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MASTERS, unknown Italian painters: Frescoes in Eagle's Tower, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent
wga.hu

An exceptional secular fresco cycle of the Months (only eleven from the twelve) survived in the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trent. The eleven panels fill the walls of a room illuminated by two windows, one on the east end and one on the west. The room takes up the third floor of the Eagle's Tower (Torre Aquila), at one time part of Trent's defences. The dimension of the room is 6 x 5,8 m. The height of the frescoes is 3 m, the draped fabric painted below replaces the original wainscoting, which was painted with a sequence of niches.

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The installation of a wooden spiral stair connecting the three upper floors of tower destroyed the scene of March.

#fresco#wall painting#months of the year#poor march
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"When I think of them, I think of the culture around them: Barbara Troiani who designed so many of their clothes, Frenchie [Christian Rodriguez] who was their road manager – all these people very close to the Saint Marks scene of thrift shops. Everyone was making their own clothing from used things they found: you’d take a woman’s top, change the sleeves, add polka dots and it looked great."
‘They were inventing a new definition of sexy’: stars and scenesters on the New York Dolls’ riotous rock
Fifty years on from their dissolution, admirers from Joan Jett to Dave Vanian explain the appeal of a band who ripped up rock’n’roll in high
the Guardian

I've been trying to find Barbara online but apparently no

#new york dolls#the guardian#forgotten women
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‘Then a woman with a bullwhip walked into the lift’: my 17 years painting the demimonde of New York’s Chelsea hotel
Hull’s David Remfry was ‘artist in residence’ at the legendary hotel, portraying dominatrixes, drag acts and rock stars – including an annoy
the Guardian

"Raised in Hull and now based in London, Remfry arrived at the Chelsea check-in desk that summer with “17 pieces of luggage, no reservation and no money. Stanley Bard, the owner, asked me, ‘David, how much do your paintings sell for? And how many do you paint a year?’ I think he was figuring out how much he could charge me.”"

#elided#ellipses#artistslife#editorial#artislife
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What if you could understand climate models better by eating them?
Experimental philosopher and artist Jonathon Keats thinks "anthropocenic sorbets" could be the key to understanding climate change.
Grist

"And so it seemed that we could enlist the gut to be able to understand phenomena ranging from dark energy to climate change by means of representing models through biomolecules instead of colors and shapes, and then by digesting — literally — the data or the models, as a means by which to process them internally....

So what I’ve been doing is to take all of the positive and negative feedback loops [of climate change] and create three different types of sorbet, three different flavors, that have biochemicals that are chosen for the fact that they trigger specific receptors. For example: Vanilla extract specifically has the effect on the receptor known as TRPM-5, as opposed to cinnamon which has an effect on TRPA-1, and eucalyptus oil has another one, fatty acid has an effect on yet another.

I’ve identified twelve different chemicals, all of which are edible, all of which could plausibly be mixed into a sorbet. (As for palatability — that will be for Berliners to decide in several weeks.)

The gut and the brain are always interacting with each other. And the gut is particularly good with feedback loops — it’s kind of the business that the gut is in, figuring out different levels of different chemicals and the balance of those different chemicals. That will have an emotional effect on your brain state.

And there is, of course, still the necessity that the brain be involved in all of this. Your gut can’t vote or write or do math — at least as far as I’m aware. There’s absolutely the need for an interplay between the two."

From 2018 -- his work continues

#jonathan keats#climate change#sorbet
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