Mid-Week Libation: Renaissance Comets & Ancient Urban Gardens
Celebrating singer Françoise Hardy & choreographer Ulysses Dove, plus the wonders of Edgar Miller’s Glasner Studio, a 16th-century book of comets & a network of lost cities in the Amazon!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture! Click above to listen to this weeks’ audio segment!
Celebrating the Music of Françoise Hardy (born January 17, 1944)
Enchanting 16th-Century Drawings of Comets: Pages from The Comet Book
The Comet Book (1587) (via The Public Domain Review)
Wonder-Sighting in the Medieval World: Stunning Sixteenth-Century Drawings of Comets, with Carl Sagan’s Poetic Meditation on Their Science (via The Marginalian)
Edgar Miller’s Glasner Studio: A Hidden, Handmade House That's an Immersive Work of Art (via WTTW)
Take the The Glasner Studio Virtual Tour! - This tour offers 360-degree views of nearly every room of the home’s many floors and levels.
A New Virtual Tour Takes Us Inside Architect Edgar Miller’s Masterwork (via Smithsonian Magazine)
R.W. Glasner Studio and Edgar Miller's Arts and Crafts Legacy (via Architect Magazine)
Fascinating Archaeology News: Ancient Urban Gardens! A Network of Lost Cities Rediscovered in the Amazon
Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon (via The Guardian)
More detailed information here: Ancient Amazon Civilization Developed Unique Form of ‘Garden Urbanism’ (via Scientific American)
Remembering Dancer & Choreographer Ulysses Dove (January 17, 1947 – June 11, 1996)
Honoring Ulysses Dove, 25 Years After He Died From HIV (via TheBody)
Artists Born Today: January 17th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Hannah Maynard, Albert Goodwin, A. B. Frost, T. Alexander Harrison, William Clarke Wontner, Georges Récipon, Joseph Bernard, Lluís Masriera i Rosés, Lawrence Atkinson, May Gibbs, Kazimierz Sichulski, Anna Garcin-Mayade, Charles Ragland Bunnell, Karl Brandner, Lillian McGeoch, Hem Vejakorn, Sidney Waugh, Ruth Miller, Izis, Korda, Fang Zhaoling, Reuben Tam, Jacob Pins, Sheri Martinelli, Margaret Harker, Hannah Tompkins, Antonio Prohías, Marie Uchytilová, Gunnar Birkerts, Duane Hanson, Robert Filliou, Manolo Millares, Arthur Dooley, Mowry Baden, Susan Shatter, Sam Dillemans, Robert Chaplin, Christy Matson and Kue King!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Robert Fludd, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Brockden Brown, Ellen Wood, Anne Brontë, Tomás Carrasquilla, Compton Mackenzie, Emmy Hennings, Ronald Firbank, Robert Maynard Hutchins, William Stafford, Robert Cormier, Alain Badiou, Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, Javed Akhtar, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Elsa López, Luis López Nieves, Ann Nocenti, Sebastian Junger, Michelle Obama and Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of John Stanley, José White Lafitte, Peggy Gilbert, Sid Catlett, George Handy, Eartha Kitt, Donald Erb, Jean Barraqué, Dalida, Cedar Walton, Ted Dunbar, Jorge Mautner, Billy Harper, Chris Montez, Françoise Hardy, William Hart, Frank Bey, Mick Taylor, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carlos Johnson, Cheryl Bentyne, Steve Earle, Susanna Hoffs, Cristina, Cyrus Chestnut, Andy Rourke, Tiësto, Lil Jon, Aga Zaryan, Calvin Harris and Kandace Springs!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Konstantin Stanislavski, Mack Sennett, Johan Ankerstjerne, Nils Asther, Dehl Berti, Betty White, Moira Shearer, James Earl Jones, Shari Lewis, Donald Cammell, Muhammad Ali, Ulysses Dove, Billy T. James, Andy Kaufman, Brian Helgeland, Jim Carrey, Denis O'Hare, Karim Aïnouz, Joshua Malina, Naveen Andrews, Sylvie Testud, Bob Persichetti, Annemarie Jacir, Rumbi Katedza, Freddy Rodriguez, Zooey Deschanel, Kelly Marie Tran, Indya Moore and Isa Briones!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Ulysses Dove (January 17, 1947 – June 11, 1996)
Edgar Miller’s Glasner studio is just exquisite! Do you think one man did all those different types of beautiful artwork in his home.
And the dance bad blood was gorgeous and powerful!