The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

A memoir that traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. It tells the story of a unique collection ...

 
continue... 20 December 2010 // Books
 
Inside the terror of Matsui Fuyuko

Inside the terror of Matsui Fuyuko

Matsui Fuyuko's work is highly sensitive, violent and self-contradictory. However, when conveyed through a clear-cut classical format, her personal trauma is sublimated into something universal. ...

 
continue... 20 December 2010 // Art
 
Thank you!

Thank you!

Oh thank you, for your love
Thank you for your love
When all is falling in the seizure of pain
Oh thank you, for your ...

 
continue... 14 December 2010 // Music
 
Eternal Embrace

Eternal Embrace

In February 2007, archaeologists working at a site outside Mantua (Italy), 25 miles south of Verona, unearthed a pair of skeletons dating from the Neolithic period.

The ...

 
continue... 13 December 2010 // Photography
 
Ioannides bookshop closes it’s doors…

Ioannides bookshop closes it’s doors…

This is not a tribute. This is not the version of a passage when something is forever lost it becomes sweeter in the memory of ...

 
continue... 08 December 2010 // Books
 
In search of spirals in my ear

In search of spirals in my ear

Description: In this figure are shown the winding passages of the ear (the labyrinth of the ear). The middle part of it (v) is the ...

 
continue... 07 December 2010 // Nature
 

No matter! She was not happy—she never had been

At last he managed to get rid of him, and rushed straight to the hotel. Emma was no longer there. She had just gone in a fit of anger. She detested him now. This failing to keep their rendezvous seemed to her an insult, and she tried to rake up other reasons to separate herself from him. He was incapable of heroism, weak, banal, more spiritless than a woman, avaricious ...

 
continue... 06 December 2010 // Literature
 

Visionary textual based art

William Blake (28 November 1757–12 August 1827) a poet, painter, and printmaker. His prophetic poetry and his visual artistry produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God" or "Human existence itself".

Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.  His reputation ...

 
continue... 06 December 2010 // Art