Category Archives: General

Originally posted on Trinh of the World:
Frank Art. Seen at the Museu Internacional de Arte Naïf do Brasil. They call the piece of art above “arte naïf” or naïve art, because the artists are not formally trained. But because the…

Originally posted on snapshotsincursive:
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.” ~ Walter Benjamin

Originally posted on Bob Schwartz:
Washington Post: The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President…

Originally posted on Martin Crookall – Author For Sale:
Oh dear g*d, not another one, so soon? I’ve barely begun to mourn Ursula Le Guin, and now the man who was the Fall? Please tell me this is not going…

Originally posted on Daisy Grey:
If your looking for somewhere new to eat this weekend, somewhere relaxed and simple, which is easy on the pennies. Then the Soup Kitchen is going to be for you.  As the new year has…

Originally posted on MANCHESTER PULSE:
Forget ‘happy hour’, intu Trafford Centre has launched a complete ‘happy bar’ this weekend to help shoppers beat the January blues. The two-day event will see the centre’s iconic main dome turned into ‘Live Happy’,…

Originally posted on the wiener blog:
Another gloomy Saturday afternoon calls for one thing… look at the list, find a place to shelter and eat brunch. Albeit it was after lunchtime but on the weekend who says you can’t eat…

Originally posted on Multicultural Meanderings:
Not surprising that computer programs and their algorithms can incorporate existing biases, as appears to be the case here: A computer program used to calculate people’s risk of committing crimes is less accurate and more…

Originally posted on the collaborative:
Given that Brazil has one of the most developed economies and coffee sectors throughout all of the coffee producing origins, its coffee producers and exporters are relatively “wealthy” in terms of resources and knowledge, placing…

Originally posted on The tip-tap of monkey keyboards:
Coincidentally, the first two novels I read in 2018 were both tales of empire, though from quite different perspectives. One was the Portuguese empire as seen through the prism of science fiction,…

Originally posted on The500:
I was spurred into writing this post when I was suddenly blessed with a flashback. ‘Blessed’ is perhaps an improper word. It was one of those memories that makes you shudder with nausea. I suppose I…