This week on the Garlic&Pearls podcast, a ’Summer Postcard’ from me and @suzanneraine.bsky.social - how this drink became so central to French apéritif culture! Link in reply 👇
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Writer & broadcaster; film specialist – BBC, TLS, ENGELSBERG IDEAS, APOLLO, SPECTATOR and others; Critics’ Circle; French Londoner Garlic&Pearls podcast https://garlicandpearls.com/ Instagram @murielzaghawriter http://muckrack.com/muriel-zagha-3
Hopper visited Paris three times, studying Impressionist light and urban life but filtering it through American detachment. In Le Bistro (1909), patrons sit in shadow while the street beyond dissolves into haze—public life observed at a distance.
On this day in 1902, Venice's famous Campanile collapsed into a pile of rubble, taking out the Logetta as well.
Anne of Cleves looked deceptively attractive in this portrait in 1539. At least, it fooled Henry VIII into agreeing to marry her. Not for long! By Hans Holbein, whose day is today.
Two French ambassadors, Jean de Dinteville & Georges de Selve, pose w/ science, art, & death, along with faith at the edge. Entirely brilliant painting by Hans Holbein, 1533. Today is his day.
Life, death, knowledge. And grooming, don't forget grooming! By Sebastian Stosskopf, born OTD 1593.
With all this talk of Anglo-Gaullism, do refresh yourself at the 🇫🇷 source. On Garlic & Pearls we revisit, with our guest @charlottefaucher.bsky.social, the fascinating pivotal times when @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social rallied around De Gaulle and the Free French in London in 1940. Link in reply.
If you asked me who was the most enjoyable interview I’ve ever done. It was Sam Neill. We discussed what James Mason taught him & being in that truly terrible FIFA film.🎬 Afterwards he came back to tell me it was a really fun experience for him too… such sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A conversation with the Pope of Trash following new @criterion.bsky.social restorations of the upbeat/downbeat duo, Hairspray and Desperate Living. In conversation with John Waters:
John Waters: ’I’ve always been a les bro‘
A conversation with the Pope of Trash following new restorations of the upbeat/downbeat duo, Hairspray and Desperate Living.
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Portrait of a young lady; beautiful and elegant later work (c. 1560) by Catharina van Hemessen of Antwerp, whose day is today.
This week on the Garlic & Pearls podcast, I tell @suzanneraine.bsky.social the story of THE STRIPY BRETON TOP, or how a satanic pattern became the epitome of French chic! Zebras get a mention too. Join us on Garlic&Pearls!
A view of France from Ladybird Land, 1969. Artist: John Berry
Ten years after the Sagamihara killings, the worst act of violence against disabled people in modern history, Japan's attitudes to disability are slowly changing. Recording Japan’s disabled lives | Christopher Harding engelsbergideas.com/notebook/rec...
Recording Japan's disabled lives
Ten years after the Sagamihara killings, the worst act of violence against disabled people in modern history, Japan's attitudes to disability are slowly changing.
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This will sell out.. Sunday.. Sept 27th Hosting this @c20society.bsky.social event about Listing, Love and hate for Brutalism.. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...
Brutal(ism) Love and Hate | Southbank Centre
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Going to a pub quiz this week? What's your team name? Agatha Quizteam? Quiz Hurley? The Quizzard of Oz? If not, (and why ever not?) then the next best thing (in preparation for your next quiz) is to find out all about PUB QUIZZES on the Garlic&Pearls podcast! Tune in with me and Suzanne Raine!
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, looking splendidly military & valorous as painted by me in 1629. Today has been his birthday.
Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1867–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Woodblock, 40 × 55 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Alethea Talbot, wife of the Earl of Arundel (whose day is today), paused on her Grand Shopping Tour of the continent to let me paint her with her entourage. A great lady.
Mary Cornwallis, her face entirely overshadowed by the vast, fantastical expanse of ruff, pearls, sleeves. Especially sleeves! As painted by George Gower, whose day was today.
Historical hottie du jour: Richard Drake, Equerry of the Stable & Groom of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I. She did like handsome men! Painted by George Gower, 1577.
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Hugo van der Goes of Ghent. Starting right off with his Portinari Altarpiece of 1475. In so many ways a masterpiece!
For The Telegraph I wrote about the mega-banquets of Le Canon Français 🇫🇷 and the ways in which cheese and charcuterie have become politicised. France is sadly riven, it seems, but I hope for better things! Link in reply.
