Mid-Week Libation: Filigree Fancy
Artist vanessa german, Martha Stewart’s Summer Scallop Salad, writer Carmen Maria Machado, poet Florence Ripley Mastin, a new R&R playlist, and Plastique Tiara & Roxxxy Andrews Lip Sync to Diana Ross!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
[Editor’s Note: We are back from a wonderful trip to Athens, Greece and can’t wait to tell you all about it! But we’re still enjoying a little break for a few more days. Our regular content will return next week!]
Artist Spotlight: vanessa german
vanessa german at Kasmin Gallery / Instagram / Works for Sale (via Artsy)
vanessa german On Being Whole and Having a Responsibility to Be Irresponsible (via Colossal)
R&R’s Playlist of the Week: Filigree Fancy
We were joined in Athens by Ryan Elston’s dear cousin, Katie Kleinhesselink, and her wonderful husband, Chris Rock! The four of us made some fabulous playlists together, and this was the first:
Recipe of the Week: Martha Stewart’s Pan-Seared Summer Scallop Salad (from the new PBS docuseries, Hope in the Water)
Poem of the Week: “Discovery” by Florence Ripley Mastin (1886-1968)
Discovery
by Florence Ripley Mastin
The gray path glided before me
Through cool, green shadows;
Little leaves hung in the soft air
Like drowsy moths;
A group of dark trees, gravely conferring,
Made me conscious of the gaucherie of sound;
Farther on, a slim lilac
Drew me down to her on the warm grass.
“How sweet is peace!”
My serene heart said.
Then, suddenly, in a curve of the road,
Red tulips!
A bright battalion, swaying,
They marched with fluttering flags,
And gay fifes playing!
A swift flame leapt in my heart;
I burned with passion;
I was tainted with cruelty;
I wanted to march in the wind,
To tear the silence with gay music,
And to slash the sober green
Until it sobbed and bled.
The tulips have found me out.Drag Performance of the Week: Plastique Tiara & Roxxxy Andrews Lip Sync to “No One Gets The Prize” by Diana Ross!
Interesting Artists Born Today: July 3rd
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Robert Adam, Nakamura Tsune, Kagaku Murakami, Otis Oldfield, Georgina Klitgaard, Sándor Bortnyik, Huang Tu-shui, Thelma Wood, Roger Kemp, Fred Stein, Horace Day, Ed Clark, Óscar Quiñones, Corneille, Philip Jamison, Russell T. Gordon, Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, Howard Newman, Lynne Cohen, Linda Lomahaftewa and Didier Mouron!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of María Ruiz de Burton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W. H. Davies, Franz Kafka, M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Tom Stoppard, Dave Barry, Zhang Kangkang, Rohinton Mistry, Joanne Harris and Carmen Maria Machado!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Leoš Janáček, “King” Bennie Nawahi, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Johnny Hartman, Ángel Tavira, Johnny Coles, Lavelle White, Carlos Kleiber, Ronnell Bright, Tommy Tedesco, Cheo Feliciano, David Shire, John Heard, Rhoda Scott, Fontella Bass, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Denzil Botus, John Blake, Andrés Jiménez, Johnnie Wilder Jr., Laura Branigan, Poly Styrene, Vince Clarke, Ishmael Butler and Liniker!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of George M. Cohan, George Sanders, S. V. Ranga Rao, Susan Peters, Amalia Aguilar, Ken Russell, Kurtwood Smith, Betty Buckley, Tom Cruise, Yeardley Smith, Connie Nielsen, Audra McDonald, Benedict Wong, Corey Reynolds and Shannel!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Carmen Maria Machado (born July 3, 1986)
