Mid-Week Libation: And All That Jazz!
Celebrating Chita Rivera, Carol Channing & Tallulah Bankhead, plus artist Uman's new exhibition, a hearty Montenegrin red wine, and a truly surreal book: the Codex Seraphinianus!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture! Click above to listen to this weeks’ audio segment!
Celebrating the Life of the Legendary Chita Rivera (January 23, 1933 — January 30th, 2024)
Chita Rivera – A Life in Pictures (via The Guardian)
All the ‘West Side Story’ Anitas Paid Tribute to Chita Rivera (via InStyle)
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Plantaže Crnogorski Vranac Barrique (Podgorica, Montenegro)
The Strangest Book Ever? The Codex Seraphinianus
The Codex Seraphinianus: How Italian Artist Luigi Serafini Came to Write & Illustrate “the Strangest Book Ever Published” (via Open Culture)
Purchase Codex Seraphinianus: 40th Anniversary Edition by Luigi Serafini:
In the Studio with Artist Uman (via Hauser & Wirth)
“Born in Somalia and raised in Kenya, she emigrated to Denmark as a teenager and later to New York as a young adult. Now living and working in upstate New York, Uman paints lavishly detailed, opulently colored worlds replete with gesture, geometry and evocations of the sublime.” [Source]
Check out Uman’s new exhibition in London at Hauser & Wirth (which just opened yesterday!) — Uman: Darling Sweetie, Sweetie Darling (on view January 30, 2024 - March 30, 2024!)
Best Practices: Artist Uman Courts a Constant State of Evolution in Her Paintings (via ARTnews)
Raspberries! An Ode to Carol Channing (January 31, 1921 – January 15, 2019)
Interesting Artists Born Today: January 31st
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Nathaniel Jocelyn, Rodolphe Töpffer, Edward Kemeys, Betsy Repelius, Elizaveta Kruglikova, Mabel Dwight, Grace V. Kelly, Myra Reynolds Richards, Betty Parsons, Alzira Peirce, Bill Manbo, Otto Natzler, Marshall Fredericks, Cornelia MacIntyre Foley, Freda Skinner, Edward Melcarth, William Crosbie, Jini Dellaccio, Fred Bassetti, E. Fay Jones, Irene Chou, Robert Clatworthy, Dušan Džamonja, Evelyn Richter, Zbigniew Makowski, Pieter Brattinga, Joseph Kosuth, Catherine Wagner, Sarah McEneaney, Penelope Umbrico, Nadya Rusheva and Smrita Jain!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Zane Grey, Petronila Angélica Gómez, Ella Cara Deloria, Freya Stark, Angelina Acuña, John O'Hara, Thomas Merton, Benoîte Groult, Kenzaburō Ōe, Grant Morrison, Patrick Gale, Gong Jiyeong and Daniel Tammet!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Franz Schubert, Isham Jones, Roosevelt Sykes, Benjamin Frankel, Benny Morton, Emanuel Sayles, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Peruchín, Alan Lomax, Bobby Hackett, Carlos Jiménez Mabarak, José Maceda, Chuck Willis, Al De Lory, Ottilie Patterson, Rick Hall, Pete “El Conde” Rodríguez, Philip Glass, Noah Creshevsky, Takashi Kako, Phil Manzanera, Harry Wayne Casey and Big Time Sarah!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Tallulah Bankhead, Carol Channing, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Walter, Derek Jarman, Glynn Turman, Kelly Lynch, Minnie Driver, Patricia Velásquez, Portia de Rossi, Kerry Washington, Peppermint, Monica Beverly Hillz and Trinity K. Bonet!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Tallulah Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968)
