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Category Archives: Art, music, letters
Against The World
NEW: Pell Contra Mundum, edited by Robert A. Sirico. A white cassock would have suited him.
Posted in Art, music, letters, Religion and faith
6 Comments
A Portrait of the Western World As An Old Man
A Danish artist has been ordered to repay a museum after delivering blank canvases. And then you get an artist Who says he doesn’t want to paint at all So he takes an empty canvas And he sticks it on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, letters, Ethics and morality
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After being widowed, she was left with a pile of old paintings…
Thread: “You would never have heard of Vincent van Gogh if it wasn’t for his sister-in-law Jo.”
Posted in Art, music, letters, History
3 Comments
We have more to be modest about than Corradini’s masterpiece
This says a lot about the mentality of the age: Barbie set to clobber Oppenheimer at the box office. Pope Causes Anger after Welcoming Artist Who Put Crucifix in Glass of Urine to the Vatican.
Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture
27 Comments
Sam Cutler and The Burdens of Hype
IT’s 1972. The Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World isn’t merely touring but ravaging America. Dozens of police have been injured and hundreds of fans arrested as a finite kitty of tickets go on sale from coast to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, letters, History
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First, publicise a revolting design. Then make it less revolting…
Then gaslight the Catholic world that the still Masonic atrocity is really the epitome of tradition.
Posted in Art, music, letters, Religion and faith
14 Comments
Computers assist carpenters match precision of their forebears
900 years ago: Rebuilding Notre Dame’s fire-ravaged roof transports workers back to Middle Ages.
Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture, History
5 Comments
Boulevard of Token Reams
What connects Barry Humphries, a little-known deco artist, AI, yours truly and the future of scholarship? My computer cache, in a way, because I’ve watched or read so many clips and pieces of Humphries talking about culture since he died … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, letters, History, Science and technology
6 Comments
Hop, Scipio and Jump
ONE of the worst crimes of the historical kind committed by neo-cons over the past 18 months has been to dumb down Winston Churchill to a Hallmark audio card with a cigar-toting bulldog draped in a Ukrainian flag on the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, letters, History, Politics
12 Comments
Women as Lego, “built of parts that can be reassembled at will”
Nathanael Blake has written a must-read review of Mary Harrington’s Feminism Against Progress.
Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture, Ethics and morality
7 Comments
There was the age of Chaplin and then the age of Humphries
Vale Barry Humphries. I’ve known you since 1956 and we did lots of things together – including three significant films – parting company because of politics. But I still regard you as the cleverest person I’ve ever known.” – Friend … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture
27 Comments
Autarchy of the Maudlin and The Magical Abo
IT seems the older, richer and more privileged he becomes, the more Stan Grant likes to brandish his affliction. And despite decorating his weekend columns for the ABC with mostly European desk calendar quotations, the Q+A host may now be … Continue reading
Posted in Art, music, letters, Culture, Religion and faith
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Vehicular encyclopaedia David Burge is fed up with angry cars
He says the two best looking motors ever made “look like happy fish, not crazed axe murderers.”
Posted in Art, music, letters, Science and technology
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