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Colour wheel from The Natural System of Colours (1766) by Moses Harris.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 The Vatican’s favourite homosexual, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, receives the ludicrously expensive art-book treatment in a huge $22,000 study of the Sistine Chapel frescos<\/a>. Thanks, but I’ll stick with Taschen’s XXL<\/em> Tom of Finland collection which cost considerably less and contains larger penises. Related: How Taschen became the world\u2019s most famous erotic publishers<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “In a metaphorical sense, a book cover is also a frame around the text and a bridge between text and world.” Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth <\/a>on what a book cover can do.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Night Porter<\/em><\/a>: Nazi porn or daring arthouse eroticism? Ryan Gilbey talks to director\u00a0Liliana Cavani about a film that’s still more read about (and condemned) than seen.<\/p>\n What is important about reading [Walter] Benjamin\u2019s texts written under the influence of drugs is how you can then read back into all his work much of this same \u201cdrug\u201d mind-set; in his university student days, wrangling with Kant\u2019s philosophy at great length, he famously stated, according to Scholem, that \u201ca philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds<\/em> and cannot explicate it cannot be a true philosophy.\u201d That was in 1913, and Scholem adds that such an approach must be \u201crecognized as possible from the connection of things.\u201d Scholem recalled seeing on Benjamin\u2019s desk a few years later a copy of Baudelaire\u2019s Les paradis artificiels<\/em>, and that long before Benjamin took any drugs, he spoke of \u201cthe expansion of human experience in hallucinations,\u201d by no means to be confused with \u201cillusions.\u201d Kant, Benjamin said, \u201cmotivated an inferior experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Michael Taussig<\/a> on getting high with Benjamin and Burroughs<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 “Utah monolith<\/a>: Internet sleuths got there, but its origins are still a mystery.” The solution to the mystery\u2014if there is one\u2014will be inferior to the mystery itself.<\/p>\n \u2022 After Beardsley<\/em><\/a> (1981), a short animated film about Aubrey Beardsley by Chris James, is now available on YouTube in its complete form.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mix of the week: The Ivy-Strangled Path Vol. XXIII \u2013 An Ivy-Strangled Midwinter by David Colohan<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Charlie Huenemann<\/a> on the Monas Hieroglyphica<\/em>, Feynman diagrams, and the Voynich Manuscript<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Katy Kelleher<\/a> on verdigris: the colour of oxidation, statues, and impermanence.<\/p>\n \u2022 A trailer for Athanor: The Alchemical Furnace<\/em><\/a>, a documentary about Jan \u0160vankmajer.<\/p>\n \u2022 All doom and boom: what\u2019s the heaviest music ever made?<\/a><\/p>\n \u2022 At Strange Flowers: Ludwig the Second first and last<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ralph Steadman’s cultural highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Daria Nicolodi<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Michael Angelo<\/a><\/em> (1967) by The 23rd Turnoff | Nightporter<\/a><\/em> (1980) by Japan | Verdigris<\/a><\/em> (2020) by Roger Eno and Brian Eno<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colour wheel from The Natural System of Colours (1766) by Moses Harris. \u2022 The Vatican’s favourite homosexual, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, receives the ludicrously expensive art-book treatment in a huge $22,000 study of the Sistine Chapel frescos. 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