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Alexander Booth. Carnation. 2025. (Red cover, black script, abstract monotype within a black frame)

Paul Eluard. Répétitions. Dessins de Max Ernst. A Paris au sans pareil. [1922] (Red cover, black script, b/w collage of three hands two of which are threading an eye, within a black frame)

Reflections : Carnation / Répétitions

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri - 3. Paradiso - BBC Sounds Dante's journey comes to a glorious conclusion as he and Beatrice ascend through Paradise.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Afternoon stroll soundtrack: the third part of this remarkable adaptation @bbcsounds.bsky.social

For International Women's Day, an acknowledgement of the woman who was a big influence on me in the process of becoming a writer.

Edge of Life (2025) Director Lynette Wallworth blends documentary filmmaking with art cinema as she follows medical researchers studying the effects of psychedelic medications on patients nearing end-of-life.

If you get a chance, go to see this compassionate and inspiring film about death and dying and grieving and being alive to the world.
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mat...

Joseph 'Country Joe' McDonald Dead At 84 Joseph Allen “Country Joe” McDonald has died. The singer/songwriter who fronted counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish passed away last night, according to TMZ. McDonald wrote the Ber...

R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.

Save the dates!!
RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Poetry & Arts Festival
June 18-21 in Aberdaron
Theme is "Abercuawg"
Rowan Williams, Jason Walford-Davies, Clare e. Potter, & more
Tickets on sale later in March
rsthomaspoetry.co.uk

An actor asked what he should primarily work toward. Grotowski answered, 'Sincérité in extemis, mais lés details en cristal,' which in English means what it sounds like: sincerity at its most extreme, but details in crystal.

- André Gregory

Edge of Life (2025) Director Lynette Wallworth blends documentary filmmaking with art cinema as she follows medical researchers studying the effects of psychedelic medications on patients nearing end-of-life.

If you get a chance, go to see this compassionate and inspiring film about death and dying and grieving and being alive to the world.
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mat...

Mexican Photojournalist, Surrealist photographer and teacher Kati Horna

Untitled, from An Ode to Necrophilia, 1962
(with Leonora Carrington)

#KatiHorna #Photography #Surrealism

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

From “Between Sleep and Waking” by Georges Perec (translated by Harry Matthews), born this day in 1936. Full text The Paris Review, Spring 1973:
www.theparisreview.org/fiction/3999...

The Face of Another (1966)

Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara

Screenplay by Kobo Abe based on his 1964 novel of the same name. Abe was BOTD in 1924.

49 years ago
Iggy Pop, Nancy Spungen, Cyrinda Foxe and David Bowie at the Ocean Club, New York City, March 1977.

Photo by Bob Gruen

#punk #punkrock #rocklegend #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory

He was a founding member of Throbbing Gristle and performance artist. He cut up and re-sculpted his body to become pandrogyne with his partner Lady Jaye. Cosey Fanni Tutti founded the excellent industrial band XTG with the remaining members. Pardon the pun.

Interesting to hear the young Genesis P-Orridge on Art as he lived it then and went on to live it that way until his death.
Thanks to @xrayeyes.bsky.social for the post.

Photo-collage of Leonora Carrington created in Mexico by Hungarian photographer Kati Horna for Carrington's 43rd birthday. From Women Photographers a Legacy of Light exhibition at NGV Melbourne.

Photo-collage of Leonora Carrington created in Mexico by Hungarian photographer Kati Horna for Carrington's 43rd birthday. From Women Photographers a Legacy of Light exhibition at NGV Melbourne.

#LeonoraCarrington #Photography #Surrealism

Leonor Fini photographed at the monastery of Nonza, Corsica, by Eddy Brofferio, 1965

#LeonorFini #Photography #Surrealism

Hi @adaspota.bsky.social You might like this. Léonor Fini lying on a floor strewn with clothes (original French: Léonor Fini allongée sur un plancher jonché de vêtements), photograph by Dora Maar, from Women Photographers a Legacy of Light at NGV Melbourne

#LeonorFini #Photography #Surrealism

Antipodean Autumn... Figs and passion fruit freshly plucked from tree and vine...

Astronauts Vikings and Ghosts YouTube video by Robert Haines

Hung out yesterday with Stuart De Jong, editor of
@robertdavidhaines.bsky.social film Astronauts Vikings and Ghosts - the sane and the crazy in my home town. Middle section features the crew who inspired my novel A Bloody Good Friday and interview with yours truly...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK8y...

Rachel Ruysch
Rijksmuseum

Mathias Énard's The Deserters: in the same literary territory as Compass and Zone. Intergenerational characters involved in military and ideological conflict in Europe, shadows of the Middle East, translated into beautiful English prose by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social ts.bsky.social Énard at his best.

* Tony Leung-in-a-contemplative-film klaxon *

Very honoured that my Gwen John story, A More Interior Life, appears today as @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Story of the Month. A favourite, this one. Am hoping to get to her current exhibition at the National Museum Cardiff.

SILENT FRIEND | Official Trailer | A Film by Ildikó Enyedi | with Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Léa Seydoux YouTube video by 1-2 Special

Wrapped up the day with Silent Friend at ACMI, Melbourne, an extraordinary and contemplative film by Hungarian film director Ildeko Enyedi.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRZ...

Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light | NGV Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975. Featuring prints, postcards, photob...

If you're in Melbourne don't miss this amazing exhibition. Spent a few hours there today.
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/w...

Corrected version of a previous post.

Mathias Énard's The Deserters: in the same literary territory as Compass and Zone. Intergenerational characters involved in military and ideological conflict in Europe, shadows of the Middle East, translated into beautiful English prose by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social ts.bsky.social Énard at his best.

So happy this story is out: 'Wellness' in 3AM magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wellness/

Absolutely loved talking to Nat about pinholes, time, sounds in the woods, nice places, and ill-thought out purchases of theramins. His field notes and replay for the show are now up on experimentaltrash.com