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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 2d

‘Toddler-Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)

Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky

Cover with an old photo of a Japanese mother and daughter, with the child crossed out.

‘The power of the artfully spun words makes the reader shudder’ -SAYAKA MURATA, author of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 19h

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 19h

Nainsukh (Amit Dutta, 2010)

Follows the famed Indian miniaturist Nainsukh of Gula. The shots reconstruct many of his paintings, and convey the texture of 18th-century life #moviesky #filmsky #art

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 22h

Mexican Baked Fish

This Mexican baked fish features cod fillets cooked with salsa, Cheddar cheese, and corn chips and topped with avocado. Don't forget the margaritas!

www.allrecipes.com

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ᠮᠥᠩᠬᠡ ᠨᠠᠷᠠᠨ / Münkhnaran Bayarlkhagva @morientalist.bsky.social · 3d

Cross-posting from Instytut Pekiński.

I didn't know about this painting's existence "Autumn Hunting of Yuan people" & it is marvelous, to say the least.

Smarter ppl are commenting on the exact date etc but Peking Inst says it is 1 of only 2 paintings of Yuan hunt - other being Kublai's.
#mongolsky

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 2d

As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories | HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Fragments for a Geopoetics of North Eurasia

www.hkw.de

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 2d

‘Toddler-Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)

Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer #booksky

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 3d

‘Toddler Hunting and other stories’ by Taeko Kōno (1969)

Stories of female desire with a macabre flair. Set in postwar Japan, scenes of marriage and motherhood are subverted by the inner lives of their protagonists. The stories catch us off guard, or allow a sense of unease to simmer.

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 5d

Tall Shadows of the Wind (Bahman Farmanara, 1979)

When an Iranian villager marks a scarecrow, the community comes to worship it by day, and live in fear of it by night. Is this simply collective madness? The implications meant it was banned before and after the revolution #moviesky #filmsky #horror

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 5d

Housekeeping is excellent

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 9d

‘One by One in the Darkness’ by Deirdre Madden (1996)

Follows the lives of three sisters against the backdrop of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Almost as a rebuke, what dominates is their childhood memories of each other and their hometown, made both secure and fragile by its smallness #booksky

Cover showing a murky road with possibly armed motorists, with the horizon dominated by a strange egg-like form perched atop a pyramid.

‘Honest, honourable, sometimes beautiful but never showy, it translates its subjects’ raw emotions into something that looks strangely like wisdom’. -Observer

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Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 6d

“Reading [Babitz] is like looking at Ed Ruscha’s gas station paintings. She makes you reconsider things you might have dismissed as ugly, strange, or even boring […] Everything Babitz writes is both pop & intellectual, shiny but deep” (intro by Molly Lambert) #NYRBWomen25

Text: Ed Ruscha has long been fascinated with the American landscape, particularly the scenes that define everyday American life. His artistic vision is deeply rooted in the exploration of American culture, utilising a minimalist aesthetic to present scenes that are often overlooked. Ruscha’s gas station series stand out as a defining element of his oeuvre; these works encapsulate the essence of the vast American landscape, characterised by its openness, mobility, and the ubiquity of car culture. Through his deliberate focus on these everyday subjects, Ruscha positioned himself as a vital figure in both Pop Art and conceptual art movements.

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 6d

Part of the problem is that homophobia can be presented as an anti-colonial push for African values. People like Ibrahim Traoré and Evelyn Pangani can fully incorporate it into what they see as progressive platforms.

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 7d

I have started doing life drawing again #art #lifedrawing

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 7d

Asian Futurism and the Non-Other - Journal #81

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 7d

My favourite works from the Naarm Textile Collective, artist statements in alt text #art #textile #melbourne

Tim Craker: ‘Sleep Tight Quilt’

Champagne-cork metal plaques, nylon monofilament

‘The result of many hours of drilling, filing, knotting and tying hundreds of champagne-cork plaques together, Sleep Tight Quilt is a square-grid "fabric" echoing both more formal quilt-making, and the Australian "waggas" of the 19th and 20th centuries, assembled from materials that were to hand: second-hand, re-used and recycled.’

Manasee Jog: ‘“Dadhki" - speaking across timelines’

Printmaking and embroidery on textile

‘Working with auto-ethnography, Manasee explores the personal and the collective through storytelling and image-making. Collaborating with Indian Indigenous embroidery artist Sajnu-ben Rabari, they use a traditional "Dadhki” blanket, as both metaphor and medium to create a reciprocal knowledge-sharing space, bridging past and present - for the future and agency of Indian female craft artists.’ Note the laptop and phone used to communicate between them.

Peta Tranquille: ‘Absent Threads’

Cotton, embroidery thread and transfer paper in a timber frame

‘Absent Threads considers the fragile weave between memory and the social fabric. Fragments remain dislocated yet bound through stitching, echoing the experience of Aphantasia - where images are never fully formed, but traces endure. The fabric becomes a metaphor for connection: imperfect, provisional, yet insistent in its hold.’

Jane Burns: ‘Movement (Arrest 3)’

Jacquard hand weave Flax, recycled lurex, and cotton

‘Movement (Arrest) is a series of handwoven works capturing the confrontation between individuals and authority at the moment of arrest and examining the clash between urgent social movements and political resistance. The title, Movement (Arrest), refers both to the act of arrest and broader efforts to suppress growing citizen movements.’

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 8d

Henry Flynt combined Hindustani classical music with Appalachian fiddle tunes, having studied under Pandit Pran Nath #music #appalachia

You Are My Everlovin'

YouTube video by Henry Flynt - Topic

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 9d

This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025

A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...

journals.sagepub.com

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 10d

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming

"Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

www.burninghou.se

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ᴍᴀʀsʜᴀ ᴇsᴛᴇs @marshadraws.bsky.social · 13d

𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 9d

These were some of my favourite books at one point

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 9d

Godfrey-Smith’s other work Metazoa expands his range to include underwater evolution in general, I’ve read that one and like it a lot

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Nils Tregenza 📚 @nilstregenza.bsky.social · 9d

‘One by One in the Darkness’ by Deirdre Madden (1996)

Follows the lives of three sisters against the backdrop of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Almost as a rebuke, what dominates is their childhood memories of each other and their hometown, made both secure and fragile by its smallness #booksky

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