north and a flock of Baltimore Orioles heading south. Yes, in this fourth month, which brings to mind the timeless cycles of the natural world—the budding of trees, the melting of streams—it is well to consider the timelessness of baseball, too. ...”

Chronogram

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”Black Stars Fell on Alabama” by Mikhail Horowitz

Saved at Home: Case Studies of Play on the Praying Fields By Mikhail Horowitz

Chronogram Article

2015 October: Big League Poets (1978)

Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta ‎– Messages & Portraits (1990)

 

“In the late 80s these globetrotting Milanese composers joined forces to produce two acclaimed & prescient records made in equal parts from their own performances and ethnic field recordings, a little in the manner of Eno/Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts -but rather more evolved. Messages & Portraits combines the vinyl albums on one CD. GIOVANNI VENOSTA. Born Udine, Italy, 1961. ... He also plays electric piano with the afro-beat group Mamud Band and teaches a 3-year degree course of Music for Images at the Civic School in Milan. He has made numerous solo recordings, film soundtrack & band recordings on a variety of labels. ...”

Forced Exposure

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The Wizard of Lies - Barry Levinson (2017)

 “Over and over again in The Wizard of Lies, the director Barry Levinson pushes his camera as close as he can to Bernie Madoff’s face, searching for flickers of emotion. As played by Robert De Niro, Madoff is taciturn and even-tempered—at least, after he reveals his part in the largest financial fraud in American history. It’s this devastating sense of calm and acceptance that fascinates Levinson most in his exploration of Madoff’s life, which almost entirely focuses on his experiences after he admitted to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme in 2008 and was turned over to the police by his children. Surely, there has to be remorse or, at the very least, anger about how things fell apart? ...”

The Atlantic: The Wizard of Lies’s Brutal Portrait of Bernie Madoff

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Remembering the Commune

 

“From the very first days of its short-lived existence in 1871, exactly 150 years ago today, the revolutionary Commune of Paris has occupied a central place in the radical imagination of the international left. For the Communards themselves, the revolution did not end, but rather began at the city’s limits. In their perception, the founding of the Commune in Paris was but a first step towards the building of the Universal Republic: a Commune of Communes encompassing the entire globe and uniting all peoples in a confederacy of liberatory democracies. ROAR places itself firmly in this tradition. Our first print issue, ‘Revive la Commune!‘, was entirely dedicated to the revival of the commune in the 21st century, both in spirit and in practice. ...”

ROAR: The Commune at 150

2017 March: Paris Commune 1871

 

French troops assaulting a barricade during the Paris Commune.

How Bob Marley Came to Make Exodus, His Transcendent Album, After Surviving an Assassination Attempt in 1976

 

“’The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?,’ said Bob Marley after a 1976 assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica in which Marley, his wife Rita, manager Don Taylor, and employee Louis Griffiths were all shot and, incredibly, all survived. Which people, exactly, did he mean? Was it Edward Seaga’s Jamaican Labour Party, whose hired gunmen supposedly carried out the attack? Was it, as some even conspiratorially alleged, Michael Manley’s People’s National Party, attempting to turn Marley into a martyr?Marley had, despite his efforts to the contrary, been closely identified with the PNP, and his performance at the Smile Jamaica Concert, scheduled for two days later, was widely seen as an endorsement of Manley’s politics. ...”

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A blue morning in front of the new Penn Station

 

“George Bellows clearly had a fascination with the construction of Penn Station. Blue Morning, from 1909, is the last of four paintings Bellow completed from 1907 to 1909 chronicling the development of this stunning transportation hub. ‘Undertaken by the Pennsylvania Railroad and designed by architectural firm McKim, Mead, & White, Pennsylvania Station (more commonly known as Penn Station) was an enormously ambitious project that helped transform New York into a thriving, modern, commuter metropolis,’ states the National Gallery of Art. ...”

Ephemeral New York

Ten Months After George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Residents Are at War Over Policing

 

“The sacred intersection where George Floyd died beneath the knee of a police officer has seen such an increase in violence that food delivery drivers are afraid to venture there. There have been gun battles, with bloodied shooting victims dragged to ambulances because of barricades keeping the police and emergency vehicles away. ... Residents all over town still complain of officers using excessive force, like during a recent confrontation in which a white officer appeared to wind up and punch a Black teenager. And officers accuse some community members of antagonizing them, like in a recent dispute over a homeless encampment that erupted into a melee with punches and pepper spray. ...”

NY Times (Video)

Sonny Rollins - Our Man In Jazz (1962)

 

“... Sonny Rollins has never seemed to attach the same weight to his albums as Davis or, say, John Coltrane did. Since the beginning of his career, Rollins’ albums have frequently had a tossed-off quality, like they were made as obligations, because that’s what you do—you make records, then go out on the road to support them. This doesn’t make them disposable, by any means. ... Our Man in Jazz, originally released in 1963, is one of those live albums. Recorded in late July 1962 at the Village Gate, it finds Rollins joined by Don Cherry, who had recently left Ornette Coleman’s quartet, on pocket trumpet; they’re backed by the saxophonist’s bassist of choice, Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Billy Higgins, also a veteran of the Coleman band as well as about a million hard bop sessions for Blue Note and other labels. ...”

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Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’: A Game-Changing Science-Fiction Classic

 

“Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner’s path to stardom and cultism has hardly been a bump-free ride. Heavily disputed upon its release, often criticized as an occasionally senseless portrayal of a future with a shallow storyline and abundance of plot holes semi-efficiently covered up by admittedly wonderful visuals, this science-fiction masterpiece is still regarded as a strong polarizing factor in discussions among filmlovers, but its status has quite immeasurably improved since its debut in North American theaters back in 1982. Many people had a change of heart regarding its value. ... But the bottom line is this: whatever a person’s opinion on the qualities or inadequacies of Blade Runner might be—and there are solid arguments convincingly stated from both camps—it’s impossible for a reasonable, art-loving individual not to appreciate Ridley Scott’s movie’s originality, vision and gigantic influence it wielded on films made in the years after the iconic Rick Deckard returned to his retirement. ...”

Cinephilia & Beyond (Video)

2017 November: Blade Runner (1982)

Meet the Forgotten Female Artist Behind the World’s Most Popular Tarot Deck (1909)

 

“... A year after Arts and Crafts movement magazine The Craftsman published illustrator Pamela Colman-Smith’s essay excerpted above, she spent six months creating what would become the world’s most popular tarot deck. Her graphic interpretations of such cards as The Magician, The Tower, and The Hanged Man helped readers to get a handle on the story of every newly dealt spread.Colman-Smith—known to friends as ‘Pixie’—was commissioned by occult scholar and author Arthur E. Waite, a fellow member of the British occult society the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, to illustrate a pack of tarot cards. ...”

Open Culture

JAZZ ON FILM … The Films of Marcello Mastroianni

 

“Music from Italian Icons classic films… This celebration of one of Italy's greatest actors, .features 12 amazing scores, written by some of the greatest Italian composers of all time - Piero Piccioni, Piero Umiliani, Armando Trovajoli, Carlo Rustichelli, Giovanni Fusco , Nino Rota, Giorgio Gaslini.. This stunning LP collection features a tailored made, stand-alone jazz compilation by Moochin' About label owner Jason Lee lazell, with downloads for all the complete scores featured and has exclusive sleeve notes by author of Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema. ...”

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Wanderer In The Colorful Fields - Jeannine Schulz (2021)

 

“Another beautiful album by Jeannine Schulz, Wanderer in the Colorful Fields is six tracks of music that feels a split second shy of being entirely on pause. Quite frequently the emphasis is on slight sounds played in reverse, time slipping backward, in which case it’s still a split second shy of pause, just from the other side of the divide. It’s hard to say if the sounds — which seem to include electric guitar and bells, but could be other things entirely — are treated here like objects under glass, carefully presented, or like natural occurences, chance moments happened upon. Either way, the results are delicate, elegant, and richly reflective. ...”

disquiet: A New Album from Jeannine Schulz (Audio)

Bandcamp (Audio)

2021 February: Jeannine Schulz’s “Rooms and Surfaces I”

The Water on Mars Vanished. This Might Be Where It Went.

 

“Mars was once wet, with an ocean’s worth of water on its surface. Today, most of Mars is as dry as a desert except for ice deposits in its polar regions. Where did the rest of the water go? Some of it disappeared into space. Water molecules, pummeled by particles of solar wind, broke apart into hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and those, especially the lighter hydrogen atoms, sped out of the atmosphere, lost to outer space. But most of the water, a new study concludes, went down, sucked into the red planet’s rocks. And there it remains, trapped within minerals and salts. Indeed, as much as 99 percent of the water that once flowed on Mars could still be there, the researchers estimated in a paper published this week in the journal Science. ...”

NY Times

NY Times: Highlights From NASA’s Successful Landing on Mars (Feb. 19 - Video)

 

Inside Jezero Crater: NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Thursday in Jezero Crater, an ancient Martian lake roughly the size of Lake Tahoe. The rover will spend years exploring the river delta and making its way to the crater rim.

Krish Raghav - Redemption Songs

 

“... While most people associate reggae music with Bob Marley and other native Jamaican artists smoking marijuana, the truth is that the genre itself is a little more complicated than it seems. As a matter of fact, did you know that both Chinese and Jamaican producers were responsible for the creation and popularity of reggae music?To illustrate this point, here’s Krish Raghav’s ‘Redemption Songs!’ In the meantime, once you’ve finished, let me know in the comments below what you think about either the comic or on reggae music in general!I didn’t know that reggae music was extremely influential in Chinese culture prior to reading it and I’m half Chinese myself! ...”

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Redemption Songs (comic)

Bandcamp: How the Chinese-Jamaican Community Influenced the Development of Classic Reggae (Audio)

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Why “Houston Street” is pronounced that way

 

“You can always spot a New York newbie by their pronunciation of wide, bustling Houston Street—as if they were in Texas rather than Manhattan. But the way New Yorkers pronounce the name of this highway-like crosstown road that serves as a dividing line for many downtown neighborhoods begs the question: Why do we say ‘house-ton,’ and what’s the backstory of this unusual street name, anyway? It all started in 1788 with Nicholas Bayard III, owner of a 100-acre farm located roughly in today’s SoHo (one boundary of which is today’s Bayard Street). Bayard was having financial difficulties, so he sold off parcels of his farm and turned them into real estate in the growing young metropolis, according to a 2017 New York Times piece. ...”

Ephemeral New York

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Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75

 

“... Grapefruit Records' excellent 2015 anthology Dust on the Nettles went a long way in exploring this cosmic folk-rock collision, and five years later, they offer up a welcome sequel in Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound of British & Irish Folk 1966-1975. Like its predecessor, this set celebrates both the scenes' key players and its distant outliers, but shifts its focus to the eerier, more spiritual side of the folk-rock movement. Fans of the 1973 cult classic folk-horror film The Wicker Man, take note. While much-celebrated stalwarts (Fairport Convention, Pentangle, etc.) get their proper due, it's names like Oberon, Meic Stevens, and Jan Dukes de Grey that really conjure up the ancient mists. Enchanted recorders, frame drums, and dulcimers mingled with surreal backwards tape effects and rumbling organ drones as folk music became more progressive through the filter of artists like Comus, Dr. Strangely Strange, and Third Ear Band. ...”

allmusic (Audio)

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Greet Spring With a Visit to a Public Garden Image

 

Signs of spring: Daffodils at the New York Botanical Garden

“Last year, the pandemic shut the gates of many public gardens just as spring was on its way: According to a survey by the American Public Gardens Association, only about 4 percent of public gardens remained fully open as of March 30, 2020. Once public gardens began to reopen months later, they became places of natural respite for visitors, perhaps even more so than in the past. Making up for last year’s lost spring, these seven gardens around the country expect to be particularly glorious this year, offering a range of beloved spring flowers, traditional botanical collections and experiential outdoor spaces. At any garden changing conditions can make ephemeral blooms difficult to pin down, so plan on checking with the garden for updates (find more online at publicgardens.org), as well as for new protocols such as advance reservations, schedules, open areas and mask requirements. ...”

NY Times

The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984

 

“Remember Downtown? No, no, not the sanitized, respectable SoHo and Chelsea of today, but the real down-and-dirty Downtown, when the East Village was an art scene, punk and new wave rock assailed the ears, graffiti spread like kudzu, and heroin and extreme style were the rage. While Downtown lasted, the AIDS plague peaked, police raided illegal lofts, and artists attacked Establishment institutions. It was an explosive era of Super-8 films; ‘no wave’ cinema; street art and performances; oral poetry; political engagement; feminist, gay and lesbian activism; clubs and alternative spaces. Though its denizens often boasted that they never ventured north of 14th Street, Downtown had porous borders. Geographically, it rambled as far uptown as the South Bronx, but it existed as much in the free-floating minds of its participants as in the confines of grungy streets and lofts. ...”

NY Times: The Downtown Scene, When It Was Still Dirty

The Brooklyn Rail

The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984 PDF Online

'We've Lost the Line!': Radio Traffic Reveals Police Under Siege at Capitol

 

“The Times obtained District of Columbia police radio communications and synchronized them with footage from the scene to show in real time how officers tried and failed to stop the attack on the U.S. Capitol. By Robin Stein, Haley Willis, Danielle Miller and Michael S. Schmidt ...”

NY Times (Video)

2021 February: 77 days: Trump’s campaign to subvert the election, 2021 February: A Small Group of Militants’ Outsize Role in the Capitol Attack, 2021 March: Police Shrugged Off the Proud Boys, Until They Attacked the Capitol

Various ‎– Funky Nassau - The Compass Point Story 1980-1986

 

“On a session-to-session basis, in slightly varying combinations, drummer Sly Dunbar, percussionist Uziah ‘Sticky’ Thompson, bassist Robbie Shakespeare, keyboardist Wally Badarou, guitarists Barry Reynolds and Mikey Chung, and engineer Alex Sadkin made up the in-house team at Island founder Chris Blackwell's Compass Point, a studio located just outside Nassau in the Bahamas. As Blackwell recalls in David Katz's excellent liner notes to this set, titled Funky Nassau: The Compass Point Story 1980-1986, ‘I wanted a new, progressive sounding band. I wanted a Jamaican rhythm section with an edgy mid range and a brilliant synth player.’ That's what he got, and more, and it made -- or, in the case of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club, enhanced -- some of the most advanced and adventurous music of the '80s, a great deal of which went down a storm in clubs across the planet. ...”

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Russian Interference in 2020 Included Influencing Trump Associates, Report Says

 

The declassified report included details about election interference efforts by adversaries such as Russia and Iran.

“President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to hurt the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr. during the election last year, including by mounting covert operations to influence people close to President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released on Tuesday. The report did not name those people but seemed to refer to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed accusations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine. ...”

NY Times

Manet: Three Paintings from the Norton Simon Museum

 

“Considered the father of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and, by some, twentieth-century abstraction, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) was a revolutionary in his own time and a legend thereafter. Beyond his pivotal role in art history as the creator of such iconic masterworks as Olympia (1862–63) and Luncheon on the Grass (1863), Manet’s vision has come to define how we understand modern urban life and Paris, the so-called ‘capital of the nineteenth-century.’ Next fall the Frick will present three Manet canvases from the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, marking the first time the paintings will be exhibited together elsewhere since their acquisition. The exhibition will present the paintings as examples encapsulating three ‘views’ of the artist’s life and work. ...”

The Frick Collection

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Imagining Nora Barnacle’s Love Letters to James Joyce Image

 

James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, seated on a wall in Zurich.

“The fact is no one should be able to read the intimate words that anyone writes to their partner—those outpourings are composed for two people only: the lover and the loved. But when you’re writing a novel about Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, and the letters are published and are, well, just there, they become impossible to ignore. Whenever I told anyone I was writing a bio-fictional novel about Nora and Joyce, they would remark, with glow-eyed glee, ‘Oh, no doubt you’ll include the letters.’ And, yes, I have included them. But not quite as you might think. ...”

The Paris Review

James Joyce’s Love Letters

The Paris Review: James Joyce’s Love Letters to His “Dirty Little Fuckbird”

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The Story Behind the Iconic Bass-Smashing Photo on the Clash’s London Calling

 

“Pennie Smith was not a fan. Maybe that’s what made her the perfect photographer for The Clash. ‘She was never particularly into rock music,’ writes Rob Walker at The Guardian; she wasn’t starstruck or overawed by her subjects; and she also wasn’t even particularly in love with the most famous shot of her career — the iconic photo of bassist Paul Simonon raising his Fender Precision at New York’s Palladium, seconds before smashing it to bits.  ...”

Open Culture (Video)

N.C.A.A. Tournament Brackets: A Guide to the Madness

“Chaos is coming. A promise of every March but one since 1939 — that the N.C.A.A. basketball tournaments will thrill, infuriate, delight and fuel delusions of every sort — is about to have its pandemic-era test. But no one really doubts that the tournaments, assuming they happen as planned, will conjure up the full range of emotions that can make college basketball fans a proudly obsessive lot. No matter your level of fandom, here’s what you need to know about filling out your brackets, how the tournament will operate, where to watch the games, and more. ...”

NY Times

2021 NCAA Tournament Breakdown: Best Picks, Worst Draws, and Fun Facts for Each Region

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