Alessandro Puccinelli – Intersections
Artist’s statement: “Where Sea and Sky collide. In essence, Intersections is all about that brief moment of time when the water of the sea blurs with the clouds of a stormy sky and creates a unique and abstract fleeting moment. When the fury of the ocean seems to take a breath before inexorably and inevitably starting again with the next
Two for Tuesday – Obstructionists
Which can only be responded with: Transcript follows: “Mr. Speaker,” Maryland’s Democrat Rep. Chris van Hollen addressed Republican Jason Chaffetz, House Speaker Pro Tempore, “Pursuant to Clause 4 of Rule 22, I move that the House take from the Speaker’s table the Senate Amendment to the House Joint Resolution 59, recede from its amendment and concur in the Senate Amendment
Karl Friedrich Schinkel – Starry Sky for the Queen of the Night (1815)
Set design for Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute