María Berrío
Can America Restore the Rule of Law Without Prosecuting Trump?
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us (1982)
YouTube: nothing can stop us 13 videos
2010 November: Robert Wyatt, 2012 October: Comicopera, 2013 March: The Last Nightingale, 2013 September: Solar Flares Burn for You (2003), 2014 March: Cuckooland (2003), 2014 October: Robert Wyatt Story (BBC Four, 2001), 2014 December: Different Every Time (2014), 2016 March: Interviews (2014), 2016 June: Dondestan (Revisited)(1998), 2016 September: Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975), 2017 January: '68 (2013), 2017 May: Shleep (1997), 2020 January: Rock Bottom (1972)
No Walk Is Ever Wasted
2016: DADA Companion, 2016: The Growing Charm of Dada, 2012 December: Impressionism and Fashion, 2017: How Baudelaire Revolutionized Modern Literature, 2017: The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology - Mary Ann Caws, 2018 May: Europe After the Rain: Watch the Vintage Documentary on the Two Great Art Movements, Dada & Surrealism, 2020 October: What is Surrealism? (1924)
Constantly Wrong: Filmmaker Kirby Ferguson Makes the Case Against Conspiracy Theories
2018 October: Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracys, March 2020: Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists?, 2020 October: QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic
A Few Words about F. Scott Fitzgerald
2014 January: View the Passport Photos of F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf & Other Cultural Icons, 2014 August: Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection, 2014 November: Lost Generation, 2015 November: The Crack-Up (1945), 2017 December: Living Well Is the Best Revenge By Calvin Tomkins, 2019 August: Three Letters from Switzerland By Zelda Fitzgeralds
The Story Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
“50 years ago this month, the most celebrated electronic music studio in the world was established. We trace the history of the Radiophonic Workshop, talking to the composers and technical staff who helped to create its unique body of work. ... Although it never felt like a 'job', I did eventually get to work in the Radiophonic Workshop. I was only there for three months, but I've never stopped going on about it. Wouldn't you too, if you'd been lucky enough to have worked in the most famous electronic music studio in history?The story of the Radiophonic Workshop began half a century ago, in 1958. Britain in the 1950s was a bleak place, as the nation struggled to rebuild itself after the devastation of war. ...”
Glenn Branca Interview: Sounds From the Subconscious
2017 October: Theoretical Girls - U.S. Mille / You Got Me (1978), 2018 May: Rorschach Audio: Glenn Branca Discusses Reading, Writing & Volume, 2018 July: Glenn Branca: A Guide to the Symphonies
The Westward Journeys of Buttons Image
Above, top row, left to right People in other regions later produced ornamental buttons, too: Both of these carved, polished shell buttons were likely used on harnesses between the ninth and seventh centuries bce in Assyria; a button of gold with a male face relief was made between the eighth and seventh centuries bce and found in Megara, Greece; a finely tooled gold disc dates to a sixth-century-bce Etruscan site.
“From the rear storage room of her country cottage outside Budapest, Hungary, Sylvia Llewelyn holds up a framed display of antique buttons as if it were a portrait of a family member known for telling good stories. ‘This one is from China, and it’s made of jade. This one is glazed ceramic; this one is glazed turquoise. This one is made from apricot nut. You see this one here that looks like a cherry tomato? This is carnelian, the second hardest stone to jade, and it’s about 500 years old,’ she says, moving through her 4,000-piece collection, some of which are up to 1,500 years old. An antiques and art appraiser originally from London, Llewelyn is also the former owner of Old Buttons Shop in her town of Ráckeve. She is also the author of Old Buttons (Anno, 2011), a book of rare and artful buttons around the world. ...”
W. H. Auden - The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (1952)
2011 July: Søren Kierkegaard, 2013 April: Repetition (1843), 2013 December: The Quotable Kierkegaard, 2014 October: Fear and Trembling - Søren Kierkegaard (1843), 2014 December: The Dark Knight of Faith - Existential Comics, 2015 July: I still love Kierkegaard, 2015 October: The Concept of Anxiety (1844), 2016 October: Cruel intentions, 2017 July: Søren Kierkegaard Newsletter, 2018 January: Either/Or (1843), 2018 November: The Seducer’s Diary (1843), 2020 July: Søren Kierkegaard’s Struggle with Himself
Black Music History Library
Liverpool And Manchester City Look Ordinary. Are They?
“Before the 2020-21 Premier League season began, we wrote that the title was Liverpool’s and Manchester City’s to lose. The new-ish rivals from the northwest dominated the league during the previous three seasons like no other teams in the history of the English top flight, and they each returned large chunks of their rosters, which are stocked with some of soccer’s biggest superstars. As such, FiveThirtyEight’s club soccer prediction model gave City and Liverpool the best and second-best probabilities, respectively, to win the Premier League. ...”
French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
“The Impressionists rebelled against the old-fashioned values of the French art world. Their modern subjects, loose brushwork and bright colours soon inspired other new techniques. In 1874 a group of French artists made a defiant stand against the important state-run Paris Salon exhibition. Among them were Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. The strict Salon selection committee considered their paintings gaudy and unfinished-looking. In response, they chose to hold their own independent exhibition. Amid the controversy which followed they became known as the ‘Impressionists’. Their art was unashamedly modern with informal subjects taken from everyday Parisian life. ...”
The Rolling Stones: Singles 1963-1965
“... Consequently, some general audiences might wonder what the purpose of this 12-disc, 33-track set is, especially since almost all of the tracks are on the triple-disc set The Singles Collection: The London Years, which is far easier to digest. And for most audiences, who simply want to hear this music, that indeed is a more logical place to turn, but as an archival release The Singles 1963-1965 -- the first installment of a three-box set series containing all of their American and British singles and EPs until 1971 -- is both excellent and instructive. As a production, this is splendid. Each disc is given its own separate sleeve that recreates the original artwork (when there was no picture sleeve, a paper sleeve is recreated), there are inserts of classic promo photos, there's an excellent book with rare photos and liner notes by Nigel Williamson, and in perhaps the neatest touch, each CD is black, so it looks a bit like a mini-45. ...”
YouTube: Singles 1963-1965 33 videos
2015 August: Exile on Main Street (1972), 2015 October: "Let's Spend the Night Together" / "Ruby Tuesday" (1967), 2015 December: Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka (1971), 2016 January: Some Girls (1978), 2016 January: The Rolling Stones (EP), 2016 March: Five by Five (EP - 1964), 2016 May: "The Rolling Stones: Charlie Is My Darling — Ireland 1965", 2016 December: Singles Collection: The London Years (1989), 2017 June: Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967), 2017 September: "Sister Morphine" - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Marianne Faithfull (1969), 2018 March: "Miss You" (1978) , 2019 February: Which Rolling Stones Records Should I Buy?, 2020 April: Living in a Ghost Town (2020)
Alex Katz Online Exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
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“The Thaddeus Ropac Gallery continues to curate some great online exhibitions, announcing the Soup to Nuts, by renowned American artist Alex Katz. The exhibition includes over forty works, selected by curator Robert Storr and installed in four virtual rooms.The online-only exhibition also features some of the rarely seen archival material, in the form of historical portraits and studio views, as well as several of Katz’s favourite poems that have informed his artistic work. ...”
2008 February: Alex Katz, 2010 December: Life Imitates Art, 2012 June: Alex Katz Prints, 2013 April: On Painting: Alex Katz & Felix Vallotton, May 2016: Alex Katz at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
The Homeric Parallel in Ulysses: Joyce, Nabokov, and Homer in Maps
"When Ulysses was published on 2 February, 1922, it was the
culmination of a flurry of activity extending back to the previous
summer. James Joyce had begun writing his novel in late 1914. By the
spring of 1915, he was already onto the third episode, which would
become ‘Proteus’. Yet it was not until the summer of 1921 that Joyce
began receiving the proofs of these early episodes – having augmented
the typescripts which he had previously provided for the serialisation
of his novel in The Little Review, then sent these off to Maurice Darantière, his printer based in Dijon. ..."
2011 March: Passages from James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" (1965-67), 2010 March: Ulysses Seen, 2013 February: ULYSSES “SEEN” is moving to Dublin!, 2013: Dubliners, 2014 May: The Dead (1987 film), 2014 May: “Have I Ever Left It?” by Mark O'Connell, 2014 July: Digital Dubliners, 2014 September: Read "Ulysses Seen", A Graphic Novel Adaptation of James Joyce’s Classic, 2015 January: The Mapping Dubliners Project, 2015 February: Davy Byrne’s, 2016 January: Port and Docks, 2016 February: Hear James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake Read Unabridged & Set to Music By 17 Different Artists, 2016 April: Nassau Street, 2016 May: Stephen’s Green, 2016 October: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), 2016 November: Skerries, 2017 January: Walking Ulysses | Joyce's Dublin Today, 2018 October: Bloomsday Explained, 2020 March: Ireland’s Voices, June: Stephen Dedalus
A Brief Guide to the Shape of “Jazz Rap” Today
"When the term 'jazz rap' first entered into general use in the early ‘90s, it was meant to suggest a fusion moment for the two genres—the moment when rap producers started sampling jazz records and collaborating with jazz artists. But now, some 30 years later, the artists operating in that broad field express reticence over the “othering” that term suggests, instead embracing it as part of the continuum of Black American music. As jazz drummer and rapper/producer Kassa Overall puts it, both art forms come from the same people; it’s just a different moment in time. ... In some ways, the emergence of the term marked a watershed moment; generations of black musicians suddenly became artistic peers. ..."
Bandcamp (Audio)Top 10 Misinformation Storylines on Election Week
"Election week was a misinformation event of Super Bowl-size proportions. Most
false and misleading narratives about the election focused on baseless
allegations of voter fraud or Democrats stealing the election. Those
false accusations often spiked when President Trump and his allies — including his family members — shared those claims on social media. But there were also plenty of misleading storylines to go around. Zignal
Labs, a media insights company, analyzed topics related to the election
in which misinformation was a major part of the storyline. The company
tallied all the mentions of those topics on social media, cable news and
print and online news outlets. Here are the Top 10 misinformation
storylines it found from Nov. 3 to Nov. 9 ..."
Tarot Deck: Rider-Waite, Tarot de Marseille, Sola Busca
"The Rider-Waite tarot deck, originally published 1909, is the most popular tarot deck for tarot card reading. Other names for this deck include the Waite-Smith, Rider-Waite-Smith, or Rider tarot deck. The cards were drawn by illustrator Pamela Colman Smith from the instructions of academic and mystic A. E. Waite and were originally published by the Rider Company. The deck has been published in numerous editions and inspired a wide array of variants. While the images are simple, the details and backgrounds feature abundant symbolism. Some imagery remains similar to that found in earlier decks, but overall the Waite-Smith card designs represent a substantial departure from their predecessors. ..." W - Rider-Waite tarot deck, W - Major Arcana, W - Minor Arcana, The Deck of Cards That Made Tarot A Global Phenomenon, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot By Arthur Edward Waite, Illustrations By Pamela Colman Smith.[1911]
Tarot of Marseilles
"The Tarot of Marseilles or Tarot of Marseille, also widely known by the French designation Tarot de Marseille, is one of the standard patterns for the design of tarot cards. It is a pattern from which many subsequent tarot decks derive.
Michael Dummett's
research led him to conclude that (based on the lack of earlier
documentary evidence) the Tarot deck was probably invented in northern Italy in the 15th century and introduced into southern France when the French conquered Milan and the Piedmont
in 1499. The antecedents of the Tarot de Marseille would then have been
introduced into southern France at around that time. The 78-card
version of the game of Tarot died out in Italy but survived in France and Switzerland.
When the game was reintroduced into northern Italy, the Marseilles
designs of the cards were reintroduced with it. ..." W - Tarot de Marseille, Marseille Tarot of Lando 1832
Tarot Mythology: The Surprising Origins of the World's Most Misunderstood Cards
"The Empress. The Hanged Man. The Chariot. Judgment.
With their centuries-old iconography blending a mix of ancient symbols,
religious allegories, and historic events, tarot cards can seem
purposefully opaque. To outsiders and skeptics, occult practices like
card reading have little relevance in our modern world. But a closer
look at these miniature masterpieces reveals that the power of these
cards isn’t endowed from some mystical source—it comes from the ability
of their small, static images to illuminate our most complex dilemmas
and desires. Contrary to what the uninitiated might think, the meaning of
divination cards changes over time, shaped by each era’s culture and the
needs of individual users. ..." Collectors Weekly
Behold the Sola-Busca Tarot Deck, the Earliest Complete Set of Tarot Cards (1490)
"Whatever you think of the predictive power of tarot cards, the story of
how humanity has produced them and put them to use provides a
fascinating cultural history of the last 500 years or so. We've featured
a variety of tarot decks here on Open Culture, mostly from the past
century: decks designed by Aleister Crowley, Salvador Dalí, and H.R. Giger, as well as one featuring the characters from Twin Peaks.
But today we give you the oldest extant example, and a highly
distinctive one for reasons not just historical but aesthetic: the
Sola-Busca tarot deck, dating from the early 1490s, which L'Italo Americano's Francesca Bezzone describes
as '78, beautifully illustrated cards, 22 major arcana and 56 minor
arcana, engraved on cardboard and hand painted with tempera colors and
gold.' ..." Open Culture, W - Sola Busca tarot, Sola-Busca & Waite-Smith Tarot
amazon: The Ultimate Guide to the Rider Waite Tarot, The Original Rider-Waite Tarot Set, Sola Busca Tarot: Museum Quality Kit, Marseille Tarot Professional Edition, Golden Tarot of Marseille
Various : Drone Islands - Land Rising (2019)
"Pitchfork Media and Allmusic journalist Mark Richardson defined drone music thus: 'The vanishing-point music created by drone elders Phill Niblock and, especially, LaMonte Young is what happens when a fixation on held tones reaches a tipping point. Timbre is reduced to either a single clear instrument or a sine wave, silence disappears completely, and the base-level interaction between small clusters of 'pure' tone becomes the music's content. This kind of work takes what typically helps us to distinguish 'music' from 'sound,' discards nearly all of it, and then starts over again from scratch.' Since LaMonte Young early experiments till today, drone music has come a long way. Eighth Tower Records is proud to present an anthology featuring 12 projects from artists who work on classic and new stimulating paths for the drone music. ..."
Who is the man on this York Avenue building?
"1221 York Avenue is a handsome, brown-brick apartment house built in 1923. Shaded by trees, this six-story building between 65th and 66th Streets blends nicely into the streetscape. But on a recent walk past it, I could see through the tree leaves two bas reliefs of male figures, each on the facade right above the building’s wide main entrance. The facade also features another bas relief of a sailing ship positioned high along the second floor. The ship, plus the colonial-era clothes worn by the men (or man, since it appears to be different profiles of the same person)—seems to hint that this person was an explorer. ..."
Ephemeral New YorkPossession: A Romance - A. S. Byatt (1990)
"Possession: A Romance is a 1990 bestselling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt that also won the 1990 Booker Prize. ... The novel follows two modern-day academics as they research the paper trail around the previously unknown love life between famous fictional poets, Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. Possession is set both in the present day and the Victorian era, pointing out the differences between the two time periods, and satirizing such things as modern academia and mating rituals. The structure of the novel incorporates many different styles, including fictional diary entries, letters and poetry, and uses these styles and other devices to explore the postmodern concerns of the authority of textual narratives. ..."
Diane di Prima
"Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 – October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima authored nearly four dozen books. ... She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity by the United States government due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. According to di Prima, police persistently harassed her due to the nature of her poetry. In 1966, she spent some time at Millbrook with Timothy Leary's psychedelic community. ..."
NY Times: Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86
‘Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)’: How Brian Eno Plotted Art Rock’s Future
"A mere 10 months after his solo debut, Here Come The Warm Jets, Brian Eno consolidated his standing as one of rock’s least orthodox provocateurs with the release of the seductively subversive album number two, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy). Issued by Island Records in November 1974, Taking Tiger Mountain derived its title from a set of postcard photos depicting a Peking opera, one of the eight 'model plays' permitted during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. Indeed, references to China recur in the album’s lyrics, hence a widespread assumption that the album is a concept piece – though this remains tricky to substantiate. ..."
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