Christian
@plus-c-equals.bsky.social
Occasional artist and writer
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Shells. Collected & painted by Clara Peeters of Antwerp & Amsterdam.
December 31, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Shells. Collected & painted by Clara Peeters of Antwerp & Amsterdam.
Genuinely curious to know which video games Alva Noë has played.
December 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Genuinely curious to know which video games Alva Noë has played.
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Born #onthisday in 1827, the French astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. See a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t.... #otd
(And prints to buy here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...)
(And prints to buy here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...)
December 26, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Born #onthisday in 1827, the French astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. See a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t.... #otd
(And prints to buy here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...)
(And prints to buy here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...)
One of the best thing about Christmas Day is Christmas pudding.
December 25, 2024 at 8:52 AM
One of the best thing about Christmas Day is Christmas pudding.
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Erica X Eisen on the overlapping forces at play in Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s spectacular (and flawed) colour photographs of the Russian Empire: publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-sea... #longreads
December 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Erica X Eisen on the overlapping forces at play in Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky’s spectacular (and flawed) colour photographs of the Russian Empire: publicdomainreview.org/essay/in-sea... #longreads
Just finished Disco Elysium, and I don’t think I’ll be playing another game for a while. That was so good.
December 22, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Just finished Disco Elysium, and I don’t think I’ll be playing another game for a while. That was so good.
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I’ve long been fascinated about the anecdote, recorded in an early source, that great 17th-century French landscape painter Claude Lorrain began his career as a pastry chef. I looked into it in the latest issue of Food & History #foodhistory #earlymodern #17thc www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
Claude Lorrain, Pastry Chef | Food and History
According to his seventeenth-century biographer, Claude Gellée (~1604-82), known as Claude Lorrain, the great master of ideal landscape painting, first left his native Lorraine for Rome not to learn t...
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December 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I’ve long been fascinated about the anecdote, recorded in an early source, that great 17th-century French landscape painter Claude Lorrain began his career as a pastry chef. I looked into it in the latest issue of Food & History #foodhistory #earlymodern #17thc www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1...
Delighted to receive a copy of this. A comprehensive collection of writings on health geographies / geopsychiatry. And yup, I’m also posting because I’m in it: a little chapter on the studio.
December 20, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Delighted to receive a copy of this. A comprehensive collection of writings on health geographies / geopsychiatry. And yup, I’m also posting because I’m in it: a little chapter on the studio.
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The new A24 movie “The Brutalist” is especially intriguing for art history and architecture enthusiasts, as it explores the emotional resonance of Brutalism.
The Emotional Valences of Brutalism
Historically, cinema has invoked the architectural movement as an easy shorthand for villainy. In The Brutalist, though, it embodies a proletarian dream.
hyperallergic.com
December 19, 2024 at 10:44 PM
The new A24 movie “The Brutalist” is especially intriguing for art history and architecture enthusiasts, as it explores the emotional resonance of Brutalism.
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Double page spread from Hamonshu (1903), a Japanese book of wave and ripple designs that would have acted as a kind of go-to guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to adorn their wares with such patterns. See all three volumes of the work here: buff.ly/2OFMxeJ
December 16, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Double page spread from Hamonshu (1903), a Japanese book of wave and ripple designs that would have acted as a kind of go-to guide for Japanese craftsmen looking to adorn their wares with such patterns. See all three volumes of the work here: buff.ly/2OFMxeJ
The news on THE that over 92 jobs at Coventry Uni are being axed and more than 200 (re)contracted to a subsidiary firm (a ltd sister company of CU) is worrying for anyone in HE. They appear to move staff onto teaching-only contracts and circumvent union recognition. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1379...
Strike ballot on the cards as 300 staff threatened with sack at Coventry University
Coventry University has threatened more than 300 staff with the sack. Those who remain will be forced to work through a subsidiary company on behalf of the university, and any new starters would be un...
www.ucu.org.uk
December 17, 2024 at 8:27 PM
The news on THE that over 92 jobs at Coventry Uni are being axed and more than 200 (re)contracted to a subsidiary firm (a ltd sister company of CU) is worrying for anyone in HE. They appear to move staff onto teaching-only contracts and circumvent union recognition. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1379...
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Nero was born today in 37 CE. He may have been a terrible emperor, but when it comes to neckbeards, he's number 1!
December 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Nero was born today in 37 CE. He may have been a terrible emperor, but when it comes to neckbeards, he's number 1!
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Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work.
Opportunities for Artists, Writers, and Art Workers in December 2024
Residencies, fellowships, grants, open calls, and jobs from Banff Centre, Sculpture Space, Taft Museum of Art, and more in our monthly list of opportunities for artists, writers, and art workers.
hyperallergic.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Hyperallergic’s monthly Opportunities Listings provide a resource to artists and creatives looking for funding and community support to further their work.
Paul Jacoulet ‘The Song of the Waves’ (1936)
December 2, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Paul Jacoulet ‘The Song of the Waves’ (1936)
Nothing quite expresses the loamy fug of Autumn than the smell of fox turd on a wet dog in a small car.
December 1, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Nothing quite expresses the loamy fug of Autumn than the smell of fox turd on a wet dog in a small car.
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Buffet pro tip: never just assume something is chocolate pudding.
November 25, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Buffet pro tip: never just assume something is chocolate pudding.
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"Speculative Light" brings together scholars, critics, & artists who analyze James Baldwin’s and Beauford Delaney’s works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life. Read the intro for free now:
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November 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM
"Speculative Light" brings together scholars, critics, & artists who analyze James Baldwin’s and Beauford Delaney’s works, showing how their lifelong friendship fundamentally shaped their ideas about art and life. Read the intro for free now:
ow.ly/xURO50Ufkim
ow.ly/xURO50Ufkim
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Scorpio: It’s not all bad news. Your death probably won’t be slow and painful.
November 24, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Scorpio: It’s not all bad news. Your death probably won’t be slow and painful.
After wallowing in affect literature too long, I'm rediscovering Barthes. La Côtelette - Rib Chop still has me each time I read it (this is from Jenny Davidson's blog): jennydavidson.blogspot.com/2007/08/rib-...
The rib chop
I am in love this summer all over again with Roland Barthes. S/Z was the first book of his I read, and one of the first books of literary ...
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November 2, 2024 at 11:07 AM
After wallowing in affect literature too long, I'm rediscovering Barthes. La Côtelette - Rib Chop still has me each time I read it (this is from Jenny Davidson's blog): jennydavidson.blogspot.com/2007/08/rib-...
I cannot recommend Michel Chaouli's "Something Speaks to Me" enough... (but every chance I get, I'll try).
March 9, 2024 at 9:17 PM
I cannot recommend Michel Chaouli's "Something Speaks to Me" enough... (but every chance I get, I'll try).
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🖼️ Arie Zonneveld
February 6, 2024 at 6:18 PM
🖼️ Arie Zonneveld
The idea of bringing the dead celebrities into the lecture theatre to ‘entice’ students back into the lecture hall feels all the more disturbing when it is premised on the idea of achieving sustainability strategies…
Hologram lecturers thrill students at trailblazing UK university
AI-powered technology that projects lifelike avatars trialled at Loughborough University
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2024 at 6:37 PM
The idea of bringing the dead celebrities into the lecture theatre to ‘entice’ students back into the lecture hall feels all the more disturbing when it is premised on the idea of achieving sustainability strategies…