Tony Gatlif 1948 - 2026

+ Gadjo Dilo (1997)

 

 

Geles Cabrera 1929 - 2026

 

Sin Título, 1971, natural fibers and iron, 37 ⅜ × 17 ¾ × 17 ¾ inches, courtesy Agustina Ferreyra

 

EU

 

ROPE

 

Yayoi Kusama 1929 - 2026

Dedicated to Arthur Rimbaud, 1988, mixed media, 13 x 9 x 6 in., courtesy Michael Rosenfeld

 

I am obligated to do another Sílvia Pérez Cruz post because she spoke up for Cuba last Friday at the Hollywood Bowl at Gustavo Dudamel's last concert as LA Philharmonic director, and then on Sunday performed a free concert by candlelight in the 17th century Iglesia de San Francisco El Nuevo in Havana.  In LA she performed two songs: Pequeño Vals Vienés and the Venezuelan classic Tonada de Luna Llena by Simón Díaz ("Yo vide una garza moro/ Dándole combate a un río").

The Sílvia song I seem to listen to most frequently is her Cucurrucucú paloma, 

 

the Mexican song written in 1954 by Tomás Méndez for Pedro Infante to serenade in the 1955 comedy School for Tramps, then performed by Lola Beltrán in the movie named after the song,

 

and also performed by Caetano Veloso, Lila Downs, Natalia Lafourcade, and many others, imitating the call of the mourning dove.

Sliman Mansour 1947 - 2026

Alleys of Al-Quds, 2009

 

8/24/2026, Water treatment facility, Sheikh Radwan, Gaza City, Saeeed Jaras, Anadolu Agency

8/24/2026, Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, Saeed Jaras

 

 

 

Sole la muerte, 1936

The 90th anniversary of Lorca's murder shall be amongst other things an excuse to upload two covers of Leonard Cohen's adaptation of Pequeño vals vienés..

In Vienna there are four mirrors
in which your mouth and the echoes play.
There is a death for piano
that paints the little boys blue.
There are beggars on the roof.
There are fresh garlands of tears.
Aye, ay, ay,ay!
Take this waltz that dies in my arms. 

 Morente, born in Lorca's home town..

Sílvia of Palafrugell, who's touring now..

A sharp escalation has hit southern Lebanon following a series of intense Israeli airstrikes targeting residential areas in towns including Ansar and Deir al-Zahrani. These attacks have resulted in at least 10 deaths, including three children.

My brief report: pic.twitter.com/Vmrb2G1Lg3

— roqayah chamseddine (@roqchams) August 15, 2026

Betye Saar 1926 - 2026

My Last Buffalo, 1973, mixed media with bone and feathers, 13 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches, courtesy Michael Rosenfeld

 

St. Petersburg

 

Sluchainyi, Moscow Oblast

Lalith J. Rao 1942 -2026

S. Janaki 1938 - 2026

 

Gaza, 7/12/26

Rooting for Spain now, I commend Belgium for memorializing Magritte on their jerseys but conjecture that the execution led to their demise. The significance of La Voix des airs

 René Magritte, La Voix des airs, 1931, oil on canvas, 72.7 x 54.2 cm

is specifically the detachment of the horse bells from the horses into the sky above the landscape grid.  To reattach the bells to the body is to dress your side as horses, and you can't beat the Spaniards playing polo.  Also writing Ceci n’est pas un maillot on the jerseys abandons La Trahison des images' commentary on representation by putting the phrase on an existing jersey and not a picture of the jersey, and you can't beat the Spaniards by confusing ontology and semiotics.

A source familiar with Belgian fashion design has revealed to Piri' Miri Muli' the artworks the next three Belgian World Cup teams will feature on their jerseys:

2030:

James Ensor, Demons Taunting Me, 1895, etching, 11.8 x 15.8 cm., Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

2034:

Paul Delvaux, La Ville lunaire, 1944, oil on canvas, 56 ¼ x 78 ¾ in.

 

2038:

Marcel Broodthaers, Le Problème noir en Belgique, 1964, mixed media, 19 × 15 3/8 in., NY MoMA

Ebo Taylor 1936 - 2026

 

Sad to hear the news of the closing of Lyles & King, one of my favorite galleries, frequently cited here..

Rosa Loy, My Dear Chimera, 2020, Casein on canvas, 43 x 35 in.

Farley Aguilar, The Meal, 2017, Oil on canvas, 57 x 80 inches

Jessie Makinson, The Chief Leaf, 2018, oil on canvas, 74 x 65 in.

 

Ophelia Arc, reaD into a loWly Key, (i hope you are doing well), 2025, mixed media, frame 20 x 16 1/2 x 4 inches

 I'd thought Belgium had used all their substitutions

 

René Magritte, The Month of the Grape Harvest, 1959, oil on canvas, 130 x 160 cm

 

 Chris Marker filmed a one minute promo for the World Cup, from 6:45 to 7:43..

  

 

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