Today’s piece is from the Seattle Art Museum’s Native American collection. It is a soapstone bowl made before 1800. from the shore of Shoal Harbor, North Saanich, Vancouver Island, and portrays a humanoid figure sitting and cradling a bowl in its lap. What interested me about it when I first saw it was just how mesoamerican it looked and had me thinking about patterns of human migration as I drew it.
Just saw this promotional poster for the Students and Academics International Assistance Fund (SAIF) over at PZ Myers’s Pharyngula and had to share it with everybody. Apparently it offended the sensibilities of Iran’s Ambassador to Norway.
And now it’s for sale! It’s not cheap — 200 NOK, or about $35 — but worth it.
This week’s rhapsody is Emmanuel Chabrier‘s España, Rhapsody for Orchestra from 1883.
And here he is playing Blue Monk in Oslo, April 1966
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmhP1RgbrrY
Today’s sketch is some odds and ends from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum’s Greek collection
. From right to left the first image is a Grave marker (Radeke Stele) from between the 6th and 4th century BC. The winged figure is from a oil flask made in Attica around 480 BC, and Finally the Lion on the bottom is from a funerary sculpture, also from Attica, made between 390 and 380 BC.
After last hearing the Harpo Marx version we revisit Franz Liszt‘s Second Rhapsody done mostly straight by the hilarious Victor Borge. (I’ll give this piece some respect and find a proper concert version of it one of these days. )
