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Muscle Beach

Sep 17, 2024 | the-fence.com | Grace Linden |Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker

Marvelling at gymnastic displays in Hackney. Beginning in the 1930s, as the cult of healthy living continued to spread across the United States, a handful of gymnasts and athletes began to gather on the beaches of Santa Monica to practise human pyramids, and throngs flocked to watch bronzed babes perform tricks. Inspired by the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the city installed a wooden platform, parallel bars and a set of rings. Muscle Beach was born.
End of a Sentence

Aug 8, 2024 | the-fence.com | Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker |Grace Linden

An anonymous probation officer tells us about their working life. The hotel, perched on a London ring road, was sky blue. Everything else was grey: the flyover, car showrooms, a dirty river that ran alongside the building. Sometimes swans would glide down there, looking like they had taken a wrong turn.
Explorando Gana por meio da arte contemporânea

Mar 3, 2024 | estadao.com.br | Grace Linden

No fim de 2022, recebi um convite para visitar Gana com um acompanhante a fim de pesquisar a obra do artista ganense Ibrahim Mahama, reconhecido pela sua participação na 56ª Bienal de Veneza em 2015. A missão era compreender o contexto do seu trabalho e também investigar o cenário em ascensão da arte contemporânea no país. Nas últimas décadas, o cenário artístico se expandiu para além das fronteiras europeias e norte-americanas, dando origem a um mercado mais globalizado.
To master the art of close looking, learn to hold time still

May 17, 2023 | psyche.co | Grace Linden

When I teach introductory art history, I often start by showing students Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434) and ask them what they see. There’s a lot to look at in the painting: lavish textiles, an ornate chandelier, the crisp gleam of a leather belt; a hat, a mirror. After some initial hesitation, my students – mostly teenagers – will start to toss out details. They note that the painting’s subjects are holding hands, that the man looks stern, that the people are pale, that he controls her.
Why this BBC radio show sends me to sleep

Apr 13, 2023 | smh.com.au | Grace Linden

Save Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it Most nights I don't sleep well, so to relax, I often listen to audiobooks or the radio. Other people's words keep me from sliding into the canyon of doom, where all around shouts of "you're screwed" reverberate.
Trauma, Memory, and Innocence in Künstlers in Paradise

Mar 14, 2023 | chireviewofbooks.com | Grace Linden

Salomea Künstler, known as Mamie and all of eleven, has just arrived in California with her parents and grandfather when Cathleen Schine’s Künstlers in Paradise begins. An orange tree grows in the garden of their new home in Santa Monica, and in the “odd, shining fog” of their first morning, they ate oranges, “as charmed as Adam and Eve, though unlike poor Adam and Poor Eve, they felt no shame and were not cast out of their garden. These oranges were not forbidden. They were ripe and sweet.
A Brief History of Pancakes

Feb 21, 2023 | smithsonianmag.com | Grace Linden

From ancient Greece to Shrove Tuesday celebrations, the sweet or savory flat cakes have long been a culinary staple In 2022, researchers excavating the Shanidar Cave complex in Iraq unearthed the charred remains of some of the world’s oldest cooked leftovers. As Ceren Kabukcu, an archaeobotanical scientist at the University of Liverpool and the lead author of a paper on the discovery, says in an email, “It looked like the seeds were soaked before they were cooked.
A Secret for Falling Asleep So Good It’s a British National Treasure

Feb 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Grace Linden

Most nights I don’t sleep well, so to relax, I often listen to audiobooks or the radio. Other people’s words keep me from sliding into the canyon of doom, where all around shouts of “you’re screwed” reverberate.