Mid-Week Libation: The Heart that Gives, Gathers
Poetry & wisdom from Marianne Moore, a tasty recipe for Greek Baked Giant Beans, a new exhibition of modernist art from Ukraine, a lush new R&R playlist, and Ayo Edebiri’s Criterion Closet Picks!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
Recipe of the Week: Greek Baked Giant Beans – Gigantes (via Chef Akis Petretzikis)
R&R’s Newest Playlist: Never Been Blue
New Art Exhibition: In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (on view until October 13th, 2024)
Start here: Modernism in Ukraine - Meet the Artists who Defined Ukraine’s Culture at the Start of the 20th century (via the RA)
Visions from Ukraine - essay by James Meek (via the RA)
In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s Review – A Small Yet Blazing Act of Solidarity (via The Guardian)
Poem of the Week: “Reinforcements” by Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
Reinforcements
by Marianne Moore
The vestibule to experience is not to
be exalted into epic grandeur. These men are going
to their work with this idea, advancing like a school of fish through
still water—waiting to change the course or dismiss
the idea of movement, till forced to. The words of the Greeks
ring in our ears, but they are vain in comparison with a sight like this.
The pulse of intention does not move so that one
can see it, and moral machinery is not labelled, but
the future of time is determined by the power of volition.Criterion Collection: Ayo Edebiri’s Closet Picks!
Interesting Artists Born Today: July 17th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Pauline Thomsen, Kiyohara Tama, Lyonel Feininger, Amy Maria Sacker, Paul Follot, Berenice Abbott, Belle Baranceanu, Henry Bannarn, Charles Umlauf, Grant Wright Christian, Aligi Sassu, Bertrand Goldberg, Arthur Rothstein, Herbert Gentry, Richard Jeranian, Dương Bích Liên, Jean Muir, Cynthia Cooley, Eddy Cobiness, Geneviève Claisse, Juan Bernal Ponce, Francisco Toledo, Arthello Beck, William T. Williams, Kurt Weiser, Geneviève Cadieux, Greta Pratt and Samuel Fosso!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Erle Stanley Gardner, Christina Stead, Yang Jiang, Paul Lomami-Tshibamba, James Purdy, Alice Gore King, Christiane Rochefort, Donald Davie, László Nagy, Nikos Karouzos, Caroline Graham, Chris Crutcher, Novica Tadić, Kelly Robson and Cory Doctorow!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Lionel Ferbos, George Barnes, Mary Osborne, Danny Bank, Little Jimmy Scott, Peppermint Harris, Ray Copeland, Vince Guaraldi, Joe Morello, Ryōhei Hirose, Wojciech Kilar, Ben Riley, Peter Schickele, Margie Evans, Gribouille, Wolfgang Flür, Abraham Laboriel, Mick Tucker, Ron Asheton, Chico Freeman, Geezer Butler, Phoebe Snow, Reggie Nicholson, Dawn Upshaw, Guru and Regina Belle!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Mauritz Stiller, James Cagney, Phyllis Diller, Acquanetta, Willie Ito, Diahann Carroll, Donald Sutherland, David Hasselhoff, Thomas Carter, J. Michael Straczynski, Wong Kar-wai, F. Gary Gray, Dagmara Domińczyk, Justine Triet and Leila Djansi!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
