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Anne Carson (2009)
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E.P. Coleridge (1910)
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Euripides - Original (408 BCE)
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‘The Quiet Pet’ (detail) by John William Godward, c. 1906.
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High in the Indus Valley of Pakistan are some of the most intricate and diverse petroglyphs on earth. These are the ancient Shatial glyphs on the Karakoram Highway in the Giligit-Baltistan region. Dating from the Stone Age to the birth of Islam, the glyphs cover rocks and boulders stretching for over 100 kilometers. The writings and designs cover several languages, religions and the symbolism of peoples dating back 10,000 years. Some of these magnificent glyphs are under threat from modern hydropower projects planned in the Indus Valley…
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Barry S04E05 - “tricky legacies”
Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
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Elle - March 25, 1974. Anny Duperey photographed by Peter Knapp, costumes designed by Yves Saint Laurent for the film Stavisky (1974, dir. Alain Resnais)
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“Listening to the Birds”. John E. Dumont
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Bob Thompson spoke the language of jazz, of riffing and improvisation. He played drums, and in New York he befriended bass player Charlie Haden, saxophonist Ornette Coleman, and other experimental musicians spearheading the “free jazz” movement. He knew writers like Allen Ginsberg, too, and by the late 1950s he was attending some of the first “happenings,” in which artists of all kinds would perform spontaneously with the participation of the audience.
Thompson was a bohemian, in other words. But he had a thing for Renaissance and Baroque art, and when he moved to France in 1961 it was to study these works at the Louvre museum in Paris and elsewhere. In art school, he had begun to copy the paintings of Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, and other Old Masters, and when he moved to Europe he began to turn them on their head.
Several paintings in Mia’s show riff on “bacchanal” paintings of the Baroque era, which not so subtly evoke the sex, drinking, and merriment of myth. (A real Baroque painting, featuring cads and their willing victims, is included as context.) One of them, Homage to Nina Simone, shows nude men, women, and children grooving to music in an idyllic, park-like landscape — a twist on Nicolas Poussin’s painting Bacchanal with Lute-Player, from around 1630, which Thompson had seen in the Louvre.
Thompson had been on a tear, returning to New York with a huge trove of paintings like this, which established him as a kind of genre unto himself: the black artist who deconstructed old white art for a hipper, groovier time. Like Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, his talents broke barriers even as they enabled his vices. The charms of the art world — money, fame, drugs — were held out to him, and he turned none of it away. He loved to party. He had a heroin addiction. He lived fast, and died fast.
Thompson painted his tribute to Nina Simone, the talented and tragically unstable singer and pianist, in 1965. The following spring, in Rome, he overdosed on heroin and died. He was 28.
source medium.com/ painting: Bob Thompson’s “Homage to Nina Simone” from 1965.
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Lewis Spence, Tezcatlipoca as a were-jaguar, The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico, 1943
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