{"id":19618,"date":"2020-04-26T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19618"},"modified":"2020-04-26T01:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T00:00:24","slug":"weekend-links-514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/04\/26\/weekend-links-514\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 514"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/essay\/athanasius-kircher-study-of-the-plague\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kircher.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kircher.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Athanasius Kircher welcoming two guests to the Collegio Romano, a detail from the frontispiece to his Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum (1678).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/410537138\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Opium<\/em><\/a> (1919) by Robert Reinert: &#8220;A Chinese opium dealer takes revenge on Westerners who have corrupted his wife.&#8221; With Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt a year before their pairing in <em>The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7irwknBsBHA\" target=\"_blank\">Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain<\/a>: in which the gallery thinks that 7 minutes is enough to give us a taste of a major exhibition that we can&#8217;t otherwise see.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/joe-pulver-his-highness-in-yellow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Pulver<\/a> (RIP): His Highness in Yellow. A memorial piece that includes artist Michael Hutter talking about his paintings of Carcosa.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/entertainment\/2020\/4\/7\/21207816\/spiral-jetty-50-robert-smithson-nancy-holt-anniversary-dia-umfa-great-salt-lake-landmarks-utah\" target=\"_blank\">Court Mann<\/a> on the strange history of Robert Smithson&#8217;s <em>Spiral Jetty<\/em>, 50 years old this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Invisible Little Worms&#8221;: Athanasius Kircher\u2019s Study of the Plague by <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/essay\/athanasius-kircher-study-of-the-plague\" target=\"_blank\">John Glassie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/features\/literature-lesbians-film\" target=\"_blank\">Sophie Monks Kaufman<\/a> on why literary lesbians are having a moment on screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2020\/apr\/21\/ryan-mcginley-photographer-satan-brad-pitt-beyonce\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan McGinley<\/a>: &#8220;I was taught to believe in Satan. It scared me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Dennis Cooper&#8217;s: <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/ellen-burstyn-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ellen Burstyn<\/a> Day, and the ghostly novels of <a href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/the-ghostly-novels-of-w-g-sebald\/\" target=\"_blank\">WG Sebald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/apr\/20\/nina-simone-where-to-start-in-her-back-catalogue\" target=\"_blank\">Dorian Lynskey<\/a> on where to start with Nina Simone&#8217;s back catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wie funktioniert ein Synthesizer? (1972). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R8_uJGvEKJ4\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Spoerri<\/a> explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Banham avec Ballard: On style and violence by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabinetmagazine.org\/issues\/66\/dorrian.php\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Dorrian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovetypography.com\/2020\/04\/20\/the-most-dangerous-book-in-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Boardley<\/a> on the most dangerous book in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dIoz-SsXoDs\" target=\"_blank\">Improvisation for Sonic Cure<\/a><\/em> by Ryuichi Sakamoto.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Strange World of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/28130-jg-thirlwell-interview\" target=\"_blank\">JG Thirlwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZRcczloaW74\" target=\"_blank\">Diet Of Worms<\/a><\/em> (1979) by This Heat | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WePQG_z-V5E\" target=\"_blank\">Stomach Worm<\/a><\/em> (1992) by Stereolab | <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gpl3sxMjtAM\" target=\"_blank\">Heartworms<\/a><\/em> (1998) by Coil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athanasius Kircher welcoming two guests to the Collegio Romano, a detail from the frontispiece to his Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum (1678). \u2022 Opium (1919) by Robert Reinert: &#8220;A Chinese opium dealer takes revenge on Westerners who have corrupted his wife.&#8221; With Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt a year before their pairing in The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/04\/26\/weekend-links-514\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 514&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,50,30,42,851,29,7,5,22,48,3,44,12,31,41],"tags":[215,94,7866,2272,10585,10587,3109,6244,10589,137,10592,10586,7423,3299,10591,1322,1304,10590,10583,365,5031,1412,10588,2407,7964,10584,5779],"class_list":["post-19618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-beardsley","category-black-white","category-books","category-drugs","category-electronica","category-film","category-gay","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-religion","category-sculpture","tag-athanasius-kircher","tag-aubrey-beardsley","tag-bruno-spoerri","tag-coil-group","tag-conrad-veidt","tag-court-mann","tag-dennis-cooper","tag-dorian-lynskey","tag-ellen-burstyn","tag-jg-ballard","tag-jg-thirlwell","tag-joe-pulver","tag-john-boardley","tag-john-glassie","tag-mark-dorrian","tag-michael-hutter","tag-nina-simone","tag-rayner-banham","tag-robert-reinert","tag-robert-smithson","tag-ryan-mcginley","tag-ryuichi-sakamoto","tag-sophie-monks-kaufman","tag-stereolab","tag-this-heat","tag-werner-krauss","tag-wg-sebald"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-56q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}