Vitro Nasu

Ted Hughes and Eliot

TS Eliot, his wife Valerie and Ted Hughes at – in Hughes’s words – ‘one of the champagne and guinness parties’ that Faber used to throw

Photograph: Faber Archive

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Hollow Men

The Hollow Men
Mistah Kurtz-he dead
A penny for the Old Guy

Tom and Viv

The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx (New Yorker)

Wonder Boys – Tobey and Robert Downey Jr.

William Hurt and
and Curtis Hanson.

Sad news, goodbye Curtis Hanson!

Curtis Hanson, Director and Oscar-Winning Writer on ‘L.A. Confidential,’ Dies at 71

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Edward Albee R I P.

The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia? A Delicate Balance

LA times Obit here..

Edward Albee was my mailman

Naomi Kawase

Sweet Bean (Nytimes) – A delicacy unites a vendor and an old woman.

Cannes festival.

Kiki, for whom After the Storm is her fifth Koreeda film, described the director as among one of the most observant she has seen in her 55-year career.

Koreeda’s new film, After the Storm.

Still Walking
Still Walking – Hirokazu Kore eda (previous post)

Autumn Moon directed by Clara Law

Full film ofAutumn Moon by Clara Law here (Youtube)

Clara Law

Mystery Train – Jim Jarmusch

Nagase in Cold Fever.

Cold Fever (Icelandic film) ..

Wall and Love

Imperial Love installed at Berlin

From Tuesday, 13 September 2016 – the artist’s birthday – visitors arriving at the entrance to the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin will be greeted by Robert Indiana’s large-scale sculpture, Imperial LOVE (1966/2006).

Whitney (Beyond Love)

Photo by Fung Lin Hall

Love in Hebrew installed in Jerusalem Noguchi Garden (Previous post)

See a better photo of Ahava

Photo by Fung Lin Hall (Scottsdale, Arizona)

How Love nearly ruined Robert Indiana’s career (mental floss)

Happy birthday Robert Indiana! his wiki here

Keith
and Tseng Kwong Chi

My mirrored glasses give
the picture a neutral
impact and a surrealistic
quality I am looking for.
I am an inquisitive traveler,
a witness of my time, and
an ambiguous ambassador.
Tseng Kwong Chi
1950-1990

Revisiting the Twin tower with Tseng Kwong Chi

Tseng and Herman Costa, Aids Memrorial (Photos of Eleven Good Men)
Tseng was 39 when he died.

See him at Grand Canyon

His imagery was always the curious, blank Chinese tourist. I would say to Kwong that you don’t fool me, I know, I can sense protest when I see it… this blankness was the way in which this culture at large expected him, as an Asian man, to exist. So he became a kind of a cipher, a smooth surface that because it was so impenetrable, this persona, it reflected everything!

Bill T. Jones

[TSENG’s work is like] a cross between Ansel Adams and Cindy Sherman.

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

See Allen Ginsberg’s Handwritten Poem For Bernie Sanders, “Burlington Snow” (1986)

Ginsberg blog

Bernie and Allen

With his big brother

Happy birthday Bernie Sanders!

Photos via

via Andrew Bonheler
See previous post on Bernie Sanders (Contempt for Voters, theater of cruelty, undemocratic primary of 2016.)

Martin Buber. I and thou.

“The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.”
― Martin Buber

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
― Martin Buber
Sparrow Impromptu in Portland – Hilarious Falcon Flying from Bosnia to Syria – War and Peace Spring of 2016

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Chalk Cliffs on Rügen

c. 1818
Oil on canvas, 90,5 x 71 cm
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur

The painting was painted in recollection of the artist’s honeymoon.

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840)

Perspective

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is teach us how to suffer. It can do so by evoking scenes that are dark, melancholy or painful, and that normalise and lend dignity to the suffering we may ourselves be experiencing in isolation and confusion. They reveal – with grandeur and technical skill – that grief belongs to the human condition.

Caspar David Friedrich, a painter of sublime sadness, was born in 1774 in Greifswald, an ancient trading town in the far north of Germany, on the Baltic coast. It was a beautiful place in a severe, northern sort of way. As a child he loved the way the pinnacles, spires and towers of the town loomed up above the trees in the haze of very early summer mornings.

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Trauerszene am Strand