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Paperback copy of THINGS UNSEEN: ESSAYS ON EVIDENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND THE LATE ANCIENT WORLD by Ellen Muehlberger

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Haunting sculptures by Bernhard Hoetger. He claimed to be channeling the German soul, but his art was so strange that the Nazis denounced it as foreign #art #blueskyart

Cover in Chinese, showing a woman and man standing awkwardly back-to-back. The man is smoking a pipe

‘Fortress Besieged’ by Qian Zhongshu (1947)

China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky

YouTube video by Nawal - Topic Kweli, Pt. 2

Music from the far south of the Arab world, drawing on trance-inducing Sufi traditions

#music #worldmusic #comoros

Photo by © O & Co. Media | Olivier Kpognon

#1225 Wu Fei’s Music Daily — The mysterious B flat 神秘的降B

Today’s guzheng and vocal improvisation was inspired by an interesting discovery in my house. I was heating up lunch in the microwave while my husband was making an espresso with the coffee machine.
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Cover in Chinese, showing a woman and man standing awkwardly back-to-back. The man is smoking a pipe

‘Fortress Besieged’ by Qian Zhongshu (1947)

China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky

Cover in Chinese, showing a woman and man standing awkwardly back-to-back. The man is smoking a pipe

‘Fortress Besieged’ by Qian Zhongshu (1947)

China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire

Erika Giovanna Klien, Dance (1931)

Cover in Spanish, showing a female silhouette holding a bouquet, with a house in the background

‘The House of Ulloa’ by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886)

A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky

Kagerō-za (Seijun Suzuki, 1981)

One of my favourite films visually. In early modern Japan, a man comes across two women who seem strangely connected, but the love triangle that ensues involves the presence of another world
#filmsky #moviesky #horror

Historical botanical illustration titled "Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt" from 1820-1838. The image features detailed sepia and black ink drawings of various fossilized plant specimens and structures. It includes five fossil samples showing different textures and forms, such as branching patterns and overlapping scales. Below, three diagrams depict microscopic plant cell arrangements and structures, emphasizing the cellular anatomy of the fossils. Fine labels and annotations identify parts of each specimen. The artwork highlights the morphology and internal anatomy of prehistoric flora preserved in stone, providing scientific insight into ancient plant life and fossilization.

🦴 Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt
Leipzig undIn Kommission im Deutschen Museum, 1820-1838.

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Georges Lacombe (1868-1916)
Blue Navy, wave effects

YouTube video by Nyege Nyege Music Kubikira Amadinda / Emirembe Ngalo

Impressive rhythm from the court musicians of Buganda, honouring the spirits of those who played the xylophone before them

#music #worldmusic #uganda

Cover in Spanish, showing a female silhouette holding a bouquet, with a house in the background

‘The House of Ulloa’ by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886)

A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky

#thursday #art #artsky #bluesky #october #modernart #arte #photo #illustration #abstract #design #fall #flowers #アート #イラスト #写真 #monochrome #fashion #graphicdesign #colors #photography #artist

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Cover in Spanish, showing a female silhouette holding a bouquet, with a house in the background

‘The House of Ulloa’ by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886)

A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time

I went to the gig, cool to see the instruments sync up in real time

Cover in Czech, showing a stylised robber in a bandana making off with the pendulum of a grandfather clock, having smashed their way in

‘The Little Town Where Time Stood Still’ by Bohumil Hrabal (1974)

About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky

Namsai Supavong

@staggerlee42.bsky.social
@afteroctavian.bsky.social

Side-on view of Julius Eastman looking left

Julius Eastman was one of the great overlooked American composers, who incorporated his experiences of blackness and queerness into the New York experimental scene
#music #classical #queer

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Abstract landscape made up of small shapes adding up to creatures and vegetation in the foreground, mostly greens. At the top or at the edge are larger, jagged shapes in orange and yellow. There might be flames here, but the recent resolution to rename them will keep it all in check. The self-appointed gods fight each other with "kick me" signs. Viewers are encouraged to place bets until all are in agreement. Even your dreams are restructured. You are issued a new pair of glasses.

Clearing
#art #abstract #abstractart #humanart #fire

Cover in Czech, showing a stylised robber in a bandana making off with the pendulum of a grandfather clock, having smashed their way in

‘The Little Town Where Time Stood Still’ by Bohumil Hrabal (1974)

About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky

I watched the adaptation of Kawabata’s Snow Country (Yukiguni) recently

Cover in Czech, showing a stylised robber in a bandana making off with the pendulum of a grandfather clock, having smashed their way in

‘The Little Town Where Time Stood Still’ by Bohumil Hrabal (1974)

About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life.

Dark green on gray abstract painting with a subtle glow

Sometime the paintings create themselves, you just need to notice #vertical #blueskyartshow #abstractpainting #abstractart #art #painting

It’s worth noting the legacy of the 1999 anti-NATO protests, after the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. I expect that a lot of the sympathy with Russian narratives today draws from a shared identification with Milošević

I tend to use New York or Chicago, as this is effectively an American platform

Explosion in a Cathedral is one of my favourites