RIP Grant Hart, 1961-2017
Merzbild mit Regenbogen (Merz Picture with Rainbow), c. 1939 by Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948)
How to Remember, 2006 by Samuel Bak (b. 1933)
Portrait of the Late Mrs Partridge, 1947 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, an germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
King Lear, Act 3, Scene 2
King Lear, 1788/1806 by Benjamin West (1738–1820)
The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1883 by Fernand Khnopff (1858–1921)
Griffin, c.1475-85 by Martin Schongauer (c. 1445–1491)
La locura del miedo (The Madness of Fear), 1819-1823 — Francisco Goya
The Storm (Black Landscape), 1926 — Yves Tanguy (1900-1955)
The Hurricane, 1955 by Germaine Richier (1902-1959)
RIP Holger Czukay, 1938-2017
Yesterday, Rolling Stone and other sources reported the death of musician Holger Czukay.
Czukay is probably most famous as the throbbing heart of Can, but he also recorded many solo albums and was a frequent collaborator with other artists across many genres.
It’s hard to find another run of albums as perfect as Can’s output in the early 1970s—Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, and Future Days are flawless in my book.
These albums have brought me good times and good grooves for decades now. I’ll always be especially thankful to Czukay for one particular moment in my life—I was 19, relaxing in a bathtub, blaring Monster Movie on my stereo—a particular bass frequency rumbled a bar of soap and sent it smoothly sliding into the water. The moment was somehow epiphanic for me, illustrating a relationship between time, space, and matter. And music.
The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1940 by Otto Dix (1891-1969)
St. Apollonia, 1636 by Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664)
Boarding the Saint Louis, 2006 by Samuel Bak (b. 1933)
From The Odyssey, retold by Gillian Cross and illustrated by Neil Packer, Candlewick Press, 2012.
Eyes and Eggs, 1984 by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)
The Birth of Venus, 1912 by Odilon Redon (1840-1916)
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