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Francis Bacon - Man in Blue VII

Man in Blue VII (1954)

"In these claustrophobic curtained settings, there loom up before us beings whose shadowy, ambiguous, unexpected presence takes command of any setting they survey, making real beings seem like shadows. They are as appalling as they are compelling, for these are creatures faced with their tragic destiny."

D. Sylvester, quoted in The British Pavilion: Exhibition of Works by Nicholson, Bacon, Freud, Venice XXVII Biennale, Venice, 1954

Solmaz Sharif - Self-Care

Have you tried
rose hydrosol? Smoky quartz
in a steel bottle

of glacial water? Tincture
drawn from the stamens
of daylilies grown
on the western sides

of two-story homes?
Pancreas of toad?
Deodorant paste?
Have you removed

all your metal fillings? Made peace
with your mother? With all
the mothers you can?
Or tried car exhaust? Holding your face

to the steaming kettle?
Primal screamed into
a down-alternative pillow
in a wood while tree bathing?
Have you finally stopped

shoulding all over yourself?
Has your co-pa...

Lost Lands

Maroesjka Lavigne (b.1989, Belgium) gained her Masters in Photography at Ghent University in the sum­mer of 2012 in Belgium. Her work has been shown inter­na­tion­al­ly at the Foam Talent exhi­bi­tion in Amsterdam, The Robert Mann Gallery in New York, Galerie Hug in Paris and Museum Saint Guislain in Gent, Belgium, among oth­ers. She self-pub­lished a book called ​‘ísland’ in 2012 that sold out. Her lat­est project ​‘Lost Lands’ was recent­ly exhib­it­ed in the Robert Mann Gallery in ...

Vinte.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 | Stefan Vladar (Piano) & Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

It is considered Mozart’s first symphonic concert and is an era-defining masterpiece. Pianist Stefan Vladar and the Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach under the baton of Hartmut Haenchen performed Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 at the Konzerthaus Berlin in 2005.

(00:00) I. Allegro
(12:49) II. Romanze
(21:02) III. Rondo. Allegro assai

Between 1784 and 1786, Wolfgang Amadeus M...

Arnoldas Kubilius

Arnoldas Kubilius is a Lithuanian-born, Luxembourg-based photographer, focusing on male body: its textures, shades and shapes.

Álvaro de Campos - Lisbon Revisited (1926)

Nada me prende a nada.
Quero cinquenta coisas ao mesmo tempo.
Anseio com uma angústia de fome de carne
O que não sei que seja —
Definidamente pelo indefinido...
Durmo irrequieto, e vivo num sonhar irrequieto
De quem dorme irrequieto, metade a sonhar.

Fecharam-me todas as portas abstractas e necessárias.
Correram cortinas de todas as hipóteses que eu poderia ver na rua.
Não há na travessa achada número de porta que me deram.

Acordei para a mesma vida para que tinha adormecido.
Até os meus exércitos sonhados...

Thom Gunn - Tamer and Hawk

I thought I was so tough,
But gentled at your hands,
Cannot be quick enough
To fly for you and show
That when I go I go
At your commands.

Even in flight above
I am no longer free:
You seeled me with your love,
I am blind to other birds—
The habit of your words
Has hooded me.

As formerly, I wheel
I hover and I twist,
But only want the feel,
In my possessive thought,
Of catcher and of caught
Upon your wrist.

You but half civilize,
Taming me in this way.
Through having only eyes
For you I fear to lose,
I lose to keep, a...

Haydn 52

Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 52 in C minor, Hob.I:52

I. Allegro assai con brio 00:00
II. Andante 07:07
III. Menuetto e trio. Allegretto 15:43
IV. Finale. Presto 19:23

Alexander Sitkovetsky, artistic director - Norwegian Chamber Orchestra
Live recording from Sentralen, Oslo on 9 November 2021.

Camonghne Felix - Why I Loved Him

I can’t tell you
Why I loved him or
What it meant. When you
Are a child, you know only
The kind of love your little
Life lacked, so every
Blooming flower is a field. What I know
Is that there were two skies
And under one, I was a shadow. His
Sky was as blue as his eyes. Some
Of that is my doing and the rest of it
Is time. These days, he traces the shape of
The curds above him and I lay out under
A separate sun. Both of us are fine
With this. We picked our place
Under the lid of god and we shut
Our eyes to it ev...

Spitting Off the Edge of the World

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting Off the Edge of the World ft. Perfume Genius

Cowards! Here’s the sun
So bow your heads
In the absence of bombs
Draw your breath
 
Dark, dark places shall be none
She’s melting houses of gold
 
And the kids cry out
We’re spitting off the edge of the world
Out in the night
Never had no chance
Nowhere to hide
spitting off the edge of the world
Out comes the sun
Never had no chance
Nowhere to run
 
Mama what have you done
I trace your steps
In the darkness of one
Am I what’s left
Silver lines ...