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Sunday afternoon at the Kunstmuseum. “It’s a madhouse,” sighs the lady at the ticket check. Compared to the cheerful crowd she has to check in, her grey-blue uniform looks tired. Young and old have dressed up fashionably for the exhibition about Dior.
Uniforms should express authority, but how neutral do they have to be? “High time to put a good, preferably younger fashion designer in charge,” says an inner voice. A museum that - after many shows of famous designers - has developed into an epicenter of haute couture should surely have more courage. How else do you express the bond with ‘fashion’? A word that unites such a myriad of meanings – from cut to shape, from mannerism to creation – that everyone can identify with it.
LEFT OR RIGHT
In any case, at the top of the central stairs, a choice has to be made. Right to the ‘New Look’ by Dior – left to the ‘Night Animals’ by Spilliaert and Braeckman. We go left because that's why we came. In the dim silence that falls on us like a downy blanket, we focus our eyes on the introductory text. And on the image of a man descending a staircase in the semi-darkness. To be precise, we only see half a man. His face is barely visible, and his clothing reveals nothing special. Could that be a harbinger of what awaits us? Certainly.
Stairs are powerful metaphors. Up, down: life has its peaks and valleys. Platinum-blonde Hollywood stars made a great show of descending a staircase. A practice that Marcel Duchamp slyly commented on with 'Nu descendant un escalier'. In this sensational painting from 1912, a character strides down like an avalanche of cubist fragments. Naked? Down the stairs? The audience was stunned, moved by laughter and anger.
Admittedly, there was movement in the image. Or rather, that was suggested very nicely. Or was it a pile of firewood that came crashing down? The cartoons in the newspaper did not mince their words. The term ‘anti-art’ was used. Isn’t Braeckman’s intensification of the unfathomable also just a provocation? Yes, there is something in that… some photos are so black that you can only guess what you see.
(part of my review in Den Haag Centraal, October 31, 2024)
The Culebra Cut, also known at the Gaillard Cut), is a narrow 14-kilometer stretch of the Panama Canal through the Continental Divide. Ships must travel single file in one direction.
MHM - Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden.
A highly impressive museum regarding military issues in very differnt aspects. (like exhibitions: fashion and war or toys and war)
Architect Daniel Liebeskind design concept cut the historic building in half (outside and inside !!!) A giant blade points into the directing were the fire bombing on Dresden started during WWII. Like the city by this bombing raid the building is cut.
the blade shaped part of the building consists of different material than the rest of the Museum. Wherever you are inside you can realise you are in the "blade".
Wikipedia: "The Bundeswehr Military History Museum is the military museum of the German Armed Forces, the Bundeswehr, and one of the major military history museums in Germany. It is located in a former military arsenal in the Albertstadt which is part of Dresden. After a long history of switching titles and approaches to military history, the museum was re-opened in 2011 with a new internal and external concept. The museum focuses on the human aspects of war, while also showcasing the evolution of German military technology."
A tree I have photographed before, probably for a previous year's 52 theme. The ivy and bark has grown around the edges of the wound but you can still see the lines left by the cutting action of the saw blade.
Just North of Cottonville, NC, AC&W grain train #100 rolls through a small cut as it makes its way to Charlotte, NC.
This channel has been cut through the marshes on the Norfolk coast at Blakeney in order to improve access from the sea to the town's quay. At one time the charming village of Blakeney was a very important port in North Norfolk, but this part of the coast has silted up over the centuries to form marshland, and only small boats can now reach the sea at high tide via a series of narrow creeks or channels. On the left of the picture are Morston Salt Marshes.
I want to smell a turf fire. I have no open fire in my house any more, but I do love the smell of burning peat.
This is a bog that was cut just today. The turfs will lie in the sun to dry for several weeks and then they will be turned, and stacked.
They will be brought home later in the Summer and burned in the winter.
For ODC - I want to
Cut lever and links to uncouple vintage railroad cars...
Shot for Our Daily Challenge :“Pliable or Flexible”
Explored on February 14, 2023.
Our Golden Elm in the front yard had a big branch crack during the night after continuous rain. Fortunately it came down slowly, in stages, and just rested on the roof. Had professionals cut it back for us in the daylight.
Walked in to see the eldest playing monopoly with Nanny. The aim of the game is now not only to win, but to win with the most money ever!
We need the full fat monopoly now. The junior one doesn't cut it anymore.