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 Album art link Samuel Bradley

From David Zwerner website : he widens his scope to simultaneously encompass the analog and the digital, as well as the cultural and the political. In these works, Ruff takes images of Mao Zedong scanned from La Chine magazine—the French iteration of a periodical that the Chinese Communist Party produced specifically for Europe from the late 1950s through the 1970s—and manipulates them to create images with both the halftone of the “analog” offset printing and the “digital” structure of the pixel image. Podcast interview with the Artist Newspaper

For a brief period during successive lockdowns people who would never have time to share their world found time to do so. Googling for the painter John Aldridge today I came across well-written notes on art from his nephew, Milo Dickinson.  His page on the Lisa del Giocondo, wife of a Florentine silk merchant (painted 1503-6) is a particularly interesting read. He finishes with a photo of the work's final resting place. An expression of implacable composure reaches out to us across half a millenium. website link © Christopher Broughton