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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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)

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(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)

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(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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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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