Category Archives: Art, music, letters

Have mercy upon me, O God

Posted on 12 October, 2023 by C.L.

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Against The World

Posted on 6 October, 2023 by C.L.

NEW: Pell Contra Mundum, edited by Robert A. Sirico. A white cassock would have suited him.

A Portrait of the Western World As An Old Man

Posted on 19 September, 2023 by C.L.

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 | 11 Comments

After being widowed, she was left with a pile of old paintings…

Posted on 17 August, 2023 by C.L.

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

It’s a Nerd! It’s a Pain!

Posted on 11 August, 2023 by C.L.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Federal politics, History | 23 Comments

We have more to be modest about than Corradini’s masterpiece

Posted on 21 July, 2023 by C.L.

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

Posted on 16 July, 2023 by C.L.

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 | 26 Comments

First, publicise a revolting design. Then make it less revolting…

Posted on 25 June, 2023 by C.L.

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

Posted on 4 June, 2023 by C.L.

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

Lying Cow by Vincent van Goh (1882)

Posted on 25 May, 2023 by C.L.

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Boulevard of Token Reams

Posted on 19 May, 2023 by C.L.

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

Posted on 18 May, 2023 by C.L.

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”

Posted on 13 May, 2023 by C.L.

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

Humility

Posted on 28 April, 2023 by C.L.

Posted in Art, music, letters, Religion and faith | 26 Comments

There was the age of Chaplin and then the age of Humphries

Posted on 22 April, 2023 by C.L.

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

Posted on 11 April, 2023 by C.L.

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 | 22 Comments

Vehicular encyclopaedia David Burge is fed up with angry cars

Posted on 16 February, 2023 by C.L.

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 | 22 Comments