Many thanks to Ralf Herrmann for posting this video presented by Aleksandra Samulenkova on the peculiarities of Latvian letterforms and typography.
Art
[Art] Oedipus Rex — Max Ernst — Biblioklept
[Art] Portrait of Antonietta Gonzalez — Lavinia Fontana — Biblioklept
[Art] Franz Stuck: Dark Female Figures in a World of Anxiety and Lust — Byron’s muse
If you gaze at dark and richly textured paintings of a German Symbolist painter Franz Stuck for too long, you become spiritually drowned in a world of ‘anxiety and lust’, to quote Carl Jung. That peculiar mood of his paintings is as intoxicating as it is heavy and suffocating, radiating the typical turn of the […]
via Franz Stuck: Dark Female Figures in a World of Anxiety and Lust — Byron’s muse
[Art/History] The Social Historian: Just A Quick List of 17th Century Euphemisms For Being Drunk
From John Ray, A Collection of English Proverbs (1678). ‘Disguised.’ ‘To have a piece of bread and cheese in your head.’ ‘He’s drunk more than he has bled.’ (ouch) ‘Been in the sun.’ ‘Had a jag.’ ‘Had a load.’ ‘To have got a dish.’ ‘To have had a cup too much.’ ‘To be one and […]
via Just a quick list of 17th century euphemisms for being drunk… — The Social Historian
[Music] Rock in the USSR – New photos of the Leningrad underground during perestroika
Victor Tsoi
The Calvert Journal has a great blog post full of photos from the 80s and 90s underground rock scene in what was then Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia.
[Art] Imaoka Kazuho (Japanese, b. 1991), Remain, 2015. Mineral pigment, silver leaf, Japanese paper, panel, 162 x 130.3 cm.
Kazuho Imaoka has become one of my favorite painters. She was born in 1991, and has quite an amazing portfolio, which you can check out at her Tumblr page.
[Art] The Hare and the Flower — Barry Moser — Biblioklept
Barry Moser’s illustration for Lynne Reid Banks’s “The Hare and the Flower.” From The Magic Hare, Avon, 1994.
[Art] Sigmar Polke – Untitled
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer noted for his use of chemical reactions.
[Music] Measuring The Sound Of Angels Singing
UCLA professor Sharon Gerstel’s work in studying how Byzantine church architecture helped to enhance the sound of liturgical chants was featured at UCLA’s Newsroom blog.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 