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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Abdullah Ibrahim 1934 - 2026

Nabatieh, Lebanon, 6/19/26

Mona Khalil 1949 - 2026

James "Blood" Ulmer 1940 -2026

Church of St. Victor the Warrior, Kotelniki, Moscow Oblast

 

 

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Update 6/30:

Alan Riding 1943 - 2026

 

Over Cuba, Mexico eventually found itself completely alone in the regional body [OAS]. To some extent, President López Mateos reacted to the sympathy stirred by the 1959 Cuban Revolution among Mexican leftists and nationalists. But he was also following tradition by challenging Washington's application of the Monroe Doctrine to justify its new intervention in the region. In April 1961, the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion provoked strong protests in Mexico (even the aging President Cárdenas offered to help defend the island). In 1962, Mexico and five other countries opposed an OAS resolution suspending Cuba from the organization for "exporting" revolution to Venezuela. Two years later, Mexico was the only country to ignore a mandatory OAS resolution ordering all members to break relations with the Castro regime. Between 1964 and 1970, when Chile's new Allende government recognized the Castro regime, Mexico was Cuba's only formal link to Latin America.

                                                     

                                        Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans, 1984, p. 497

 

 

Salvador Almaraz López, La expedición del yate Granma a Cuba, 1982, 

Museo de la Hermandad Mexico-Cuba, Tuxpan, acrylic mural

 

As it happens, I don't follow the NBA but I'm rooting for Wemby because he went to high school at Paris-Nanterre.

 

DÉ - FENSE!

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Student Demonstration, Paris, June 1968, Gelatin silver print

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DÉ - FENSE! 

 

Meeting chez Renault, Paris, 1968, Gelatin silver print

 

Sonny Rollins 1930 - 2026

 

100 Miles

 

 

November 3, 1973, Stadthalle, Vienna; Miles Davis (tpt, org); Dave Liebman (ss, ts, fl); Pete Cosey (g, perc); Reggie Lucas (g); Michael Henderson (el-b); Al Foster (d); James Mtume Forman (cga, perc)

 

(Isle of Wight 1970)