“As I turned the pages of Herzog’s book, and was shunted from one insane episode to the next, I was gripped by the tightening conviction that my own life was, by comparison, barely a life at all.” —@mrkocnnll https://t.co/G5eZgy62Sy
I've been reluctant to use X recently but haven't found an obvious alternative yet. Thought I'd just mention that the blog is still going - I have put a few new posts up this weekend, including this https://t.co/Rrmi5xJlev
Also on the newsletter: your chance to win a new paperback copy of @vegoutwithadam's 'The Seed Detective': plus, from the archive, @Some_landscapes on the high white cliffs of Sussex's Seven Sisters https://t.co/T1XcJQKKv5
We went to see China’s Hidden Century at the BM. The 19th century was full of calamities, but the Taiping Rebellion was particularly destructive. This scroll shows Tang Yifen’s Garden of Pleasure in 1848, five years before he drowned himself when Taiping forces took Nanjing.
The chestnut woods are now inexpressibly beautiful, for the chestnuts have become large, and add a new richness to the full foliage. We see here Jupiter in the east; and Venus, I believe, as the evening star, directly after sunset.
P. B. Shelley to T. L. Peacock, 16 August 1818
My morning's have started with a cup of tea and opening the iPad to check out Mubi's film of the day. Such a shame not to have that small thrill of expectation anymore.
Brice Marden admired Chinese calligraphy, Shitao's treatise on painting, the tradition of scholar's rocks and Chinese and Japanese gardens, with their capacity to distill "the energy of the landscape". https://t.co/02M2rqEi9v
@Uniformbooks@PeterFoolen @briangdillon Corb ‘wrecked the serenity of its interiors and subverted her architectural vision in a jealous fit of artistic aggression. That there was a subconscious sexual component to Le Corbusier’s act is suggested by his having painted the murals in the nude’! https://t.co/E41c3Pg9B2