A Garden of Ideas in John Berger’s Letters to His Son
Over to You is an ever-evolving meditation on images by the art critic and his youngest son, two men linked by blood and art.
By Lauren Moya Ford
Denishawn Dance Film (ca. 1916).
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn founded Denishawn, a visionary dance school in Los Angeles, filmed in rare silent footage (1915–17) showing early activities at two sites: the Parkinson Estate and the Westlake School for Girls. via @publicdomainrev
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I'd like to take 2 seconds this morning and thank all the #commons janitors who do the ungrateful and unseen work of trying to increase #fedi's #cohesion and #culture.
#Janitors are #People who find it important to connect people. They spread bits of #information they find to other people for whom it may be useful. Usually in hopes that #attraction occurs between formerly unrelated parties, such as #stimulating a #collaboration between #fediverse projects.
Janitors *weave* #SocialFabric.. ✊
Public Domain Spotlight: Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue stands as an iconic piece of American music with riveting orchestration, and a cultural footprint that reflects the modernity of the early 20th century.
by Sean Dudley
https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/18/public-domain-spotlight-rhapsody-in-blue/
More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_Blue
Odette vs. Odile: A Tale of Two (but Not Opposing) Swans
The distinction between the leading female characters of Swan Lake—the swan princess and her “black” counterpart—initially wasn’t so sharp.
By: Angelica Frey
https://daily.jstor.org/odette-vs-odile-a-tale-of-two-but-not-opposing-swans/
J'ai ouvert 3 #FediPacks sur le site des @fedidevs
L'écologie politique sur Mastodon 🌻
42 comptes à ce jour.
https://fedidevs.com/s/MTM0/
Médias, associations et expert·es de l'écologie 🌻
18 comptes à ce jour.
https://fedidevs.com/s/MTYw/
Arts vivants, scènes ouvertes et professionnel·les de la culture 🎵 🎭
26 comptes à ce jour.
https://fedidevs.com/s/Mzkz/
N'hésitez pas à répondre à ce pouet si vous voulez me signaler des comptes intéressants à y intégrer.
Picasso vs. Matisse: The Friendship (and Rivalry) That Shaped Modern Art
Were the artists frenemies, rivals, or creative soulmates? All of the above, it seems.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-matisse-picasso-friendship-rivalry-2602860
Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed', also known as The Bather, is a name given to four nearly identical oil paintings on canvas by English artist William Etty. The paintings illustrate a scene from James Thomson's 1727 poem Summer in which a young man accidentally sees a young woman bathing naked and is torn between his desire to look and his knowledge that he ought to look away.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musidora:_The_Bather_%27At_the_Doubtful_Breeze_Alarmed%27
New for The Barbed Wire's Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏: Meet Waco's #transgender BBQ pitmaster, who's going viral for his outspoken, #antifascist TikTok videos.
Kaleb told us he lost his job at Terry Black's after being doxed after Charlie Kirk's death, but that hasn't stopped his big smoked meat dreams ... https://thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/21/barbecue-saved-his-life-waco-antifascist-trans-pitmaster/
#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #news #culture #Texas #food #politics #USpol #antifa #SocialMedia #TikTok
Printmaking skills of Manet, Van Gogh and more celebrated in Bath show
Exhibition explores how artists mainly known for their paintings helped revive a skill that had fallen out of fashion
By Steven Morris
Books about Impressionism at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/3050
Aethelflaed, Queen of the Mercians: Brutal Leader or Peace-Seeker?
Lady Aethelflaed is an anomaly in the annals of Anglo-Saxon history, a woman whose power and political influence were officially and widely documented.
By Imogen Davis
https://www.thecollector.com/aethelflaed-queen-mercians-leader-peace-seaker/
Here is a tiny introduction to some Persian stringed instruments. Stan Stewart shares them with you because of an upcoming recording.
#culture #MusicalInstrument
https://muz4now.com/2026/persian-culture-what-do-we-know-about-persia/
Complications of funding an open source operating system via @RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/xarupt #culture #osdev
https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/03/11/0/
Yet another example of why cultural context is very important."L" hand sign on your forehead:- Korea: Love- Philippines: Loser 😝#Culture #Context
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4r4he64ecvfpxjycyuslasih/post/3me4om5mxyz2d
Examining the “Edinburgh University Coterie”: Networks of Cultural Influence in the 1790s and 1800s
11 Feb, Edinburgh & online. Free
Dr Amy Wilcockson’s ongoing IASH project explores a remarkable circle of Edinburgh University classmates who brought Scottish ideas, ideals & stories to the heart of British culture
@litstudies
#Scottish #literature #history #culture #18thcentury #19thcentury #Edinburgh
The Rewilding of Society
A better life is possible. All we have to do is slow down and enjoy it, so we’ll actually have something to talk about. I’ll see you down there. I have stories to tell.
#Rewilding #Society #Culture #Community #JOMO
https://www.davidtoddmccarty.com/a-great-social-rewilding-is-coming2/
An example of #culture clash, in many Asian countries, this is fine. It doesn't matter if you're a stranger. You want to pay respects? Sure. You want to just eat? By all means. Just don't be rude is the only unbreakable rule.And in some Asian cultures, the mourning must be very lively, not sad.
Why I am against GenAI and everything it stands for https://lobste.rs/s/2cjb1z #ai #culture #education
https://lpcvoid.com/blog/0018_why_i_am_against_genai/index.html
‘Nearly Erased From History’: This Famous Sculpture Of Cleopatra Disappeared For Over 100 Years. It Was Being Used As The Gravestone Of A Horse
By Braden Bjella
Edmonia Lewis' 1876 sculpture The Death of Cleopatra received critical acclaim, but the work of art — and the artist herself — were then forgotten for over a century.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/death-of-cleopatra-sculpture
More information about Edmonia Lewis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonia_Lewis
A special shoutout to The New York Review of Books which has just started using the Fediverse:
➡️ @nybooks
The NYRB is a celebrated magazine on literature, politics, arts, ideas & current events.
They've just started posting, so their profile may look blank to your server. Follow them and their posts will start showing up on your server too 🙂
(By the way, NYRB has no connection to the New York Times Book Review, they just have similar names.)
Call for Papers
Scotland Along the New Silk Road
IASSL 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures
17–20 June 2027, Nanjing
This congress seeks to foster reciprocal understanding & cultural collaborations between Scotland & the diverse voices of the New Silk Road
Deadline for proposals: 30 Nov 2026
@litstudies
#Scottish #literature #Scotland #China #culture #postcolonial #worldliterature #callforpapers
Meat-based LLM proxies https://lobste.rs/s/lvs4ez #culture
https://not-an-llm.bearblog.dev/meat-based-llm-proxies/
Tom Kane, the prolific voice actor whose body of work included popular turns as Yoda on “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” and as Prof. Utonium on “The Powerpuff Girls,” died Monday at age 64. Kane suffered a stroke in 2020 that left him unable to speak or write and retired from acting thereafter. He made his first public appearance in years, reuniting with “The Powerpuff Girls” cast, at the Lexington Comic and Toy Convention in March. Read more from @THR:
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