Archive for July, 2018
A condominium building in San FranciscoJEFF CHIU / AP
Out of a desire for more-equitable housing policy, some city dwellers have started allying with developers instead of opposing them.
Source: From ‘Not in My Backyard’ to ‘Yes in My Backyard’ – The Atlantic
— inspired by BMW’s “Isetta” design from the 1950s . . .
The Microlino, a front-loading super compact vehicle from Swiss mobility company Micro, has just been approved for European streets. The mini electric vehicle is smaller than a Smart Car, and comes with a rechargeable battery that works with any standard European electricity outlet. . . .
Source: An Eight Foot Micro Vehicle Will Soon Make its Way onto European Streets | Colossal
Selah Saterstrom proposes that the act of divinatory reading and the reading of a text are interchangeable, that a text is far more than a sequence of sentences.
Source: A Writer’s Act of Divination
Tang Chang, “Untitled” (c. 1975), oil on canvas, 81-7/8 x 96-7/16 in (208 x 245 cm) (courtesy of Thip Sae-tang)
Tang Chang’s first solo US retrospective veers away from the criteria of progress and linearity according to which Western art is typically evaluated.
Laila Bachtiar, “Birds-Finch” (2012) pencil on paper, 19.65 x 25.5 inches, Helmut Zambo Collection
An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging, near Vienna, entitled “gehirngefühl.! kunst aus gugging von 1970 bis zur gegenwart“. The exhibition’s mouthful of a title, with its quirky punctuation, translates into English as “brain feeling.! art from gugging from 1970 to the present” and takes its odd key phrase from a drawing by the Gugging artist Johann Garber (born 1947) showing an assortment of colored blobs labeled “DAS KLEINE FADE GEHIRNGEFÜHL” (“the small, dull brain feeling”). Scheduled for a long run, gehirngefühl.! will remain on view through April 11, 2021.
Atmospheric Conditions
by Donna Fleischer
stay a small hungry
to be on to
these sweetle
mostly free
daily things
red,
yell Ow,
green, and
blue oh blue
iris,
sky grasses,
theseathe
curl of nautilus with
rhythm of tide
The Summer 2018 issue of the Solitary Plover is now available here.
In this issue:
Source: Summer 2018 Solitary Plover
Donna Fleischer
Sunday, August 5th Little River Restoratives, Hartford, CT 7:00 pm
Featuring poets and writers Tess Scriptunas, Donna Fleischer,
Danielle Bonanno, Andrew Altamirano, and alexandria hicks,
with music by Lake Geneva
Little River Restoratives
405 Capitol Ave.
Hartford, CT
(860) 403-0340
lrrhartford.com
Source: Readers for August 5 Syllable Series | Syllable: A Reading Series
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