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The great Romanian and Austro-Hungarian opera tenor Josef Schmidt. He became a radio and film star in Germany's Weimer Republic, but was eventually forced to flee after the Nazis seized total power. He died as a refugee in a Swiss internment camp in 1942 at the age of 38.

ps. Here's an English newspaper's announcement of Verdi's death.

The enormous crowd that turned out in Milan for Giuseppe Verdi's funeral on January 31st 1901.

A closer look at "Death and Life" by Gustav Klimt (2nd version,1915).

Bismark and Death in "Le Petit Journal" (1892-1895).

Anti-Trump body art based on his "Access Hollywood" tape by Aria Watson.

Thank you 👍

A Matter of Life and Death.

The Death Masks of Cromwell and Napoleon.

"Lyrical Abstract Expressionism" by Congo the Chimpanzee.

ps. Congo was born in 1954. He learned to draw near the age of two, when zoologist Desmond Morris offered him a pencil and some paper. Morris soon observed that "Congo would draw circles, and had a basic sense of composition. He also showed symmetrical consistency."

It’s happening again; and this time they’re heading towards me.

ps. This is what Loie Fuller's show would have looked like at the Folies Bergère. The modern photo is from a recreation of her act by the choreographer and dancer Jody Sperling.

The Art Nouveau Dancer Loie Fuller, who inspired many artists of the age. Her performances used specially created light effects to illuminate her billowing costumes (see the next post on the thread).

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Barbies gone wild.
#photography #squareformat #kenandbarbie #summertime

"Stridentist" Masks from the 1920s by Germán Cueto.

Boston Housemaids from the 1910s/20s by William McGregor Paxton.

19th century women and girls from Europe and America wearing Japanese kimonos ... by (clockwise) Mary Brewster Hazelton (1897), George Hendrick Breitner (1894), Alfred Stevens (1872), Giuseppe de Nittes (1884).

"La Japonaise (Madame Monet Wearing a Japanese Kimono)" by Claude Monet, 1876 vs. "La Japonaise au bain (The Japanese Woman Bathing)" by James Tissot, 1864.

Japanese Woodblock Art by Katsushika Hokusai.

The "Onna-Bugeisha" female samurai of feudal Japan.

In many ways, the Hirshoshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki are the Japanese equivalent of Picasso's "Guernica". There are 15 of them, each measuring 1.8m x 7.2m. Housed in their own gallery, they're an anti-war statement showing the human tragedy of nuclear weapons and nuclear testing
#Hiroshima80

I tend to think of "mankind" as hu-man-kind rather than just men. But whatever .... 🤷‍♀️

This is having a massive effect on the conference sector. USA is being avoided as an event location now because participants won't travel there. Also, many American experts aren't attending conferences outside the USA anymore, because they're afraid they won't be let back in when they return home.

Very true!

The play that invented modern theatre! 🎭
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