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A Bigger Splash, and then, Stillness
David Hockney died at home in Normandy on 11 June, a month shy of his 89th birthday. The man who taught us how California light falls on a swimming pool is gone, and the pools keep their colour anyway. It is hard to think of an artist who refused stillness so completely. Born in working-class…
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The Man Who Made Nonsense Into a National Treasure Wim T. Schippers (1942–2026) and the strange genius of Dutch television
When Wim T. Schippers died in Amsterdam on 10 June 2026, at the age of 83, the Netherlands lost something it will struggle to explain to outsiders. He was a painter who covered a museum floor in peanut butter, a television maker who provoked questions in parliament, a radio host who talked over every record…
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Wat Anthropics zelf over Mythos zegt
Anthropics kondigt Project Glasswing1 aan, een nieuw initiatief waarin Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, de Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA en Palo Alto Networks de krachten bundelen om ’s werelds meest cruciale software te beveiligen. “We hebben Project Glasswing opgericht vanwege de mogelijkheden die we hebben waargenomen in een door Anthropic…
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Priesteres en biechtmoeder, Vrouw van Smarten en rave-choreografe
De Spaanse Rosalía is dè gevierde popartieste van haar generatie. Onlangs gaf ze een concert in Berlijn. Iedereen danste. Maar in Berijn had men voor Rosalía ook graag op de knieën willen vallen. Ze steeg hoog op naar de hemel en daalde vervolgens weer diep af naar de hel; het ging over leven en sterven…
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My name is hare
Imagine holding a baby hare and bottle feeding it. Imagine it living under your roof, drumming on your duvet to attract your attention. Imagine the adult hare, over two years later, sleeping in the house by day, running freely in the fields by night and raising leverets of its own in your garden. This happened to me.’ Raising Hare tells the story of…
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Faust ist eine waschechte Pessoa-Figur. Er lebe das Leben nicht, er denke das Leben
Fernando Pessoa hatte es nicht eilig, die Welt davon zu überzeugen, dass er ein großer Schriftsteller war. Zu seinen Lebzeiten erschien nur ein einziges Buch von ihm in seiner Muttersprache (der Gedichtband Mensagem). Außerdem veröffentlichte er regelmäßig in Zeitschriften. Das war alles in allem noch nicht einmal ein Bruchteil dessen, was er alles zu Papier…
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Femme Fatale
Christa Päffgen, known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress and model. Nico had roles in films including Federico Fellini ‘s La Dolce Vita (1960) and Andy Warhol ‘s Chelsea Girls (1966). Model and singer Nico was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She was a part of the Andy Warhol…
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To look life in the face
My updates will be partly in Dutch and partly in English or German. Perhaps the odd one will even be in Frisian. In recent years, I have been receiving translation assignments to and from Frisian (Frysk) with some regularity.Incidentally, the Dutch version of the campaign is automatically translated when the website’s language is changed. My…
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World Please Help!
I need help during my recovery after a year of intensive treatment for stomach cancer!
