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Happy birthday Jurgen Trautwein
Other historical figures born on this day –
Kaspar Hauser
Annie Dilllard, Lars Von Trier and Jane Campion,
Jacques Audiard
Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30.
Exibition of Virginia Jaramillo at Menil Houston
Sep 26, 2020 – Jul 3, 2021
Main Building
Meet Virginia Jaramillo at Menil Collection
Meet Virginia Jaramillo, a Pioneering Minimalist Who Fuses Cosmology and Science Fiction
(Hyperallergic)
Specters of Noon – Allora & Catzadilla
(Till Jun 20, 2021 )
(Allora & Calzadilla, Graft, 2019, paint on PVC, photo by Fung Lin Hall)
In Graft, thousands of yellow blossoms, cast from the flowers of roble amarillo tress, an oak species native to the Caribbean, appear as though a wind has swept them actress the gallery floor.
Graft alludes to the environmental changes that have been set in motion
through the interlocking effects of colonial exploitation and climate change.
(via)
a performer reads a newspaper on the back of a mud sculpture of a hippopotamus, created by Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, at the arts Biennale in Venice.
Charlie CHAPLIN. 1952.
Buster KEATON (left) and Charlie CHAPLIN (right) during the shooting of the movie “Limelight”, starring Charlie CHAPLIN, Sidney CHAPLIN, Claire BLOOM and Buster KEATON.
Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin were close friends.
What happend when Albert Einstein met Charlie Chaplin
Tea Ceremony with Isamu Noguchi and Shirley Yamaguchi
Tea Ceremony At Eames house
November 10, 1964: Ingmar Bergman and Charlie Chaplin enjoy a long conversation about movies and other subjects in Chaplin’s room at the Stockholm Grand Hotel. Chaplin was in the Swedish capital in connection with the publication of his autobiography in Scandinavia.
(Thief of Paris, directed by Louis Malle)
Jean Paul Belmondo, born 9 April 1933
Son of Paul Belmondo, a French sculptor of Italian descent.
This fast-moving spoof of Bond-type movies features striking location photography of Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer’s nascent Brasília and Paris of the time. In 1964 the film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay.
“Léon Morin, Priest” in English — was Melville’s sixth feature and almost the exact midpoint between early successes like “Bob le Flambeur” (1956), about a gentleman thief organizing the heist of a lifetime, and “Army of Shadows” (1969), his late-career masterpiece about the Resistance. Given his interest in the war, it’s understandable that he was drawn to “Léon Morin” and its story of life during the occupation.
In the interview included on this disc, Melville says he was sitting on it for eight years but never started because he couldn’t find an actor right for the part of Morin, and that it was only after watching Breathless that he decided to try and get Belmondo, who was initially reluctant and had to be convinced by Melville.
Two Women, directed by Vittorio De Sica (Sophia Loren won an Oscar for best actress)
(Is Paris Burning – Alain Delon and Belmondo directed by Rene Clement)
(Stavisky directed by Alain Resnais)
Paris Journal on Stavisky (Jonathan Rosenbaum – see more photos here)
Billie Holiday 
Billie Holiday born on this date April 7 in 1915 as Eleanora Fagan and later called Lady Day, sings this song God Bless the Child for you.
Gerry Mulligan film credits
Gerry Mulligan homepage via
Chet Baker 
and Gerry Mulligan
Sandy & Gerry Mulligan 
Dennis lived with prominent jazz musician Gerry Mulligan from 1965 until they split up in 1974. (Via Sandy Dennis wiki)
(Photo by Judy Dater – via)
In an interview published in American Literary History, Kingston disclosed her admiration for Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and William Carlos Williams, who were inspirational influences for her work, shaping her analysis of gender studies. Kingston said of Walt Whitman’s work,
I like the rhythm of his language and the freedom and the wildness of it. It’s so American. And also his vision of a new kind of human being that was going to be formed in this country—although he never specifically said Chinese—ethnic Chinese also—I’d like to think he meant all kinds of people. And also I love that throughout Leaves of Grass he always says ‘men and women,’ ‘male and female.’ He’s so different from other writers of his time, and even of this time. Even a hundred years ago he included women and he always used [those phrases], ‘men and women,’ ‘male and female.’
Kingston named the main character of Tripmaster Monkey (1989) Wittman Ah Sing, after Walt Whitman
Similarly, Kingston’s praise of William Carlos Williams expresses her appreciation of his seemingly genderless work:
I love In the American Grain because it does the same thing. Abraham Lincoln is a ‘mother’ of our country. He talks about this wonderful woman walking through the battlefields with her beard and shawl. I find that so freeing, that we don’t have to be constrained to being just one ethnic group or one gender– both [Woolf and Williams] make me feel that I can now write as a man, I can write as a black person, as a white person; I don’t have to be restricted by time and physicality.
Blog of Awesome Women – Maxine Hong Kingston – literary Warrior
Happy birthday Milan Kundera!
In 1975, Kundera moved to France where The Book of Laughter and Forgetting was published in 1979. An unusual mixture of novel, short story collection, and authorial musings which came to characterize his works in exile, the book dealt with how Czechs opposed the communist regime in various ways. (via wiki)
In his first novel, The Joke (1967), he satirizes the totalitarianism of the Communist era. His criticism of the Soviet invasion in 1968 led to his blacklisting in Czechoslovakia and the banning of his books. (via his wiki)
Milan Kundera joyfully accepts Czech Republic’s Franz Kafka Prize (Last year Sept,2020)
Last year Milan Kundera donated his library and archive to Moravia Library in Brno
