artist & gardener, weaving memory
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Adalbert von Chamisso, imagining that one could use trained whales for various freight transports and tasks...
(from WG Sebald, Nach der Natur...)
for @philipwhale
I'll be forever stuck believing that Anselm is trying to whistle I'm a Barbie-Girl...
#anselm #kiefer #wimwenders #imabarbiegirl
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We are delighted that The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers has been published as part of Brill's Spatial Practices series brill.com/display/title/6327…
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In 1898, shortly after the death of her husband Jack, Isabella Stewart Gardner acquired Giovanni Bellini’s Christ Carrying the Cross. As if to transform the work into a memorial, she placed her favorite flowers, violets, in a silver cup she and Jack purchased in Norway in 1867.
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"Too much a Rembrandt to be by Rembrandt" - the Man with the Golden Helmet was demoted in 1985.
wonderous coincidence...
@gregorg was this intentional? and are you in Europe?
ALT Les Baux, in France, set up a surreal Mondrian exhibition - or is it even an exhibition? however life is a beautiful counterpoint. (c) @gregorg
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The power of detail
Paolo Veronese, Annunciation, 1578
The glass vase behind the Virgin is a luminous detail that only became clearly visible to modern viewers after a 2007 restoration.
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Oh this is very exciting - the long-delayed volume “W G Sebald - Shadows of Reality” - a fully-illustrated catalogue of Sebald's photographs, is coming this September from the Boiler House Press! boilerhouse.press/so/fbOW68C…
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A man, his tulip, it’s bulb, his shells, and oh yes, his wife. Priorities! Painted by Michiel van Mierevelt.
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Six Romanov Family Albums documenting the last years of Russian Imperial dynasty
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if there is one thing I love, it is Motandi's watercolours...
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