Rosie Roti

give us today our daily bread and circuses

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[que-mint-tea]

in my experience it goes something like..

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[rosieroti]

Adam Shatz · Palestinianism · LRB 6 May 2021

The themes that echo through Edward Said’s writing – the preference for exilic over rooted writing, the idea of ‘...

Gorgeous essay! <3

[rosieroti]

The voice of the 21st century

[cma-chinese-art]

Mirror with Concentric Circles and Linked Arcs, 1st century BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese Art

Inscription: Refine the copper to be pure and bright. Make it into a mirror to receive rightful decor. May it extend your life and remove misfortunes! [You are] coeval with the heaven above. Size: Diameter: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.); Overall: 1.1 cm (7/16 in.); Rim: 0.7 cm (¼ in.) Medium: bronze

https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.306

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[yespolkadotkitty]

LOUDER

[artist-raphael]

Angel (fragment of the Baronci altarpiece), 1500, Raphael

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/raphael/angel-fragment-of-the-baronci-altarpiece

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Mirror with the Image of Avalokitesvara, 1900, Cleveland Museum of Art: Korean Art

Mirrors, along with swords and jade, were among the most important symbols of power. It is thought that mirrors held power through their ability to catch and reflect light. This rare trapezoid-shaped example is engraved with an image of the bodhisattva Kwaneum, and was used as a part of Buddhist rituals. Size: Overall: 15.7 x 13 cm (6 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.) Medium: bronze with incised Buddhist designs

https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.531

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Vase in the form of Fish

This is the most spectacular of a small group of fish-form vessels, all representing the ‘bulti’-fish common in the Nile and a standard feature of Egyptian decorative art. It was found in a medium-sized private house at El-Amarna, buried under a plaster floor together with two glass jugs and some metal objects.

The body is core-built in blue glass with a matt finish, and is decorated with simple festoons in groups of three or four white lines followed by a yellow line. The tail decorations are in the same colors. The dorsal fin is composed of a series of heavy threads in the body (blue, white, yellow, and turquoise-blue). The front fins are each composed of one light and one darker blue thread. 

The front ventral fins are made from one white and one yellow thread each while the rear ventral fin is of turquoise-blue glass. A yellow thread outlines the mouth. The eyes are white opaque circles with the pupils represented by black thread loops. The fish is assembled from several fragments. 

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BC. Polychrome glass. Now in the British Museum. EA 55193

[slam-asian]

Captain Kani Ichita, from the Series “Mirror of…, Kobayashi Kiyochika, 1895, Saint Louis Art Museum: Asian Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/52469/

[dankmemeuniversity]

[rizaoftheowls]

Yes. Can I identify the snail? Because I will find the snail, pick it up with tongs and gloves, put it in a box, get on a boat, and drop it into the Pacific Ocean. It may not die, but if it gets back to me from there, it sure as hell deserves its reward.

[halsinsbiggernaturals]

the text says the snail’s goal is to find you, not touch/kill you. can you just, like. put the snail in a nice terrarium and enjoy life with an immortal pet snail and $10 million?

[awaiting-my-escape]

Put the snail in a hamster ball

[wecanthavethat]

Snorn snenemies to snriends (snail sworn enemies to snail friends).

[geekandmisandry]

This is a very strange version of It Follows.

[khanabeer]

Mumbai in rains.

[artist-goya]

Two Dancing Old Friends, 1828, Francisco Goya

[rosieroti]

Me and my girls

[waheedarehman-infinitelylovable]

Waheeda Rehman’s Snow White avatar in a song sequence from “Baazi” (1968)

[rosieroti]

If from my poems you wrench away the flower from the four seasons of my poetry one of my seasons will die. If you exclude love two of my seasons will die If you exclude bread three of my seasons will die. And if you take away freedom all four seasons and I will die.

Sherko Bekas, 1940-2013 

(found via The Tricontinental’s newsletter)

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Over The Waves by Setsuko Matsushima

art quilt

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@jenndoesnotcare

[jenndoesnotcare]

That is stunning!!!

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@capncrystal

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LRB · Patricia Lockwood · Malfunctioning Sex Robot: Updike Redux

I was hired as an assassin. You don’t bring in a 37-year-old woman to review John Updike in the year of our Lord 2019 unless you’re hoping to see blood on the ceiling. ‘Absolutely not,’ I said when first approached, because I knew I would try to read everything, and fail, and spend days . . .

Virtuoso! If you haven’t read Priestdaddy yet, you’ll like it. 

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‘Obsession kept me going’: Writer Vikram Seth on 25 years of A Suitable Boy

As Vikram Seth’s landmark novel, A Suitable Boy, completes 25 years, an exclusive interview with the writer on the book, its much-awaited sequel and his plans for a scheme of books around the two novels, to be called A Bridge of Leaves

“Pasternak, exactly.” Crikey.