ann
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Recovering X-er. Anxious American. Art, verse, music floozy. This account is a kind of diary. No DM. 🎨 (Love to Ukraine! 🇺🇦)
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· Dec 5
Laurie Anderson's Mind-Blowing Performance of 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
YouTube video by ALL ARTS TV (ALL ARTS)
youtu.be
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought...
Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯
youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
everyone going home lost in thought...
Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯
youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
Reposted by ann
A line from one of Tom Stoppard's plays (quoted in his obituary) lands with a certain force today: "It's not the voting that's democracy. It's the counting."
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A line from one of Tom Stoppard's plays (quoted in his obituary) lands with a certain force today: "It's not the voting that's democracy. It's the counting."
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought...
Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯
youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
everyone going home lost in thought...
Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯
youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
Laurie Anderson's Mind-Blowing Performance of 'Waiting for the Barbarians'
YouTube video by ALL ARTS TV (ALL ARTS)
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,
everyone going home lost in thought...
Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯
youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
everyone going home lost in thought...
Laurie Anderson peforming C.P.
Cavafy's Waiting For The Barbarians and Ithaca (with the Brooklyn Youth
Chorus and The Knights) (2023) 🤯
youtu.be/rI15W-BBhrw
Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Music (White Forest) (aquatint in colors on paper, 2002)
December 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Music (White Forest) (aquatint in colors on paper, 2002)
Will Barnet, The Spider Sewed At Night (oil on canvas, 1989)
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Will Barnet, The Spider Sewed At Night (oil on canvas, 1989)
Gordon Onslow Ford, Heaven Is Earth (acrylic on paper on canvas, 1997)
December 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Gordon Onslow Ford, Heaven Is Earth (acrylic on paper on canvas, 1997)
Anne Rothenstein, Black Dog (oil on wood panel, 2021)
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Anne Rothenstein, Black Dog (oil on wood panel, 2021)
Awake at night—
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.
Matsuo Bashō
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.
Matsuo Bashō
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Awake at night—
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.
Matsuo Bashō
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.
Matsuo Bashō
Morris Graves, Winter Flowers (mixed media on paper, 1976)
December 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Morris Graves, Winter Flowers (mixed media on paper, 1976)
Sarah Anne Johnson, WWSOSR (detail) (pigment print with oil paint, 2020) 📸🎨
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sarah Anne Johnson, WWSOSR (detail) (pigment print with oil paint, 2020) 📸🎨
Reposted by ann
"I don’t know how to deal with a world where there’s this language of infatuation that people use. ‘Well, I didn’t fall in love with the book.’ Or: ‘I fell in love with the book!’ I’m not sure that that has ever been my attitude toward any text."
-- Helen DeWitt
-- Helen DeWitt
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"I don’t know how to deal with a world where there’s this language of infatuation that people use. ‘Well, I didn’t fall in love with the book.’ Or: ‘I fell in love with the book!’ I’m not sure that that has ever been my attitude toward any text."
-- Helen DeWitt
-- Helen DeWitt
On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter…🐦⬛
🪶 Daphne du Maurier, The Birds (1952)
📸 Hein Gorny, Flock of Birds (1930s)
🪶 Daphne du Maurier, The Birds (1952)
📸 Hein Gorny, Flock of Birds (1930s)
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was winter…🐦⬛
🪶 Daphne du Maurier, The Birds (1952)
📸 Hein Gorny, Flock of Birds (1930s)
🪶 Daphne du Maurier, The Birds (1952)
📸 Hein Gorny, Flock of Birds (1930s)
Reposted by ann
History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
November 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
Benjamin Moravec, Untitled (oil on wood, 2020)
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Benjamin Moravec, Untitled (oil on wood, 2020)
Margarita Vargas, The Next Table (oil on canvas, 2022)
December 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Margarita Vargas, The Next Table (oil on canvas, 2022)
Saul Robertson, Surfacing (2005)
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Saul Robertson, Surfacing (2005)
Sterling Hundley, Shipwreck (mixed media on board, c. 2010) (note: commissioned by Virginia Living Magazine)
December 2, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Sterling Hundley, Shipwreck (mixed media on board, c. 2010) (note: commissioned by Virginia Living Magazine)
Reposted by ann
November 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Akino Fuku, Red Clothes (1938)
December 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Akino Fuku, Red Clothes (1938)
Sakit Mammadov (b. 1958), Untitled (?)
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Sakit Mammadov (b. 1958), Untitled (?)
Florine Stettheimer, Fête on the Lake (oil on cardboard mounted on board, c. 1920)
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Florine Stettheimer, Fête on the Lake (oil on cardboard mounted on board, c. 1920)
Anselm Kiefer, Unfruchtbare Landschaften (Barren Landscapes) (black and white photographs, surgical instrument, ink and paper on bound cardboard) (1969) (📸 Charles Duprat)
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Anselm Kiefer, Unfruchtbare Landschaften (Barren Landscapes) (black and white photographs, surgical instrument, ink and paper on bound cardboard) (1969) (📸 Charles Duprat)
Pascal Campion (b. 1973), Untitled (It’s pouring, it’s raining…)
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Pascal Campion (b. 1973), Untitled (It’s pouring, it’s raining…)
Ann Leda Shapiro, Trying To Hold Back Nuclear War
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Ann Leda Shapiro, Trying To Hold Back Nuclear War
Reposted by ann
it seems to have
a long, long tail
autumn's end
--Maya Okuzaka
長々と尾のあるごとし秋の暮 奥坂まや
#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
a long, long tail
autumn's end
--Maya Okuzaka
長々と尾のあるごとし秋の暮 奥坂まや
#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
it seems to have
a long, long tail
autumn's end
--Maya Okuzaka
長々と尾のあるごとし秋の暮 奥坂まや
#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
a long, long tail
autumn's end
--Maya Okuzaka
長々と尾のあるごとし秋の暮 奥坂まや
#haiku #gendaihaiku #translation
Ryo Takemasa, Beach In The Evening (2015)
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Ryo Takemasa, Beach In The Evening (2015)