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Franz Marc Holding a Cell Phone
Here is a mysterious photograph from Franz Marc - Paul Klee: ein Dialog in Bildern, a volume beautifully illustrated with the artists' postcards to each other and some interesting photographs. Klee seems more vulnerable and less arch than you might expect in these...
Um, okay…
"Dear Patron, The item you requested: Von der Möglichkeit : das Phanomen der selbstschonferischen Möglichkeit in seinen kosmogonischen, mythisch-personifizierten und denkerisch-kunstlerischen Realisierungen als divergenztheologisches Problem is ready for you to...
Suspiria (!) (2011)
It would be impossible ever to say what the most exciting thing about visiting Munich was since it was all the most exciting thing, but one of the most most exciting things was visiting the Propyläen and Glyptothek "temples" of the Königsplatz featured in Dario...
die Fledermaus
I was fortunate recently to acquire a copy of Franz Marc, the 1936 biography by Alois J. Schardt. This is a cool book with a lot of drawings I had not seen before, including this study. This bat is a lot more cheerful than the one in Hoffnungslos. The echolocation...
The Allegory of Fainting
People have been asking about the photo-documentation of the spectacular black eye and other bruises incurred in Bike Fall 2, so here are some images. One of the main purposes of this blog over the years has been to keep track of the various injuries of dogs and...
Marky Mark Meets Franz Marc
Postcard to August Macke, 29 December 1910: "Greetings to all, please give my best to your brother, and I respectfully commend your mother."
Hoffnungslos
Franz Marc Hrsg. von Maria Marc, borrowed from The Clark in Williamstown, Massachusetts. This is pretty fantastic; the bat is carrying away a cow!
Air Signs Represent
This is a really big week for birthdays: Bob Marley on 6 February (1945) ["it takes a revolution to make a solution"] and Saint Thomas More on 7 February (1478). More and more scholars agree ...the New Isle Called Utopia is a true socialist manifesto and I concur!...
Minaret New Music Ensemble Presents Frontiers of American Modernism
We went to look at the American Modernism show at the Tampa Museum of Art but mainly to experience some avant garde, modernist -- experimental, really -- music presented by the University of Tampa's Minaret New Music Ensemble. One of the best parts of the...
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