Art(sy)
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
For English subtitles, click on CC. (to make this screen bigger ctrl-+)
2020 (Fantastiche Frauen) Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo
2015-2016 (Sturm-Frauen) German Art Review (1910-1932) (museum page)
News of the Weird
Bansky, on lockdown, artsy-graphs the family bathroom in April 2020.
rat & bat poxes
Vanessa Aigue (2017), "Weird Classical: The History of Black Death Music Parties", secular innovations in 14th century European music.
more on celluloid
Kwaidan. Ghost stories, captured on film. The story of snowoman Yuki reminds me of the snow-white cat in The Cat Returns. ^^.
Youtube Disney Animation Critic Lindsay Ellis
For English subtitles, again, CC. (She talks fast.)
I found it particularly interesting in these days of bat-viruses that Robin Williams' first role in a Disney animation was playing the starring bat in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest.
3.5 million views just can't be wrong... this is a very watchable -- though really long ^^ -- analysis of why Hercules: Disney's Beautiful Hot Mess just didn't work. (Ellis promises to save you thousands of dollars in film school education, and, IMHO, delivers.) caveat lector: I've never been to film school.