Vitro Nasu

Via

David Goldblatt, ‘The salute of the banned African National Congress at the graves of four assassinated black community leaders’, Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa, 20 July, 1985, gelatin-silver print. Museum no. E.112-1992, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Art Net David Goldblatt

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(Cafe de Move On Johnnesburg 1964)

Marian Goodman Gallery- / Structures of Dominion & Democracy

(Guardian obit in 2018)
Art and Design – David Goldblatt (See more wonderful photos here)

David Goldblatt A Monument to Apartheid In Fietas

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Carvings for Sale on William Nicol Drive , 1999

Miriam Mazibuko waters the garden of her RDP house for which she waited eight years. It consists of one room. Her four children live with her in-laws. Extension 8, Far East Alexandra Township, 12 September 2006

Picture Protest – Frieze

Art Net David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt was South African photographer known for his uncompromising images of his country during apartheid and afterward. “I was very interested in the events that were taking place in the country as a citizen but, as a photographer, I’m not particularly interested, and I wasn’t then, in photographing the moment that something happens. I’m interested in the conditions that give rise to events,” he once explained. Born on November 29, 1930 in Randfontein, South Africa, he began photographing at an early age but his father’s illness required Goldblatt to run his family business while studying at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. After selling the company in 1963, Goldblatt focused entirely on a career in photography. His involvement with various artistic circles in Johannesburg granted him access to a broad range of ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

Manny Medrano ’19, right, explains the meaning of quipus knots while holding a model. Quipus are knots that Incas used to record censuses, etc., and there are only 1000 left in the world. Medrano is the first name on the paper he co-wrote with Professor Gary Urton, left, Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian Studies, that is being published in EthnoJournal.
Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

The College Student Decoded the data in Inca Knots

Quipu

Nature is Healing Covid Meme

Why Greogory Bateson Matters

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Skylight Ideas – Home decor

Chairs from the doctor’s office – photo by Fung Lin Hall

Chorus of Chairs

Bat, Elephant, & Dragon Chairs

Happy birthday Anoushka Shankar!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CnhcGpmH9Y

Carnivale Mask (sold in Venice)

Renate Buser was ahead of time
showing how to wash hands in 2008.

Garlic and Ginger – G Theory

(photo by Fung Lin Hall)

Garlic & Ginger..the two spices that grace the oriental cooking. In contrast to other theories which circulate in the world today, They are constructive without being overly critical. They deliver the essentail services of being pungent and relevant. Unlike the Russian constructivist, the origin of this theory is ancient and anonymous. The subscribers to this theory are seldom arrogant, and their work is
understood and appreciated by all.

TP Meditation I~
TP Meditation II

TP Meditation III

Humans are the only creatures who use toilet paper – and what a nightmare!! (Don’t know who designed this paper toilet site.)

(Jojo Rabbit – Thomasin McKenzie, Roman Griffin Davies and Taika Waititi)

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

Page 93 from the Screenplay of Jojo Rabbit
(Rilke was born in Prague. Jojo Rabbit was filmed in historical towns and villages in the Czech Republic. The interiors were built in the Barrandov Studios in Prague.)

See where this screenplay showed up first.
Jojo R Script
(For Your Consideration)

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Hieronymus Bosch
(11 Things I learned from the Hieronymus Bosch by David Byrne)

Chinese New Year Zodiac Rat

Rats are clever, quick thinkers; successful, but content with living a quiet and peaceful life.

(Banksy)
2008 Rat year

Personality and characteristics

Optimistic and energetic, people born in the Rat year are likable by all. They are sensitive to other’s emotions but are stubborn with your opinion. Their personality is kind, but due to weak communication skills, their words may seem impolite and rude.

On the financial side, they like saving and can be stingy. However, their love for hoarding will sometimes cause them to waste money on unnecessary things.

(Ralph Fiennes and Pete Postlethwaite from the Constant Gardner)

In the Name of Pete Postlethwaite
(See and read more from here, enjoy!)

Eric Rohmer

Todd Haynes on Cate Blanchett, Saul Leiter and Queer Cinema
Carol – Todd Haynes

(Snegurochka and Ded Moroz crossing a Moscow street in 1968)
Soviet Santa

How Santa Survived the Soviet Era
Of all the variations on the beloved character, Russia’s Ded Moroz might have the strangest history.

(Actor Alexander Khvylya plays Ded Moroz at a New Year performance the Kremlin in 1969.)

Ded Moroz emerged around the late 19th century. One of the first major cultural introductions of the character was in the 1873 play The Snow Maiden, by Alexander Ostrovsky, one of the most important playwrights in Russian history. Ostrovsky was often a political writer, and The Snow Maiden is an odd entry in his oeuvre. It’s a fairytale, based in part on obscure and largely forgotten pre-Christian pagan mythology, and designed to promote a different kind of Russian patriotism than the Imperial government’s brand. The play was published—not necessarily a given for Ostrovsky, who had many of his plays censored or banned—and eventually rewritten as an opera, which was performed many times.

Christmas sounds like Kurushimimasu (suffering in Japanese)
Homeless Person’s Guide to Homelessness

Great News for Milan Kundera (Guardian)

Milan Kundera’s Czech citizenship restored after 40 years

Milan Kundera wiki
More from here

Czech premier proposes restoring writer Kundera’s nationality

Brno daily

In Photos: Exhibition “Milan Kundera (Not Lost) in Translation”

(Kundera, Vera Kundera and Roth)
With Philip Roth

(Dudley Moore, Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller: The Cast of “Beyond the Fringe)
BBC obit

Jonathan Miller, director and humorist, dies at 85

Jonathan Miller and The Kinds of Genius

(Jonathan Miller directs Mikado)