Gaufrettes Sequence Ran­dom­ly, Ann Veron­i­ca Janssens, (2018). De Pont muse­um, Tilburg.

Beau­ti­ful film props from the sur­re­al cin­e­ma of Jan Švankma­jer, on dis­play in EYE Film­mu­se­um Ams­ter­dam. This one is from one of my favourites: Con­spir­a­tors of Plea­sure (1996)

“I choose for my fam­i­ly. Maybe oth­ers are capa­ble of doing it, but I can’t go on tour and be a good dad at the same time.”

Mark Hol­lis, explain­ing his deci­sion to leave music in 1998 (but only after releas­ing pos­si­bly one of the most qui­et and inti­mate records ever made.)

Mark Hol­lis — Mark Hol­lis

Zig­gy Star­dust and the Spi­ders from Mars (1973) ★★★★☆

”The pur­pose of a sci­en­tif­ic approach to art is not to take the mys­tery out of the art. It’s to give you new insight into why you think it’s so won­der­ful and mys­te­ri­ous.”

Gus­tav Klimt in the Brain Lab — What is neu­ro­science doing to art?

“Final­ly, cou­ture that gets us”

Vik­tor & Rolf Just Sent Out The Snarki­est Haute Cou­ture Col­lec­tion Of All Time

Very inter­est­ing read. All great art is prophet­ic.
Michel Houelle­becq Hat­ed Europe Before You Did

Is God real, or is reli­gion an evo­lu­tion­ary adap­ta­tion? Or even a by-prod­uct of a num­ber of cog­ni­tive and social adap­ta­tions?

Why are peo­ple reli­gious? A cog­ni­tive per­spec­tive