Archive for July, 2019

The Young Turks — WINNERS and LOSERS – First Detroit Debate – YouTube

This tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours

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 . . . 

Source: This tree stump is kept alive by its neighbours

[Letter from Paris] A Play with No End, by Christopher Ketcham | Harper’s Magazine

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

Nina Simone – Do What You Gotta Do – YouTube

Nina Simone – You Don’t Know What Love Is – YouTube

Nina Simone – African Mailman – YouTube

VIDEOS – La scandaleuse “Origine du monde” de Courbet revient à Ornans

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

Deborah de Robertis: Shocking for a Purpose – The New York Times

Quinn Sullivan – Black Napkins – 6/22/17 Sellersville Theatre – Sellersville, PA – YouTube

Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse

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.

Source: Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse