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S. Elizabeth on Karen Kuykendall's Cat People from the Outer Regions
S. Elizabeth, author of The Art of Darkness, The Art of the Occult, and The Art of Fantasy as well as the incredible Unquiet Things blog, tells us about painter Karen Kuykendall and growing up with the beautifully surreal Tarot of the Cat People. Major Arcana from The Tarot of the Cat People//image:@Karen Kuykendall Captivating, Curious, Chimerical: Karen Kuykendall’s Cat People from the Outer…
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"from ‘Cancer, or, The Crab’, a section of The Ecliptic" by Joseph Macleod
A poem for Cancer season image: The Crab and the Heron – Gurupada//@Google Arts & Culture As we enter the final week of Cancer, here’s a poem about crabs. This excerpt from Joseph Macleod’s long poem from 1930 captures the eerie unearthly stillness of a moonlit beach, edges blurry and indistinct beneath pale blue light. It’s rooted in classicism, with Leda and Catullus and Aphrodite Pandemos…
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Deep Waters by Lilias Trotter
Art as faith. Faith as art. “‘I am come into deep waters’ took on a new meaning this morning.  It started with perplexing matters concerning the future.  Then it dawned that shallow waters were a place where you can neither sink nor swim, but in deep waters it is one or the other:  ‘waters to swim in’ – not to float in.  Swimming is the intense, most strenuous form of motion – all of you is…
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5 Poems for Juneteenth
From joy as resistance to Langston Hughes’ dropkicking doors to a poem from a current High Schooler, here are 5 poems to celebrate Black excellence! Poetry is the perfect medium for freedom. It liberates language from the harsh confines of good sense, from the tyranny of perfect punctuation, from the endless grind of Logic and Reason. It gives wings to our voices; it lets us dream of new worlds,…
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Maggi Hambling - Wall of Water IX
Maggi Hambling’s oil paintings express the rainbow of thoughts and emotions of watching the water. Images of the beach, the ocean, the sea, the waves are synonymous with luxury, opulence, with living your best life. From the white sand beaches of Florida’s Clearwater Beach to the glamour of Cannes and the Mediterranean World to the eye-stabbing azure of The Maldives, standing on the beach often…
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"Suburban Pastoral" by Dave Lucas
Evening descends on a Proustian suburb in Dave Lucas’ “Suburban Pastoral.” Beauty can be found anywhere. Ditto, inspiration. While melodrama and grandeur might seem necessary to make Great Art – the lofty, soul-stirring heights of Gothic architecture, the knee-quaking, awe-inspiring sublimity of the ocean, the mountains, the desert, the night sky – inspiration and beauty are just as often found…
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is a masterpiece, illustrating our evolving associations with the color blue. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, at lower left. Bacchus, god of wine, is returning from a…
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"Saturday Night as an Adult" by Anne Carson
An internet kerfuffle earlier this week offered some intriguing insights into generational gaps and the current book scene. On June 5, at 9:52 a.m., New Yorker cultural writer Hannah Williams posted an off-handed tweet about Canadian-poet-in-exile Anne Carson, stating that she found herself thinking often of a short piece of prose poetry published a few years prior in the New…
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"Polaroid Ode" by Cori A. Winrock
For Federico Durand. Something has been inexplicably lost with the rise of infinite HD digital photography. Maybe it was the inherent finitude of analog photography, the shortage of film and the time, energy, and resources to cultivate it. You had to really think about what you were going to shoot. You had to choose and, when you had, you had to stand by that decision. Perhaps this is why…
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Two Poems About Sunsets
Two great poets use the liminal language of twilight to express transition, longing, passion, memory, and grief. Sunset Photo by Rose White//@AnkhRising8 Twilight is a time of transitions; no longer daytime, not quite night. Everyday objects go soft around the edges, taking on a mythic, magic edge as shadows lengthen, deepen. Songbirds seem to hold their breath, waiting for the first night…
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Painting of the Week: Italian Girl With Flowers by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s early portrait of youthful innocence is a masterwork of light. Rendered in liquid, dreamy oils in 1886, Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s impressionist portrait of a young Italian girl’s reverie both presages his later work while also standing resolutely apart. Sorolla y Bastida would later become known for epic works – from his work depicting bold…
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"The Sea" by James Reeves
A poem doesn’t have to be complicated to be wonderful. Poetry can be simple. It can also be quiet profound. It’s often both, at the same time. It gives voice to the world around us, in all its incomprehensible wonder and vastness. It helps us to position ourselves within us, writing hymns and lamentations and sonnets and odes to the starry dynamos of night, the wind whispering through the…
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3 Poems for AAPI Month
It’s AAPI month, also known as APA month, which stands for Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month or Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, respectively. To celebrate, here are three poems from Asian-American poets. There’s a ghazal about grief, lost love, and memory from Agha Shahid Ali, published in 2003. There’s an elegy for the passing of time and the seasons from Hayan Charara.…
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5 Poems for Cinco de Mayo
Depictions of the battle showing Mexican cavalry overwhelming the French troops below the fort at Loreto. Scene recreated by Francisco P. Miranda. Oil on canvas, 1872.//credit: Francisco P. Miranda May 5, otherwise known as “Cinco de Mayo” is not Mexican Independence Day – that’s September 16. It is an important date for Mexican Independence, though, commemorating an important victory of the…
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This is Aneshka, forest witch and pumpkin collector✨ 11×14 original gouache @PinkGorgon
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🔥The outfits in Sailor Moon were always the best
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