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The Thinker

Thomas Eakins - The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton (1900)

Louis N. Kenton (1865–1947) was Eakins's brother-in-law, having married Elizabeth Macdowell (1858–1953), sister of Eakins's wife Susan, in 1889. Elizabeth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibited professionally, and traveled widely. Her marriage to Kenton was stormy and apparently brief, and very little is known of it, or of Kenton. The title associated with this portrait, "The Thinker," was a...

How To Be At Home

How To Be At Home, Andrea Dorfman, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

Lean into loneliness — and know you’re not alone in it. Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation on the theme of isolation, providing a wise and soaringly lyrical sequel to their viral hit How to Be Alone.

Part of THE CURVE, a collection of social distancing stories that bring us together. Enjoy more works from this series here .

Sky

Lisa Milroy - Sky (1997)

Lisa Milroy studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London from 1977 to 1979 and at Goldsmiths College of Art, London from 1979 to 1982. In the period following graduation from Goldsmith’s Milroy concentrated on painting everyday and household objects, often arranged in rows or patterns against plain backgrounds. This pared-down approach was utilised in her travel paintings of the 1990s which concentrated on building facades. The repitition of windows and other architectu...

Schnittke

Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 1 | Geneva Lewis, Maria Ioudenitch, NEC Philharmonia

Conductor Hugh Wolff leads the NEC Philharmonia in a concert performance of Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 1, featuring NEC Artist Diploma violinists Geneva Lewis and Maria Ioudenitch, as well as keyboardist Teng Cao on harpischord and prepared piano. This livestreamed concert took place in NEC’s Jordan Hall on February 5, 2021.

Alfred Schnittke, a Soviet composer of the post-Shostakovich generation, struggled ...

Spencer

The Struggle to Right Oneself

Kerry Skarbakka:

Beyond the basic laws that govern and maintain our equilibrium, we live in a world that constantly tests our stability in various other forms. War and rumors of war, issues of economic security, effects of globalization, environmental policy and the politics of identity are all external gravities turned inward, serving to further threaten the precarious balance of self, exaggerating negative feelings of control.

This long-term project is in response to this delicate st...

È stata la mano di Dio

Dal regista e sceneggiatore Premio Oscar® Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, La grande bellezza, The Young Pope) la storia di un ragazzo nella tumultuosa Napoli degli anni Ottanta. Il diciassettenne Fabietto Schisa è un ragazzo goffo che lotta per trovare il suo posto nel mondo, ma che trova gioia in una famiglia straordinaria e amante della vita. Fino a quando alcuni eventi cambiano tutto. Uno è l'arrivo a Napoli di una leggenda dello sport simile a un dio: l'idolo del calcio Maradona, che suscita in ...

Chaise Long

Wet Leg - Chaise Longue - out now on Domino

Lettres Amoureuses

FESTIVAL NUMERIQUE DANSE & MUSIQUE DE LA CAISSE DES DEPOTS
6 rendez-vous du 8 décembre au 8 janvier 2021
Premier RV avec l'Ensemble Jupiter sous la direction de Thomas Dunford , Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano), Cyril Poulet (violoncelle), Hugo Abraham (contrebasse), Sophie Gent (violon) et Théotime Langlois de Swarte (violon).
« Lettres Amoureuses », Montage d’œuvres réalisé par Thomas Dunford et Lea Desandre
Monteverdi - Si dolce è’l tormento
Frescobaldi - Se l’aura spira
Kapsberger - Toccata VI
Dal...

Générations

Concert de Théotime Langlois de Swarte et William Christie à l’Abbaye de Fontevraud

At the crossroads of the Italian and French schools, Leclair and Senaillé were, in a way, the Paganinis of 18th century France. For this new recording of the "Les Arts Florissants" collection for harmonia mundi, William Christie has invited the young violin prodigy, Théotime Langlois de Swarte (former Arts Flo Junior and longtime Les Arts Florissants collaborator), to delve into these pieces, which are still unj...