Log24

See http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=.eus .

"Mach die Musik von damals nach."

The new URL diamond.eus forwards to . . .

"Almost 9 meters tall, Maman  is one of the most ambitious
of a series of sculptures by Bourgeois that take as their subject
the spider, a motif that first appeared in several of the artist's
drawings in the 1940s and came to assume a central place in
her work during the 1990s. Intended as a tribute to her mother,
who was a weaver, Bourgeois's spiders are highly contradictory
as emblems of maternity: they suggest both protector and predator—
the silk of a spider is used both to construct cocoons and to bind prey—
and embody both strength and fragility."

— A Guggenheim Bilbao page

From the online New York Times  this morning —

"Origin  is Mr. Brown’s eighth novel. It finds his familiar protagonist,
the brilliant Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconography
Robert Langdon, embroiled once more in an intellectually challenging,
life-threatening adventure involving murderous zealots, shadowy fringe
organizations, paradigm-shifting secrets with implications for the future
of humanity, symbols within puzzles and puzzles within symbols and
a female companion who is super-smart and super-hot.

As do all of Mr. Brown’s works, the new novel does not shy away from
the big questions, but rather rushes headlong into them."

— Profile of Dan Brown by Sarah Lyall

See also yesterday's Log24 post on the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels.