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For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage is a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. In response, she brings together different musical sources, overlaying sounds to create both harmony and tension.
But if we put the train together in it, it may be about being somewhere else.
Michel Sittow, a northern painter who was born in Estonia on the Baltic Sea but apprenticed in Bruges, was an acclaimed portraitist at the Spanish court. After Queen Isabella’s death in 1504, his peripatetic career took him to several northern European centers, including Burgundy, where he probably painted this portrait.
Harmondsworth, 1969: 142, fig. 137. 1971 Sass, Else Kai.
Meet the 17th-century painters Fede Galizia and Gesina Ter Borch. And see the only known work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi.
Little else is known about Fede Galizia’s life, but writings from the time describe
Warhol himself joked in 1963 that he thought someone else should be able to do all
Jan van Huysum was born in Amsterdam on April 15, 1682. His father, Justus van Huysum the Elder (1659–1716), was also an artist, as were Jan’s three brothers, Justus the Younger (1685–1707), Jacob (1688–1740), and Michiel (1703–1777).
Van Huysum’s reluctance to teach anyone else his techniques did not prevent the perpetuation
Musician Rafiq Bhatia feels compelled to capture his improvisations—fleeting moments of sound—in recordings. Like sound, light is transient. But James Turrell’s works, which inspired Bhatia’s composition, contain and present light, allowing us to forge a deeper relationship with an ephemeral substance.
But above all else, it is this recontextualization of a medium or a substance being
Pieter Molijn, born in London of Flemish parents, was baptized on April 6, 1595. It is not known when he left England or where and with whom he studied painting.
Little else is known of his professional career, except that he seems to have remained
Orphée depicts many tragedies, but songwriter Dom Flemons finds the joy in it: it resolves in the beautiful scene of two lovers embracing. Flemons pairs it with the tranquil Blue Butterfly. The instrumental song helps the emotional weight sink in.
we might have done two or three takes on it, and then we moved on to something else
Great art shifts your way of seeing the world. When her sister was dying, composer Kamala Sankaram was drawn to the intensity of Mark Rothko’s painting.
That’s something else that you don’t get looking at it online, is what is it like
the girl sewing or washing, Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else
