Aside from The Kiss, this year we have some genuinely amazing work from Georges Méliès – real one-minute horror and fantasy films, a huge leap forward for the artform. The Haunted Castle (Le Manoir du diable) The Kiss Le Cauchemar (A Nightmare) Snowball Fight McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio Blackfriars Bridge Lion, London Zoological …
Lovis Corinth — Self-portrait with Skeleton Edvard Munch – The Sick Child Viktor Vasnetsov – Birds of Joy and Sorrow Jean-Léon Gérôme – Truth Coming Out of Her Well, Armed with Her Martinet to Chastise Mankind Paul Gauguin – Self-portrait ‘près du Golgotha’ Arturo Michelena — Miranda en la Carraca Hugo Simberg — The Garden …
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Raised in Worcestershire and finding myself eventually settled in …
Probably the least well-remembered of Wells’s three groundbreaking science fiction works of the late 1890s, The Island of Doctor Moreau has suffered even more then The Time Machine from a series of poor quality adaptations, and an odd sort of uncertainty of what the point of the story is. Whether you view the book as …
“NINA. Your play is very hard to act; there are no living characters in it. TREPLIEFF. Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.”
Centuries of Sound’s debut radio show on London’s Resonance FM was this Thursday night, repeated this Friday morning. The show goes through the first four mixes, spanning the years 1860 to 1889, and features my actual real-life voice, which I’m not quite ready to actually listen to myself . The whole hour is here on …
Firsts The first modern Olympic Games takes place, Blackpool Pleasure Beach opens, X-rays are discovered, La bohème premiers, Henry Ford builds The Ford Quadricycle, his first vehicle, there is the world’s first motoring fatality, the first speeding fine and the first study of the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide. American Politics William …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack In a tiny, bare-walled back room a man sings into a huge metal horn. The sound causes vibrations in the air, which travel down the horn, compressing into a smaller point, causing a diaphragm to vibrate. The diaphragm pushes a metal stylus, …
Sir Frederic Leighton – Flaming June George William Joy – The Bayswater Omnibus Edvard Munch – Madonna Thomas Eakins — Portrait of Maud Cook Paul Cézanne – The Basket of Apples Valentin Serov — Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina Aubrey Beardsley — Venus Between Terminal Gods Edgar Degas – After the Bath, Woman drying herself …
