Daily Painting
Woodblock Print Edition

Shima Tamami
UNTITLED (1963)

Daily Painting

Terry Frost
LEMON AND WHITE, SPRING '63 (1963)

Playing

Hank Mobley
THE COMPLETE HANK MOBLEY BLUE NOTE SESSIONS 1963-1970

Playing

Miles Davis
SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN

JAMES BALDWIN
Quoted by Jane Howard in “Telling Talk from a Negro Writer”
LIFE Magazine - My 24, 1963

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.

An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive. All I’ve ever wanted to do is to tell that.

I’m not trying to solve anybody’s problems, not even my own. I’m just trying to outline what the problems are. I want to be stretched, shook up, to overreach myself, and to make you feel that way too.

Playing

The Miles Davis Quintet
MILES IN FRANCE 1963 & 1964
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8

Watching

8 1/2
Federico Fellini
Italy, 1963

 

Playing

Thelonious Monk
CRISS-CROSS

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John Coltrane withEric Dolphy
EVENINGS AT THE VILLAGE GATE

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John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
EVENINGS AT THE VILLAGE GATE

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John Coltrane
AFRO BLUE IMPRESSIONS

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Mildred Thompson
KU KLUX KLAN (1963)

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Krsto Hegedušić
WAITING (RAIN) (1963)

Playing

A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO YOU
From Phil Spector

Darlene Love
The Ronettes
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans
The Crystals

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Gianfranco Baruchello
EXIT FROM THE GREAT ACCOLADE (1963)

JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

Watching
HorrorFest 2024

IL DEMONIO
Brunello Rondi
Italy, 1963

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Enrico Baj
ART IS FREE (1963)

CHARLOTTE WHITTON
Canada Month, June 1963

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Currently Watching

IKARIE XB-1
Jindřich Polák
Czechoslovakia, 1963