At LAX airport lounge, Balse is headed to Venezia Biennale Arte 2024. Last minute purchase Mozart Don Giovanni performance next week alle Tetro Felice di Venezia. Grazie Tea.
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Camille Claudel “Today, Claudel is more relevant than ever…. Rodin consults her on everything… Every marble you see by Rodin was carved by somebody else that he contracted, the marbles you see in the exhibition was carved by Claudel herself.” - Emerson Boyer.
The first U.S. show devoted solely to Camille Claudel in America in 35 years.
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It starts with a sound of bells, with its planetary vision, So Weit Wie Noch Nie - as far as never before. 2007, Ave B & 13th, Kompakt.
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Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood, Blum & Poe Los Angeles
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Some Sartre docs, enter conciseness.
A lot of times you will learn that Sartre is incoherent, Sartre has betrayed himself, ah, Sartre has been with the Communist, without the Communist. He misunderstood this misunderstood that. He made mistakes and this and that…. I don’t think that is very important. It’s an attitude. It’s ‘do not take anything for granted. Criticize it. Attack. Find your own way.’ uh…he would say something wonderful, he would say ‘I THINK AGAINST MYSELF’. You have to think against everything which has been given to you by education. You have to criticize every single thing which is being given to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom (Human All Too Human) - BBC
Annie Cohen-Solal, Biographer
Sartre spent his life testing the limits of traditional thinking but at the heart of this philosophy is one deceptively simple question, ‘if human beings are truly free to do anything they want how are we to live our lives?’ Sartre never did find a convincing answer to this question, but he was never less than unflinchingly honest with the attempt.
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precious, is time to yourself
if you can be true to yourself
that is
we all know this
so the question becomes
how
how do you
how can I
be
true to myself
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Marrakech, Morocco, photo essay
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Igor Stravinsky permanently relocated to LA in 1940. The previous year, lost his daughter, wife, and mother. Stayed in LA for the next 23 years, died 6 April 1971 in NY, buried in Venezia. Stravinsky at LA Phil
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UMEDA Tetsuya at Watari-um Museum
Term 1: December 1st (Fri.), 2023 - January 14th (Sun.), 2024
Term 2: January 16th (Tue.) - January 28th (Sun.), 2024
I had the honor to visit and experience the unique exhibition by Umeda Tetsuya at the Watari-um Museum in Tokyo late December 2023. The two part exhibition that can be a different experience for every visitor, each time one visits. It was one of the most memorable works in the past few years. If you have the chance to visit, this is a must go. Do check out the link. It is a roughly 50 minute curated story, limited to a small number of participants each time. You will be see the world in a different way. You will ask yourself ‘what was that? Did I miss something? Oh, was that something that I saw 15 minutes ago? Was that related?’ You will be reminded that this world will just pass you by, if you do not be in the present and notice them. A reminder that there are messages and miracles happening all around us at any given time. You will know if you experience it.
Taiwan R.O.C. photo essay, cafe de fleur
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Oh-, such trembling pain and deep nausea that is the food poisoning in Marrakech. Some bike exhaust, smog, with Paris, to bronchitis. Back from the Morocco assignment. And yeah, suffering. equals…delaying this issue. Yet, wonderful Sahara dunes in the sunset, that is to come, in the next newsletter.
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This is the live calendar for 2024. I will continue to update and track events throughout the year in this page. These will include places we visit, art exhibits and concerts scheduled and visited.
HARMONY KORINE
AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER
15 SEPTEMBER 2023 – 14 JANUARY 2024
Hauser & Wirth, Downtown LA
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Writing from Charles De Gaulles Airport, Paris, France. On the way to Marrakech, Morocco for photo documentary assignment. Thinking about the Moroccan rug weavers.
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PACE Gallery, Los Angeles
Exhibition Details:
William Monk
West of Nowhere
Sep 9 – Oct 21, 2023
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I wish for dance from around the world. Dance with tear of joy.
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ClassicAsobi starting his 2023-24 season in NYC. First up, Dead Man Walking, American contemporary opera that world premiered San Francisco Opera, 2000.
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any fluctuation of the mind will lead to lack of peace’, ‘as you start ignoring the desires of your mind, you will cultivate detachment.’ ‘liberating’. - Starting with headspace 8,663 minutes. Then, day 138, 30 minutes of meditating. ‘Acting objectively instead of subjectively’ ‘a mirage’
Geeked out on digital sound. fun to listen to, precise. ‘digital audio signal’. “peak to noise floor…dynamic range of a human ear is often quoted as 120 decibels…as close as you can bear it…signal to noise ratio…” and so on. You get the point. check it out.
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A much awaited interview session with Jon Ho.listic.
Then a solid house, deep house set. Onto Moby Dick, now purchased.
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