Mid-Week Libation: Shout, Sister, Shout!
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Dominique Jackson, a recipe for horta (boiled Greek wild leafy greens), Mary Beard on Ovid, and the Whitney Biennial 2024!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
[Editor’s Note: Happy Spring Equinox to our readers in the Northern hemisphere and Happy Autumn Equinox to our readers in the Southern hemisphere! We are traveling in Greece right now (and eating our fair share of horta - see the recipe below), so no audio segment from us this week. Instead, have a listen to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (born today in 1915), classics scholar Mary Beard on Ovid (born today in 43 BCE) and the legendary Dominique Jackson. (Happy Birthday Dominique!) Today is also the opening of the Whitney Biennial 2024!]
Celebrating The Mother of Rock and Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe! (March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973)
Recipe of the Week: Horta (Boiled Greek Wild Leafy Greens)
Click here to see a printable recipe for Horta! (via My Greek Dish)
The Whitney Biennial 2024 Opens Today!
Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (exhibition on view from March 20 - August 11, 2024)
8 Breakout Artists of the 2024 Whitney Biennial (via Artsy)
Born on this Day: The Ancient Roman Poet Ovid (born March 20, 43 BCE, died circa 17 or 18 CE)
“In the Roman world, Ovid’s Metamorphoses – that extraordinary mythological epic about people changing shape (and probably the most influential work of literature on Western art after the Bible) – repeatedly returns to the idea of the silencing of women in the process of their transformation.” ― Mary Beard, from Women & Power: A Manifesto
10 Famous Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses & Ovid’s Fascinating Portrayals of Greek Mythology (via The Collector)
To see some beautiful photo’s of Ovid’ birthplace (Sulmona, Italy), have a look at our friend Jackie Spaulding’s photo walkabout of her visit last year:
Happy Birthday to Dominique Jackson! (born March 20, 1975)
Interesting Artists Born Today: March 20th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Jean-Antoine Houdon, Marie Ellenrieder, Ann Charlotte Bartholomew, Edward Poynter, Illarion Pryanishnikov, Maria Longworth Storer, John Lavery, José Benito Ortega, Maria Gażycz, Jerome Myers, Jessie M. King, Selden Connor Gile, Ruby Lindsay, Renée Sintenis, Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Eyre de Lanux, Uga Skulme, Eduard Wiiralt, Anton Refregier, Allan Crite, Mona Moore, Chaim Goldberg, Joe Stefanelli, Dotty Attie, Mary Ellen Mark, Lydia Rubio, Cynthia Knott and Norm Magnusson!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Ovid, Friedrich Hölderlin, Henrik Ibsen, Isabel Burton, B. F. Skinner, Vera Panova, Andrée Chedid, Rosemary Timperley, Shaukat Siddiqui, Dinos Christianopoulos, David Malouf, Lois Lowry, Gerard Malanga, John Boswell, Maggie Estep, William Dalrymple, sj Miller, Touré and Igiaba Scego!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Ernesto Nazareth, Maria Rodrigo, Sviatoslav Richter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Vera Lynn, Marian McPartland, Michel Magne, Tod Dockstader, Sam Lay, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Harold Mabern, Eddie Shaw, Jon Christensen, Marva Wright, Marcia Ball, Carl Palmer, Mariya Takeuchi, Natacha Atlas, Ultra Naté, Chilly Gonzales and Alex Kapranos!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Michael Redgrave, Usmar Ismail, Carl Reiner, Fred Rogers, John de Lancie, Tanya Boyd, Yamina Bachir, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Spike Lee, Holly Hunter, Joanna Hogg, David Thewlis, Mike Mills, Chad Michaels, Murray Bartlett, Cedric Yarbrough, Dominique Jackson, Ramin Bahrani, Freema Agyeman, BeBe Zahara Benet, Lauren Wolkstein, Ruby Rose and Xavier Dolan!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Dominique Jackson (born March 20, 1975)
