You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
I am full having spent my greediness in a ritual of joy.
Wanda Coleman
(italien villeggiatura, de villeggiare, aller à la campagne)
Sant’Andrea de Scaphis on Cowboys.
Miami-Dade’s 2025-26 budget proposal,
“The budget … calls for a cut of 52 percent (almost $13 million) in county financial support for arts organizations in Miami-Dade County. On Monday the chair of the County Commission, Anthony Rodriguez, released a memo calling for restoring $6.25 million of the cultural cuts by using newfound revenues from the independent Tax Collector’s office.” via Miami Herald.
How do we find $5 million more?
And is the heart of youth so light,
Its step so firm, its eye so bright,
Because on its hot brow there blows
A wind of promise and repose
From the far grave, to which it goes;
Because it hath the hope to come,
One day, to harbour in the tomb?
Ah no, the bliss youth dreams is one
For daylight, for the cheerful sun,
For feeling nerves and living breath—
Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
[…]
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm’s not life’s crown, though calm is well.
‘Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But ’tis not what our youth desires.
Youth and Calm, Matthew Arnold
Tony Gilroy on The Treatment. KCRW.
Carceral logic and its emboldened expression; in District of Columbia.
Marc Ringo Gervais, L’âme haïtienne, le cœur guyanais; via Haiti Inter.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed 269 journalists in Gaza, in the deadliest conflict ever recorded for reporters. Al Jazeera.
Richard Duroseau, 1940-2025, pionnier du Konpa Direct.
“If you already do the Sunday crossword puzzle and it’s not challenging, pick up something new, find that exercise regimen that you’ll adhere to,” she says, “and if you can do it around people, that’s even better.”
Langbaum notes that socializing is one of the best ways to keep your brain young. (NPR)
Lee Friedlander.
10 Nudes, presented in a combination of early and contemporary prints, is curated by Alina Sinetos at CASTLE.
10 Nudes is an exhibition of black and white photographs by Lee Friedlander (b. 1934). Friedlander’s nudes, taken between 1977-1990, were first shown together in 1991 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in an exhibition of 52 photographs curated by John Szarkowski that coincided with the publication of the book Lee Friedlander: Nudes.
As part of Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo’s residency, he hosted a Photo Walk in the Allapatah neighborhood.
Poems are porous constructs: here life flows and seeps in and out, incalculably strong-headed, recognizable and in the most foreign shape.
The poet: always in partibus infidelium
From “Microliths” By Paul Celan, Translated By Pierre Joris, Translated from the German.
