The Young Turks — WINNERS and LOSERS – First Detroit Debate – YouTube
Archive for July, 2019
It’s sometimes easy to think that we know how most things work, especially those that surround us and we take for granted. Truth is, our knowledge is still advancing and constantly updating. There is so much we don’t know . . .
A Longchamp store on the Champs-Élysées after being set on fire by Gilets Jaunes, March 16, 2019
What the Gilets Jaunes really want
Source: [Letter from Paris] A Play with No End, by Christopher Ketcham | Harper’s Magazine
Quelques jours après un énième “scandale” au musée d’Orsay, le célèbre tableau de Gustave Courbet est bien arrivé à Ornans, dans le Doubs, ville natale du peintre. La toile est le clou de l’expo “Cet obscur objet de désirs, autour de l’Origine du monde” du 7 juin au 1er septembre. Peinte en 1866, l’œuvre reste d’une actualité sulfureuse.
Source: VIDEOS – La scandaleuse “Origine du monde” de Courbet revient à Ornans
Dora Maar, “Assia” (1934) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)
The Centre Pompidou’s Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.