Culture The little-known colour photography of Vivian Maierhuckmag.com - Text By Miss Rosen The late photographer, who worked in total seclusion throughout her life, left behind 40,000 colour slides which had never been seen – until now. When …
Play buttonMiles Davis Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue at 60: A New Video Essay Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the Iconic Albumopenculture.com - by DC As Josh Jones observed yesterday, Miles Davis' legendary jazz album Kind of Blue turns 60 this week. Today, we want to keep the party going a little …
Mike Campbell recalls Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedoes: "We were determined to make the best-sounding record ever made" |guitarworld.com - Richard Bienstock Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ third album followed the legal wrangles surrounding their independent contract and publishing issues. This release …
Henri Cartier-Bresson Sergio Larrain: Valparaísoaperture.org A notoriously reclusive artist, Sergio Larrain had a photographic career that was relatively short before he retreated to the Chilean countryside in …
Book Review: Daido Moriyama How I Take Photographsthephoblographer.com - Dan Ginn Is it snapshot photography or street photography? We find out in Daido Moriyama’s new book How I Take Photographs. How I Take Photographs is an …
Books How John Steinbeck ‘opened up’ The Grapes of Wrath's readersThe Guardian - Sam JordisonWhen Steinbeck finished The Grapes of Wrath in 1938, he expressed doubts about its quality. Since then, critics and the public alike have decided that he needn’t have worried. Sure, there are some exceptions:
Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue' drummer still keeping time as album turns 60Associated Press - By DAVID SHARPAs legend has it, Miles Davis assembled a super group of jazz musicians in a New York studio and recorded a bunch of songs without retakes. They left Columbia’s 30th Street Studio having no idea that work
Gear & Gadgets Just seven really excellent pensPopular Science - PopSci Commerce TeamOur recommendations accommodate lovers of gel ink, ballpoint ends, and fountain nibs. Given how ubiquitous smartphones are, it’s not hard to imagine why handwriting is in decline. Yet, no matter how tech-oriented
“Miles Davis was one of many great guys that I photographedtumblr.com“Miles Davis was one of many great guys that I photographed. There was nothing historic about it at all. It was just another thing that I shot. It happened to become the greatest selling jazz album ever.”
Art A Long-Lost Set of Sketches of the Beloved Novella ‘The Little Prince’ Has Turned Up in a Swiss Storage Facilityartnet.com - Sarah Cascone The drawings by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry were discovered among a Swiss art collector's papers. A set of lost sketches for The Little Prince, the …
Coin Collecting A 125-year-old dime just sold for $1.32 millionCNN - David Williams, CNN(CNN) — A Utah businessman paid $1.32 million for a dime last week at a Chicago coin auction. It wasn't just any 10-cent piece; the 1894-S Barber Dime is one of only 24 that were ever made, according Stack's
Billie Holiday The World Of Billie Holiday: A Turning The Tables PlaylistNPR - Dee Dee BridgewaterI tried to make an interesting selection of some Billie Holiday songs as performed by various artists with Billie herself as a reference. She has been a "reference" ever since her voice was recorded on
Play buttonJazz Flashback: Ginger Baker Returns to His Jazz Roots With Bill Frisell, Charlie HadenRolling Stone - Hank Shteamer It’s hard to dispute Ginger Baker’s status as a rock icon. Unless you’re Ginger Baker, that is. “Oh for god’s sake, I’ve never played rock,” the …
The Great Clarice Lispector Revivalelectricliterature.com - Adam Morgan We are currently living through the Great Lispectorean Revival. A midcentury cultural icon in Brazil, the genre-breaking novelist and short story …
Filmmaker Bas Berkhout Steps Inside Portrait Painter Kathryn Engberg’s New York Studiothisiscolossal.com
I Meantumblr.com I Mean You Marshall Keys with the Branford Marsalis Quartet Marshal Keys – alto sax Branford Marsalis – tenor sax Kenny Kirkland – piano Delbert Felix – bass Lewis Nash – drums
China Ticonderoga Checking Pencil: Chinese Version.pencilrevolution.com - Johnny I’ve long been a sucker for checking pencils. I always keep at least a small supply of the particular pencil that is easiest version to find in the …
Ferdinand Porsche $17 million or $70 million? 1930s Porsche fails to sell after auction snafuCNN - By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN BusinessLos Angeles (CNN Business) — A bulbous race car from the 1930s was expected to be the most expensive car with the Porsche name ever sold at auction. But the sale was marred by a confusing mix-up on the
Allman Brothers Band The guitar that Duane Allman played on classic 'Layla' sells for $1.25 millionUSA TODAYMACON, Ga. – Fans of Duane Allman in Macon, Georgia, say they didn't expect the late musician's old guitar to sell for $1.25 million at a recent auction. The gold-topped guitar is the one Allman played
Ferdinand Porsche 'Nazi Porsche' valued at $20m fails to sell amid California auction confusionThe Guardian - Edward HelmoreA car designed by Ferdinand Porsche in Nazi Germany that was expected to sell for millions failed to find a buyer at an auction in California on Saturday, amid scenes of confusion and derision. The strikingly
Science Fiction Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winnerstor.com The winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards have been announced! You can read the full list below. The Awards were presented on the evening of Sunday August …
Porsche $20 million Porsche flops in auction snafuCNBC - Robert Frank A Porsche that was expected to sell for over $20 million flopped on the auction block Saturday night, after the sale was thrown into disarray by a …
Miles Davis, Kind of Blue - released 17th August 1959.John Coltrane and Miles Davis in the studio recording ‘Kind Of Blue’tumblr.com Miles Davis, Kind of Blue - released 17th August 1959. John Coltrane and Miles Davis in the studio recording ‘Kind Of Blue’ by Don Hunstein
Allman Brothers Band Duane Allman's old guitar 'Layla' sells for $1.25 millionAssociated PressMACON, Ga. (AP) — Fans of Duane Allman in Macon, Georgia, say they didn't expect the late musician's old guitar to sell for $1.25 million at a recent auction. The gold-topped guitar is the one Allman in
Walt Whitman ‘Good Verse, Bad Verse, and Chaos’National Review - Kevin D. Williamson I love reading Sarah Ruden, and I’ve enjoyed the attention given to Walt Whitman in these pages over the last few days. Ruden gives the poet the back …
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