Guardian While builders daily labour to construct the next precipitous spire of Barcelona’s most famous landmark and to install Antoni Gaudí’s colourful cornices and bright mosaics, the government’s builders prepare to run a train tunnel almost underneath it. If the church then shifts, the ceiling may crack, its towers may fall – and perhaps philosophically [...]
12/06/2007
Mexico City Hosts Largest Ever Frida Kahlo Exhibit
Frida Kahlo
Self-Portrait with Monkey 1938
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Bequest
of A. Conger Goodyear, 1966.
NYT
The Mexican capital will host the largest ever exhibition of Frida Kahlo’s works this week to mark 100 years since the birth of the artist, who has become a feminist icon in the past decade as her fame blooms.
More than 300,000 [...]
12/06/2007
Philosopher, poet and friend
signandsight
Jürgen Habermas writes an obiturary for American philosopher Richard Rorty
The American philosopher Richard Rorty passed away on Friday. Rorty, whose work ranges over an unusually broad intellectual terrain, was the author of many works, including “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature” (1979), “Consequences of Pragmatism” (1982), and “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity” (1989).
I received the news [...]
12/06/2007
Words and Music of Bulat Okudzhava
SovLit.com
Ten years ago, on 12 June 1997, one of the Soviet Union’s most beloved of bard poets, Bulat Okudzhava, passed away. Okudzhava was born in Moscow on 9 May 1942, to a Georgian father and an Armenian mother, both good communists. Young Bulat grew up speaking only Russian because his mother insisted that only “the [...]
12/06/2007
African photographer honoured
The prestigious Venice Biennale art show on Sunday presented a Golden Lion lifetime achievement award to Malian photographer Malick Sidibe, who will become the first African to clinch the top honour.
“No African artist has done more to enhance photography’s stature in the region, contribute to its history, enrich its image archive or increase our [...]
