Peter Aliknak, Snowbirds, 1972.
Stonecut print on paper. From the Priscilla Tyler and Maree Brooks Collection of Inuit Art, 1992.
still life, Giorgio Morandi, 1960
9 7/8 x 15¾ in. (25.7 x 40 cm.)
John Chamberlain
In Syracuse We | Shop For Fathers Day Cards And Run Into This
University of Arizona Poetry Center
—Interview with James Tate 1968
Some weeks it seems most urgent to just grab on to any small piece of beauty, no matter what it is, and to dance around that until you fall dead.
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Listen to this informal interview from 1968 with a twenty-five year old James Tate.
It’s part of the archive of recorded poetry (and some fiction) readings dating back to the 1960s recently made available online for anyone’s enjoyment from The University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. So many poets, so many readings…
A treasure trove indeed.
Christian Rohlfs, Abstraction, 1919
A woman perches above red algae in a stagnant pool inside Anemone Cave on Mount Desert Island, Maine, September 1952.
Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Alien for sale.
© Ioana Cîrlig
The viaduct in Brad. During the Second World War, romanian young men and 3000 soviet prisoners of war worked on building the railway that was going to make the transport from and to the gold mines easier. The Brad-Deva railway has only been used from the early 80’s until 1998.
John Chamberlain, Galerie Karsten Greve
The Earth Room | Michael Vincent Manalo
Above: a medieval manuscript mended with embroidery. Photos via the Uppsala University Library. Here is some information about the manuscript from their page:
The pages of the book are made of parchment and they show typical damage in the form of holes and tears that happened while the parchment was being made. Some time after the book was copied, the holes and tears have been mended artistically with silk of various colours, mainly in blanket stitch as used in embroidery.
The old mending is in good shape except for those parts which were sewn with black silk. The thread is so fragile that it disintegrates on touch.
Read more here.
(via booksnbuildings)
