my mother tells this story late 60s in a Dublin bookshop, she is asking for this pamphlet which they didn't have man behind her in the line taps her on the shoulder & says "I'm Heaney. I've a box of them out in the car" a VW parked out on Nassau St. & he gave her this one

Sunday reading from the archive thanks to the The New Yorker's Erin Overbey Weaving words by Jamaica Kincaid and John Updike, with iconic images by Saul Leiter. newyorker.com/books/double-t… #NYC

Seamus Heaney who died on this day 2013

Pictures at three new exhibitions Enfin le cinéma lights up the Musée d'Orsay with all-star cast of Bonnard, Caillebotte, Gaumont, Lumiere, Monet, Morisot and Rodin. Kertész: Postcards from Paris The Art Institute of Chicago Hokusai: Pictures from a private collection British Museum

"The sounds of the sea vanish for those who live by its shores.. We are like a violinist who has ceased to feel the bow and the strings. We have ceased to be artists in everyday life." On Dustin Illingworth's Shklovsky Sunday

Love this... A statue of Diane Arbus in Central Park made by Gillian Wearing to mark her retrospective at the Guggenheim, which opens on 5 November.

'Barrie Cooke has begun to paint ‘godbeams’, Vents of brightness that make the light of heaven Look like stretched sheets of fluted silk or rayon In an old-style draper's window. Airslides, scrims And scumble. Columnar sift.' #Heaney 'Saw Music' Gem via @dedalusdenaries

“Poetry can repair no loss, but it defies the space which separates by…reassembling what has been scattered.” On the birthday of John Berger

So. Good.

Ways of seeing Charles Brooks and the beguiling Architecture in Music series Some of the most beautiful instruments in the world, from the inside-out charlesbrooks.info/architecture-i… #photography #culture

Giving new meaning to lifelong learning 88 keys at 97 years strong classicfm.com/composers/rach… Lynda Gratton Thank you Sophia Alexandra Hall on Classic FM

Here are the lighthouses of Europe. The map is even better than it might seem at first glance: the colors are the real colors, the patterns are the real patterns, and the size of the dots is the distance at which each light is visible. geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

"Jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, & many times very different points of view to work together as a team while at the same time giving them the space to express their individuality." UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 Artist for Peace Marcus Miller #Jazzday

Spinning Blue Note Records Jutta Hipp with Zoot Simms. This album is best described on the liner notes, ~it’s like an improv jazz club experience. Hipp’s life story is fascinating, please read it: Aaron Gilbreath article about her longreads.com/2017/08/04/the… #28records28days

Guest lecturing at King's College London is a privilege, and an energising start to the week. Brand brain-fizz from 60 Masters students – thanks to you all for the participation, and an inspiring debate! #brands #culture #marketing #leadership #collaboration

That was Somethin' Else! Live-streaming on Interbrand Academy, coaching #collaboration as a mindset through #jazz. A very special thanks to the phenomenal Jim Kalbach. #MilesDavis #CannonballAdderley #BillEvans #JohnColtrane #ArtBlakey #EsperanzaSpalding Herbie Hancock #learning

Collaborative Advantage is out! Thanks to the @SG_Symposium and BCG for inviting us to share our insights on next gen boards and cross-generational #collaboration for this year’s White Paper. 🔽Download the report bit.ly/3wnVceT #nextgen #leadership #nextgenboards

A sense of philosophical responsibility in a world that becomes ever more complex informed Jacques Derrida, and continues to inform French thinking | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/after-j…

“Laughter is shattered articulation, breaking up both words and the body. In laughter, everything is disarticulated and stops a person in their tracks.” ~ Walter Benjamin Born on this day, in 1892

"I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world." Seamus Heaney who died on this day nine years ago