Crikey – here we are at TWO HUNDRED TREASURE MAPS…
Can’t quite believe it. But there you go… misspent idling does have some benefits…
Sacred Treasure
- Ben Palpant rereleases his conversation with Anglo-American poet Luci Shaw who has apparently just died at the age of 96. (Her official website is here)
- Why is the Book of Revelation claimed by every generation. (HT Ian Paul)
- Some Advent images and song from wartorn Ukraine (HT Art & Theology)
- Andrew Roycroft is on cracking form these days:
- His current series on handling doubt is superb of which this is the 3rd.
- Loved his analysis of one my favourite poems: Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts
- Very powerful. Dios con Nosotros (God with Us) by the printmaker Kreg Yingst. This series of linocut prints was started in 2019 and continues, “a modern-day American Christmas story which takes place somewhere south of the U.S. border.” (HT Victoria Emily Jones). Many are available on his Etsy store.
Topical Treasure
- Timothy Snyder is such an important voice on current events in Ukraine. Here “What if Trump wants Goliath to win?“
- Meta’s Child Sex-Trafficking Problem.
- Having been a total fanboy of Sir Tom Stoppard since I
saw the original production of his sublime 1993 play Arcadia in London, it was sad to hear he’d died last week. A bunch of links: - Introductory piece on BBC News
- Obituary in the Guardian
- Critic Michael Billington pays tribute
- The National Theatre overviews many of his plays
- John Podhoretz’s tribute suggests that his Leopoldstadt was his masterpiece. I loved it and it has stuck in my mind since seeing it (even though I’m not sure I’d judged it his magnum opus at the time – but perhaps it was!).
- Why didn’t Stoppard get the Nobel? His was anti-political art says John Maier (£) Not sure I agree actually…
- Henry Oliver writes of Tom Stoppard’s Ordinary Magic
Quirky Treasure
- I didn’t expect to be stopped in my tracks by these ‘sewn pillows’ – but I found them strangely affecting.
- Teapots? Suitcases?Snails? They’re all here in a compilation of crazy buildings around the world.
- A Tamil poet disappeared in 1874 from a locked room. It’s never been explained…
- Benjamin Franklin posed some extraordinary questions to his club, the Junto which he cofounded for mutual improvement!
- When she was a child, the late Queen had rather a wild ambition…
- Lord Byron kept quite the menagerie in his house
- As ever, some more photography:
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Love Kreg Yingst’s work. Did you know that we had him exhibit his work at The Schaeffer House less than a month after you spoke there. We also commissioned a woodcut of Francis Schaeffer that is very much in line with his saint portraits in his *Everything Could Be a Prayer* project. He was great! I think we’re aiming to have him back next September to exhibit some of his work on blues artists…and this time, I think he’s willing to leave his pieces with us for a couple of weeks!
that’s epic!