The Rite of String

harp-lute, varnished wood; overall: 90.5 x 37.5 cm; london c. 1700s.

Leopold Müller 2. François Boucher

Margherita Sparapani Gentili Boccapadule by Laurent Pecheux, 1777.

1921 Sheet music for “Kitten on the Keys”. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) - Orchestral Suite for 2 Oboes, Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo in b-minor, TWV 55:h3, I. Ouverture. Performed by Pratum Integrum Orchestra on period instruments.

Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar (1696-1715) - Concerto No. 8 for Violin, Strings and Basso continuo in G-Major, IV. Allegro. Performed by Gernot Süßmuth, violin & direction, and Thüringer Bach Collegium on period instruments.

Andrei Tarkovsky on the "function" of art

"flying a b-17 is a lot like playing jazz" —rosie rosenthal, probably

It’s my new favorite image I’m obsessed. People who got the blue ray already can you let me know if this a delete scene, or if they were just being cute.

- John Biguenet, Silence (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), p.49.

the real forbidden snack

Joachim Tielke (1641-1719) - Violin (c.1685)

POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

— Ludwig van Beethoven.