Thursday, September 5, 2024
Sunday, June 23, 2024
“There is no ordinary venue.”
“How do you spell a venue?”
“How do you spell a venue?”
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Garden Party: “No Ordinary Venue”
Monday, April 12, 2021
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
No Ordinary Venue
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Small Venues
“… her art was rarely exhibited until the 1970s,
and then only sporadically and in small venues . . . .”
— New York Times obituary suggested by
today’s review,
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/
arts/artists-who-died-2020.html
“No ordinary venue.” — Song lyric
Related material now linked to in the previous post —
Monday, August 17, 2015
Venue
"… Don't you know that when you play at this level
there's no ordinary venue?" — "Chess" lyrics
Venue: Palm Springs International Film Festival —
Update of 6:40 PM Aug. 17, 2015 —
"Books Do Furnish a Room"
Joshua Cohen's New York Times review,
online today, of Mario Vargas Llosa’s new
Notes on the Death of Culture. The review
includes the following illustration by Mark Todd —
See as well the books in "Starting Out in the Evening,"
a post of October 8, 2010.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Art Object, continued
"An image comes to mind of a white, ideal space
that, more than any single picture, may be
the archetypal image of 20th-century art."
"May be" —
Image from this journal
at noon (EST) Tuesday
"The geometry of unit cubes is a meeting point
of several different subjects in mathematics."
— Chuanming Zong
"A meeting point" —
The above death reportedly occurred "early Wednesday in Beijing."
Another meeting point —
(Click on logo and on meeting image for more details.)
See also "no ordinary venue."
Monday, October 11, 2010
Venue
… Don't you know that when you play
at this level there's no ordinary venue?
— Lyrics from Chess
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride?
— Steppenwolf lyrics in Star Trek: First Contact
I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,
in such a way as to superimpose
one part of the pattern upon another.
— Vladimir Nabokov in Speak, Memory
See also recent Log24 posts.
Friday, September 12, 2003
Friday September 12, 2003
Into the Sunset
I just learned of Johnny’s Cash’s death. On Google News, the headline was Johnny Cash rides into sunset. The source was the Bangkok Post.
“Don’t you know that
when you play at this level
there’s no ordinary venue.”
— One Night in Bangkok (midi)
“They are the horses of a dream.
They are not what they seem.”
— The Hex Witch of Seldom, page 16
A Singer
7-Cycle
The Magnificent Seven:
CLICK HERE for
“the adventures of filming this epic
on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico.”
“He is the outlaw the people love, — The Hex Witch of Seldom, |
“Words are events.”
— Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus
“…search for thirty-three and three…”
— The Black Queen in The Eight