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brooklynmuseum · 1 year

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We began work on January 28, but the highlight of this week was the January 31 visit to the site by Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum Director, and members of the Museum’s Board of Governors. We were thrilled to be able to show them the site where Brooklyn has worked for the past 40+ years. We hope they enjoyed their visit.

As promised last week, here are the members of our team. Our foreman again this year is Abdel Aziz Farouk Sharid (left). He and our inspector, Haitham Mohamed Sa’ad el-Din are discussing the season’s work. The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) assigns an inspector to every expedition to act as liaison with the SCA and help facilitate the work. We are happy to have Haitham with us this season.

Besides Abdel Aziz, the Qufti who working with us this year are Abdel Aziz’s brother Ayman Farouk Sharid (center), the foreman for the Johns Hopkins University expedition who works with us when Hopkins isn’t in the field; and Mamdouh Kamil, who has worked with us for many seasons. All are from the village of Quft (ancient Coptos), which has a long tradition of archaeology going back to the late 19th century. Ayman and Abdel Aziz are the sons of one of the great Egyptian archaeologists, the late Farouk Sharid Mohamed, who was a beloved friend and treasured colleague. His sons are worthy successors to him.

You are looking northwest at the first court of Temple A, which stands northeast of the Mut Temple. We are working in two areas of the court this year. In 2019 we were able to confirm that that the row of limestone features on the court’s south side were sphinx bases. This season we want to see if there are remains of corresponding bases on the north side (right). We are also clearing the corridor between the south colonnade and the south wall of the court (left).

By the end of the week (February 2) the results in the north square were equivocal. Looking north, you can see an area of decayed limestone on the right side of the square that might be the remains of a sphinx base. On February 1, Mamdouh uncovered the round, dark feature to the left of the “sphinx base” that might be a tree hole. Sphinx avenues often had trees planted between the sculptures.

The work on the corridor was more productive. By the middle of the week Ayman had cleared a mass of broken stone and revealed the lowest course of the court’s south wall (left) and the footing of the temple’s 2nd Pylon. Both sit on a sand foundation that you can see below the blocks of stone. It was common to use sand in the foundations to level out uneven ground.

On February 1 our Dutch colleague, Jacobus (Jaap) van Dijk joined us for another season. First thing on the morning of February 2, Ayman called us over to show us an interesting find: a large relief-decorated block. Jaap immediately got down to have a look.

The block has a beautifully carved relief of Amun that clearly is Thutmoside in style, that is, from the reign of Hatshepsut and/or Thutmosis III, of the mid-15th century BC. What makes it particularly interesting is the small, shallowly carved graffito of a God’s Wife of Amun facing the Amun and dating stylistically to Dynasty 25 or 26, about 700 years after the god’s face was carved. God’s Wives of Amun were priestesses, usually the sisters or daughters of kings, who wielded great political power in the Third Intermediate Period and later.

Just west of the Amun block was smaller cube of stone with a sunk relief depiction of a man’s foot on base lines with the top of a cartouche and the “son of Re” title below. The style of the foot (very long) and the vertical element of the cartouche date it to the reign of Akhenaten. It probably came originally from his temple in East Karnak, built before the king moved the capital to Amarna. The artist paid attention to detail when painting the relief, painting the head of the goose (“son”) blue but its beak and eye red. The Brooklyn Museum has an interesting group of Amarna Period reliefs showing a pastoral scene.

By the end of the week Ayman and his crew had cleared the bases of the first 3 columns of the colonnade, working from west to east. The blocks of the bases are large: 70 cm by 125 cm and almost 100 cm thick.

We are also planning on restoring 2 fallen columns in the colonnaded porches in front of the Mut Temple. The one in the East Porch is shown here as it was found in 1979. Work hasn’t started on these yet; there will be more about the restoration next week.

One of our favorite birds is the tiny, bright bee eater, so called because it catches insects in mid-air. This is the first we’ve seen this season.

An unusual cloud formation seen at sunset one night. Angels? Extraterrestrials?

Posted by Richard Fazzini and Mary McKercher

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saintmeghanmarkle · 21 days

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Narcissism 101: Using Google alerts and SEO by u/Imfryinghere

Narcissism 101: Using Google alerts and SEO I'm gonna rant here because still many of you do not understand how and what Narcissism works and its transformative and traumatic effect on their victims.@ Google Alerts and SEOYou might think these two matters more to the Dumble Dees but you forget their gift of gab as in oral skills is their bread and butter. They disseminate false information through their mouths and let them fester in their victims.Didn't we learn in this sub and dealing with narcs that they will twist anything to their own advantage? So why give them (presstitutes, sugars and the toilet bowls) ammunition?Examples:using William instead of just naming Harry who did the abuse on the horse. Did you ever think that one minion can or will disregard H because W (the bigger fish) is attached to the "killing" sentence?How about Anne Pasternak's hitpiece in the Tatler? Does it ring a bell to you?How about Giles Coren's 'there is an affair"? Did you all forget?Do you all want more twisted tales just because you don't want SEO searches on Harry where we can make sure the searches will actually go to the facts and not made up by them?@ Reimagining ScenariosNarcs are well-known to do this hence we get plenty of confusing statements/scenarios/events/people from their tales.Examples:Didn't Harry in his Spare book twisted how he wore the Nazi uniform because of William and with Catherine egging him on?Kill Notice on the family photo for Mother's day uploaded by Catherine. Russia/China hard-on by some people regarding the bullying against the Royal family when there's the Montecito, California USA gang, the Scotland group, Ireland, and even England groups.@ Lies, Lies and OmissionsLike reimagining scenarios, narcs lie, lie and lie 24/7 just so they can control the narrative and make people believe it. Examples:Narc minion Endgame named Charles and Catherine as racists supposedly in the Dutch translation of his book which he details his interactions with their "narcness" and then blame the poor translator for the blunder.Meghan was so smug to demonstrate how she curtsies in their Netflix show but her Suits tv series has shown she can actually curtsy properly.Meghan making lies that her father, Thomas Markle Sr, didn't pay for her college studies and a lot more lies against Thomas.@ Passive-Aggressiveness and BullyingNarcs have perfected passive-aggressiveness in the way they deal with their victims. They make you feel like you are the one who has wronged them when its actually the other way around.Examples:Meghan's pathetic letter to her father, Thomas Markle Sr, making up lies after lies about Thomas.Oprah interview with Meghan and Oprah weaving a tale of racist royal famiy where both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were seemingly the racists. Need I say more on this?Meghan's Bench and their visit to a Harlem school where they put the kids to sit on the hard and hot ground while she sitting on a good seat narrates her Bench wearing couture pyjamas and tacky bling-bling.Now, if you still do not understand narcissism, I just hope you aren't a current victim of one to be this blind. post link: https://ift.tt/vXg53Ar author: Imfryinghere submitted: April 02, 2024 at 12:19PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

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thequietabsolute · 1 year

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:: Heidegger said spare time is ecstasy ::

But Cordelia is the quiet absolute; her very silence is the still centre of the turning world.

— Ann Pasternak Slater 🐚

… and yes I said yes I will Yes.

Trieste-Zurich-Paris,

1914-1921.

(my name’s John, and I’m English 📻)

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☝️if my blog appeals to you then there’s a really good chance you’ll find a lot of new music you’ll like on the mix called Endymion / Aubade on here, a sort of low-key soft collection you can have on while working or reading; I’m always slowly adding to it too. Please let me know if you find anything new on there that becomes an obsession or high-table favourite for you – that’ll make my day 🎧🌻

:: personal rules and sensibilities ::

• Comitting to intellectual freedom, while disavowing and attacking ideology:

To be clear, an ideology is by definition a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality, and therefore always vulnerable to the recourse of violence (verbal and/or physical) whenever it is moved to defend itself, especially when those areas of reality-inadequacy are being highlighted. Furthermore, an ideology is in the business of aggrandising those who subscribe to it, and by definition demonising those who do not.

Solzhenitsyn wrote, ‘Physics is aware of phenomena which occur only at threshold magnitudes, which do not exist at all until a certain threshold encoded by and known to nature has been crossed. Evidently evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life, but just so long as the threshold of evildoing is not crossed, the possibility of returning remains, and he himself is still within reach of our hope.’ He went on to say: … ‘The imagination and spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses, because they had no ideology.’

Ideology, along with organised religion, brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and self-righteousness; this allows for a savagery without stain. It provides in humans that very route to threshold magnitudes spoken of.

• Judging or interacting with the individual on merit alone; I couldn’t care less about your perceived (actual or imaginary) disadvantages or sufferings (of an associated group or you as an individual). That’s not my problem, nor should mine be yours; to expect preferment due to them is inherently perverse and dangerous. And also, this is just a personal observation, it is usually pathetic and embarrassing. To be clear: I’m talking individually here, not nationally / economically; the state has certain responsibilities to all its citizens, each to their needs; this responsibility is derived from both the taxes and the social contract a polity obliges from its people.

• A disavowal of the reflexive notion that our basic sense of what is Good and Evil is reduced to the following myopic formula:

Good people or ideas = (come from) the powerless.

Bad people or ideas = (come from) the necessarily powerful.

This ought to be seen as self-evidently pernicious and inimical to any notion of development on both a personal and societal level, but somehow today is the default in western mainstream discourse. I reject it wholly and am repelled by those who promote it.

• A disavowal of race obsession; society should endeavour to be by default colourblind, while maintaining and celebrating without prejudice the multiform cultures and traditions that embody the said society, within the laws of that said same. Promoting preferment or demotion or the throttling of opportunity due to race is inherently perverse, retrograde and dangerous.

• A refusal to replace ideas with ‘identity’; your ‘identity’ is not a catch-all accessory that inures you from your actions or your espoused ideas; it is not a shield, yet it can often be a marker for your obvious subservience to an ideology, and due to passed enormities of said ideology you shouldn’t be surprised if people, and myself, don’t want anything to do with you. You’re a human being, not a capriciously customisable gnostic mannequin.

• Debate over denunciation, persuasion over mere public shaming; don’t tell me how I should think and feel about a person or idea. Ex cathedra positions are hard-won and earned; presuming this position without merit is absurd and should be exposed, and furthermore, if you’re able to and in the mood: mocked, whenever encountered.

• The rule of law over the self-righteous fury of the mob; history teaches that the mob is capable of all and any depravity, and always feels justified in the act, however obscene.

• That said, it is vital to understand that an uninformed majority will always lose a battle for information against an informed minority; it’s important to notice when a manipulative minority is holding an unaware majority to ransom. This is, again, particularly prevalent when dealing with ideologues.

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boldlycrookedsalad · 3 months

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Continuing Literary Canon

100. Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding

101. Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

102. Albert Camus, The Stranger

103. Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano

104. William Butler Yeats

105. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

106. Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

107. Joseph Conrad

108. D.H. Lawrence

109. Virginia Woolf

110. James Joyce

111. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

112. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

113. W. H. Auden

114. George Orwell, 1984

115. Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

116. The Trial

117. Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage

118. Thomas Mann

119. Andrei Bely, Petersburg

120. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

121. Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago

122. Edwin Arlington Robinson

123. Robert Frost

124. Edith Wharton

125. Willa Cather

126. Gertrude Stein

127. Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning"

128. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

129. Sherwood Anderson

130. T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

131. "The Waste Land"

132. "The Hollow Men"

133. "The Journey of the Magi"

134. Katherine Anne Porter

135. Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

136. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

137. William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

138. Ernest Hemingway -The Old Man and the Sea

139. A Farewell to Arms

140. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

141. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

142. Eudora Welty

143. Flannery O'Connor

144. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

145. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

146. Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire

147. The Glass Menagerie

148. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

149. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

150. Joyce Carol Oates

151. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

152. John Updike - A&P

153. The Witches of Eastwick

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worker-and-soldier · 3 months

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Intelligentsia vs. Intellectual

'Anatoly Cemenka, A group portrait of intellectuals in Moscow — Tamiji Naito, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Eisenstein, Olga Tretyakova, Lili Brik, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Diplomat Voznesensky, courtesy of Anne Tucker, the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1924.'

"Why use the foreign-sounding "intelligentsia" when the English language has the word "intellectuals"? The answer is that one needs different terms to designate different phenomena - in this case, to distinguish those who passively contemplate life from activists who are determined to reshape it.

Marx succinctly stated the latter position when he wrote: "The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

Pipes, Richard. A Concise History of the Russian Revolution. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

#Intelligentsia #Russian Intelligentsia #Intellectuals #Russian Intellectuals #History #Russian History #Russian Revolution #The Russian Revolution #Marx #Karl Marx #Anatoly Cemenka #Tamiji Naito #Boris Pasternak #Sergei Eisenstein #Olga Tretyavoka #Lili Brik #Vladimir Mayakovsky #Nikolai Voznesensky

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fashionbooksmilano · 1 year

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Duke Riley Tides and Transgressions

Duke Riley, Foreword Meredith Johnson, Afterword Anne Pasternak

Rizzoli Electa, New York 2022, 256 pages, 24.38 x 30.73 cm, ISBN 978-0847872411

euro 62,00

email if you want to buy [email protected]

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Death to the living, Long live trash” held at the Brooklyn Museum, NY, June 17 2022- April 23 2023

The first survey of the twenty-plus-year career of the highly influential multimedia artist Duke Riley, famous for expressing transgressive political and ecological themes through metaphors drawn from nautical folklore and nature. Duke Riley’s work explores his lifelong fascination with urban waterways, their historical relationship to the culture of life at sea, and the uneasy intersections of human geography with the physical world. His work comments on a range of issues, from the cultural impact of overdevelopment and environmental destruction of waterfront communities to contradictions within political ideologies and the role of the artist in society. This comprehensive monograph collects work from his expansive career, encompassing drawings, sculptures, mosaics, performances, and more than one maritime adventure, including his Fly by Night public art project of pigeons illuminated by LED lights flying across the New York City skyline, documentation of his nefarious shell company Non-Essential Consultants, and the mayhem of the 2009 anarchic mock Roman naval battle, Those About to Die Salute You at the Queens Museum.

Duke Riley is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Anne Pasternak is the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum. Meredith Johnson is the vice president of arts and culture and head curator at the Trust for Governors Island.

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lesbienneanarchiste · 1 year

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Top Books of the Year

I had an okay reading year but only a handful of books really stand out to me and they won't be a surprise to anyone at all bc most of them I have mentioned a dozen times but anyway top books of 2022:

All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria Remarque

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Perfect Golden Circle by Benjamin Meyer

Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

The 'A Man and His Cat' manga series

The 'Spy x Family' manga series

The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes by Barbara Scot

An Immense World by Ed Yong

#some of these were re-reads but most were new!#and all quiet was both bc i read it and then immediately read it again 😮‍💨#disgruntled octopus #books #reading #reading wrap up #booklr #endofyearathon

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dnaamericaapp · 4 months

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Alicia Keys And Swizz Beatz To Showcase Art Collection of Jamel Shabazz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, And Arthur Jafa At The Brooklyn Museum

Music power couple Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) will showcase their extensive art collection next February at the Brooklyn Museum. Dubbed Giants, the forthcoming show marks the first time the Dean Collection will view to the public and includes an extraordinary list of prominent and emerging artists from the Black diaspora.

Housed on the first floor of the institution, the show’s title alludes to the “strengths and bonds between the Deans and the artists they support,” according to a release by the Brooklyn Museum. “Along with examining these links and legacies, the exhibition will encourage “giant conversations” inspired by the works on view—critiquing society and celebrating Blackness.”

While details surrounding the collection are still under wraps, the show will include works from 40 prominent black artists, such as Jamel Shabazz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Meleko Mokgosi, Derrick Adams and Arthur Jafa. “Swiss Beatz and Alicia Keys have been among the most vocal advocates for Black creatives to support Black artists through their collecting, advocacy, and partnerships,” said Brooklyn Museum director, Anne Pasternak.

Giants will open on February 10 and run through July 10.

We can expect Jamel Shabazz to release his upcoming collaboration book with CARTER Magazine titled: Albee Square Mall: Once Upon A Time In Downtown during the month of February.

DNA America

“It’s what we know, not what you want us to believe.”

#dna #dnaamerica #news #politics

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duchessanon · 5 months

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Hi bb, it's gas that the mirror paper is pushing a free way to read scobie's book. The few reviews I've seen so far are bad with even Ann Pasternak only giving it a middling rating and she hates will and Kate. I think it's ever since they complained about her tatler article a few years ago.

Great tea beautiful tea! I’ve read a few reviews n it makes me want to read it more!

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tilbageidanmark · 8 months

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Movies I watched this Week #136 (Year 3/Week 32):

The outside man, my second thriller by Frenchman Jacques Deray (after the so much better ‘La Piscine’). So much wasted potential in this early 1970's mobster out of water tale, which was co-written by Jean Claude Carrière. Jean-Louis Trintignant is a hit-man sent to Beverly Hills to assassinate a big gangster, but Roy Scheider is another killer on his tail, so they chase each other all over, with Ann-Margaret, Angie Dickinson, 'Moe Green' and 'Russ Yelburton' mixing it up.

It serves up a very touristy picture of 1972 Los Angeles (which is nice), and it also has some plot twists which clearly inspired later films. Most notably, some very distinct scenes from 'Three days of the condor' (The kidnapping of a random female with her car, the tense sharing of an elevator between the chaser and his pray, too tired to fall asleep...). Also the mob funeral procession from 'Godfather'. So this forgotten film was hugely influential at the time. 3/10.

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2 with Denholm Elliott:

🍿 In 2014, Steven Soderbergh re-edited 'Raiders of the lost ark' in order to show how brilliant Spielberg's 'Staging' was; how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are. The result was Raiders, a black-and-white version of the original, stripped of its colors, music and dialogue, and with a new, electronic score by Trent Reznor.

Found it on a video essay by CinemaStix, When the director is really good at their job.

Also there: When the director prioritizes character over plot, about Soderbergh's Ocean 11.

🍿 I should have watched William Friedkin’s ‘sorcerer’ (Photo Above) for the first time, but instead I picked his subpar 1968 The night they raided Minsky’s, a lame shtick about an Amish girl who discovers burlesque in 1925 New York. Even dancing-singing Jason Robards can’t saves it. 1/10.

RIP, William Friedkin!

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Long story short, my second drama by talented May el-Toukhy, a Danish-Egyptian female director (made before her complex erotic thriller 'Queen of heart'). A group of friends in their 30's and 40's going through love, heartbreaks and life changes, told in 8-parts which are broken into celebrations: birthdays, weddings, christening and mid-summer parties.

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6 Spanish-speaking movies:

🍿 Marshland ("La isla Minima") swept the 2014 Spanish Goya awards, and won in 10 categories. It's a slow-burn procedural Noir about two policemen from Madrid who are send to the backward South to investigate the disappearance of two girls. Before 'True detective', it created a different, atmospheric world. 8/10.

🍿 Death of a cyclist, a classic Spanish Noir from 1955 by J.A. Bardem (Javier's uncle), rich and dramatic. A high society married woman cheating on her husband kills a random man on a deserted road while driving with her lover. A different Hitchcokian murder mystery, made more interesting by Bardem's leftist politics vis-a-vis the Franco censorship of his time. 7/10.

🍿 The Chambermaid, another exploration of South American domestic workers, the silent and invisible service multitudes, that movies don't usually pay attention to. A shy and introverted cleaning lady at an upscale Mexico City hotel has a hard time trying to find a voice, however small.

This was a debut feature by a young filmmaker Lila Avilés. I can't wait for her new, acclaimed Tótem. The trailer. 7/10.

🍿 Wild tales is the most-seen Argentine film of all time, and deservedly so. A hilarious, unexpected anthology, comprising of 6 unrelated stories of 'People under stress': 2 passengers on a plane discover that they both know a person named Gabriel Pasternak, a waitress at a night restaurant serves a loan shark who had destroyed her life, a wild road rage incident that escalates, the car of a demolition expert is being towed away, a rich teenager had a hit and run, and the funnest, a fancy Jewish wedding which goes off the rails.

Absurdist black humor, the most entertaining movie of the week! 9/10.

🍿 The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, my 14th film by Buñuel, 'The Scourge of the Bourgeoisie'. On its surface, it's a normal 1950's Mexican drama about a serial killer, but it's not: it's kinky, off kilter, unpredictable, and always with an extra artificial leg or two that falls off.

🍿 Kiki was made by Paco León ("The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent"). It's another funny anthology film, a remake of an Australian film 'The little death' which I'll watch next week. It's an hilarious kinky comedy with 5 or 6 separate sets of characters exploring their deep desires and (less common) fetishes: One woman is turned on by tears, another by the touch of silk, one by being physically attacked, one sells her used underwear, three are getting into a polyamory. It's explicit, light and funny. Not for prudes. 8/10.

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My first 2 by Georges Franju:

🍿 Franju was the co-funder of the Cinémathèque Française in 1936 (together with Henri Langlois). His scary Eyes without a face was the first French horror movie. A monstrous, mad surgeon who tortures dogs and cut off women's faces, in order to find a suitable graft for his disfigured daughter. Morbid poetry.

🍿 Blood of the beasts (Le Sang des Bêtes) was Franju's first film, a stark, non-sentimental documentary about a slaughterhouse. Contrasting scenes from the Parisian suburbs with the most horrifying matter-of-fact killings of horses, cows and sheep, is a study in surrealism. 8/10.

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The Runaways, a run of the mill pop music biography, the story of Joan Jett and her first all-girls rock'n'roll band. These bios are all alike, and even Kristen Stewart and Michael Shannon can't redeem it. (It's my 3rd woman-directed film this week). 3/10.

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Ali Wong X 3, again:

🍿 OK, so I'm crazy about Ali Wong's dirty humor, so sue me. Still, I will watch her Hard Knock Wife comedy special again and again. Best female comedian!

🍿 The Hero, a tender 'End of life' story, with golden-voiced Sam Elliott as an aging western star who discovers he has incurable cancer. He starts a sweet romance with the wonderful actress Laura Prepon, and has to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Great cinema, that could have been perfect if only there was just another small layer to draw from. 8/10.

Anyway, I am going to look for indie director Brett Haley's other films. Ali Wong played herself in a single stand-up comedy scene.

🍿 “… I have orgasms. He has wargasms…”

Savages is a top-tier Oliver Stone action-thriller about some hip pot growers in Laguna Beach who has to fight a brutal Mexican cartel operators. Loud and exciting, similar to Tarantino's 'True Romance' but faster, and with Blake Lively in a loving threesome with 2 dudes. Ali Wong appeared only in one scene as an underground hacker. 7/10.

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No hard feelings, a new sex comedy ("Do you mind if I touch your wiener... dog?"), where Jennifer Lawrence is hired to deflower a 'Superbad'-era Michael Cera-type, because she's broke. Some cliched sitcoms jokes about the 1%-ers in Montauk, NY vs. ordinary people. And for that she came out of retirement? 3/10.

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"Editing is all about the eyes". Another old 'Every frame a picture' essay, How Does an Editor Think and Feel?

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Reflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Danish Rescue of the Jews: Talk at the American-Scandinavian Foundation about why the Danish Jews were saved.

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(My complete movie list is here)

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artbookdap · 1 year

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TONIGHT!! Wednesday, February 15 at 6:15 PM, Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy present a roundtable launch event for 'Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects' authored by András Szántó and published by Hatje Cantz. A noted museum strategist, Szántó will moderate a conversation between Paula Zasnicoff Cardoso of Arquitetos Associado, Elizabeth Diller of Diller Scofidio & Renfro and Kerstin Thompson of Kerstin Thompson Architects. ⁠ ⁠ Please R.S.V.P. via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @andrasszanto @brooklynmuseum @hatjecantzverlag @annepasternak @levyblohm @paulazasnicoff @arquitetosassociados @diller_scofidio_renfro @kerstin_thompson_architects https://www.instagram.com/p/Cor8ZXAgg_D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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visuallanguagerhianna · 2 years

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Stranger Artist Research - Craig Raine

Craig Raine is an English Poet born in 1944, mostly known for the rise in Martian poetry, a trend focused on the alienation of the world, society and items. Raine spent his childhoos in a "bookless" prefab in Shildon, a town around Bishop Auckland. They won a scholarship to attend Barnard Castle School, then a direct grant school, where he became a boarder. During his time in education, he wrote "pimply Dylan Thomas" poems, some of which he had sent to Philip Toynbee who was the lead reviewer at The Observer at the time. He was a member at New College in Oxford from 1991 to 2010 and is now emeritus professor. Raine acquired his university education at Exeter College, University of Oxford, of which he received a BA in English.

In 1972, Raine married Ann Pasternak Slarer, a previous fellow of St Anne's College in Oxford. Together, they have raised one daughter and 3 sons, of which take after their parents creative abilities.

Raine taught at Oxford where he also followed a literary career as a book editor for New Review, Quarto and a poetry editor at the New Statesmen. He also became a poetry editor at publishers Faber and Faber in 1981. Raine is a founder and editor of the literary magazine Areté (which closed in 2020 after 60 issues). They have created a range of work, a few examples are; The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (1979), A Free Translation (1981), Rich (1984) and more.

I find this poets work really intriguing, especially the piece linked above. For the stranger brief, this really helped me understand the goal of the process. I'm not one who gets into poetry often, but this piece of writing will be my favourite for some time.

However, the stranger brief as a whole, after looking at artists and exploring the possibilities of process during this theme, I would rather go ahead with the index brief. I feel I could find myself looking back to this brief another time, but for this year I would rather go with something I am more comfortable with.

#Artistresearch #research #artist #poet #writing #stranger #alienation

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Boris Leonidoviç Pasternak (10 Şubat, 1890 - 30 Mayıs, 1960), Rus şair, oyun yazarı, romancı, çevirmen.

Çağımızın en büyük şairlerinden biri sayılmaktadır. 1920'lerde Rus edebiyat çevrelerinde "şairlerin şairi" unvanını alan sanatçı, SSCB'nin kültür politikasını yönetenlerle ters düşmüş ve şiirleri 1936'dan itibaren ülkesinde yasaklanmıştır.

Goethe, Rilke, Shakespeare ve Paul Verlaine’in eserlerini Rusça’ya kazandırmış çok başarılı bir çevirmendir.

1957’de ilk defa İtalya’da yayımlanan Doktor Jivago adlı romanı ile tüm dünyada tanınan sanatçı 1958 Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü'ne layık görülmüş fakat ödülü reddetmiştir.

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Çocukluğu ve eğitimi

1890’da Moskova’da dünyaya geldi. Rus Ortodoks Kilisesi’ne kabul edilmiş aslen Yahudi olan varlıklı bir sanatçı ailenin en büyük çocuğu idi. Babası Leonid Pasternak, tanınmış bir ressam; annesi Rosa Kaufman bir konser piyanisti idi.

1901’de liseye başlayıncaya kadar evde anne-babası ve özel öğretmenlerden ders alarak yetişti.Devrin önemli sanatçılarından Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin, Rainer Maria Rilke ve Lev Tolstoy gibi kimselerin konuk olduğu bir evde büyüdü;genç yaşta tanıştığı tüm bu sanatçılar onda iz bıraktı. Scriabin’in etkisiyle Moskova Konservatuvarı’na girip altı yıl müzik eğitimi gördü. O yıllarda bestelediği eserlerden üç piyano parçası günümüze gelmiştir.

1909'da müzik eğitimini yarım bırakarak Moskova Üniversitesi'ne kaydoldu. Önce Hukuk Fakültesi’ne yazıldıysa da öğrenimine felsefe bölümünde devam etti. 1912'de Almanya'ya giderek Marburg Üniversitesi'nde bir süre felsefe derslerini izledi. Burada Heokont Felsefe Okulunun bir üyesi olan filozof Hermann Cohende’den etkilendi.Edebî hayatı Almanya’dayken yazdığı şiirlerle başladı. İtalya’ya yaptığı kısa bir ziyaretin ardından 1913 kışında Moskova'ya döndü ve Moskova Üniversitesi'ndeki öğrenimini tamamladı. Gördüğü müzik ve felsefe öğrenimi yazarın kaleme aldığı eserlerde izlerini hep gösterdi. 1914’te ilk eseri olan “Bulutlarda İkiz” (Bliznets v tuchakh) yayımlandı. Bu eserde simgecilik etkisi taşıyan şiirleri yer alıyordu.

I. Dünya Savaşı yılları

Çocuklukta geçirdiği bir kazadan sonra bir bacağı diğerinden kısa kalmış olan Pasternak, I. Dünya Savaşı yıllarında askere alınmadı; Ural Dağları’nda bir kimya fabrikasında memur olarak çalıştı.Çok verimli geçen bu dönemde iki cilt şiir yazdı. Bu ciltlerden birisi 1915’te bir yangında yok olmuş, diğeri 1917’de Bariyerlerin Üstünde adıyla yayımlanmış ve büyük ilgi görmüştür. Şiirlerinin yanı sıra ileride yazacağı Doktor Jivago dahil pek çok düzyazı eseri onun Ural Dağları’ndaki deneyimlerine dayanır.

1917’de Moskova’ya giden Pasternak, Moskova’ya varışı ile Ekim Devrimi’nin gerçekleşmesine kadar geçen sürede iki kitap yazdı: Kızkardeşimin Yaşamı ile Temalar ve Varyasyonlar. Ne var ki savaş koşulları nedeniyle beş yıl boyunca kitapları yayımlama fırsatı bulamamıştır.

Bolşevik Devrimi’nden sonra

Devrimden sonra Rusya’da kurulan yeni hükümetin acımasızlığını ürkütücü bulan Pasternak, her şeye rağmen devrimi destekliyordu. 1921’de ülke dışına çıkmak serbest olunca anne-babası ve kızkardeşleri Almanya’ya gidip geri dönmediler ancak o, Moskova’da kalıp kütüphaneci ve çevirmen olarak çalıştı.

1922’de “Kızkardeşimin Yaşamı” adlı şiir kitabı Rusların Samizdat dedikleri bir yöntemle yurt dışına kaçırılıp geniş bir kitleye tanıtıldı.Aynı yıl Sanat Enstitüsü’nde öğrenci olan Yevgeniya Lury ile evlenen şair, eşiyle birlikte Berlin’e giderek ailesini ziyaret etti. Hayatının geri kalanında hemen hemen her sene ailesini ziyaret izni için başvuran ama izin alamayan Pasternak için bu, ailesinin son görüşü olmuştur. Oğlu Evgeny 1923’te dünyaya geldi. Pasternak o yıl lirik çalışmalarının doruğu olarak kabul edilen "Temler ve Varyasyonlar" adlı kitabını çıkardı.

1920’lerde şiirler ve kısa öyküler yazmayı sürdüren Pasternak’ın öyküleri Luvers’in Çocukluğu (1922) adlı kitapta toplandı. Şair bu dönemde Sergey Yasenin ve Vladimir Mayakovski ile dost oldu. Bu iki şairin 1925 ve 1930’da intiharlarından sonra, Rusya’nın yaşayan en büyük şairi unvanını taşıdı.

Çeviriye yönelmesi

1930’larda SSCB’de yazarlardan Sosyalist Gerçekçilik doktrini çerçevesinde eser üretmeler isteniyordu ama Pasternak’ın gerçekçilik anlayışı resmi doktrin ile uyuşmuyordu. Her ne kadar 1934’te Sovyet Yazarlar Birliği başkanı seçildiyse de 1936’dan itibaren şiirlerini yayımlaması yasaklandı. Şiirlerini yayımlayamaz olunca şiir çevirileri yapmaya yöneldi. İngiliz, Fransız, Alman, Polonyalı ve Gürcü şairlerin eserlerini Rusçaya çevirdi. Shakespeare’in en başarılı çevirmeni olarak ün yaptı.

1931’de ilk eşinden ayrılan Pasternak, 1934 yılında ünlü piyanist Heinrich Neuhaus’un eşi Zinaida Neuhaus ile ikinci evliliğini yaptı. 1935’te Anti Faşist Kongresi’ne katılmak için Paris’e gitme fırsatını buldu. Çok başarılı olduğu çeviri işinden iyi kazanç elde ediyordu. Moskova dışındaki yazarlar köyünde 1936’da bir ev edinebildi ve hayatının geri kalanında çoğunlukla orada yaşadı.

Olga Ivinskaya ile ilişkisi

Pasternak 22 yaş genç olan ve edebiyat dergilerinde editörlük yapan Olga Ivinskaya ile 1946’da tanışıp aşık oldu; yaşamının geri kalanında onunla evlilik dışı bir ilişki sürdürdü.Çeviri işlerinde birlikte çalıştılar ve böylece Pasternak, Doktor Jivago’yu yazmaya daha çok vakit ayırabildi. Doktor Jivago’nun Lara karakteri için ilham verdiği düşünülen Olga, 1950’de “ bir casusluğa suç ortaklığı yapmak”la suçlanıp beş yıl çalışma kampında çalışma cezası aldı. Pasternak, bu tutuklamanın kendisini tutuklamak, tehdit etmek için neden ve kanıt bulmak amacıyla yapıldığını ama Olga’nın kahramanlığı sayesinde kendisine dokunulmadığını 1958’de bir arkadaşına gönderdiği mektubunda yazmıştır. Olga İvinskaya 1953’te Stalin’in ölümünden sonra serbest bırakıldı. İlişkilerine eskisi gibi devam ettiler.

Doktor Jivago’nun yayımlanması

Yazar, 1945’te başladığı ilk romanı Doktor Jivago’yu 1954’te tamamladı. Roman,1917 devrimi sürecinde Sovyetler Birliği'nin panoramasını sunan bir eserdir; başkahramanı zihinsel bağımsızlığı her şeyin üstünde tutan bir doktordur. 1956’da Noviy Mir Dergisine gönderilen Doktor Jivago, SSCB resmî görüşüne uygun yazılmadığı gerekçesiyle reddedildi. Kitabın el yazması bir İtalyan gazeteci tarafından yurtdışına kaçırıldıktan sonra 1957’de İtalya’da yayımlandı; kısa sürede çeşitli dillere çevrilerek ünlendi. Eserin İngilizce çevirisi 26 hafta boyunca New York Times’ın En çok satanlar listesinde kaldı.

Öte yandan eser Sovyetler Birliği’nde yasaklandı ve hiçbir eleştirmen yasak kitabı okumamış olmasına rağmen Sovyet Yazarlar Birliği kapalı bir duruşma düzenleyerek Pasternak’ın birlikten atılmasına karar verdiklerini açıkladı. Ayrıca Politbüro’ya bir dilekçe göndererek yazarın vatandaşlıktan çıkarılmasını, sürgün edilmesini istediler.

Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü’nü

Moskova yakınlarındaki Pederelniko’da yaşayan yazara Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü’ne layık görüldüğü 23 Ekim 1958’de bir telgrafla bildirildi. Pasternak, o gün bu telgrafı “Memnunum, medyunum, onurlandım, şaşırdım" şeklinde yanıtladı. Ancak 29 Ekim’de ikinci bir telgraf göndererek ödülü reddettiğini açıkladı.

Kimilerine göre yazar, bu ödülün kendisine Sovyet rejimini eleştirdiği için verildiği, siyasi bir karar olduğu düşüncesiyle reddetmiş;] kimilerine göre ise Sovyetler Birliği yönetimi onu ödülü reddetmeye zorlamıştır.

Eserleri hakkında

Yapıtlarında doğa tutkusunu doğaya ilişkin imgelerle dile getirmiş, insan ve toplum sorunlarını kaynaşmış bir bütünlük içinde yansıtmıştır. İlk şiirlerinde sembolizm ve fütürizm akımının etkileri görülmüştür. Pasternak bireysel yaratıcılığın toplumsal eyleme boyun eğmek zorunda kaldığı bir dönemde yetişmiş, şiirinde bireysel ve toplumsal yaşantıları organik bir bütünlüğe kavuşturmuş, toplumsal sarsıntıları kendi benliğinde derinliğine yaşayarak çağının trajik gerçekliğini dile getirmiştir. Şiire yeni söyleyiş özellikleri kazandırmış. Özellikle aşk ve tabiat temaları üzerinde durmuştur.

İmge ve sözdizimi açısından Rus şiirine getirdiği yeniliklerle geleneksel Rus şiirinin yalın biçimlerini uzlaştırmıştır. Çağımızın en büyük şairlerinden biri sayılmaktadır.

✊🏻ESERLERİ👇🏻

Bulutlarda ikiz(1914)

Engellerin Üstünden (1917)

Kızkardeşim Hayat (1922)

Tem ve Çeşitlemeler (1923)

Hava Yolları (1924)

1905 Yılı (1927)

Teğmen Schmidt (1927)

İkinci Doğuş (1932)

Erken Trenler (1943)

Yeryüzü Enginliği (1945).

Gece (1956)

#boris leonidoviç #Rus şair #oyun yazarı #romancı #türk edebiyatı #Rus edebiyatı

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Dear Friends, So much has happened in our world, our city, and our beloved Museum over the past year. While 2020 brought tremendous challenges, it was the events of January 6—when we witnessed our nation’s seat of democracy desecrated by a violent mob committed to upholding the lie of white supremacy—that underscored the enormous work ahead. Many searing images of rioters streaming through the historic halls of the Capitol building were captured against the backdrop of large-scale American history paintings depicting scenes of our nation’s founding, some telling glorified stories of our often-violent past. One painting seen in the background was Robert Walter Weir’s Embarkation of the Pilgrims, which portrays pilgrims setting sail from Europe for North America. (A smaller version of this painting is in the Museum’s collection.) In the upper-left corner is a rainbow, a symbol of beauty and hope—the hope for a new life of freedom and opportunity. While Weir’s painting tells the story of the victors and not the oppressed, the official albeit false story, we hold strongly to that idea of hope. It is resoundingly clear that we must reckon with the great divisions that exist in our country, and we must work hard for change and justice. To move forward with hope in this new year, we look for inspiration to our mission to contribute to a more connected and empathetic world. In 2020, we learned much that will help us on our path forward. We learned what it means to come together as a team to support one another. We learned new ways to fulfill our mission by being of service to our neighbors and community. And we learned how to reach out virtually to youth and our public schools to ignite the imagination and spirit. We were again reminded of the importance of art to bring people of diverse backgrounds together for shared learning and conversation, as well as how art can be an essential tool for rewriting dominant narratives. That's why I'm excited for this year’s exhibitions, including Lorraine O'Grady's long overdue retrospective, our vibrant KAWS survey, and particularly our collection offerings, such as the first phase of a reinstallation of our American art galleries that turns traditional historical narratives on their head. Inspired that the Museum’s plaza served as the setting for important marches and rallies that called for greater accountability to social justice, and knowing that we desperately need more shared civic spaces in which to respectfully gather, create, share, and celebrate, we will continue to use our open spaces in the coming year. We are particularly pleased that Nick Cave’s TRUTH BE TOLD public art installation is coming to the Brooklyn Museum this spring. It’s a powerful message at any time, but especially in these times. As we think about what 2021 holds, I’m encouraged by the knowledge that our Museum will speak truths and work for change. And I’m grateful you are there to participate in our journey. As ever,

Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director Brooklyn Museum

Robert Walter Weir (American, 1803–1889). Embarkation of the Pilgrims (detail), 1857. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum; A. Augustus Healy Fund and Healy Purchase Fund B, 75.188. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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