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A Couple Making Music (details), Cornelius Troost, (1743)

#art #troost #xviii: lumières #hey hi hello!#is anyone even still following this blog?

memories

You ever just... yell about #boccherini??

#hello pals!#this was too amusing to pass.#now bye pals!

David Leeuw With His Family (details), Abraham van den Tempel (1671)

#art #van den tempel #xvii #essentially i just wanted to post the dog.#(hello yes don’t mind me)#(i logged in out of sheer nostalgia)

i have become too attached to delete this blog, at least for now (in a week or two, i will probably get used to the idea and will finally do so). in the meantime, this is a note to let you know that i am abandoning it. i don't think i'll be back.

do as you wish with this information.

thanks for all the companionship,

n.

#figured would be a fitting date to coincide it with the end of a country

"My glooms and my chaos of millenia massed together / Massed together by a slow process, man for man, death for death / So many suns, so many sea-snakes and so many systems / I am entitled to sea and moons and to skirmish and despair." Turgut Uyar, The Trinity of Sea-Faring Blues Reduced to One (translation: Talat Sait Halman)

a selection of favourite tunes from 2016: listen | download | &co.

You won't discover new tunes here, nor these are the first time I heard these particular pieces. Some included because they finally clicked with me after listening to them for years (Liszt, Brahms), some I burdened them with memories because this year has been hard on me and on everyone I know (Rachmaninov, Shostakovich). All in all, this is just a very personal list of music that I turned to, or simply music that I loved because why not (HVOROSTOVSKY!), organised in such a way so it will not be too jarring to listen to.

Here's hoping 2017 will be less taxing to survive.

#compilations #nuri bilge approves

'This' place preferred fury to grief. The speed with which funerals are carried out in Turkey might surprise a Westerner, but it really shouldn't. For 'This is Turkey!', and its bridge people, bent on survival, grew up being taught that grief is a waste of time.

Turkey: The Insane and the Melancholy, Ece Temelkuran

#words #ece temelkuran #nuri bilge approves

The Milkmaid (detail), Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1660

#art #vermeer #xvii #*

Employee wearing gas mask photographed in studio for use in educational and propaganda publications, 1939. (Irony and Tension: Perception of War in Istanbul and Ankara During the Second World War Years)

#imageries #xx

A scene from Fernando Arrabal's Picnic on the Battlefield. Ankara State Theatre, 1960-61. (Left to right: Bozkurt Kuruç, Şeref Gürsoy, Macide Tanır, and Şahap Akalın. Photography by Osman Darcan, from the archive of Gülseren Mungan Yavuztürk.)

#imageries #osman darcan #xx