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SEVDALIZA - DARKEST HOUR YouTube video by Sevdaliza

Song by the Iranian-Dutch musician
Sevdaliza, with a powerful video #music #InternationalWomensDay

Cover with a floral detail from a woman’s sash, from the Ottoman Empire circa 1830. ‘A hugely impressive book, with things to admire on almost every page’ -Daily Telegraph. Winner of the 1993 Prix Goncourt

‘The Rock of Tanios’ by Amin Maalouf (1993)

At the center of a showdown between empires, stands the headstrong son of a Lebanese village. Grand visions for modernity arrive there from Europe, Asia and Africa, but are framed by the legacies and rivalries of a much smaller world

Art of the day

Franco Fontana

Cover in Serbo-Croat, showing a rock, a passport, a red communist flag, and possibly a heap, all set against black and white stripes

‘The Houses of Belgrade’ by Borislav Pekić (1970)

The reader realises that the protagonist cares for buildings rather than humans, giving an absurdly alien view on Yugoslavia’s history. This makes it all the more striking when human darkness intrudes on his narrative #booksky

Cover in Serbo-Croat, showing a rock, a passport, a red communist flag, and possibly a heap, all set against black and white stripes

‘The Houses of Belgrade’ by Borislav Pekić (1970)

The reader realises that the protagonist cares for buildings rather than humans, giving an absurdly alien view on Yugoslavia’s history. This makes it all the more striking when human darkness intrudes on his narrative #booksky

Lost Kingdom (Serhii Plokhy)
Ukraine and Russia (Paul D’Anieri)
Russia Starts Here (Howard Amos)
All the Kremlin’s Men (Mikhail Zygar) Towards the Abyss (Volodymyr Ishchenko, contentious put part of the story). Cultural insights by Marlene Laruelle and Maria Engström

Cover in Serbo-Croat, showing a rock, a passport red communist flag, and possibly a heap, all set against black and white stripes

‘The Houses of Belgrade’ by Borislav Pekić (1970)

The reader realises that the narrator cares for buildings rather than humans, presenting an absurdly alien view on Yugoslavia’s history. This makes it all the more striking when human darkness intrudes on his narrative.

#drawing #charcoaldrawing #pasteldrawing #coloursoflife #neutraltones

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

You Are My Everlovin' YouTube video by Henry Flynt - Topic

Henry Flynt combined Hindustani classical music with Appalachian fiddle tunes, having studied under Pandit Pran Nath #music #appalachia

Cover in Polish, showing an ominous face sculpted above a window, within a murky orange light

‘In Red’ by Magdalena Tulli (1998)

The tragically short history of interwar Poland, as a dream between two winters. Characters drift through a nonsensical town, which is slowly being destroyed by events in the past #booksky

Not all the sentences land but it is entertaining. Magical realism

Cover in Polish, showing an ominous face sculpted above a window, within a murky orange light

‘In Red’ by Magdalena Tulli (1998)

The tragically short history of interwar Poland, as a dream between two winters. Characters drift through a nonsensical town, which is slowly being destroyed by events in the past #booksky

Luridly comical ink paintings by Li Jin #art #china

Fearsome tiger

Messenger of Vaiśravaṇa — Tomiyuki Kaneko, 2020
Japanese ink, transparent watercolor, acrylic, pen on Japanese paper
170×76cm

mizuma-art.co.jp/en/artists/k...

Amy Sillman, Afternoon, 2024, Acrylic and oil on linen, 75 x 66 inches (190.5 x 167.6 cm) #painting #art #contemporaryart #EastCoastKin

Cover showing an African statue, tilted and with a blood stain at the top, set against the floor tiles of an expensive home. Translated by Yarri Kamara

‘So Different From My Life’ by Monique Ilboudo (2022)

The view from Oagadougou, showing inner and outer turmoil for an African set on Europe. Global injustice is cleverly shown at a human scale, shifting as his heart wavers from emigration. The first published novel by a Burkinabé woman #booksky

Cover showing an African statue, tilted and with a blood stain at the top, set against the floor tiles of an expensive home. Translated by Yarri Kamara

‘So Different From My Life’ by Monique Ilboudo (2022)

The view from Oagadougou, showing inner and outer turmoil for an African set on Europe. Global injustice is cleverly shown at a human scale, shifting as his heart wavers from emigration. The first published novel by a Burkinabé woman #booksky

Cover showing an African statue, tilted and with a blood stain at the top, set against the floor tiles of an expensive home. Translated by Yarri Kamara

‘So Different From My Life’ by Monique Ilboudo (2022)

The view from Oagadougou, showing the inner and outer turmoil of an African set on Europe. Global injustice is cleverly shown at a human scale, shifting as his heart wavers from emigration. The first published novel by a Burkinabé woman

Still of the Spanish dancer Antonìa Mercè (La Argentinita), likely taken in the thirties or forties, in which her spinning causes her dress to fly outwards from her heels. One of her performances inspired the Japanese avant-garde dancer Kazuo Onō

A sonic project tracing flamenco across the Pacific Ocean, exploring the the Spanish Empire and its postcolonial echoes

#music #worldmusic #experimental

www.biennaleofsydney.art/participants...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928)
Wall Panel for the Dug-Out (Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow) 1917

Cover using a painting of an East German car bursting through the Berlin Wall, with the number plate NOV-9-89. The painting is ‘Test the Best’ by Birgit Kinder, part of the Berlin Wall gallery. It is by now covered in graffiti. The book was written by James Mark, Bogdan C Iacob, Tobias Rupprecht & Ljubica Spaskovska. From the series ‘New Approaches to European History’

Recommended: ‘1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe’ (2019)

A valuable revisit to the end of European communism, showing divisions and legacies aside from the Iron Curtain. It complicates distinctions between capitalism and communism, Europe and Africa, past and future #booksky

The wild and seemingly tearful eye of a mallard, a bird found around Lake Van. Translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökcescu

‘Lojman’ by Ebru Ojen (2020)

A ferocious novel of the Kurdish experience, centred on a dwelling owned by the Turkish state. Abandoned during a snowstorm, a mother and daughter are consumed by mutual hatred, turning the house into something alien. The writing contorts to capture this force.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The wild and seemingly tearful eye of a mallard, a bird found around Lake Van. Translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökcesu

‘Lojman’ by Ebru Ojen (2020)

A ferocious novel of the Kurdish experience, centred on a dwelling owned by the Turkish state. Abandoned during a snowstorm, a mother and daughter are consumed by mutual hatred, turning the house into something alien. The writing contorts to capture this force #booksky

The wild and seemingly tearful eye of a mallard, a bird found around Lake Van. Translated by Aron Aji and Selin Gökcescu

‘Lojman’ by Ebru Ojen (2020)

A ferocious novel of the Kurdish experience, centred on a dwelling owned by the Turkish state. Abandoned during a snowstorm, a mother and daughter are consumed by mutual hatred, turning the house into something alien. The writing contorts to capture this force.

A watercolour painting of a melted looking human face with red lips and closed eyes, emerging from, or being engulfed in a stormily painted grey black and Prussian blue background, the face only just suggested by a few lines, warped by water having been allowed to float through the paint

Drawing created during the midC20th in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, by an individual who was compelled to live there, whose identity is currently unknown to us.
This image is from art therapist Edward Adamson’s lecture slides & the original is missing presumed lost

Some vibrant tearing that’s added to the graffiti #photography #art #blueskyart