Nicholas Colloff
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The sacred in life and the arts.
Zug Switzerland
Joined October 2012
One of the most important painters of the first half of the last century, and a master of the still life. https://t.co/H8MXl7Kokl
pallant.org.uk
Discover William Nicholson at Pallant House Gallery - a landmark exhibition spanning portraits, still lifes, posters & rare illustrations.
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Everything demands of me: “Feel us!” Everyone begs of me: “See us!” God lend me Your eyes! I’ve come to sow seeing in the world. Abraham Joshua Herschel, “Intimate Hymn”
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This is (so far) an excellent exploration of the spiritual possibilities of the cultivation of the imagination.
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Though how anyone understands Heidegger is a moot point, very on point especially with Girard.
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Whelk stores and breweries come to mind … but it is fundamentally a capability issue. We have a leadership that is incapable of understanding the complexity of the challenges they face … They have been over-promoted.
theguardian.com
Pound down 0.5% against dollar in early trading after chancellor drops plans for upcoming budget
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions. Goethe
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Library preservation as the desert (and conflict) encroach ... https://t.co/rhjC0LdZWc
theguardian.com
Desert settlement of Chinguetti faces rising sands, dwindling tourism and insecurity due to conflict in neighbouring Mali
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I look forward to this …
theguardian.com
Genteel manners of first world war story about repressed passion delivered with surprising sexual candour
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White Clouds Longing for Spring, by Yokoyama Taikan, 1939, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
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Enjoying this with so many cross-sections - a mystery enfolded within the mysterious, nature writing enfolded with the supernatural, paganism and Christianity face each other, the new commercial world undermined by the magical.
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John Keats was born on this day in 1795. This posthumous portrait by Joseph Severn, in whose arms Keats died on 23 February 1821, sees the poet at Wentworth Place in Hampstead on the day of his composing 'Ode to a Nightingale,' in 1819.
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