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That’s probably enough for today. Don’t want to overdo it. (Happy birthday!)
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
That’s probably enough for today. Don’t want to overdo it. (Happy birthday!)
I do like a good rabbit cartoon
December 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I do like a good rabbit cartoon
Klein-related footnote: “Friedman’s plinth supports both nothing and something at the same time, for the space above it has been cursed”
December 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Klein-related footnote: “Friedman’s plinth supports both nothing and something at the same time, for the space above it has been cursed”
...AND – THE VERY SAME DAY:
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
...AND – THE VERY SAME DAY:
In case you can’t be bothered to click through for the full details:
December 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In case you can’t be bothered to click through for the full details:
The most famous manifestation of Klein’s obsession with voids is probably still his leap into it www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The most famous manifestation of Klein’s obsession with voids is probably still his leap into it www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
(A couple of years later, a friend of Klein’s created Le Plein – The Full-Up – by filling the same room with so much rubbish that the work could only be seen through the window)
December 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
(A couple of years later, a friend of Klein’s created Le Plein – The Full-Up – by filling the same room with so much rubbish that the work could only be seen through the window)
It opened on his 30th birthday at a gallery whose windows had been painted International Klein Blue, and whose entrance had been specially draped with blue curtains. At least 3,000 people turned up, “requiring 3 wagons of police to control the mob” web.archive.org/web/20080719...
December 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It opened on his 30th birthday at a gallery whose windows had been painted International Klein Blue, and whose entrance had been specially draped with blue curtains. At least 3,000 people turned up, “requiring 3 wagons of police to control the mob” web.archive.org/web/20080719...
This was a room which had been entirely emptied, except for an empty cabinet, and painted completely white, saving Klein from creating actual work by instead creating the idea of it in the minds of viewers – who came in droves
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This was a room which had been entirely emptied, except for an empty cabinet, and painted completely white, saving Klein from creating actual work by instead creating the idea of it in the minds of viewers – who came in droves
This work followed his famous La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide (The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void)
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This work followed his famous La spécialisation de la sensibilité à l’état matière première en sensibilité picturale stabilisée, Le Vide (The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void)
Klein, you see, was selling ‘Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility’ – empty space in exchange for 20 grams of gold. Then, if the buyer agreed to burn the certificate, Klein chucked half the gold in the Seine. Obviously
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Klein, you see, was selling ‘Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility’ – empty space in exchange for 20 grams of gold. Then, if the buyer agreed to burn the certificate, Klein chucked half the gold in the Seine. Obviously
66 years ago today, artist Yves Klein sold antiques dealer Jacques Kugel an artwork – which seems like an unremarkable anniversary, but for the fact that the art was invisible, and the buyer was supposed to burn the receipt
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
66 years ago today, artist Yves Klein sold antiques dealer Jacques Kugel an artwork – which seems like an unremarkable anniversary, but for the fact that the art was invisible, and the buyer was supposed to burn the receipt
Just been reminded of this heartwarming picture of a rabbit and an eagle. Morning all
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Just been reminded of this heartwarming picture of a rabbit and an eagle. Morning all
“Scarcely was the saint’s prayer finished, when the detached and mangled limbs were miraculously reunited.”
Well, hurrah for that. No wonder we revere him for the kindness to children he displayes each year by bringing them Coke in AI trucks. Or something
Well, hurrah for that. No wonder we revere him for the kindness to children he displayes each year by bringing them Coke in AI trucks. Or something
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“Scarcely was the saint’s prayer finished, when the detached and mangled limbs were miraculously reunited.”
Well, hurrah for that. No wonder we revere him for the kindness to children he displayes each year by bringing them Coke in AI trucks. Or something
Well, hurrah for that. No wonder we revere him for the kindness to children he displayes each year by bringing them Coke in AI trucks. Or something
My favourite bit of Nessie lore, though is the time in the 1970s when some firefighters decided they would lure the creature out with sex appeal, and fashioned a female monster from papier maché which they planned to float out onto the loch
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
My favourite bit of Nessie lore, though is the time in the 1970s when some firefighters decided they would lure the creature out with sex appeal, and fashioned a female monster from papier maché which they planned to float out onto the loch
A day later, they were reporting a Mr G Spicer seeing it on land, and swearing that he was “a temperate man” who wouldn’t just make something like that up.
Even though he had
Even though he had
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A day later, they were reporting a Mr G Spicer seeing it on land, and swearing that he was “a temperate man” who wouldn’t just make something like that up.
Even though he had
Even though he had
“On 12 November 1933 Hugh Gray, a local man, took the first picture of what could be the Loch Ness Monster close to the mouth of the River Foyers. This picture appeared in the Daily Sketch of 6 December 1933 accompanied by a notice from Kodak that the negative had not been tampered with in any way”
December 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
“On 12 November 1933 Hugh Gray, a local man, took the first picture of what could be the Loch Ness Monster close to the mouth of the River Foyers. This picture appeared in the Daily Sketch of 6 December 1933 accompanied by a notice from Kodak that the negative had not been tampered with in any way”
“...giving an awful roar, darted after him, with its mouth wide open”. Thankfully, Columba was made of stuff both stern and holy, and
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“...giving an awful roar, darted after him, with its mouth wide open”. Thankfully, Columba was made of stuff both stern and holy, and
It’s the 92nd anniversary today of one of the finest examples of Betteridge’s Law (the one which states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’)
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It’s the 92nd anniversary today of one of the finest examples of Betteridge’s Law (the one which states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’)
It’s frustrating that the BBC doesn’t tell you what they sang! I couldn’t get to the full lyrics, but I found some more details…
![End of Telegraph story: they start printing the lyrics and it cuts off, but the prompt to expand to see them in full doesn’t work because I was reading it on archive. The first two lines: A Canticle of Indignation by Simon Ogdon - Psalm
94:1-11
"O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth: thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It’s frustrating that the BBC doesn’t tell you what they sang! I couldn’t get to the full lyrics, but I found some more details…
Tom Lehrer said “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize”, so I think it’s admirable of FIFA to have *started* at a level it took the Nobel committee 72 years to reach
And I’m sure we all look forward to hearing about winners in future years
And I’m sure we all look forward to hearing about winners in future years
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Tom Lehrer said “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize”, so I think it’s admirable of FIFA to have *started* at a level it took the Nobel committee 72 years to reach
And I’m sure we all look forward to hearing about winners in future years
And I’m sure we all look forward to hearing about winners in future years
If you see this, quote with your model of positive masculinity:
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If you see this, quote with your model of positive masculinity:
Spotted in Oxfam today. Did not feel the urge to purchase
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Spotted in Oxfam today. Did not feel the urge to purchase