via Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints by Dave
Florida circa 1910
“St. George Street, St. Augustine”
8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company
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The textile art of Michelle Kingdom
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin
“I create tiny worlds in thread to capture elusive yet persistent inner voices,” explains textile artist Michelle Kingdom.
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Arts & Letters Daily – ideas, criticism, debate
Virtues of know-nothing criticism
Does great expertise make for great criticism? Not always. Knowing everything about a topic forecloses on original and unexpected takes… more
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50 Novels Featuring Famous Authors as Characters
via Flavorwire by Sarah Seltzer
With not one, but two novels featuring Jane Austen, one featuring the ghost of Dorothy Parker, and a third about Virginia Woolf and her sister hitting shelves soon, it seemed like a good time to survey the entire “writer-as-character” subset of novels.
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40,000 year-old Indonesian cave paintings
via 3 Quarks Daily by Helen Thompson at Smithsonian Magazine
Modern critics would probably hail the up and coming rock artists that once inhabited Indonesia. About a hundred caves outside Moras, a town in the tropical forests of Sulawesi, were once lined with hand stencils and vibrant murals of abstract pigs and dwarf buffalo. Today only fragments of the artwork remain, and the mysterious artists are long gone.
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Beethoven’s personal life
Lionized in his own time, Beethoven was nonetheless in a perpetual rage. Thus his fondness for exclamation points… more
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The life of a bubble
via OUP Blog by James Bird and Lydia Bourouiba
No précis can do justice to this fascinating blog post.
From fermentation to Legionnaire’s Disease and many stops in between!
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The absurd history of English slang
via 3 Quarks Daily by Jonathon Green in Salon
Slang’s literary origins are widespread and ever-expanding. Its social roots, however, are narrow and focused: the city. If, as has been suggested, the story of standard English is that of a London language, so too is that of English slang. And the pattern would be repeated elsewhere as colonies became independent and rural settlements became major conurbations.
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Physics: superstitions and allegories
Physics hinges on the idea that the human mind can encompass the universe. What if that’s wishful thinking?… more
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Rubens in Brussels
via Prospero by G.G.D.
If, like this reviewer, you generally think of Peter Paul Rubens as a painter only of voluptuous naked goddesses and monumental religious triptychs, then a new exhibition at the Bozar museum in Brussels (which arrives at the National Gallery in London in January) will come as a welcome reminder of his versatility.
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Hazel’s comment:
I thought: this is old information so I had better check for how long the exhibition is at the National and it is not. It is at the Royal Academy until 10th April.
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