Photographer Khozga Hasan has been documenting Kurdish Peshmerga fighters who have been battling the Islamic State in Iraq. Erbil, Iraq-based Rudaw News’ website has the article here for your perusal.
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[Art] Beauty and Desecration: We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness
Roger Scruton discusses ugliness in art and how to, if not fix the problem, then strive, at least, for better-quality art.
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[Art/Film] Helen Mirren by Miller Mobley
Helen Mirren photographed by Miller Mobley. Check out a young Judi Dench modelling for Christian Dior here
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Age has done little to diminish the beauty of Helen Mirren. Miller Mobley did a fine
[Film] Selfportrait of Wim Wenders (1975) —
Wim Wenders: Selfportrait (1975). Check out David Bowie on set of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence right here
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More brilliance from our friends at Kinoimages.
[Music] David J. & René Halkett – David J. & René Halkett (20th Anniversary Edition)
Bauhaus bassist David J collaborated with an original member of the Bauhaus movement, painter and poet René Halkett, for this rather interesting collaboration.
[Music] Letha Rodman Melchior – Edymion/MWCIE
There’s little worse, from a musical standpoint, than discovering an artist whose work gleams brightly after she has left this mortal coil, and from cancer, that cruel killer. Letha Rodman Melchior was a painter of some renown as well as a composer of fine experimental music. She hailed from Durham, North Carolina, and recorded for Siltbreeze Records, with whom she released two absolutely stunning albums: Handbook For Mortals from 2013, and Shimmering Ghosts, released posthumously in 2015.
[Music/Art] Dada and Cabaret Voltaire
Dada was the radical movement of art which would launch all kinds of future artistic madness, such as surrealism. The Cabaret Voltaire, based in Zürich, Switzerland, was the place where this action was crystallized.
[Art] Chris Veeneman – Il ne fait jamais nuit…
Chris Veeneman is one of my favorite contemporary artists. This particular work is represented by Saatchi Art Gallery.
[Art] Salvador Dali – Scenes from Dante’s Inferno
Many thanks to the Tumblr blogger Dæmonart who had originally posted this series of paintings done by Salvador Dalí, which were his intepretation of scenes from Dante’s Inferno.
This Week’s Six Pillars – Outside the Turner Prize — Six Pillars
The Turner Prize (est. 1984) is awarded annually to an artist born, living or working in Britain, for an outstanding exhibition presentation of their work anywhere in the world the previous year. However the jury is specifically composed of national and international curators, writers and even musicians. What does this self-consciously British show look like […]
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The blog is absolutely one of the best culture blogs going today. It’s worth following, and will turn you on to bands, events and projects you won’t get much exposure to elsewhere.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 