Wilhelm List, 1903
From the Ver Sacrum (‘Sacred Spring’ in Latin) which was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession from 1898 to 1903.
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The Addiction (Abel Ferrara, 1995).
Thomas Eakins, Nude ( Susan Eakins ),1883
Jacob Bontius – Scientists of the Day
Jacob Bontius, a Dutch physician and naturalist, died Nov. 30, 1631 at age 38 or 39.
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Planten un Blomen, Hamburg, 2020, Canon FX
Scorpio Season
Berlin & London
November 2019
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Forough Farrokhzad, December 29, 1934 – February 13, 1967.
“First of all, I’m not an intellectual of any sort that I know. I’ve many friends who are intellectuals and whatever that word means exactly but…a primitive, yes, because I didn’t know a damn thing about poetry. Nothing. I’d never gone to college. I absolutely was a flunk-out in any schooling I had. I laughed my way through exams. They just kinda passed me on…but nothing came through. I don’t know the multiplication table, can’t spell, can’t punctuate and…until I started at 27, hadn’t done much reading. Oh yes, well of course, some but not not…and certainly not in poetry. One would say a primitive.” -Anne Sexton, in an interview
Happy 63rd, Kerry James Marshall.
When Frustration Threatens Desire, 1990.