Looking at the course of Vigo’s existence up to this point, marked as it is by poverty, illness, death, violence and exile, one could easily understand if the young man had simply given up on his life altogether. Two crucial factors, however, seem to have carried him through this difficult and potentially fatal period. They …
Bee Gees’ Main Course from 1975.
Norr Mälarstrand is a boulevard bordered with great old architecture and a stunning tree-lined promenade – Mälarpromenaden – on the Stockholm waterfront, stretching some kilometre between the fairy tale-like City Hall and Rålambshovsparken (and Västerbron) on Kungsholmen.
When we were born, not so very long ago, there were no information technologies or television companies, and airline travel was rare and luxurious. Our parents were born into a world even more different than today’s, where television had yet to be invented and there was no penicillin or frozen food. When our grandparents were …
Norr Mälarstrand is a boulevard bordered with great old architecture and a stunning tree-lined promenade – Mälarpromenaden – on the Stockholm waterfront, stretching some kilometre between the fairy tale-like City Hall and Rålambshovsparken (and Västerbron) on Kungsholmen.
Stills from Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante (1934).
The pictures: Hilma af Klint, The Dove, No 2, Group IX/UW, the SUW/UW Series, 1915; and Hilma af Klint, The Swan, No 17, Group IX/SUW, the SUW/UW Series, 1915. © Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints verk. Photo Albin Dahlström, Moderna Museet. If we look at the universe around us we cannot fail to realise that there …
You’re a brute behind your mask of sociability and friendliness, little man. You have no eye, no feeling for the truly great man. His character, his suffering, his yearning, his fury, and his struggle in your behalf are foreign to you. You are unaware that men and women exist who are inherently incapable of oppressing …
