At the height of his career, Norman Granz #botd was one of the most powerful non-musicians in jazz. He fought for the music, for his artists, and against racism, forcing many hotels and concert venues to become integrated in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Femme dans une robe rayée
Édouard Vuillard, 1895
L'Essayage
Maurice Denis, c. 1898
Both were members of the group of artists, Les Nabis, who played a vital role in extending the Impressionist project into the more personally expressive realms of Expressionism and Abstraction.
John Wyndham
#botd July 10, 1903
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past...”
― The Day of the Triffids
Käthe Kollwitz
#botd July 8, 1867
Born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Käthe Kollwitz established herself in an art world dominated by men by developing an aesthetic vision centered on women and the working class.
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Novels about public spaces...
The Flamethrowers | Rachel Kushner
Reno rides her Moto Valera motorcycle from Nevada to Utah, to take part in land-speed trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats. A community gathers in its own risky pursuit of transcendence...
"Imagination is not a state: it is human existence itself"
Widely considered one of England’s most influential artists and poets, a new biography of William Blake offers a glimpse into his visionary mind. His timeless work has never been more relevant.
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Le Bal élégant, La Danse à la campagne
Marie Laurencin
Exhibited at the Salon des Independants, Paris, 1913
The International Surrealist Exhibition opened in London #otd in 1936, and had over 30,000 visitors during its three-week run.
Participants included Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Picasso, Man Ray…
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