Forough Farrokhzād: The Window

(http://foroughfarrokhzad.tripod.com/id56.html)

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If you come to my home,Bring me a lightAnd a nookFrom which I may watch the crowding of the glad lane.
(Forough Farrokhzād, The Gift, the blog of Cizdabedar)


There are two opposite universes in the poetry of Forough Farrokhzād, I think, and each one plays ambiguously, as the relationship of the poet with

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O frază admirabilă

Dan Caragea

(http://occidentul-romanesc.com/?p=6554)

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Dacă fiecare din noi am păstra în suflet măcar câte un cuvânt ce se stinge, sunt încredinţat că am putea deveni o naţiune cu adevărat bogată.

(Dan Caragea in Despre neogreacă şi amintirea fanarioţilor)



(A Life in Books)

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Forough Farrokhzād: Sin

(http://voiceseducation.org/content/forough-farrokhzad)

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I bought a couple of days ago an anthology of Middle East contemporary literature (Tablet and Pen), edited by Reza Aslan, and as I was going back home I started browsing it, opening the pages more or less at random. The first author that I saw there was Forough Farrokhzād. It was a superb surprise for

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Neruda, Pájaro

El Pájaro Contemplativo

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Deborah has brought this poem by Neruda on our forum of Words and Palabras. It was her birthday and this was her gift for us. Gracias Deb, y Feliz Cumpleaños!

Caía de un pájaro a otro
todo lo que el día trae,
iba de flauta en flauta el día,
iba vestido de verdura
con vuelos que abrían un túnel,
y por allí pasaba el viento
por donde

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Manet: In the Conservatory

Manet: In the Conservatory

(Dans la Serre)

oil on canvas, 1879

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_the_Conservatory.jpg)

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The two personages were friends of Manet, and the setting, a greenhouse at 70 Rue d'Amsterdam in Paris, was used by the artist as a studio for nine months, in 1878 - 1879. The painting had some

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Reza Aslan: Tablet and Pen

(http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/17/reza-aslans-new-book-table-and-pen-literature-bridges-civilizations.html)

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This is an anthology of Arabic / Turkish / Iranian / Pakistani contemporary literature, edited by Reza Aslan. The authors selected here are grouped in three periods:


1910 - 1950, when the boundaries of modern Middle East have been

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Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan
رضا اصلان

(http://promise.ucr.edu/profile-policy-aslan.html)

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For all accounts, Reza Aslan is clearly passionate about religious matters. At fifteen he converted to Evangelical Christianity, several years later he returned to Islam, and  realized that he should target his focus on the contemporary Muslim universe, to understand its roots and its

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Forough Farrokhzād

Forough Farrokhzād (1935 - 1967)

فروغ فرخزاد

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Foroogh.gif)

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One of the most influential poets in contemporary Iranian culture.



The House is Black (1963)
Meditating a Movie
Journeying with Kiarostami: The Wind Will Carry Us 
The Wind Will Carry Us, again 
The Cold Season 
The Gift / Frontier Walls 
Another Birth 
Sin

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Cézanne

Photography of Paul Cézanne, c. 1861

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_cezanne_1861.jpg)

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Cézanne made the bridge between two universes: the 19th  and 20th centuries. He departed from Impressionism and foresaw Cubism. The father of us all, would both Matisse and Picasso say (wiki).



The Dialog of Music and Painting
Cézanne and Beyond: Picasso

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A Portrait of Monet by Renoir

Renoir: Claude Monet Reading

oil on canvas, 1872

Musée Marmottan Monet

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre_August_Renoir,_Claude_Monet_Reading.jpg)

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Road to Vétheuil
A Study for Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe
Oaks of Fontainebleau - The Bodmer Oak
Malevich: Thoughts about Monet 
Gare Saint Lazare, Paris - Three Moments, Descending in Time 
Giverny,

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Van Gogh: Auvers Town Hall in 14 July 1890

Vincent Van Gogh:

Auvers Town Hall in 14 July 1890

oil on canvas

private collection

(http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/vincent-van-gogh/auvers-town-hall-in-14-july-1890-1890)

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(Van Gogh)

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Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
Self-Portrait with Straw Hat

(Autoportrait au chapeau de paille)

oil on canvas, Paris, 1877/1878

Metropolitan Museum of Art

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_Self-Portrait_with_Straw_Hat_1887-Metropolitan.jpg)

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Strollers in Bois de Boulogne
The Dialog of Music and Painting
Listening Koncertas Stan Brakhage 
Café

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Pierre Auguste Renoir

Pierre Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

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

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As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau (wiki).




Le Moulin de la Galette
Luncheon Boat Party
Mother's Anthony's Inn at Marlotte

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The Moderns

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec:
Deux femmes dansant au Moulin-Rouge

oil on cardboard, 1892

Prague National Gallery

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec_065.jpg)

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Trying to group the visual artists proves sometimes difficult. Is Goya an Old Master, or a Modern? Is Pollock a Modern or a Contemporary? I would consider Modern Art more

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Gervex: Une soirée mondaine en 1909 au restaurant "le Pré Catalan"

Henri Alexandre Gervex:
Une soirée mondaine en 1909 au restaurant "le Pré Catalan"

oil on canvas, 1909

Musée Carnavalet, Paris

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Alexandre_Gervex_-_Une_soir%C3%A9e_au_Pr%C3%A9_Catelan_-_1909.jpg)

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(Bois de Boulogne)



(Gervex)

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Gervex - again about Café Scène in Paris - and Sloan - McSorley's Bar

Henri Alexandre Gervex, Café Scène in Paris (1877)

(video by Detroit Institute of Arts)


Near the Café Scène of Gervex you will see another beautiful painting, by John Sloan: McSorley's Bar. The story of the Parisian café (imagined by the curator of the museum), nearby the story of McSorley's, coming from Joseph Mitchell.



(Gervex)


(Telling the Story of McSorley's)

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Henri Alexandre Gervex

Henri Alexandre Gervex, Café Scène in Paris

oil on canvas, 1877

Detroit Institute of Arts

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Gervex_Cafe_Scene_in_Paris_1877.jpg)

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Gervex started his career by painting nudes embedded in mythological scenes, after a conflict with the Salon de Paris he turned to depicting modern Parisian life, and became appreciated

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Van Gogh: Strollers in Bois de Boulogne

Vincent Van Gogh: Strollers in Bois de Boulogne

oil on canvas, 1886

private collection

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Spazierg%C3%A4nger_im_Bois_de_Boulogne1.jpeg)

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(Bois de Boulogne)



(Van Gogh)

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Bois de Boulogne

Grande Cascade du Bois de Boulogne

image: ERWEH, 973

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bois_de_Boulogne.jpg)

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Manet: The Races in the Bois de Boulogne
Renoir: Patineurs au Bois de Boulogne
Van Gogh: Strollers in Bois de Boulogne
Gervex: Une soirée mondaine en 1909 au restaurant "le Pré Catalan" 

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Renoir: Patineurs au Bois de Boulogne

Pierre Auguste Renoir, Patineurs au Bois de Boulogne

oil on canvas, 1868

private collection

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_-_Patineurs.jpg)

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(In the Forest of Fontainebleau - from Corot to Monet)


(Bois de Boulogne)



(Renoir)

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Manet: On The Bench

Édouard Manet, On the Bench

pastel, 1879

Suzuki Collection, Tokyo

(http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edouard-manet/on-the-bench-1879)

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Aren't they incredibly gorgeous, the tones?


There is also another version of this painting from the same year, an oil on canvas, at the Pola Museum of Art, in Hakone, Japan.


(Manet)

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Manet: The Races in the Bois de Boulogne

Édouard Manet - The Races in the Bois de Boulogne

oil on canvas, 1872

J.H. Whitney Collection

(http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/edouard-manet/the-races-in-the-bois-de-boulogne-1872)

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I am passionate for the tones Manet was getting in each of his oils. And each time I happen to see one of them, I am staring at these colors. In a way he is unique.

This

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Pyaar, Ishk, Mohabbat

Keerthi Reddy in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat

(प्यार इश्क और मुहब्बत)

(http://tv.burrp.com/series/pyaar-ishq-aur-mohabbat/37972)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

It all began with an essay about Slavonic influences in Romanian language (Vechea slava, slavona si graiurile slavilor). More precisely, it began from a sentence there: the author (Dan

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Peace to Him Who Enters

Aleksandr Demyanenko in Peace to Him Who Enters

(http://megashara.com/movies/616818/mir_vhodyashchemu.html)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

May 1945. A German baby is born and he is peeing on a bunch of rifles. Is it Soviet weaponry, the new occupiers? Or is it rather German weaponry, war capture? We'll never know. We only know that the last day

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Pace Noului Venit

Aleksandr Demyanenko in Pace Noului Venit

(http://megashara.com/movies/616818/mir_vhodyashchemu.html)

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(click here for the English version)

Mai 1945. Se naste un bebelus german si face imediat pipi pe un manunchi de arme. Sunt arme ale militarilor sovietici, care au ocupat orasul? Sau sunt arme capturate dela militarii germani? Nu vom sti niciodata. Vom

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The Ode To Man from Sophocles’ Antigone

first page of Anne Carson's Antigonick

(http://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/as-clear-as-complicated-air-anne-carsons-antigonick/)

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Antigone and Ismene in a dialog about Beckett paraphrasing Hegel: if you think you know some facts about the two heroines of Sophocles, maybe it's time to forget everything and listen to the lesson given by Anne

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Anne Carson

Anne Carson
(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-carson)

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Is she a poet? It's something more than poetry in her poems. Some say it's something less, it means the same: her poetry is slightly stranger than poetry. Is she from our world? No, she rather comes from outer spaces. Or, rather from outer times. She lives the times of ancient Greeks, meditating

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Alfred North Whitehead

The European philosophical tradition is a series of footnotes to Plato

Alfred North Whitehead

(1861 - 1947)

(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/)

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He has been called the greatest speculative mind of his century.


(A Life in Books)

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Daniel Alarcón: The Idiot President (urmat de Collectors)

illustration for The Idiot President

from The New Yorker

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(click here for the English version)

Nu sariti imediat, nu este vorba de un presedinte de republica real, fie el din prezentul nostru turbulent, fie dintr-un trecut mai mult sau mai putin nebulos, fie dintr-un viitor care sa se contrazica pe el insusi. Desi se cam potriveste. Este titlul unei

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The Idiot President (followed by Collectors)

illustration for The Idiot President

from The New Yorker

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(click here for the Romanian version)

Don't jump on hasty conclusions, it's not about a real president, from our turbulent present, or from a nebulous past, or from some self-contradictory future. Though it fits somehow. It's the title of a story by Daniel Alarcón, published in The NewYorker in

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Winslow Homer, Blown Away (c.1888)

Winslow Homer, Blown Away

watercolor and graphite on paper, c.1888

Brooklyn Museum

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=530803720307480)

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I would like to thank here Marcia Bujold from which I share this image. I love the art of Winslow Homer. It has in the same time energy, delicacy, a dreaming mood, subtlety, it's incredible. And I love Maine.

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Tot despre Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón

(http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/alarcon.html)

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(click here for the English version)

Nascut in Peru, s-a mutat in State cand avea trei ani. La zece ani il citise pe Kundera. (va fi aflat intre timp de Café Kundera din Istanbul? mai bine zis din romanul lui Elif Shafak, Bastarda Istanbulului ?) - la unsprezece il

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Daniel Alarcón

Daniel Alarcón

(http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/innovators/alarcon.html)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

Born in Peru, he left for US as a toddler. By age ten he had read Kundera. At eleven he was memorizing Shakespeare. At twelve he had moved on to Vargas Llosa. At sixteen he was reading forty books in forty days. Wow! After

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Cateva vorbe de dragoste

Keerthi Reddy in Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat

(प्यार इश्क और मुहब्बत)

(http://tv.burrp.com/series/pyaar-ishq-aur-mohabbat/37972)

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(click here for the English version)

Spune Dan Caragea, intr-un superb eseu tratand influentele slavone din limba romana (Vechea slava, slavona si graiurile slavilor), nu cunosc nici o altă limbă în care să ni se ofere

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Uium

(http://www.info-delta.ro/traditii-in-dobrogea-28/moraritul-la-valea-teilor-434.html)

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Incerc sa ma lamuresc asupra etimologiei cuvantului uium. In dictionare este dat ca fiind un cuvant de origine slavona:

cf DEX'98: UIÚM, uiumuri, s. n. Cantitate procentuală de făină sau de grăunțe reținută la batoză, la moară etc. drept plată în natură pentru măcinat,

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Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (1959)

Ein Mann geht durch die Wand - Trailer

(video by Fernsehjuwelen)



Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (A Man Goes through the Wall), a movie from 1959, starring Heinz Rühmann and Nicole Courcel. I saw it sometime in 1962 or 1963, I was less than twenty and I liked it a lot. I watched it again a couple of days ago. How it looks like now? Well, I also have gotten old, meanwhile. It's a nice comedy,

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Meandre (Meanders), a Movie by Mircea Săucan

Rivers in the Midwest, Pecatonica meanders

(http://geoscience.wisc.edu/~maher/air/air12.htm)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I was in my early twenties when I saw Meandre first time. I was passionate for Polish and Czech movies, considering Wajda, Kawalerowicz, and Forman as my absolute references. It was the epoch of Ashes and Diamonds, Mother

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Meandre, un film de Mircea Săucan

Rivers in the Midwest, Pecatonica meanders

(http://geoscience.wisc.edu/~maher/air/air12.htm)

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(click here for the English version)

Cand am vazut prima oara Meandre aveam putin peste douazeci de ani. Eram student, eram pasionat de cinematografia poloneza si de cea ceheasca, Wajda, Kawalerowicz, si Forman erau referintele mele absolute. In perioada aceea

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Mircea Săucan

Mircea Săucan (1928 - 2003)

(http://www.istoriafilmului.ro/articol/130/rebel-fara-voie-mircea-saucan-i)

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Born in Paris, studied the movie art in Moscow (student of Dovjenko and Yutkevich, colleague with Parajanov), made some superb movies in Romania. His radical esthetic and his uncompromising character made him a pariah. Eventually Săucan emigrated to

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Gala Galaction: Moara lui Călifar

(http://www.ccm-bistrita.ro/articol.php?id=1273480717505)

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În preajma unei păduri străvechi, se privea-n iaz moara lui Călifar .... Near an ancient forest, Călifar's Mill was looking at itself in the pond ... a story about free will and fate ... reality and avatar ...





a video by Daniel Bahnea

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2B4REkx3A)




(Gala

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Gala Galaction

Gala Galaction

(http://www.crestinortodox.ro/remember/remember-personalitati/gala-galaction-72047.html)

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Unul dintre scriitori români pe care ii preţuiesc cel mai mult.


David Croitor: Ease / Gala Galaction: Bisericuţa din Răzoare
Moara lui Călifar




(A Life in Books)

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David Croitor: Ease / Gala Galaction : Bisericuţa din Răzoare

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4457772182456&set=a.1369437776026.45659.1834170365&type=1&theater)

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A new work by David Croitor: Odihnă (Ease or maybe better Restfulness). It calls in my mind a beloved book that I have read long time ago: Bisericuţa din Răzoare, by Gala Galaction ... Era o zi călduroasa de iunie. Ploi binecuvântate .... It was a

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Esther Broner - A Weave Of Women

Esther Broner

(http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2011/july/broner.html)

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When Esther Broner (co-author of Women's Haggadah and creator of Feminist Seder) passed away, her friend (and Seder Sister) Lilly Rivlin decided to make a movie about the evolution of Feminist Seder across thirty-seven years: to speak about this movement and about Esther, who had been

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From Sycamore Island to Sycamore Store

Glen Echo Trolley, once upon a time

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The old trackage of the Glen Echo Trolley; it was linking the Potomac countryside in Maryland to downtown Washington. The streetcars in DC stopped functioning in the sixties. Traces remain here and there, like this one, on the passage between Potomac and the MacArthur Boulevard, a footpath connecting Sycamore Island

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Balta Alba, Work in Progress

A few words about a work in progress documentary, Balta Alba, covering three generations of musicians living in that part of Bucharest, jazz, pop, punk, avangarde, heavy metal, hip hop, new wave post punk, the whole spectrum:



http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/balta-alba-white-pond



(http://vimeo.com/68820130)



(Bucuresti)


(Filmofilia)

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The Story of Sycamore Store

before supermarkets, stores like this served
the community for groceries - the delivery truck is at left

early photo, courtesy of the Rogers family

(source: Sherry Pettie in Sycamore Islander, October 1999)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

7025 Mac Arthur Boulevard in Montgomery County, Maryland, not far from Glen Echo Park. A house of balanced

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Kafka and Stuff

(http://jimarino.com/2008/03/29/franz-kafka-la-negativa/)

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The first work of Kafka that I read was In der Strafkolonie (In the Penal Colony), in a Romanian translation. I was a student at the Polytechnics and one day, as I was visiting a schoolmate, I saw on his desk a literary magazine. I started to browse the magazine, and Kafka's story was in it,

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Emily Dickinson: Faith Is a Fine Invention

(http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2012/03/faith-is-fine-invention.html)

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Faith is a fine invention

When Gentlemen can see—

But Microscopes are prudent

In an Emergency.

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/faith-is-a-fine-invention/)



I'm thinking at a Romanian rendering, but the only thing that comes to my mind is that old saying, Dumnezeu dă dar nu

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Povestea lui Sycamore Store

before supermarkets, stores like this served
the community for groceries - the delivery truck is at left

early photo, courtesy of the Rogers family

(source: Sherry Pettie in Sycamore Islander, October 1999)

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(click here for the English version)

Un magazin satesc care este inchis de multi ani. Se gaseste pe Bulevardul MacArthur (care incepe in Washington

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Emily Dickinson: The Bible Is an Antique Volume

Bible of Emily Dickinson

(http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/24025603?n=5&imagesize=1200&jp2Res=.25&printThumbnails=no)

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When she was thirteen, Emily Dickinson was given her own Bible, by her father. They all were good observants: the church was in front of their home, and they were finding time for daily prayers and meditations always. Did she remain

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Tracing the Strugatsky Brothers

(http://www.etsy.com/listing/46672719/roadside-picnic-in-the-50s-handmade-wood)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

As you probably know, Stalker, the revered movie of Tarkovsky, is a very free adaptation after Roadside Picnic, a short SF novel written by Arkadi and Boris Strugatsky.

Actually the Strugatsky brothers also authored the screenplay for

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Pe urmele fratilor Strugatsky

(http://www.etsy.com/listing/46672719/roadside-picnic-in-the-50s-handmade-wood)

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(click here for the English version)

Cred ca foarte multi dintre voi ati vazut filmul Calauza (Stalker) al lui Tarkovsky. Este o adaptare foarte libera a unei povestiri stiintifico-fantastice scrise de fratii Arkadi si Boris Strugatsky. Povestirea se numeste Picnic pe Marginea

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Emily Dickinson: Arcturus Is His Other Name

(http://dreamcatcher.net/emilydickinson/4003)

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Arcturus is his other name—

I'd rather call him Star.

It's very mean of Science

To go and interfere!



I slew a worm the other day—

A Savant passing by

Murmured Resurgam—Centipede!

Oh Lord—how frail are we!



I pull a flower from the woods—

A monster with a glass

Computes the stamens in a breath—

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Emily Dickinson: Why Do I Love You, Sir?

(http://www.tcnj.edu/~carney/dickinson/poems.html)

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Why do I love You, Sir?

Because—

The Wind does not require the Grass

To answer—Wherefore when He pass

She cannot keep Her place.



Because He knows—and

Do not You—

And We know not—

Enough for Us

The Wisdom it be so—



The Lightning—never asked an Eye

Wherefore it shut—when He was by—

Because

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There Is No Third

Says T.S.Eliot, Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them, there is no third.

(http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/05/27/130527crbo_books_acocella)





lithography by Gustave Doré

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Dore_Inferno1.jpg)

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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la

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Goya: Monk Talking to an Old Woman

Monk Talking to an Old Woman
by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

watercolor on ivory, 1824/1825

Princeton University Art Museum

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_Jos%C3%A9_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Monk_Talking_to_an_Old_Woman_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg)

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The Goya miniatures were painted on small squares of ivory around four inches square

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Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra (1943)

(http://www.fairmontstate.edu/schooloffinearts/sites/default/files/tatlerarchive/2010/02/bartok.jpg)

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It is perhaps the best-known of a number of pieces that have the apparently contradictory title Concerto for Orchestra. This is in contrast to the conventional concerto form, which features a solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment. Bartók said that

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Bartók

Béla Bartók

(http://genedelisa.com/tag/bartok/)

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Romanian Dances by Bartók played at Glass Harp
Concerto for Orchestra (1943)



(Musica Nova)

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Glass Harp-Toccata and Fugue in D minor-Bach-BWV 565

Robert Tiso playing at his glass harp

(http://www.roberttiso.com/)

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(video by Robert Tiso)



(The B A C H motif)

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Gibran: The Night Became Calm

(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/mEYglORsrx0/0.jpg)

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A poem by Gibran - I found it mentioned in Honour, the latest novel by Elif Shafak, that I'm reading. The title of the poem is Sakana Al-Layl (The Night Became Calm).



سكن الليل و في ثوب السكون تختبي الأحلام

وسع البدر و للبدر عيون ترصد الأيام

فتعالي يا إبنة الحقل نزور كرمة العشاق

علنا نطفي بذياك العصير حرقة

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Old Words Surviving as Fossils

Photo by Donald Marshall

Beloit College Geology Dept., Beloit, WI

(http://www.excitingelectrons.com/photo17.html)

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We all know that the past tense for go is went, which makes it an irregular verb. Actually went is the past tense of another verb, whose present tense vanished long time ago: wend. And in those old times the past tense for go was gaed. It so

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NYC in the 80's - Two Videos by RailroadPacific

image and videos: Pacific-Railroad.de

(http://www.towleroad.com/2013/06/the-new-york-city-of-30-years-ago-video.html)

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The person whose nick is Pacific-Railroad.de (or RailroadPacific) visited NYC several times in the eighties and filmed there in places like Broadway, Times Square, Central Park, Staten Island Ferry, also from the roof of World Trade

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Franco Clun, Pencil on Watercolor Paper

(http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/works-of-art-you-wont-believe-arent-photographs)

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Franco Clun loves drawing and loves the graphite. He is a self-taught artist who got knowledge through experience.



(Contemporary Art)

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Bianca in a School Concert

Diamond Junior High School, Lexington, MA

photo by John M. Sullivan

(http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11178557)

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I have already told you that my granddaughter Bianca is a student in the Diamond Junior High School and she plays the viola in the school orchestra. Here is a recent concert.





(video by Andrei Radulescu-Banu)






(video by Andrei

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Paul Cadden, Small Drawing Pencil on Paper

(http://www.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/works-of-art-you-wont-believe-arent-photographs)

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Paul Cadden cites as inspiration the phrase to intensify the normal. His works start from photos or video stills, trying to go beyond. Cadden mostly uses pencil, sometimes chalk. His output is of seven - eight works per year. If we would like to describe his artistic

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El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

Goya, Capricho_43
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

etching and aquatint, 1797-1799

Museo Nacional de Prado

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capricho_43,_El_sue%C3%B1o_de_la_raz%C3%B3n_produce_monstruos.jpg)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I was pretty far from home and wanted to go back. I started trying different shortcuts to shorten my

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Somnul Ratiunii Naste Monstri

Goya, Capricho_43
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

etching and aquatint, 1797-1799

Museo Nacional de Prado

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Capricho_43,_El_sue%C3%B1o_de_la_raz%C3%B3n_produce_monstruos.jpg)

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(click here for the English version)

Eram destul de departe de casa si voiam sa ma intorc. Incercam sa folosesc diverse scurtaturi, dar de

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Roșia Montană: Town on the Brink

Roșia Montană

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

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Roșia Montană - Ein Dorf am Abgrund, 2012

a documentary by Fabian Daub

(video by MrFelchen)



(Filmofilia)

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Daria's Amazing Grace

(http://www.stgerard.net/Hymns_AmazingGrace.html)

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My granddaughter Daria is playing Amazing Grace:




(video by Andrei Radulescu-Banu)





(Lexington)

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Goya's Ghosts

Goya's Ghosts, 2006

Miloš Forman, director

starring Stellan Skarsgård, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem

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

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I wouldn't consider Goya's Ghosts as targeting exclusively the Spanish master and his universe of thoughts and dreads.There is also an underground level,

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Fantomele lui Goya

Goya's Ghosts, 2006

Miloš Forman, director

starring Stellan Skarsgård, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem

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

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(click here for the English version)



Goya's Ghosts este un film nu numai despre marele pictor, despre gandurile si nelinistile lui, dar si, intr-un plan ce iese la iveala pe masura ce actiunea isi

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Goya

Portrait of Francisco de Goya

by Vicente López y Portaña

oil on canvas, 1826

Museo Nacional del Prado

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a_-_el_pintor_Francisco_de_Goya.jpg)

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The last of the Old Masters and the first of the Moderns.


Phillips Collection - The Old Clock
Goya's Ghosts
El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

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Balthus, The Living Room

Balthus, The Living Room

oil on canvas, 1941?1943

Minneapolis Institute of Art

(http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/the-picture-balthus-boldini)

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He has been, in the words of Albert Camus, a patient and clairvoyant swimmer, . . .[toiling] up strange rivers toward forgotten sources.


(Sam Sachs II in 1966 about The Living Room)



In some

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Balthus, Solitaire

Balthus, Solitaire

oil on canvas, 1943

The Art Institute of Chicago

(http://www.nickhaus.com/2010/02/balthus-in-lovely-lurid-color.html)

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Solitaire was painted in Switzerland, where the artist returned during World War II. It reveals the influence of such Old Masters as Piero della Francesca and Paolo Uccello in its monumentality as well as its

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The Face of Balthus

the face of Balthus

photo taken in 1996 at his home in Switzerland

during the shooting of Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir

author: Damian Pettigrew

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

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One could say only this: that Balthus was his own guy.






(video by Blulight Gallery)




Balthus at Met
Solitaire
The Living Room 




(

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Afiş+ works by Ioan Cuciurca

(http://vreauarta.ro/?p=3313)

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The works of Ioan Cuciurca (Afiş+ at Simeza Gallery in Bucharest) call in mind the Constructivists, or maybe rather the ABECEDA of Devětsil: like the Prague artists of the 1920's, Cuciurca thinks that when the world is upside down and nobody can differentiate truth from lie anymore, it is time to redesign the basics,

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Ioan Cuciurca: Expozitia Afiş+ la Simeza

(http://vreauarta.ro/?p=3313)

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La Galeria Simeza din Bucureşti s-a deschis expoziţia Afiş+ a lui Ioan Cuciurcă. Artistul introduce un limbaj sofisticat, în care detaliile reies din conţinutul, aşezarea şi volumul informaţiei.




(video by BucurestiTvcity)




(Ioan Cuciurca)

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Death by Diamonds and Perls: Installation Art by CARIOCA

A great example of installation art, hosted in the
Stirbey Palace in Bucharest. The exhibition is in the basement of the
palace, where long time ago it was the wine cellar. There is a an alley
of panels, each one an episode in the continuous struggle with our inner
demons, and each panel is replicated in a video, the videos being
arranged in adjoining rooms. The panels like a band of

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Live and Remember

(http://www.irk.ru/afisha/news/20120315/vision/)

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We follow in our judgements a code set by the community. But, beyond any allegiances, each of us is a unique human being. Our life has a purpose of its own. Is it about community? No, it goes beyond, toward ourselves: finding our way, understanding our fate.

A peasant was taken to the war from the very

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Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg

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

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Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden 





Rosa Luxemburg, film 1986

Margarethe von Trotta, director

Barbara Sukowa (Rosa Luxemburg)

Daniel Olbrychski (Leo Jogiches)

Otto Sander (Karl Liebknecht)

(video by Jeremy Cohan)




(Filmofilia)

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Gesang der Geister über den Wassern

(http://www.hoppebaumdienst.de/Kultur.html)

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Des Menschen Seele
Gleicht dem Wasser:
Vom Himmel kommt es,
Zum Himmel steigt es,
Und wieder nieder
Zur Erde muß es,
Ewig wechselnd.

Strömt von der hohen,
Steilen Felswand
Der reine Strahl,
Dann stäubt er lieblich
In Wolkenwellen
Zum glatten Fels,
Und leicht empfangen,
Wallt er verschleiernd,
Leisrauschend
Zur

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A Posthumous Lithograph of Schubert

a lithograph by Josef Kriehuber

source: Project Gutenberg text 11419

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

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(Schubert)

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Plimbare pe Strada Biserica Amzei spre Calea Victoriei

(Musical background: Mozart, Symphony No.41 K.551 in C Major Jupiter, Minuetto Allegro)


















(Bucuresti)

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Galina Nikolaeva

Галина Николаева

(http://www.livelib.ru/author/317085)

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The daughter of a schoolteacher, Galina Nikolaeva (1911-1963) graduated from a medical institute in 1935. Her father and her husband were both imprisoned in 1937, victims of the Soviet political terror of that period. During WWII, Nikolaeva worked as a physician on the Stalingrad front, then in

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Imagini din Cartierul Titan

Musical Background: Bring It Back, Michael Mills




(Bucuresti)

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Viktor Astafyev

Viktor Astafyev

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

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born in 1924 in the region of Krasnoyarsk, on the bank of Yenisei; spent much of his childhood in an orphanage; conscripted in the Soviet Army in 1942, wounded in the war; from 1945 on, lived in various regions of Russia (Urals, Perm, Vologda), working as a locksmith and smelter;

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Arvid has a Question

(https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=603082786368390&set=a.100729353270405.1439.100000000217321&type=1&theater)

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Arvid has a good question: what wine would you serve with this mess? A few would go for a beer, but white wine seems to be the right choice. Now, what kind of white wine? Some would say a Riesling would be good, for some others a Chardonnay

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Bucharest: Mid May in IOR Park

(Musical Background: Beethoven, Piano Sonata No.18 in E-Flat Major, Op.31 No.3: I. Allegro, Clara Haskil)

























(Bucuresti)

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Valentin Rasputin

Valentin Rasputin

source: Александр Стручков

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD.jpg)

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I met firstly with the books of Valentin Rasputin by the end of the 1970's. They made an extraordinary impression on me. It was my first contact with the Siberian writers,

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Merle Haggard - Mama Tried (1968 live TV performance)

Merle Haggard
(http://www.breakoutmanagement.net/booking-non-exclusive-artist/merle-haggard/)

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I recently met with a friend from old times. I haven't seen him since the 1960's. He was by then a mix of shyness and courage (as all of us used to be), and loved singing all kind of songs. Now he looks old, naturally, while his eyes are telling the story of a

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Funny Movies Made by Kids

My granddaughters Bianca and Daria, together with their friends, playing in funny movies made by themselves. Enjoy!





Bollywood Brunettes.mov






Super Brunettes.mov


(Lexington)

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Emily Dickinson: There is no Frigate like a Book

source: Eclectic Eyez

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There is no frigate like a bookTo take us lands away,Nor any coursers like a pageOf prancing poetry.This traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of toll;How frugal is the chariotThat bears a human soul!

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-book/)



(Emily Dickinson)

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Cateva cuvinte despre o poeta

Emily Dickinson
(http://tuvala.blogspot.com/2008/04/perfect-sunday-poem-emily-dickinson.html)

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(click here for the English version)



Aceasta lume nu este o concluzie;
Dincolo de ea sta o urmare,
Nevazuta, asa cum e muzica,
Insa o certitudine, astfel cum e sunetul.


Dupa ce a murit, in camera ei au fost gasite manuscrisele, mii de versuri. Nimeni din

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson
(http://tuvala.blogspot.com/2008/04/perfect-sunday-poem-emily-dickinson.html)

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(click here for the Romanian version)



This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible, as music,
But positive, as sound.

(http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-world-is-not-conclusion/)

After she passed away, the manuscripts were found, in her

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Emily Dickinson: Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church

Today we celebrate here in Romania the Easter, and weather is great: spring is in full blossom, and it gives you a feeling of fulfillment. I think a poem by Emily Dickinson is appropriate.



Some keep the Sabbath going to church;
I keep it staying at home,

With a bobolink for a chorister,
And an orchard for a dome.



Some keep the Sabbath in surplice;
I just wear my wings,
And instead of

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al-Sayyab: Rain Song

(http://stealthishijab.com/rain-song/)

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Your eyes are two palm tree forests in early light,

Or two balconies from which the moonlight recedes

When they smile, your eyes, the vines put forth their leaves,

And lights dance . . . like moons in a river

Rippled by the blade of an oar at break of day;

As if stars were throbbing in the depths of them . . .

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Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

بدر شاكر السياب‎

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab

(http://www.jehat.com/Jehaat/en/Poets/BaderShakir.htm)

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Străzi despre care se spune că nimeni nu mai revine pe ele, aşa cum nimeni nu mai revine de pe tărâmurile morţii:a Romanian rendering of a line from al-Sayyab - I read this line today, in a Romanian paper (Gândul), in an article written by Lelia Munteanu.

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Truman Capote

Truman Capote in 1955

a photo by Richard Avedon

(La Vida en Fotografía)

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Several years ago my sister Jill gave me a  book by Truman Capote: The Muses are Heard. I hadn't read anything by him in original before. I was gained by the style, very matter of fact. I promised myself to look for other of his books. Later I bought a collection including Breakfast

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Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

William Blake, The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins
1822

Tate Gallery, London

source: http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=c&a=p&ID=667

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

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Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of

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Takaragaike Park in Kyoto

Mount Hiei view from Takaragaike Park in Sakyō-ku, Kyoto

日本語: 宝が池公園から望む比叡山 。所在地は京都府京都市左京区。

source: 663highland

author: 663highland

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Takaragaike_Park_Kyoto07s3s4350.jpg)

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A walk in Takaragaike, approaching Lake Biwa and Kamo River... a video of great beauty.





(video by HANAFUBUKI)






(The Thousand faces of

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George Jones passed away

George Jones (1931 - 2013)

(http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/george-jones)

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He was the king of country singers.





Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

written by: Max D. Barnes and Troy Harold Seals

(video by NedNickerson2010)



You know this old world is full of singersBut just a few are chosenTo tear your heart out when they singImagine life

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Bucharest: Easter is Coming

(Bucharest, Iris Shopping Center)



This year Easter is coming to Romania on May 5th and everybody is trying to get ready, especially bunnies and kids.
























(Bucuresti)

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IOR Park in Bucharest - End of April

(Bucuresti)

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André Sauvage: Études sur Paris (1928)

André Sauvage (1891–1975)

director of Études sur Paris

(http://www.dvdclassik.com/personnalite/andre-sauvage)

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I found this movie on youTube unexpectedly, as I was looking for another one (Les années folles). Unique atmosphere of a Paris in 1928, with a few cars mixed with carts and street dogs.Where is all this world now?

A visual treat, this silent

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To Boston, with Love

Karl Zerbe, Park Street, Boston, 1942

encaustic on canvas

The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

(http://blog.phillipscollection.org/2013/04/16/boston-love/)

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Karl Zerbe, a member of the first generation of Boston expressionists, painted this powerful work shortly after moving to the United States from his native Berlin. Zerbe’s piece captures the

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Lake Anne again

Lake Anne at dusk

(published on Facebook by Café Montmartre)

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Lake Anne at dawn

(published on Facebook by Café Montmartre)

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Café Montmartre, on Lake Anne border

(published on Facebook by Café Montmartre)

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(Washington, District of Columbia)

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Warsau: Museum of the History of Polish Jews

(http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2012/10/17/polands-jewish-museum-nears-completion/tab/slideshow/#slide/1)

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My friend Jay noticed me this video: the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, built on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto honors thousand years of Jewish life and culture in Poland - this video documents the museum's development from its

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Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer

(http://www.newnewjournalism.com/bio.php?last_name=krakauer)

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born in Brookline, MA, in 1954 - his family moved to Corvallis, OR when he was two - at eight his father took him to (unsuccessfully) climb Oregon's ten-thousand-foot South Sister - received a degree in environmental studies from Hampshire College - worked as a carpenter and a

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Robert J. Flaherty: Twenty-Four-Dollar Island (1927)

(http://www.ferdyonfilms.com/2011/the-twenty-four-dollar-island-1927/9374/)

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Dutch traders bought the island of Manhattan from the Native Americans for some trinkets supposedly worth twenty four dollars. And the city grew to thirty dwellings, then to thousand residents, and this went on. By the time Flaherty shot his documentary there were eight million

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Years of Hope

(http://res-dbq.org/)

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The Eastern Church (that I belonged to) will celebrate Easter this year at the beginning of May. The Occident is already in Eastertide. Says my friend David, the minister of the Presbyterian Community in Clarendon, VA, ressurection is a churchy word, while the Greek original word from the New Testament simply means rise up.

And

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John Grierson: Granton Trawler (1934)

still from Granton Trawler (1934)

(http://documentarystartshere.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-grierson-and-eh-anstey.html)

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The second (and last) movie directed by John Grierson. Only 11 minutes long. The fascination Grierson looks with his camera at the seagulls calls in mind his Drifters.



Documentary about the fishing trawler, Isabella Grieg. We follow

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John Grierson: Drifters (1929)

still from Drifters (1929)

(http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Dr-Ex/Drifters.html)

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The days when herring fishing had been an idyll between brown sails and village harbors were long gone when John Grierson started working on his documentary - by then it was already an industry. And that's what Drifters is about: the whole life cycle of an industrial

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Neruda and Eminescu

(http://icelines.blogspot.com/2011/02/tuesday-poem-pablo-neruda.html)

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Neruda left thousands of poems, a handful of which are of such inspired beauty as to justify the very existence of the Spanish language (Ilan Stavans). The same could be said about Eminescu, and about the Romanian language.






(http://fotomuzeu.blogspot.com/2011/02/

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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein
source: David Shankbone
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naomi_Klein_Occupy_Wall_Street_2011_Shankbone.JPG)

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Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization (wiki).



(A Life in Books)

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La Plus que Lente (Debussy)

(http://www.classicalarchives.com/work/57294.html)

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Debussy was supposedly inspired for La plus que lente by a small sculpture, La Valse, that he kept on his mantelpiece. The title may be translated as The even slower waltz or, word-for-word, The more than slow. Despite its translation, La plus que lente was not meant to be played slowly; lente, in this

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The Doomed Golden Couple: Zelda and Scott

(Southern Literary Trail)

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Says Nick Wallace-Smith, who didn't read Scott Fitzgerald's A Diamond as Big as the Ritz or The Great Gatsby at university; and not for any Eng. Lit. course but for the sheer Jazz Age excess expressed in the stories; and of course for the delicious writing - like crème brûlée; curiously though, and when I think back, I had no

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The Fitzgeralds

Zelda and Francis Scott Fitzgerald
(http://thegreatgatsbyreadingmap.blogspot.com/p/f-scott-fitzgerald.html)

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Scott was inspired and prodded along in his dissipation by the notoriously eccentric Zelda. As Ring Lardner once put it, Mr. Fitzgerald is a novelist and Mrs. Fitzgerald is a novelty .


(http://www.openculture.com/2012/11/

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Un documentar din anul 1925: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

(click here for the English version)


Vreau sa va vorbesc despre unul din primele documentare etnografice din istoria cinematografului: Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, produs in 1925. Este un film extraordinar, iar povestea filmarii lui este si ea uluitoare.

Totul a inceput cu doi prieteni care aveau ambitia sa produca un film cu care sa egaleze succesul pe care il avusese Nanook of the

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Brancusi Filmed (1929-1939)

source: ICI site

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I found this video on the youTube page of azrzearvar: an unexpected gift for me, and for those browsing my blog. Enjoy!




(video by azrzearvar)




(Avangarda 20)

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John Grierson

John Grierson (1898-1972)

(http://www.net-echt.info/en/2010/09/27/drifters/)

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John Grierson was one of the most important pioneers of documentary. Actually he was the one who coined the term: in his review to Flaherty's Moana (1926), he wrote that being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, it has documentary

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Marx as a Man of His Time - a Book by Jonathan Sperber

source: Ralf Hirschberger/European Pressphoto Agency, Germany, 2008

(http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/03/31/books/review/31FREEDLAND.html)

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I found in the Books Update section of NY Times a review of a new book on Karl Marx, authored by Jonathan Sperber, a professor at the University of Missouri specializing in European history. A Marx that's neither

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Bonjour Monsieur Courbet

Gustave Courbet, La Rencontre

oil on canvas, 1854

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, FR

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Courbet_010.jpg)

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This painting is better known by its nickname, Bonjour Monsieur Courbet, being interpreted as Courbet (on his way to Montpellier) greeted by his patron Alfred Bruyas. The man behind Bruyas is his servant Calas. The

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Velázquez: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

Diego Velázquez: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

oil on canvas, 1618

London National Gallery
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_in_the_house_of_Marthe_and_Marry_V%C3%A9lazquez.jpg)

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Splendid ambiguity! We have here a kitchen with two women caught in what appears to be an argument, while the scene in the house of Martha and Mary (Luke 10, 38-

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Velázquez: Vieja Friendo Huevos

Diego Velázquez: Vieja friendo huevos

(Old Woman Cooking Eggs)

oil on canvas, ca. 1618

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VEL%C3%81ZQUEZ_-_Vieja_friendo_huevos_%28National_Galleries_of_Scotland,_1618._%C3%93leo_sobre_lienzo,_100.5_x_119.5_cm%29.jpg)

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Like other early works by the artist, it shows the influence of

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Velázquez - The Needlewoman

Diego Velázquez - The Needlewoman

oil on canvas, ca. 1640/1650

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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Because the painting remains unfinished, the steps in the artist's process are visible. He began by priming the canvas with a gray-green base. Next, he indicated the main forms of the composition, sketching them in with darker paint, then brushing

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Las Meninas de Velázquez

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour)

oil on canvas, 1656/57

Museo del Prado

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Meninas,_by_Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez,_from_Prado_in_Google_Earth.jpg)

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(Velázquez)

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Velázquez

Diego Velázquez - Selfportrait

oil on canvas, ca. 1640

Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez_Autorretrato_45_x_38_cm_-_Colecci%C3%B3n_Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Carlos_-_Museo_de_Bellas_Artes_de_Valencia.jpg)

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An artist from the Baroque age foretelling the Realism and

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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust at a garden-party

(published on Facebook by Belle Époque Europe)

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Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure. Parfois, à peine ma bougie éteinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je n’avais pas le temps de me dire : « Je m’endors. » Et, une demi-heure après, la pensée qu’il était temps de chercher le sommeil m’éveillait ; je voulais poser

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From Table to Garden

(http://www.aholyexperience.com/2013/03/christian-easter-activity-family-holy-week/)

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I got a message today from my friend David, the pastor of the Clarendon Presbyterian Church. Says he, the Holy Week condenses the journey of faith to its essential steps: hope-filled beginnings, gathering community, looming threat, fearful denial, finality in death, deep

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Suspended Coffees, a Story by Kayla Steele

(published on Facebook by Kayla Steele)

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A story that Kayla Steele published on the Facebook page of lee and me:

We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we’re approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter:
Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended They pay for their order, take

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Marghilomană

ibric, filigeană... tot tacâmul

(http://fanserialeturcesti.forumgratuit.ro/t479p315-suete-cu-fete)

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Se spune ca o marghilomană înseamnă o cafea în care în loc de apă s-a fiert coniac sau rom. Ei bine, coniac sau rom? Depinde de ce tradiție tinem. Daca mergem pe ideea ca marghilomanei îi vine numele dela Alexandru Marghiloman, cunoscutul om politic si

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Larry Crowne

Julia Roberts and
Tom Hanks in Larry Crowne

(The NYC Film Chick Blogspot)

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This is a movie that had mixed reviews. Some considered it simply boring, some others said that Tom Hanks made it interesting to watch, otherwise it would have been simply boring - and there were other reviewers that simply liked it. I range among the ones who liked it. It's not a

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A Paschal Greeting from Yale Strom

(Yale Strom)

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I sent a greeting mail to Yale Strom for Passover, and I used the Hebrew greeting Hag Pesach Sameach. Only Yale is a great Yiddish lover, a passionate for Klezmer and  for Yiddish theatre, and Yiddish cuisine, and all that. So, no wonder that he answered me in Yiddish. His greeting was a git yom tov un a zisn peysekh. I don't know Yiddish at

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Many Unitarians against Polyamory Activists

The infinity heart is a widely used symbol of polyamory

source: Ratatosk

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Polyamory.svg)

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An interesting article in today's Washington Post, about the attitude of UUA (Unitarian Universalist Church) versus the Polyamory activists: the joke about Unitarians is that they’re where you go when you don’t know where to go;

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Chinua Achebe: Pine Tree in Spring

(http://blog.ryanlawn.com/tag/winter/)

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Pine tree

flag bearer

of green memory

across the breach of a desolate hour



Loyal tree

that stood guard

alone in austere emeraldry

over Nature’s recumbent standard



Pine tree

lost now in the shade

of traitors decked out flamboyantly

marching back unabashed to the colors they betrayed



Fine tree

erect

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe
(http://achebebooks.com/)

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A great Nigerian novelist and poet, whose style relies heavily on the oral traditions of his tribe, combining straightforward narration with folk stories and proverbs (wiki). I would like to put here some of his poems. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) is considered his magnum opus. Chinua Achebe died

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Ungaretti: Variazioni su Nulla

(Città Di Vetro)

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Quel nonnulla di sabbia che trascorre
Dalla clessidra muto e va posandosi,
E, fugaci, le impronte sul carnato,
Sul carnato che muore, d’una nube…

Poi mano che rovescia la clessidra,
Il ritorno per muoversi, di sabbia,
Il farsi argentea tacito di nube
Ai primi brevi lividi dell’alba…

La mano in ombra la clessidra volse,
E, di sabbia,

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Dreaming about Reykjavik

Johan Peter Raadsig: Ingólfr tager Island i besiddelse, 1850

on public display in Viðeyjarstofa in Viðey

source: Haukur Þorgeirsson

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

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(click here for the Romanian version)


I was in SoHo, my first day alone in NY. The names of the streets weren't telling anything to me, the place seemed perfectly

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Ungaretti: Mattina

26 Gennaio 1917: Ungaretti compone Mattina

(http://www.studenti.it/foto/superiori/le-ricorrenze-del-mese-di-gennaio/mattina-di-ungaretti.php)

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M’illumino
d’immenso

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ungaretti)





(video by wanded1)




I flood myself with light
of the immense

(http://hanna-faedi.blogspot.com/2009/02/

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Ungaretti: Soldati

(http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_Troops_NGM-v31-p379.jpg)

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Si sta come
d'autunno
sugli alberi
le foglie

(http://balbruno.altervista.org/index-315.html)





(video by WickedSic21)




Here we are
like leaves on
trees in autumn

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ungaretti)





Iată-ne aici

așa cum toamna

își așează frunzele

pe arbori

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Ungaretti: Sono Una Creatura

(Quattrochiacchiere)

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Come questa pietra
del S. Michhele
cosi fredda
cosi dura
cosi prosciugata
cosi refrattaria
Cosi totalmente
disanimata

Come questa pietra
è il mio pianto
che non se vede

La morte
si sconta
vivendo


(http://evergreen-quattrochiacchiere.blogspot.com/2009/03/sono-una-creatura.html)





letto da Vittorio Gassman

(video by

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Giuseppe Ungaretti

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970)

(LAPRIMAWEB)

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A friend of mine posted on Facebook yesterday a poem by Ungaretti. It was a sad moment, as my friend was mourning this way the passing away not so long ago of a man who had loved poetry and had loved the poems of Ungaretti. I didn't have the chance to meet that man ever, I learned about him just yesterday, from

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Poem despre Reykjavik

Johan Peter Raadsig: Ingólfr tager Island i besiddelse, 1850

on public display in Viðeyjarstofa in Viðey

source: Haukur Þorgeirsson

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

no copyright infringement intended


(click here for the English version)

Eram la New York, era prima zi in care ma aventuram singur, si am vazut un barulet pe colt de strada. Era in SoHo, pe langa

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Habemus Papam

Él no sabía que la parada de bus siguiente era el Vaticano

(posted on Facebook by Salesiano Cooperador)

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Am urmarit cu emotie alegerea noului Papa, si am fost impresionat de entuziasmul miilor de credinciosi adunati in Piata Sfantului Petru. Ei sunt o icoana a celor peste un miliard de catolici din toata lumea. Ii respect si ma bucur pentru ei, ma bucur

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Carl Blechen: Badende im Park von Terni

Carl Blechen: Badende im Park von Terni

color on paper, 1828/29

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

source: The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Blechen_008.jpg)

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(Carl Blechen)

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Carl Blechen: Bau der Teufelsbrücke

Carl Blechen: Bau der Teufelsbrücke

oil on canvas, c. 1833

Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Credit line: Leihgabe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Teufelsbruecke.JPG)

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(Carl Blechen)

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Carl Blechen

Carl Blechen in 1836

scanned by Michael Schönitzer, from "Die großen Deutschen im Bilde" (1936)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Blechen.jpg)

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Carl Blechen (1798-1840) was a German artist specialized in fantastic landscapes, sometimes with demons and grotesque figures (wiki)






Carl Blechen, Die Waldschlucht

oil on canvas, 1825

Alte

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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage. Deuxième année: Italie

Beyond its religious connotation, there is more general meaning in the word pilgrimage. It is a journey towards your sources, your identity. Your roots, individual and collective - family, ethnicity, country, faith, culture, civilization. An attempt to understand where you come from, who you are, what is your purpose. Looking for your sources, finding them, meditating, experimenting, living them

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Marc Rubin at Principle Gallery

There is a luminosity about things. Everywhere there are little pools of magical light...people walk right by them all the time. If I can help someone see and appreciate some of this intimate beauty. I feel I've succeeded.


(Marc Rubin)






Marc Rubin: Singular

oil on painting

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Marc Rubin: Propriety

oil on painting

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Cartier-Bresson, School in Soviet Union, 1954

Henri Cartier-Bresson, School in Soviet Union, 1954

(posted on Facebook by Luxury Bookshelf)

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(Cartier-Bresson si momentele lui decisive)

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Promenada Vernet

Claude-Joseph Vernet: La Source Abondante

(whole image and detail)

oil on canvas, 1767 (?)

Hermitage Museum, Youssoupov Gallery

(http://www.univ-montp3.fr)

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...C’était deux pécheurs ; l’un assis et les jambes pendantes vers le bas du rocher, tenait sa ligue qu’il avait jetée dans des eaux qui baignaient cet endroit ; l’autre, les épaules chargées de son

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Chardin: The Attentive Nurse

Chardin: The Attentive Nurse

oil on canvas, 1747

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=41649&image=6782&c=)

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Through the simple action depicted here, Chardin reveals dignity and beauty in everyday life. The woman's expression as she concentrates on her task suggests that her thoughts are elsewhere, perhaps

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Chardin: The Little Schoolmistress

Chardin: The Little Schoolmistress

oil on canvas, after 1740

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=98&image=639&c=)

no copyright infringement intended




(Chardin)

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La Promenade Vernet

Claude-Joseph Vernet: La Source Abondante

(whole image and detail)

oil on canvas, 1767 (?)

Hermitage Museum, Youssoupov Gallery

(http://www.univ-montp3.fr)

no copyright infringement intended

...C’était deux pécheurs ; l’un assis et les jambes pendantes vers le bas du rocher, tenait sa ligue qu’il avait jetée dans des eaux qui baignaient cet endroit ; l’autre, les épaules chargées de son

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Deshays: Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt

Deshays: Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt

oil paint over black chalk on paper, mounted on canvas, varnished.

18th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art
(http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/90003863)

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(Deshays)

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Fragonard: La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading)

Fragonard: La Liseuse (Young Girl Reading)

oil on canvasm c 1770

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=46303&image=9593&c=)

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Fragonard's bravura handling of brushwork and color embodies 18th-century painting aesthetics. The subject is shown in profile holding a book in her right hand and completely absorbed

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Deshays: Herdsmen Driving Cattle across a Stream

Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Colleville: Herdsmen Driving Cattle across a Stream

oil and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper laid down on board

c. 1760

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=108723&image=30297&c=)

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Deshays was one of the most talented artist of his generation; unfortunately, he passed away

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Greuze: Portrait of La Live de Jully

Jean-Baptiste Greuze: Portrait of La Live de Jully

oil on canvas, probably 1759

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=32686&image=5263&c=)

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La Live de Jully was an influential art collector during the times of Greuze. The prominent display of the harp, accompanied by the furniture with the portfolio of

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Chardin: The Kitchen Maid

Jean Siméon Chardin, The Kitchen Maid

oil on canvas, 1738

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=41650&image=6789&c=)

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We stop in front of a Chardin as if by instinct, like a traveler weary of the road choosing, almost without realizing, a place that offers a grassy seat, silence, water and cool shade.


(

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Boucher: The Love Letter

François Boucher: The Love Letter

oil on canvas, 1750

Washington DC National Gallery of Art

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=46027&image=8634&c=)

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It was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour for her chateau at Bellevue. The scene is a pastoral idyll. The young shepherdesses wear fine silks, and a contemporary audience would understand an

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T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot in 1923

photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:T.S._Eliot,_1923.JPG)

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Strada Dunarea Albastra - Ecouri din T.S. Eliot
Carlyle House and Garden - and Primi Tempi from Burnt Norton
At Audubon - Burnt Norton ,Terzi Tempi
Towards Audubon - Reading a Quartet by T.S.Eliot
Audubon - Down David's Alley - Burnt Nornton,

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A Samizdat for the Aristocrats of 18th Century

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrimmCorrespondance.jpg)

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We have nowadays The New Yorker, a weekly magazine covering literature, art exhibitions, theater, politics, social sciences, the talk of the town, the primary focus being the cultural life of New York.  We have also The London Magazine, a non-university  based periodical, boldly assuming (as

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Pianist Van Cliburn Has Passed Away

photo NY Times

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Pianist Van Cliburn, the laureate of the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, died yesterday. His performance at the competition finale of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 earned him a standing ovation lasting eight minutes (wiki). His success at Moscow was a blessed moment of

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Claude-Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck

Claude-Joseph Vernet: The Shipwreck

oil on canvas, 1772

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Patrons' Permanent Fund and Chester Dale Fund

(http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=111194&image=23048&c=)

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The Shipwreck epitomizes the type of marine subject for which Vernet was best known. It was commissioned, along with a pendant Mediterranean

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Claude-Joseph Vernet: Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm

Claude-Joseph Vernet: Soldiers in a Mountain Gorge, with a Storm

oil on canvas, 1789

Detroit Institute of Arts

Credit: Founders Society Purchase; gifts from Dr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Smyd and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hill by exchange

(http://www.dia.org/object-info/905abadb-bc44-477c-8f22-cc38abf3cd06.aspx?position=1/user_area/comping/2001.7.jpg)

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(Vernet)

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Claude-Joseph Vernet: Morning

Claude-Joseph Vernet, Morning

oil on canvas, 1760

Art Institute of Chicago

(http://www.socialhistoryofart.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=146521260)

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Vernet's Morning reveals the later 18th-century landscape tradition out of which Friedrich developed his later Romantic seascape compositions. Friedrich borrowed Vernet's compositions in which prominent

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Caspar David Friedrich

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)
portrait by Gerhard von Kügelgen
oil on canvas, circa 1810-20

Hamburger Kunsthalle

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gerhard_von_K%C3%BCgelgen_portrait_of_Friedrich.jpg)

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Kimsooja
Claude-Joseph Vernet: Morning




(Old Masters)

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Police Officer Roy Painter on an Indian Motorcycle

Police Officer Roy Painter on an Indian Motorcycle, 1938

photo from the New York City Police Museum

(posted on Facebook by The Old NY Page)

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(America viewed by Americans)


(New York, New York)

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Claude-Joseph Vernet

Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789)

portrait by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, 1778

Louvre

photo reproduction: Sammyday
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89lisabeth-Louise_Vig%C3%A9e-Le_Brun_-_Joseph_Vernet_%281778%29.jpg)

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Perhaps no painter of landscapes or sea-pieces has ever made the human figure so completely a part of the scene depicted or so

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

portrait by Louis-Michel van Loo

exhibited at the 1767 Salon de Paris 
under the title Portrait de M. Diderot

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Denis_Diderot_111.PNG)

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co-founder and chief editor, contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert (wiki)



A Samizdat for the Aristocrats of 18th Century
Boucher

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Mateiu Caragiale

Mateiu Caragiale (1885-1936)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mateiu_Caragiale_-_Foto02.jpg)

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Hou Hsiao-Hsien - cehovian si matein
…au tapis-franc nous étions réunis
Curtenii Calului de Spijă 
Estimp
Schembeaua și Prăștina  
Burhai 



(A Life in Books)

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Povestea lui McSorley's

McSorley's: view of the barroom
illustration by Thurber

(The New Yorker, 1940)

no copyright infringement intended


(click here for the English version)

Anul era 1860, iar in scurt timp Lincoln avea sa devina al saisprezecelea presedinte al Americii, chemat sa conduca natiunea in unele din cele mai grele momente ale istoriei ei. Dar in dimineata aceea de februarie Lincoln nu era inca bine

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e. e. cummings: i was sitting in mcsorley's

e.e. cummings, selfportrait

oil painting, 1950's

source: Nancy T. Andrews

(http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cummings/cummings.htm)

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i was sitting in mcsorley's. outside it was New York and beautifully snowing.

Inside snug and evil. the slobbering walls filthily push witless creases of screaming warmth chuck pillows are noise funnily

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Telling the Story of McSorley's

McSorley's: view of the barroom
illustration by Thurber

(The New Yorker, 1940)

no copyright infringement intended


(click here for the Romanian version)


It was February 1860, and Lincoln was not yet well known in the country. All this would change very soon, as the electoral campaign was approaching: by the end of the year he would be elected the sixteenth President of America, called to

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Cascade

(http://www.bloodyloud.com/cascada-nrs-films/)

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A short movie about extreme sailing and extreme filming in extreme nature.




CASCADA from NRS Films on Vimeo.


(NRS Films)

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NRS Films

(http://www.bloodyloud.com/cascada-nrs-films/)

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NRS Films brings you the best, most inspiring paddlesports videos on the Web. Their films remind boaters why they’re boaters and make everyone else wonder why they're not. And actually they're much more.It's the wedding of man with nature.


Cascade



(Filmofilia)

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Glenn O. Coleman at Brooklyn Museum

Hurdy-Gurdy Ballet

lithograph, 1928

(http://www.ifpda.org/content/node/5281)

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In styles that range from straightforwardly realist to the fanciful and abstracting, Glenn O. Coleman devoted his paintings and prints to the portrayal of his adopted hometown of New York City (http://72.9.254.50/view/people/asitem/items$0040null:53/0).





Fort Lee Ferry

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e. e. cummings

e.e. cummings in 1953

World-Telegram photo by Walter Albertin

source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:E._E._Cummings_NYWTS.jpg)

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Edward Estlin Cummings (1894–1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his

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A Parrot Puts Manet and Courbet in Dialog

Gustave Courbet, La Femme au Perroquet

oil on panel, 1866

Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

(http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/110000435?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=courbet%2c+gustave&pos=2)

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Courbet had the ambition to eventually win the acceptance of Académie des Beaux-Arts, and this Woman with a Parrot had been created in their terms. It

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Édouard Manet - Self-Portrait with Palette

Édouard Manet, Self-Portrait with Palette

oil on canvas, 1879

private collection

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Manet_Self-Portrait_with_Palette_v3.jpg)

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One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism (wiki).


I chose this painting here,

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Dans l'Atelier de Courbet

Gustave Courbet - L'Atelier du Peintre

(The Artist's Studio)

oil on canvas, 1855

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Courbet_LAtelier_du_peintre.jpg)

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The title of this painting is much longer, A Real Allegory of a Seven Year Phase in my Artistic and Moral Life. It's a Last Judgement on the taste of Courbet: the master is the

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Olde New York: Harrigan 'n Hart

Harrigan 'n Hart's The Mulligan Guard, c. 1875

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

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Edward Harrigan (1844-1911) was born in New York and of Irish lineage. He made his first acting appearance in San Francisco in 1867, and soon afterwards formed a stage partnership with Tony Hart (1855–1891), whose real name was Anthony Cannon. As

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Cooper Square

Cooper Square map

1. Cooper Union Foundation Building
2. McSorley's Old Ale House
3. Cooper Union New Academic Building
4. Cooper Square Hotel
5. Village Voice
6. Public Theatre (Astor Library)
7. Colonnade Row / Astor Place Theatre (Blue Man Group)
8. Clinton Hall (site of the Astor Opera House)
9. KMart (Wanamaker Department Store Annex)
10. Hamilton Fish House

image author: Beyond My Ken

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Vechiul Fulton Ferry Hotel

Joseph Mitchell in fatza lui Sloppy Louie's
mijlocul anilor 1950

(photo published in The New Yorker)

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(click here for the English version)

Zona in care a fost una din pietele mari de peste ale New Yorkului este azi un punct turistic permanent aglomerat. Cladirea in care se afla piata a devenit un complex de restaurante si magazine de suveniruri, plus

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Sloppy Louie's and the Old Fulton Ferry Hotel

Joseph Mitchell in front of Sloppy Louie's
mid 1950's

(photo published in The New Yorker)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

The place where the Old Fulton Fish Market used to be till 2005 has become a thriving tourist zone. The market building is now housing a complex of restaurants and souvenir shops. The second floor has a huge deck overlooking

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Joseph Mitchell

Joseph Mitchell

as viewed by Nick Sung (1908-1996)

(http://heyoscarwilde.com/nick-sung-joseph-mitchell/)

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Joseph Mitchel came to New York in 1929, with the ambition to become a writer. He began working for several newspapers, the Herald Tribune among them. It was there that he got the advice to simply walk the city, to know every corner and every quirky

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Duke, Kitty, Joan, Ted - unknown year

Duke, Kitty, Joan, Ted - unknown year

(posted on Facebook by Old Dirty Boston)

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Duke (Michael Dukakis) became in 1975 the governor of Massachusetts, and in 1988 he was the Democrat nominee for US presidency. Kitty (Katharine) is his wife. Joan (Virginia Joan Bennett) was the first wife of Ted (Edward Kennedy).

About Duke: his father, Panos, was a Greek

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Craii de Curtea Veche: Burhai

Valley fog in Snohomish County, WA, USA

Brouillard de vallée dans le comté de Snohomish, Washington, Etats-Unis

Niebla del valle en el condado de Snohomish, Washington, los EE.UU

Senkenebels in der Snohomish Grafschaft, Washington, USA

Burhai (ceață care se ridicridică după ploaie)

author: Jon Zander (Digon3)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:December_Fog_01.jpg)

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Craii de Curtea Veche: Schembeaua și Prăștina

(http://arta-culinara-romaneasca.blogspot.com/2012/10/rachiul-de-drojdie.html)

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Doua cuvinte romanesti rare pe care le-am gasit in Craii lui Mateiu: prăștină si schembea.

Cum era atunci cu putință ca... apuseanul subțire în gusturi și lingav să guste pastrama și turburelul, schembeaua și prăștina...?


Schembeaua am regasit-o in doua locuri la Nenea Iancu

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Estimp

Nil Desperandum

(Never Despair)

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We are too quick in declaring Latin a dead language, as there are today even blogs in Latin, like for instance Nil Desperandum, that is superb in all respects. The owner is a Pennsylvanian student who chose a quote from Ovid (cum carmine crescit et annus), suggesting a contemporary adaptation (cum anno cresci et venter).

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Curtenii Calului de Spijă

Statuia lui Henric al Patrulea langa Pont Neuf, Paris

(http://www.great-vacations-travel-guide.com/image-files/things-to-see-in-paris-henry-iv-bronze-statue.jpg)

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Ma intorc din nou la Craii lui Mateiu. Spune Paşadia, chiar in primul capitol ca expresia asta, Craii de Curtea Veche, ii lasa pe jos pe Curtenii Calului de Spijă.

Craii de Curtea Veche, o

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…au tapis-franc nous étions réunis

Le tapis-franc du Lapin blanc dans Les Mystères de Paris

situé rue aux Fèves, démoli en 1860

(Les Mystères de Paris et les premiers romans-feuilletons - de la rive droite à la rive gauche)

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…au tapis-franc nous étions réunis... primul capitol al Crailor de Curte Veche are acest motto.


Mai intai, ce insemneaza tapis-franc? Dictionarul francez ne da: (

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Union Square sub Vifornita - Unul din cele mai vechi filme new-yorkeze

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Childe Hassam - Iarna in Union Square, 1889–90: din 1889 pana in 1895, Hassam a lucrat intr-un atelier aflat la numarul 95 pe Fifth Avenue, nu departe de Union Square, unul din subiectele lui favorite din acea perioada. Imaginea aceasta arata scuarul cum se vede dinspre sud din coltul strazii 16. In fundal, hotelul Morton House este vazut din

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February's Having Fun

Anonymous: February's Having Fun

oil on wood, 1596

private collection

(published on Facebook by Veterodoxia)

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An anonymous Flemish created this painting, inspired by an engraving of Crispijn van de Passe the Elder who in turn was following the design of Marten de Vos.


February is having fun, emptying endless pots of wine as he is celebrating in

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Marten de Vos: Saint Luke painting the Virgin Mary

Marten de Vos: Saint Luke painting the Virgin Mary

oil on panel, 1602

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

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

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A leading Antwerp artist, Marten de Vos (1532-1603) traveled to Italy and adopted the mannerist style. He was also highly influenced by the colors of Venetian painting, and might have

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A Dynasty of Engravers: Van de Passe

The Gunpowder Plotters
author: Crispijn van de Passe the Elder

engraving, circa 1605

National Portrait Gallery, London

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

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Crispijn van de Passe the Elder (c. 1564 - 1637) had been trained in Antwerp, by that time the center of printmaking world. He became a member of the artists' Guild

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Ioan Cuciurca: Brancusi as a Photographer

Brancusi Photographer is an essay written by Ioan Cuciurca in 1974. It was originally published in Steaua, a prestigious Romanian cultural magazine. Says Ioana Vlasiu, Cuciurca wrote about Brancusi as a photographer in 1974, before the advent of reference studies on this subject.



(Ioan Cuciurca: Brancusi fotograf, revista Steaua nr.3/120, ian. 1974)



(click here for the Romanian version)

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Accordionist in NY Subway. Life Magazine, 1969

Accordionist in NY Subway. Life Magazine, 1969

(shared from Facebook - The Old New York Page)

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(America viewed by Americans)


(New York, New York)

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Flacari de Toamna

Erna Bergman in Autumn Fire

(http://wiki.hisk.edu/w/HISK_Summer_Seminar:_City_Symphonies)

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(click here for the English version)


Istoria acestui filmulet de 15 minute este la fel de frumoasa ca si filmul insusi. Prin 1930/1931 Herman G. Weinberg era managerul unui mic cinematograf din Baltimore, ceea ce am numi acum cinema de arta, locul unde era

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A Poem by My Granddaughter Bianca

(http://www.phs.d211.org/Athletics/CC/GCC/archive%20-%20Fall%202010.htm)

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Windy Winter

Chilling wind is everywhere,
In my breath and in my sleigh
And I see one polar bear.

It is not polite to stare,
Yet he does it anyway,
Chilling wind is everywhere

Fur like his is very rare
But most of his fur is gray
And I see one polar bear.

He senses fear in the

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Herman G. Weinberg, Autumn Fire, 1931

Erna Bergman in Autumn Fire

(http://wiki.hisk.edu/w/HISK_Summer_Seminar:_City_Symphonies)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

The story surrounding this 15 minute movie is as beautiful as the movie itself. By 1930/1931 Herman G. Weinberg was the manager of a little theatre in Baltimore, an outlet for anything indie and/or avant-garde, be it

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Alfred Morgan: An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus

Alfred Morgan: An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus,

Mr Gladstone Traveling with Ordinary Passengers

oil on canvas, 1885

(http://www.artnet.com/artists/alfred-morgan/an-omnibus-ride-to-piccasilly-circus-mr-gladstone-7Jcu-V-_ij5FumsOb0JHDQ2)

(also published on Facebook by Belle Époque Europe)

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Va recomand sa cititi Marea Britanie si Unirea

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Henri Fantin-Latour: Un atelier aux Batignolles

Henri Fantin-Latour: Un atelier aux Batignolles, 1870

oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henri_Fantin-Latour_006.jpg)

(also published on Facebook by Belle Époque Europe)

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Les Batignolles was the district where Manet and many of the future Impressionists lived. Fantin-Latour, a quiet observer of this period, has

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Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp Playing Chess

(shared from the Facebook page dedicated to Marcel Duchamp)

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(Avangarda 20)

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F. W. Murnau: Sunrise (1927)

Janet Gaynor and George O'Brien in a scene from Sunrise

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F._W._Murnau-Sunrise-Gaynor_and_O%27Brien_on_Farm.jpg)

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I hadn't watched the movie till last night. I was wondering whether it
had stood the test of time. Also I had read the plot and it seemed to me
naive. Well, I can tell you that Sunrise is an amazing movie,

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Luis Garcia Berlanga ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! (1953)

(http://tetuan.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha55233_37_1.htm)

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The little village of Villar del Río is awaiting the song performance of Carmen Vargas (Lolita Sevilla), 'The Great Andalusian Star'. The quiet village is governed by a deaf, naughty and good-natured Mayor (José Isbert in an uforgettable role), who's only seeking the way to give life to the

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JFK and little Caroline

JFK and little Caroline

Washington, DC, late 1950's

(posted on Facebook by il piccolo istrione)

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(Zoon Politikon)

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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956)

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1956)

(http://forum.foreignmoviesddl.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=12923)

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A movie based on a real story. In 1906, Wilhelm Voigt was freed from prison, where he had spent most of his life. First time he had been imprisoned when he was fourteen, for a minor theft, and then the small or not so small thefts and successive convictions

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F. W. Murnau

F.W. Murnau shooting a film in 1920

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F_W_Murnau_01.jpg)

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One of the great names in the history of cinema, F. W. Murnau left us with such amazing films as Nosferatu, or Der Letzte Mann, Faust or Sunrise.  His works filter influences from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen (wiki).


Nosferatu (1922)
Sunrise (

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Juan Antonio Bardem: Calle Mayor (1956)

Calle Mayor, 1956

Spanish theatrical release poster

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Calle_mayor.JPG)

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Calle Mayor, the Main Street... First time I watched this movie sometime in the 1960s or 1970s. It was one evening, we were at home the whole family, and together with us there was a close friend of my parents, an aged lady, distinguished and very nice

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Greg Gandy - Morning Light on California Street

Greg Gandy - Morning Light on California Street

oil on panel

on view at Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA

(shared from Facebook via Principle Gallery)

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(Principle Gallery)

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La Cumparsita, Otra Vez

El Tango y Sus Invitados

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This time the tango is played by a boy of eleven, Julio Silpitucla. He is not only good at guitar, no, he's crazily good. Said one listener, before I considered playing the guitar. After seeing this boy, I realized that my place would be rather selling freaking hot-dogs.





(video by abelucho2)



(La Cumparsita)

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The Two Foundations

(published on Facebook by SF Swedenborgian Church)

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De aceea, oricine aude aceste cuvinte ale Mele şi la îndeplineşte asemăna-se-va bărbatului înţelept care a clădit casa lui pe stâncă. A căzut ploaia, au venit râurile mari, au suflat vânturile şi au bătut în casa aceea, dar ea n-a căzut, fiindcă era întemeiată pe stâncă. Iar oricine aude aceste cuvinte

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Scott Bartner: Reclining Nude with Japanese Screen

(http://www.principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6402)

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Scott E. Bartner started a career in finances while being attracted by painting. After a few years he decided to remain totally in the world of art.



{Principle Gallery)

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Jorge-Alberto: A Collector's Item

Jorge-Alberto, A Collector's Item

oil on panel

(http://www.principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6603)

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{Principle Gallery)

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Jorge-Alberto: Becoming a Doctor

Jorge-Alberto, Becoming a Doctor

oil on panel

(http://www.principlegallery.com/artistView.new.pl?image=6174)

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You have here everything: drama of light (that obsess Jorge-Alberto), technique of deception (another obsession of the artist), magical realism (in good Latin-American tradition), macabre humor (celebrating death is a way to conceive eternity). I

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A Story with Cupboards and Waterwheels

Ludwig Deutsch, The Scholars

oil on panel, 1901

(Washington Times, Orientalist art’s reversal of fortune)

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(click here for the Romanian version)


All started from a painting by Ludwig Deutsch, showing three Arab scholars in front of an elegant built-in bookcase. A work from 1901, carying the title The Scholars. It impressed me, and it called in my mind

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O Poveste cu Dulapi si Dulapuri

Ludwig Deutsch, The Scholars

oil on panel, 1901

(Washington Times, Orientalist art’s reversal of fortune)

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Totul a inceput dela o pictura a lui Ludwig Deutsch, infatisand trei carturari arabi aflati in fata unei biblioteci zidite in perete. O pictura din anul 1901, intitulata Carturarii. Mi-a placut mult (

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My Granddaughter Daria in the Skiing Class

The Gang of Four. Daria is the first on the left.




(Lexington)

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Portrait of the Duke as a Young Man

Hans Mielich: Youth Portrait of Duke Albert V

(Jugendbild des Herzog Albrecht V. von Bayern)

Alte Pinakothek, Munich

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

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(Hans Mielich)

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The Chess Play from Munich

Hans Mielich

Duke Albert V of Bavaria and his consort Anna of Austria playing chess

1552

Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich

(http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2011/03/patron-saint-of-chess.html)

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Duke Albert V of Bavaria was a generous patron of the arts and an assiduous collector of Greek,

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Hans Mielich

Hans Mielich, Selbstporträt

oder Bildnis eines unbekannten Zeitgenossen

ca.1550

(http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Hans_Mielich.jpg&filetimestamp=20071109215552)

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A master of the Late Renaissance, Hans Mielich (also known as Muelich, or Müelich) was born in Munich in 1516 (the date is actually not documented; it was deduced from one of his

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Makar Sankranthi

(http://www.magicalmumbai.com/1807/makar-sankranti-kite-flying-festival/)

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This coming Monday the Sun enters the Makara rashi, it's time for harvest and for joy. I looked a little bit into a dictionary where I find always many things, in Wikipedia.

They call it मकर संक्रान्ति in Hindi and Sanskrit. In Bengali, the language of Tagore and of Satyajit Ray,

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Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)

Die Drei von der Tankstelle, 1930

(http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/movie/detail/-/art/Die-Drei-von-der-Tankstelle-1930/hnum/2182867)

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Three friends get suddenly broke and loose everything except optimism. So they take a run-down filling station and start working in shifts. It happens that a young lady begins to come there every day, always finding another one of

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Ludwig Deutsch: Sharia El Sanadkyeh

Ludwig Deutsch: Sharia El Sanadkyeh

oil painting

private collection

(http://www.famous-artists.net/sharia-el-sanadkyeh/)

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Probably in 1883, and more certainly in 1886, 1890, and 1898, Deutsch traveled to Egypt. Orientalist subject matter dominated his artwork from this time forward, and earned him unprecedented praise. In 1900, Deutsch received a gold

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