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Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
3 weeks ago

Diogo Potes' paintings take poetic licence to a whole new level

Diogo transitions from two decades of client-focused graphic design to liberated painting, abandoning narrative cohesion and readability constraints for experimental, textured, and visually transgressive work.
Madrid food
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks ago

The impious and sodomite' Portuguese nobleman who kept banned books inside the walls of his house in a Spanish village

A 1992 discovery of 11 sixteenth-century books hidden in a Spanish home belonged to Portuguese nobleman Fernao Brandao, who fled the Inquisition due to his sexual orientation.
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Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Georgi Gospodinov: Jorge Luis Borges gave me an exhilarating sense of freedom'

Early reading fostered a lifelong devotion to books and writing, shaped by adventure, criminology, eroticism, Salinger, Borges, and Bulgarian poets.
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Miscellaneous
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence

The Spanish Royal Academy is ignoring professional writers and yielding to social media influence, undermining language standards and the notion of correctness.
fromOpen Culture
2 months ago

Brazilian Musician Seu Jorge Performs 15 Iconic Bowie Songs in Portuguese to Mark the 10th Anniversary of Bowie's Passing

In 2004, the Brazilian musician Seu Jorge recorded a series of Portuguese covers of David Bowie songs for Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. The next year, he released a full album of 13 Bowie classics, and in 2016-2017, he even took the songs on tour. Now, in 2026, to mark the 10th anniversary of Bowie's passing, Jorge returns with the performance above.
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Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 months ago

The lost lessons of Jorge Luis Borges: His English and American literature classes

Recovered 1966 lectures by Jorge Luis Borges were published, revealing lost oral work and previously uncollected material through meticulous editorial recovery.
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