Mid-Week Libation: Día de los Muertos
Music from Nile Rodgers & CHIC, wisdom from Bayard Rustin, the photography of Francisco González, art from the Kiowa Six & new fashion icons like Judi Dench, Maggie Smith & Harriet Walter!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture! Click above to listen to this weeks’ audio segment!
Must-Watch Concert: Nile Rodgers & CHIC — Tiny Desk Concert (via NPR)
Two Interesting Articles in Honor of Día de los Muertos / The Day of the Dead
Bonus! Check Out the Gorgeous Art of Photographer & Videographer Francisco González!
Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: The Art of the Kiowa Six
Renowned Native American artists Kiowa Six's stories told with exhibit 'Kiowa Agency' at University of Oklahoma museum & Get to know the seminal Oklahoma Native American artists the Kiowa Six (via The Oklahoman)
Food & Wine Pairing Competition! Featuring José Andrés, Eric Ripert, Emeril Lagasse and Danny Meyer
Bonus! Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Quinta do Crasto, Crasto Superior Branco 2018 (Duoro D.O.C., Portugal)
The New Fashion Icons: Maggie Smith, Miriam Margolyes, Harriet Walter, Apo Whang-Od & Judi Dench
Bonus! Judi Dench’s Spellbinding Reading of a Shakespeare Sonnet on The Graham Norton Show
Artists Born Today: November 1st
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Pietro da Cortona, Antonio Canova, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Jules Bastien-Lepage, William Merritt Chase, Darío de Regoyos, Raymond Duncan, Konrad Mägi, L. S. Lowry, Hannah Höch, Mabel Pugh, Vaclav Vytlacil, Anne Grimdalen, Symeon Shimin, Paul-Émile Borduas, Lenore Thomas Straus, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, Pegaret Anthony, Carlos Páez Vilaró, Joost Baljeu, Hilary Knight, Stephen Antonakos, Rita Letendre, George Johanson, Leonardo Nierman, Ron Ho, Paul Hoeffler, Manuel Figueira, Paulina Lavista, Yuko Shimizu, Bill Woodrow, Lorraine Williams, Maria Leal da Costa, Carla van de Puttelaar, Kaethe Katrin Wenzel, Matt Chapman and Alex Prager!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Étienne de La Boétie, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Caroline Still Anderson, Mary Brunton, Rosario de Acuña, Mary Hanford Ford, Stephen Crane, Else Ury, Sholem Asch, Marjorie Bowen, Hermann Broch, Sakutarō Hagiwara, David Jones, Gunther Plaut, Zenna Henderson, Ida Fink, Gordon R. Dickson, Edward Said, Nicholasa Mohr, Jacques Attali, Lee Smith, Susanna Clarke, Valérie Valère and James Wood!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Tarquinia Molza, Roger Quilter, Sippie Wallace, Bruno Bjelinski, Sabby Lewis, Wadih El Safi, Victoria de los Ángeles, Lou Donaldson, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Katsuhisa Hattori, Andre Williams, Roger Kellaway, Salvatore Adamo, Leon Spencer, Jim Steinman, Ronald Bell, Carmen Lundy, Lyle Lovett, Anthony Kiedis, Rick Allen, Antonio Sánchez, Dani Umpi, JP Cooper, Mohammed Fairouz and Pabllo Vittar!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Edward Van Sloan, Betsy Palmer, Marcel Ophuls, Marcia Wallace, Dennis Muren, Belita Moreno, Brenda Chapman, Toni Collette and Ishaan Khatter!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
Speaking of Bayard Rustin, we’re both looking forward to this:
Rustin premieres in theaters on Friday, November 3, and streams on Netflix from Friday, November 17!
Very interesting. I read the article on the day of the dead and also listened to the Nile Rodgers concert. I loved it!
What a fun interesting post! If the music doesn't get one going, nothing will. Also, always have liked the motifs from Day of the Dead. & isn't Judi Dench a marvel?