''Scarlet Street' (1945) was originally banned in New York State. The ban was removed only after prolonged representation. It is apparently immoral to stab a woman seven times, but moral to stab her only four times.”

--- Fritz Lang

Buenas noches
BERNSTEIN MOZART Clarinet Concerto youtu.be/HX0Q-0Cw-TA?si…

The Daily Rothko

Piscine à minuit,
David Hockney - 1978

Ada Limón

J'accuse
Dir. Abel Gance

'Jean-Luc Godard's 'Le mépris' (1963) has amazing acting, is very free & loosely edited, & is a wonderful movie about filmmaking. For me, having Fritz Lang in there is just unbelievable to watch. To see this man play a fictional director is incredible.'

--- Wim Wenders

'For something ostensibly so foreign to me, how Ozu's 'Tokyo Story' (1953) depicts the life of a family was extremely familiar. It’s so close to a reality that I know. it happens sometimes: you see things through other people's eyes, & it's so intimate & close'

--- Steve McQueen

Feliz jueves
Grace Williams : Sea Sketches, for String orchestra (1944) youtu.be/IDWduII0qrQ?si…

Red Desert (1964, Antonioni)

'While making a film, we live & nevertheless, we are always settling personal problems. Problems which concerns our work, but also our private life.'

--- Michelangelo Antonioni

Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city. buff.ly/4awkYhW

Ellen Bass floors me every time

'I want to write in the language of those
who have been to that place before me.'

Chase Twichell:

What we desire ~
more than a season
or weather ~
is the comfort
of being strangers
at least to ourselves ~
Mark Strand ~ 11.4.1934-29.11.2014

Foto art: niphisi

'Sauge' vase. René Lalique. 1923.
Image: Rago

Alex Gardner.

Portrait of Lewis Payne.
1865.

Barthes felt pierced by the fact that Payne was executed just over two months after this photograph was taken.
The horror of knowing “he is going to die” is the punctum.

The “historical interest” is the studium.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Kubrick)

“The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.”

— Stanley Kubrick

From the series’Forest Talk’, by Palestinian photographer Fadwa Rouhana

L'envol 🪶
Le motif de l’oiseau occupe Constantin Brancusi pendant trois décennies. L’envol symbolise pour l'artiste le rêve de l’homme échappant à sa condition terrestre, son ascension vers le spirituel. 👉bit.ly/Expo_Brancusi
#ExpoConstantinBrancusi

«Jane B. par Agnès V.» (Agnès Varda, 1988).