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Tomas Tranströmer, Delfin's favourite poet, and his Russian editions since the 1970s
Incidentally, Delfin names the Swede Tomas Tranströmer as his favourite poet. Now there is a man of remarkable destiny: a psychologist by profession who became a professional pianist and poet, all the while engaged in literature from his youth, and who won worldwide poetic recognition only after an accident that
Architecture · Museums · Heritage · Paris · People
François Palloy and Souvenir Models of the Bastille Made from Its Stones
A miniature replica of the Bastille with eight towers, made from stone from the Bastille's wall. An original souvenir devised by a man who styled himself the demolisher of the Bastille. A bustling contractor, engaged in pulling down the Bastille before any public debate had formed around the
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Painting in a gilded frame: a young woman in white in bed with a candle and crucifix
Faith · Art · People
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich, her stigmata and visions of the House of the Virgin
Anna Katharina Emmerich, Catholic Blessed. Portrait by Gabriel von Max. On the strength of the Blessed Anna Katharina's records of her visions, a site was found where the house of the Mother of God is believed to have stood. Raised in a poor family, from childhood Anna Katharina
Art · Heritage · Mores · People
Teresa Prisbrey and her Bottle Village in California, destroyed by the 1994 earthquake
Remember the grannies and grandpas who build marvellous gardens in their yards and front gardens, with ladybirds, swans made of tyres, towers of plastic bottle tops, toys, figurines, waterfalls and other magic? People usually pass such creations by with, at best, an indulgent smile and a moment's attention.
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Grandma Tessie Prisbrey and Her Bottle Village: 16 Monumental Structures of Glass, Cement and Plastic Fished Out of the Rubbish
Grandma Tessie Prisbrey and her bottle village: 16 monumental structures of glass, cement and plastic fished out of the rubbish. Simi Valley, California, USA.
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Four elements as seated figures, northern France, around 1180
The four elements: water, fire, earth, air. Northern France, around 1180. Not quite as they are shown in Avatar: The Last Airbender, but still
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Sale of Seans publications at the Falanster shop
Falanster is holding a sale of Seans publications. There are some interesting things; I am reserving Varda and Barskaya
Architecture · Art · Moscow · Heritage
Not exactly a treasure, one might say, but still a fairly rare mosaic of a longship and the Kremlin on an ordinary prefab block in Moscow at 22 Yablochkova Street
Not exactly a treasure, one might say, but still a fairly rare mosaic of a longship and the Kremlin on an ordinary prefab block in Moscow at 22 Yablochkova Street. The building is being demolished under the renovation programme, while activists from among the residents of the Butyrsky district are
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Borrowing from a popular Twitter thread, I would like to conduct a poll: what surprises you more in the painting “The Unequal Marriage”: the ghost of an old woman regarding the old groom with contempt, or, ahem, the groom's friend?
Cinema · Books · Observations · Society
A fine piece on one untranslated novel by Ruth Rendell has appeared on Gorky
I have long wanted to draw attention to Claude Chabrol's film "La Cérémonie", which we watched with the lads at my film club; the article mentions it too. The point is that this social drama, which in its day won a great many awards, is now