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Yves Klein, Untitled, 1951.

I did this and I now own it. It was an email and un peu cynical. I met the owner, a rather cranky French widow, so it probably wasn’t a factor. I considered, but did not write, “I too lost my husband,” which is, in a sense, true though i do know where he is on.ft.com/3X7udko

Could a handwritten letter help you buy a house — or convince you to sell?on.ft.com What is it about these missives that has such power? Hannah Shuckburgh is not the first person to have written a letter to try to convince someone to sell them their house — because it often works

You always remember your gateway moon. www.latimes.com/california/s...

August to kick off four straight months of supermoons. When to enjoy the spectacleswww.latimes.com The full moon Aug. 19 will be both a supermoon and a blue moon. Aspiring astronomers can also try to spot the major lunar standstill.

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Vivid, translucent quilts by Wally Dion stitch together Indigenous culture and making traditions. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/08/wall...

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Her: How much do you normally spend on a bottle of wine? Me: Definitely no more than an hour.

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Burhan Dogancay Early New York Subway Wall

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Anni Albers, Bauhaus, Design For Smyrna Rug, 1925.

“Female” will make you long for the cozy familiarity of “bitch,” which at least lets you know that the speaker understands you are capable of perceiving insult. wapo.st/4cqXzyF

Opinion | The purpose of the post-menopausal femalewapo.st We always wondered, but a podcast featuring JD Vance has solved the mystery.

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This is good. Nobody is making you have a very large car, and in a city there’s no big justification for one beyond the desire to have one. Totally reasonable to have to pay your way if you want to take up more space.

In February, residents of Paris took action against the trend toward bigger and bigger cars taking to the street each year by voting to triple parking fees for large SUVs. Will other European cities be inspired to re-evaluate their relationship with huge SUVs?

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Sonia Delaunay. Philomene, 1907.

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#OTD 15 August 1944 Operation Dragoon begins as Allied forces land in southern France.

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An erotic short story in three acts

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German post-war painter and Bauhaus student Fritz Winter, whose early, virtuosic paintings analyze the aspects of light, reflection, radiation and refraction. Stufungen, 1934 #Painting #Bauhaus

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The whole purpose of the postmenopausal female is to destroy and dethrone god

A vyshyvanka embroidered with an Alla Horska design from one of her mosiacs destroyed in Mariupol. Website only in Ukrainian, but ships worldwide svarga.ua/vyshyvanka-z...

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I'm a former newsman, but the pouty wails from Big Media Inc. make me chortle. What does Kamala have to gain for sitting down with the NYT or CNN, outfits whose slanted coverage has been utterly appalling? Corporate Media has made itself irrelevant.

Kamala Harris Isn’t Giving Interviews. Any Questions?www.nytimes.com Critics say the vice president has been too cautious with the press. Her supporters think it’s the right strategy at the right time.

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"You know, the new head of a place called Argentina and he was, he's a big, you know, he's great. And he's a big MAGA fan. You know that he ran on MAGA, beautiful and much safer than surface trains where there is a danger there, you know, with people, with crazy people, just, that's, goodnight!"

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While tourism is a resource and overtourism a degeneration of it, the cultural flattening of whole cities around instagrammable attractions is a choice by politics and civil society. It's a cultural mass suicide, hidden by fetishization of fictional clichés at the expense of what made Italy unique.

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On my in-progress "What I did last summer" list, there is also a 2500m asl hike to cover a story of pastoralism, following a herd of Chévres Valdôtaine up to their high summer pasture. www.instagram.com/piero__caste...

Piero Castellano on Instagram: "This summer I had the privilege (and enough breath) to accompany the amazing novelist writer, photographer and shepherd Marzia Verona and her herd of Valdostane/Valdôta...www.instagram.com 1 likes, 0 comments - piero__castellano on August 11, 2024: "This summer I had the privilege (and enough breath) to accompany the amazing novelist writer, photographer and shepherd Marzia Verona and h...

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Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta, oil on canvas, 1957.

I went to the Olympics and loved it. Now, with more photos! carpetblogger.substack.com/p/a-gold-med...

A Gold Medal in the Attention Olympicscarpetblogger.substack.com Attention is a limited resource. So much is not worthy of attention that it can be hard to recognize when something is. What should we look at? What should we see?

I went to the Olympics and loved it. carpetblogger.substack.com/p/a-gold-med...

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For #WorldLionDay, a glazed polychrome brick wall panel with a striding lion from Babylon’s Processional Way, which was lined with colorful low-relief glazed-brick images of striding lions, sacred to Ishtar. #archaeology Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 605-562 BCE. Met Museum (31.13.1)🏺AncientBlueSky

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#WorldLionDay 🦁: Morris Hirshfield (Polish-American, 1872–1946) #Lion, 1939 Oil on canvas, 28 1/4 x 40 1/4" (71.5 x 102 cm) MoMA 608.1967: www.moma.org/collection/w...

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Hotel Uzbekistan r/brutalism

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New edition out this weekend! Subscribe to Istanbul etc. on Substack to keep up with the arts and culture scene in Istanbul and beyond. istanbuletcetera.substack.com/p/whats-on-i...

@jenhattam.bsky.social 's Istanbul etc is the source for what's good, art/culture wise, in IST. There's a particularly good line-up through the end of July. I was supposed to be there, today, right now looking at this stuff. istanbuletcetera.substack.com/p/whats-on-i...

What's on in Istanbul (26 July 2024)istanbuletcetera.substack.com A regular roundup of recommended art and cultural offerings

What's on in Istanbul (9 August 2024)istanbuletcetera.substack.com A regular roundup of selected art and cultural offerings

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This looks incredibly fake. Gonna do some aggressive unfollowing if so.

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Nicolas de Staël, Paysage, Antibes, 1955.