Franz Marc – The Fate of the Animals (Tierschicksale) Albert Gleizes – Man in a Hammock Kazimir Malevich – Head of a Peasant Girl Jean Metzinger – La Femme à l’éventail (Woman with a fan) Laura Knight — Self Portrait with Nude August Macke – Two Girls Vanessa Bell – Tents Giorgio de Chirico – …
Suspense The Last Days of Pompeii Mabel’s Dramatic Career Folkestone Beauty Contest The Speed Kings L’Enfant de Paris The Grasshopper and the Ant The Student of Prague The Night Before Christmas The Bangville Police Ivanhoe Ingeborg Holm Atlantis Mabel’s New Hero The Battle at Elderbush Gulch Fantômas Hamlet The Mothering Heart The Adventures of Kathlyn …
Time: 8pm on Saturday 25th March 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm James Errington takes you on another trip into the history of sound recording. This time we’re visiting the year 1902, and will be hearing insanely catchy tin pan alley tunes from the Edwardian Elvis, virtuoso instrumental showpieces, sublime sopranos and a terrifying scene from The …
Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 10 (1902) Read More »
My desire for an overview of the year 1913 in book form being so far unsated, I was very happy to find someone else had had a go at it, and didn’t stop for 500 pages. It feels very much like the author had enough material for 1000 and had to cut it down, such …
Charles Emmerson – 1913 The World Before the Great War Read More »
One part of this project which has surprised me in its scope is “books about years” – this has become something of an obsession, and having started, I’ve been working my way up to having a shelf full of them, which means I also need to read the things. So far the entries in the …
Florian Illies – 1913: The Year Before the Storm Read More »
A blog post about our trip to an awards ceremony yesterday. If this is not of interest, please check almost every other page on the site for much less self-indulgent content. Yesterday I went along with V (my long-suffering non-podcasting other half) to The British Podcast Awards in London. The show had been nominated for …
January 16 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, a 26-year-old student in Madras, India, sends a letter to English mathematician G. H. Hardy, which would lead to him becoming one of the most important mathematician in history. January 23 – Ottoman Empire Navy Minister Nazim is assassinated, and Prime Minister Kamil overthrown in a coup in Turkey February …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) “How can we regard this invasion of vulgarity in music other than as a national calamity, in so far as the mental attainments of the nation are concerned? This cheap, trashy stuff could not elevate even the most degraded minds, nor could it possibly urge …
Jean Metzinger – Danseuse au café Giacomo Balla – The Hand of the Violinist (The Rhythms of the Bow) FrantiÅ¡ek Kupka – Katedrála Henri Matisse – The Conversation Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with an Easel Robert Delaunay — Simultaneous Windows on the City Kazimir Malevich – The Knifegrinder Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Nollendorfplatz Pablo Picasso …
