Suchitra Bhosle: Old Blue Building

Suchitra Bhosle: Old Blue Building

oil on panel

(published on Facebook by Principle Gallery)

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There is a special quality in this painting, the building seems to carry an old story, of good and bad times, and it's letting you discover that story, with subtlety and some noble, wise resignation.

Suchitra Bhosle was born in Bangalore, India, in a family of

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Vivaldi on Accordion

Il Prete rosso Compositore di Musica che fece L'opera a Capranica del 1723

Caricature of Antonio Vivaldi by Pier Leone Ghezzi, 1723

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vivaldi_caricature.png)

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I found on the web a wonderful video: a street performer in Warsaw, Poland, plays the third movement from the Four Seasons on accordion. Incredible freshness of

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Jeremy Mann: Window Shopping

Window Shopping

a Photo taken by Jeremy Mann with Instagram

(with Victoria Rosenberger and Angela d'Ospina)

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(Principle Gallery)

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Junot Diaz about Books, Love, Matriarchal Revolution, New York

(http://www.accidentalamerican.us/blog/junot_diaz_on_becoming_american.php)

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New York is home in ways few places are, says Junot Diaz, who lives part-time in Harlem and part-time in Cambridge. He adds, I feel like I have Jersey and the Dominican Republic, and they come together in New York City because New York has about a million Dominican immigrants.

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What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands? (Rilke)

Ephraim Rubenstein: What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands?

from The Rilke Series

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Hände auf?

Was fängt sind so wohlriechend wie Ihre Hände auf? Sie
glauben, wie externer Duft nach Ihrem stärkeren Widerstand steht.
Sterne stehen in den Bildern oben. Mir Ihre Öffnung geben, um zu
erweichen, zu lieben; ah, ist Ihr Haar alles in der Nutzlosigkeit.

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Alphacat: I Don't Like

(http://article.wn.com/view/2012/05/06/In_launching_2012_bid_Obama_targets_Romney_v/)

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(video by alphacat)



(Alphacat)

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 1, I)

Ephraim Rubenstein: Sonnet to Orpheus

from The Rilke Series

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Da stieg ein Baum. O reine Übersteigung!
O Orpheus singt! O hoher Baum im Ohr!
Und alles schwieg. Doch selbst in der Verschweigung
ging neuer Anfang, Wink und Wandlung vor.

Tiere aus Stille drangen aus dem klaren
gelösten Wald von Lager und Genist;
und da ergab sich, daß sie nicht aus List

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Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonette an Orpheus (Teil 2, XIII)

Ephraim Rubenstein: Be Ahead of All Parting

from The Rilke Series

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Sei allem Abschied voran, als wäre er hinter

dir, wie der Winter, der eben geht.

Denn unter Wintern ist einer so endlos Winter,

daß, überwinternd, dein Herz überhaupt übersteht.



Sei immer tot in Eurydike --, singender steige,

preisender steige zurück in den reinen Bezug.

Hier,

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What's the Right Orchestral Instrument for Me?

(posted on Facebook by Sine Musica Nulla Vita)

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click on the image to enlarge


(Old Masters)

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Ephraim Rubenstein: Unity in Contrasts

Ephraim Rubenstein: Steve Chu's open

(http://www.ephraimrubenstein.com/632/exhibitions/streets-exhibition-principle-gallery-alexandria/)

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As I was looking at the image above, it was Hopper that came in mind. Then I saw the image below, and I realized that the author was searching for a unity in contrasts.

Ephraim Rubenstein will be present on Streets, a

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John Cage Exhibition at Washington National Gallery

John Cage: 10 Stones 2, 1989

color spitbite aquatint and sugarlift on smoked Whatman paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

gift of Kathan Brown, 1996

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=97462&image=70785&c=)

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John Cage has been, as we know, the Great Master of Indeterminacy, and he devised complicated creative strategies that were

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Sa-mi canti, cobzar...

Stefan Iordache
(http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Stefan_Iordache-1.jpg)

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Sa-mi canti cobzar batran cevaSa-mi canti ce stii mai bineCa bani ti-oi da si vin ti-oi daSi haina de pe mineCa bani ti-oi da si vin ti-oi daSi haina de pe mineSa-mi canti cobzar batran cevaSa-mi canti si din vioaraCa doar s-o ispravi de

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Ploaia si Noi

Doina Badea

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Destinul a fost prea nedrept cu ea. Si de cate ori mi se intampla sa ascult o inregistrare cu Doina Badea, imi dau lacrimile.






(video by SMargarit)



(Les Troubadours du Temps Jadis)

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Arvid Is Working on a PerryMoore canvas

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=491011027575567&set=a.100729353270405.1439.100000000217321&type=1&theater)

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Arvid is working a a new canvas, celebrating the joy and spirit of the PerryMoore wine, and lokking at the image I'd say it'll be a celebration in style.


(P and C Art)

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The Piano Is A Good Friend

(posted on Facebook by Hugh Laurie)

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The piano is a good friend. It doesn't talk back. You can't lose a piano. It's a constant companion. It can give you everything you need


(Hugh Laurie, English actor, comedian, writer and musician)






Hugh Laurie playing on an 1926 Wurlitzer Organ

(Riviera Theatre, North Tonawanda, NY, courtesy @Riviera TD)

(

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Dante's Inferno in a Movie from 1911

Giuseppe de Liguoro, co-director of Dante's Inferno (1911)

(Italian Cinema: The Silent Era)

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Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré this silent film from 1911 has here a score created by Tangerine Dream.

(imdb)




(video by edesera)


(Dante)


(Early Movies)

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Dante

Dante, poised between Purgatory and Florence

detail of Domenico di Michelino's painting, 1465

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DanteDetail.jpg)

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Long time ago (too long) I was nel mezzo del cammin, as Dante used to be sometime. I was just beginning to realize that young age was passing.  I didn't yet know that it would be the same with the old age.

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A Song for Madeleine

Madeleine in Bethesda



There is a chain of restaurants in the South and it is named La Madeleine. You can find them in Washington, DC (in Georgetown) and in the Greater DC area (Alexandria, Bethesda, etc), and also in Texas (in Fort Worth, then in the Dallas region - for instance in Grapevine, etc). There aren't Madeleine restaurants in NY or Philadelphia, and I think neither in Baltimore.

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Cindy Procious: the Portrait of Mia

Cindy Procious: Mia - Portrait of an Artist

oil on canvas

Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
(http://principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6247)

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(Principle Gallery)

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A New Whistler Exhibition at Freer

James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Chelsea Children

watercolor on paper, mid 1880's

Freer Gallery, Gift of Charles Lang Freer

(http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/future.asp)

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A new exhibition starts at Freer Gallery tomorrow, and it will be open for one year, till September 8, 2013. It's named Whistler's Neighborhood: Impressions on a Changing London - an

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A Map of Europe from 1870

Europe, 1870's, W.Schlamp

published on Facebook by Alexandru Ursu-Bukowina

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The map of Europe, as it was at the beginning of the 1870's. The publishing house (Druck u. Verlag v. H Gerbart) was Viennese. The military helmet over the center of the map represented Germany, just set as a major continental player after the Franco-Prussian War (the German

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Junot Diaz: Living By the Book

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Junot Diaz about books: great books, books on his shelves, books that made him cry, books that made him laugh, and so on. It appeared in NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/junot-diaz-by-the-book.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw), on August 30. Here are quick notes I made while reading this stuff. The notes are fragments from the text,

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John Cage: In a Landscape (1948)

(Album d'un Pessimiste)

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For argoneum, it reminds of an autumn evening, when you know that this night are longer and each day is closer to winter. Fields are empty, and last warm sun rays are shining through the colorful leaves. For Trey Walker, it reminds of being sad. For Mostly Noise, it is music that seems to suspend time.





John Cage, In a

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The Battle of Blair Mountain

Battle of Blair Mountain

August 25 to September 2, 1921

Logan County, West Virginia, United States

Result: Setback of miners' rights until early 1930s when Federal Government recognized labor unions

(posted on Facebook by Gloria Torres)

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The Battle of Blair Mountain was one of the biggest civil uprisings in United States history and the largest armed

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John Cage

John Cage

(1912 - 1992)

American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_Cage_Laugh.png)

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A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century.

(wiki)


Cage is

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