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The Sixteenth of September (1956) by Ren\u00e9 Magritte.<\/em><\/p>\n

To Magritte admirers, The Sixteenth of September<\/em> is a deceptively realistic work painted in 1956, one of a series in which the artist plays tricks with light and time of day. It shows a crescent moon impossibly shining through the dark mass of a tree, against a dawn sky.<\/p>\n

To [Marc] Bolan fans, the painting has an entirely different significance: 16 September 1977 was the date the singer was returning home in the small hours from a night out, in a Mini driven by his girlfriend Gloria Jones. […] Fans say the tree in the painting closely resembles the sycamore the car crashed into, and the moon was at the same phase on 16 September 1977. (more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 New Yorkers finally got a successful vote for gay marriage<\/a> making New York state the sixth and largest in the US giving full marriage rights to its gay citizens. One of America’s conservative journals, National Review<\/a>, made the striking point that forty years ago New York was in the vanguard of gay liberation while Spain under Franco was a dictatorship with no gay rights at all. No one then would have bet on Spain beating New York to gay marriage rights as it did in 2005. Allow me to note that we still only have civil unions here in the UK.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Related: Queer Beacon<\/a>: LGBT spaces in New York City by Kian Goh, and at Scientific American<\/em>: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Natural Selection and Evolution, with a Key to Many Complicating Factors<\/a> by Jeremy Yoder.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A pair of intrepid photographers breach the midnight security at St Paul’s Cathedral<\/a> to bring back photos of the building rooftop. Related (and looking like a good location for a British equivalent of Stalker<\/em><\/a>), photos of the disused Thorpe Marsh Power Station<\/a>, Yorkshire.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixtape of the month: the ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror collection by Portishead<\/a>, a great blend of rock, rap and electronic odds-and-ends. Also a dash of Alan Moore & Stephen O’Malley.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eddie Campbell<\/a> is blogging again. Welcome back to the madhouse, Eddie. His smart and witty daughter, Hayley Campbell<\/a>, continues to file regular bulletins from her London bunker.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Your Tumblrs this week: Fuck Yeah Ken Russell<\/a> and Fuck Yeah Powell & Pressburger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Robot Fl\u00e2neur<\/a>: Exploring Google Street View.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Paris Visages<\/a> by Marco Gervasio.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Push the button, Max!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u2022 Written On The Forehead<\/a><\/em> (2011) by PJ Harvey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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