Nils Tregenza 📚
@nilstregenza.bsky.social
Lover of world literature, music and art. Will give weekly recommendations here. Melbourne. Occasionally posts my art #booksky
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If the idea of reading a feature about the use of beetles in 17th-19th century Himalayan miniature painting appeals, this comes highly recommended www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If the idea of reading a feature about the use of beetles in 17th-19th century Himalayan miniature painting appeals, this comes highly recommended www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...
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Arshile Gorky (c. 1904-1948), “The Artist and His Mother” (1926-c. 1936), oil on canvas, 127.6 x 152.4 cm.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Arshile Gorky (c. 1904-1948), “The Artist and His Mother” (1926-c. 1936), oil on canvas, 127.6 x 152.4 cm.
Recommended: ‘The End of August’ by Yū Miri (2004)
An incredible and unsparing novel of Japanese-occupied Korea, told through the author’s ancestors. Their lives are framed by the rhythms of revolutionary folk songs, and of athletes forced to compete under the colonial flag #booksky
An incredible and unsparing novel of Japanese-occupied Korea, told through the author’s ancestors. Their lives are framed by the rhythms of revolutionary folk songs, and of athletes forced to compete under the colonial flag #booksky
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Recommended: ‘The End of August’ by Yū Miri (2004)
An incredible and unsparing novel of Japanese-occupied Korea, told through the author’s ancestors. Their lives are framed by the rhythms of revolutionary folk songs, and of athletes forced to compete under the colonial flag #booksky
An incredible and unsparing novel of Japanese-occupied Korea, told through the author’s ancestors. Their lives are framed by the rhythms of revolutionary folk songs, and of athletes forced to compete under the colonial flag #booksky
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Abstract #145
#art #abstractart #abstract #contemporyart #hasselblad #photography #photographersunited #photographersofblusky #macro #macrophotography #experimentalphotography
#art #abstractart #abstract #contemporyart #hasselblad #photography #photographersunited #photographersofblusky #macro #macrophotography #experimentalphotography
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Recommended: ‘Samskara’ by U.R. Ananthamurthy (1965)
A classic novel against caste. In his last act against tradition, a man dies in the temple of a brahmin village, bringing life to a standstill. We are shown the spiritual side of entering into the world rather than retreating from it #booksky
A classic novel against caste. In his last act against tradition, a man dies in the temple of a brahmin village, bringing life to a standstill. We are shown the spiritual side of entering into the world rather than retreating from it #booksky
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Recommended: ‘Samskara’ by U.R. Ananthamurthy (1965)
A classic novel against caste. In his last act against tradition, a man dies in the temple of a brahmin village, bringing life to a standstill. We are shown the spiritual side of entering into the world rather than retreating from it #booksky
A classic novel against caste. In his last act against tradition, a man dies in the temple of a brahmin village, bringing life to a standstill. We are shown the spiritual side of entering into the world rather than retreating from it #booksky
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shiny and new and all mine!
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
shiny and new and all mine!
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
Haunting sculptures by Bernhard Hoetger. He claimed to be channeling the German soul, but his art was so strange that the Nazis denounced it as foreign #art #blueskyart
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Haunting sculptures by Bernhard Hoetger. He claimed to be channeling the German soul, but his art was so strange that the Nazis denounced it as foreign #art #blueskyart
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‘Fortress Besieged’ by Qian Zhongshu (1947)
China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky
China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky
November 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
‘Fortress Besieged’ by Qian Zhongshu (1947)
China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky
China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky
Music from the far south of the Arab world, drawing on trance-inducing Sufi traditions
#music #worldmusic #comoros
#music #worldmusic #comoros
Kweli, Pt. 2
YouTube video by Nawal - Topic
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November 4, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Music from the far south of the Arab world, drawing on trance-inducing Sufi traditions
#music #worldmusic #comoros
#music #worldmusic #comoros
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#1225 Wu Fei’s Music Daily — The mysterious B flat 神秘的降B
Today’s guzheng and vocal improvisation was inspired by an interesting discovery in my house. I was heating up lunch in the microwave while my husband was making an espresso with the coffee machine.
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Today’s guzheng and vocal improvisation was inspired by an interesting discovery in my house. I was heating up lunch in the microwave while my husband was making an espresso with the coffee machine.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1225-the-m...
November 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#1225 Wu Fei’s Music Daily — The mysterious B flat 神秘的降B
Today’s guzheng and vocal improvisation was inspired by an interesting discovery in my house. I was heating up lunch in the microwave while my husband was making an espresso with the coffee machine.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1225-the-m...
Today’s guzheng and vocal improvisation was inspired by an interesting discovery in my house. I was heating up lunch in the microwave while my husband was making an espresso with the coffee machine.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1225-the-m...
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Erika Giovanna Klien, Dance (1931)
November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Erika Giovanna Klien, Dance (1931)
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‘The House of Ulloa’ by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886)
A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky
A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 AM
‘The House of Ulloa’ by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886)
A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky
A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky
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🦴 Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt
Leipzig undIn Kommission im Deutschen Museum, 1820-1838.
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Leipzig undIn Kommission im Deutschen Museum, 1820-1838.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:23 AM
🦴 Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt
Leipzig undIn Kommission im Deutschen Museum, 1820-1838.
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Leipzig undIn Kommission im Deutschen Museum, 1820-1838.
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Georges Lacombe (1868-1916)
Blue Navy, wave effects
Blue Navy, wave effects
October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Georges Lacombe (1868-1916)
Blue Navy, wave effects
Blue Navy, wave effects
Impressive rhythm from the court musicians of Buganda, honouring the spirits of those who played the xylophone before them
#music #worldmusic #uganda
#music #worldmusic #uganda
Kubikira Amadinda / Emirembe Ngalo
YouTube video by Nyege Nyege Music
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October 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Impressive rhythm from the court musicians of Buganda, honouring the spirits of those who played the xylophone before them
#music #worldmusic #uganda
#music #worldmusic #uganda
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#thursday #art #artsky #bluesky #october #modernart #arte #photo #illustration #abstract #design #fall #flowers #アート #イラスト #写真 #monochrome #fashion #graphicdesign #colors #photography #artist
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October 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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‘The Little Town Where Time Stood Still’ by Bohumil Hrabal (1974)
About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky
About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
‘The Little Town Where Time Stood Still’ by Bohumil Hrabal (1974)
About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky
About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky
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Namsai Supavong
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Namsai Supavong
Julius Eastman was one of the great overlooked American composers, who incorporated his experiences of blackness and queerness into the New York experimental scene
#music #classical #queer
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#music #classical #queer
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October 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Julius Eastman was one of the great overlooked American composers, who incorporated his experiences of blackness and queerness into the New York experimental scene
#music #classical #queer
editionsblume.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
#music #classical #queer
editionsblume.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Sometime the paintings create themselves, you just need to notice #vertical #blueskyartshow #abstractpainting #abstractart #art #painting
October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Sometime the paintings create themselves, you just need to notice #vertical #blueskyartshow #abstractpainting #abstractart #art #painting
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‘Toddler-Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)
Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky
Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky
October 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
‘Toddler-Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)
Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky
Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky
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Cross-posting from Instytut Pekiński.
I didn't know about this painting's existence "Autumn Hunting of Yuan people" & it is marvelous, to say the least.
Smarter ppl are commenting on the exact date etc but Peking Inst says it is 1 of only 2 paintings of Yuan hunt - other being Kublai's.
#mongolsky
I didn't know about this painting's existence "Autumn Hunting of Yuan people" & it is marvelous, to say the least.
Smarter ppl are commenting on the exact date etc but Peking Inst says it is 1 of only 2 paintings of Yuan hunt - other being Kublai's.
#mongolsky
October 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Cross-posting from Instytut Pekiński.
I didn't know about this painting's existence "Autumn Hunting of Yuan people" & it is marvelous, to say the least.
Smarter ppl are commenting on the exact date etc but Peking Inst says it is 1 of only 2 paintings of Yuan hunt - other being Kublai's.
#mongolsky
I didn't know about this painting's existence "Autumn Hunting of Yuan people" & it is marvelous, to say the least.
Smarter ppl are commenting on the exact date etc but Peking Inst says it is 1 of only 2 paintings of Yuan hunt - other being Kublai's.
#mongolsky