Mixed media ink works by Taiwanese artist Tseng Chien-ying, 2020s, whose practice blends traditional techniques with contemporary sensibilities.

‘Silence’ by Shūsaku Endō (1966) A Jesuit smuggles himself into Tokugawa Japan to rally the faith of persecuted Christians, but what he sees there leads him to question his own. The reader’s expectations are cleverly subverted, making the narrative all the more lifelike

Burundi Half Whispered, Half Exhaled Chant Accompanied on Inanga youtu.be/0nsjV8R7VXs 'From the Ocora album "Burundi: tradional music/ musiques traditionnelles". Part of Ocora's extensive traditional music lines, this album of music from Burundi attempts to present some of the salient examples...

The ‘sonic debris’ of Tony Njoku, reimagining his experience of the piano #music #experimental

"Box in a Landscape", pencil/paper.

‘The Gray House’ by Mariam Petrosyan (2009) A powerful story of adolescence, and a personal favourite. It’s set in a boarding school which seems to be alive, and which speaks through the boys that live within it. It explores the joys and dangers of living for someone else’s fantasy #booksky

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger, 🎂 born otd in 1906 American photographer, writer on photographic technique, and son of artist Lyonel Feininger. He was noted for his dynamic black/white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.

Sculpture by Korean artist Do Ho Suh, 2010s-20s, whose fabric structures recreate the places he has lived, reflecting on broader concepts of migration and what makes a "home".

Thanks @rallen78.bsky.social, @magentabias.bsky.social and @danmud.bsky.social for recommending THE FILM DECORS OF THE QUAY BROTHERS exhibition at Swedenborg House. It was wonderfully creepy and macabre! #FilmSky #London #ArtSky

‘The Case of Cem’ by Vera Mutafchieva (1967) When a pretender to the Ottoman throne seeks refuge in exile, he finds himself a prisoner of European schemes. We learn his tragic story from the testimony of those who used him, those who loved him, and those who did both #booksky #queerlit

Dream paintings by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera #art #zimbabwe

Amazing 😳 digital archaeology How AI’s annoying blandness “accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire”

‘The House of the Edrisis’ by Ghazaleh Alizadeh (1991) A household is remade against their will by revolutionaries, but as the revolution becomes cruel, they instead become more free. Their stories are absurd but equally often beautiful. It’s set under the Soviets but is really about Iran #booksky

Fashion designed by Rei Kawakubo (Comme des Garçons) #art #melbourne

Strangely elegant abstracts by Lilly Fenichel #art #blueskyart

"LLMs resemble folklore in structure, but differ in their relationship to intentionality and performance. In one sense, stories are assemblages of tropes about third sons, enchanted rings, animal helpers and the like" #algorithmicfolklore www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-lang...

‘Marketa Lazarová’ by Vladislav Vančura (1931) At the murky dawn of Northern Europe, a showdown between Bohemian brigands draws in German troops. The prose is impressively vivid, but keeps the spirit of a folktale. The forest warps with the characters once the frost begins to thaw #booksky

François Cointe #1989 rb.gy/5sa97l

A sonic impression of Iran today. It feels like being inside of a vast machine, with strange moments of beauty #music #worldmusic #experimental

E. M. Forster painted by Feliks Topolski for Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas in 1961. #emforster

Three Girls, 1935 by Hungarian Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil #WomensArt

‘A Jest of God’ by Margaret Laurence (1966) A moving story about a woman in a Manitoba town. Though she teaches at the school she once attended, her alienation runs deeper than others realise. When a man from her childhood becomes an unexpected lover, her inner life is released #booksky

Charming alternative pop from Verona #music #electronic

From the archive for Alberto Moravia, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, my thoughts on AGOSTINO (tr. Michael F. Moore). One of my favourite novellas about the loss of innocence. Spare, insightful and beautifully written - a rediscovered gem for #NovNov25 #BOTD 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/a...

hollyhocks 2 #art #photo #photography #flowers #hollyhock #Tainan #EastCoastKin ©️skinskin

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

‘The Family Mashber’ by Pinchus Kahanovich (1948) A surreal homage to what was once the centre of the Jewish world. A wealthy family spirals out of control after one of them joins the mystics at the edge of society, and a loan takes on a life of its own #booksky #ukraine

If the idea of reading a feature about the use of beetles in 17th-19th century Himalayan miniature painting appeals, this comes highly recommended www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

Arshile Gorky (c. 1904-1948), “The Artist and His Mother” (1926-c. 1936), oil on canvas, 127.6 x 152.4 cm.

Recommended: ‘The End of August’ by Yū Miri (2004) An incredible and unsparing novel of Japanese-occupied Korea, told through the author’s ancestors. Their lives are framed by the rhythms of revolutionary folk songs, and of athletes forced to compete under the colonial flag #booksky

Abstract #145 #art #abstractart #abstract #contemporyart #hasselblad #photography #photographersunited #photographersofblusky #macro #macrophotography #experimentalphotography

Recommended: ‘Samskara’ by U.R. Ananthamurthy (1965) A classic novel against caste. In his last act against tradition, a man dies in the temple of a brahmin village, bringing life to a standstill. We are shown the spiritual side of entering into the world rather than retreating from it #booksky

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Haunting sculptures by Bernhard Hoetger. He claimed to be channeling the German soul, but his art was so strange that the Nazis denounced it as foreign #art #blueskyart

‘Fortress Besieged’ by Qian Zhongshu (1947) China’s wartime as seen through a petty protagonist. Fleeing Shanghai for the interior, he falls into a job and marriage, allowing his small world of resentments and misunderstandings to be explored with remarkable vibrancy and an eye for satire #booksky

Music from the far south of the Arab world, drawing on trance-inducing Sufi traditions #music #worldmusic #comoros

#1225 Wu Fei’s Music Daily — The mysterious B flat 神秘的降B Today’s guzheng and vocal improvisation was inspired by an interesting discovery in my house. I was heating up lunch in the microwave while my husband was making an espresso with the coffee machine. wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1225-the-m...

Erika Giovanna Klien, Dance (1931)

‘The House of Ulloa’ by Emilia Pardo Bazán (1886) A classic Spanish novel, giving a darkly comic view of aristocratic decline, with a gentle-natured priest who seems unprepared to alleviate it. It pairs this with an attentiveness to beauty, and to the outrages of women’s lives at the time #booksky

Kagerō-za (Seijun Suzuki, 1981) One of my favourite films visually. In early modern Japan, a man comes across two women who seem strangely connected, but the love triangle that ensues involves the presence of another world #filmsky #moviesky #horror

🦴 Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen Darstellung der Flora der Vorwelt Leipzig undIn Kommission im Deutschen Museum, 1820-1838. [Source]

Georges Lacombe (1868-1916) Blue Navy, wave effects

Impressive rhythm from the court musicians of Buganda, honouring the spirits of those who played the xylophone before them #music #worldmusic #uganda

#thursday #art #artsky #bluesky #october #modernart #arte #photo #illustration #abstract #design #fall #flowers #アート #イラスト #写真 #monochrome #fashion #graphicdesign #colors #photography #artist . . .

‘The Little Town Where Time Stood Still’ by Bohumil Hrabal (1974) About a wonderfully eccentric family in a Czechoslovak town, who are joined by an uncle that comes for a brief visit and never leaves. It proves to be a powerful testimony of a loved one in the final years of their life #booksky

Namsai Supavong

Julius Eastman was one of the great overlooked American composers, who incorporated his experiences of blackness and queerness into the New York experimental scene #music #classical #queer editionsblume.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...