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László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

Untitled, 1939

Fujicolor Crystal Archive print, 27.9 x 35.6cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

Untitled, 1937-1946

Fujicolor Crystal Archive print, 27.9 x 35.6cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

Untitled, 1936-46

Fujicolor Crystal Archive print, 27.9 x 35.6 cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

Photogram with Eiffel Tower and Peg Top, 1928

Silver gelatin photograph, 38.7 x 29.9cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

Photogram No. II, 1929

Silver gelatin photograph, 95.5 x 68.5cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

LIS, 1922

Oil on canvas, 131 x 100cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

K XVII, 1923

Oil on canvas, 95 x 75cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

A 19, 1927

Oil on canvas, 80 x 96cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

CH BEATA I, 1939

Oil on canvas, 119 x 120cm

László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian, 1895-1946)

CH SPACE 6, 1941

Oil on canvas, 119 x 119cm

László Moholy-Nagy Retrospective exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

8th October 2009 - 7th February 2010

Artworks © Hattula Moholy-Nagy for the Estate of László Moholy-Nagy © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ART BLART_ ART AND CULTURAL MEMORY ARCHIVE

Curated blog and article by Dr. Marcus Bunyan:

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▪️YouTube silent video >> László Moholy-Nagy Ein Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau (Light Play: Black, White, Grey) [1930 / 6mins.+34secs.]:

Ein Lichtspiel Schwarz Weiss Grau (Light Play Black White Grey) is perhaps Lázló Moholy-Nagy's best-known film work. It features his Light-Space Modulator, also known as a lighting fixture for an electric stage.

Light-Space Modulator is a key work in the history of kinetic art and even new media art, and therefore one of the most important works of art of its time.

Initially conceived by Moholy-Nagy in the early 1920s and built between 1928 and 1930, its completion required the involvement of a number of collaborators.

It was intended to be the centrepiece of the Contemporary Room at the Provinzialmuseum in Hanover, planned (but never realised) by Moholy-Nagy and Alexander Corner, the museum's director.

Light-Space Modulator was exhibited in 1930 at an exhibition in Paris on the work of the German Werkbund. From the point of view of the object, it forms a complex and beautiful set of metal, plastic and glass elements, many of them movable by the action of an electric motor, surrounded by a series of coloured lights.

Moholy-Nagy used it to produce light shows that he then photographed or filmed, as in the case of the film shown here. Although in black and white, the film manages to capture the kinetic glow of the sculpture.

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▪️YouTube video >> László Moholy-Nagy: Proto-Conceptual Artist [2019 / 5mins.+36secs.]:

Coinciding with the Bauhaus centenary, Hattula Moholy-Nagy and Daniel Hug, the daughter and grandson of László Moholy-Nagy, consider the lasting impact of the artist’s work today. Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition in London dedicated to Moholy-Nagy examines his influence as a proto-conceptualist, whose work interrogated the role of the art object and the artist in society, anticipating questions posed by subsequent generations of artists.

László Moholy-Nagy is on view at Hauser & Wirth London from 22 May – 7 September 2019.

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▪️ YouTube video >> Moholy-Nagy: Future Present exhibition overview at the Guggenheim [2016 / 3mins+14secs.]:

Curator Karol P. B. Vail provides a brief introduction to Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, a comprehensive retrospective of the work of László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 27–September 7, 2016. To learn more visit https://www.guggenheim.org/moholy.

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Photography by Arthur Siegel

American, 1913 - 1978

All photographs copyright ©️ 2024 Estate of Arthur Siegel

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The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir (Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman). First English-language edition published by Philosophical Library in 1948.

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Raymond Jordan, Black Rhythm, 1949

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Image: Alabaster sculpture, extant Buddha head.

Artist unknown — Ancient Burma [Myanmar].

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Fyodor Dostoevsky — Russian writer (1821 - 1881)

(Colourised [original B&W] photograph by unknown author)

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Waiting for rations from an outdoor kitchen in Khan Younis this month. Hunger is now most acute in the southern Gaza Strip.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Waiting for rations from a public kitchen in Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, this month.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

A Palestinian boy receiving treatment for malnutrition in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip in March.

(Photo: Mohammed Salem / Reuters)

Carrying an injured child to a hospital in Deir al Balah this month. What remains of Gaza’s health system must focus on acute injuries.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

A boy pushing the frame of an old hospital bed stacked with jugs of water in Khan Younis this month.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Soldiers on the Israeli side of the Erez crossing this month near an inspection area for trucks carrying aid to the Gaza Strip.

(Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg / Associated Press)

As Rafah Offensive Grinds On, Hunger in Gaza Spirals

Aid officials and health experts expect famine this month unless Israel lifts barriers to aid, the fighting stops and vital services are restored.

By Vivian Yee, Bilal Shbair and Matthew Mpoke Bigg

The New York Times - May 24, 2024

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A deserted camp for displaced Palestinians on the border with Egypt in Rafah, southern Gaza, on Wednesday.

(Eyad Al-Baba / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

A Palestinian woman identifying the victim of an overnight strike by Israel on Deir al Balah, in central Gaza, on Thursday.

(Bashar Taleb / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Posters of Israeli hostages displayed outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem on Thursday.

(Photo: Ronen Zvulun / Reuters)

Palestinian patients at a hospital in Deir al Balah on Thursday during a partial power cut.

(Photo: Bashar Taleb / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Israel Pushes Deeper Into Rafah, Defying International Opinion

While the government has been hit with a string of diplomatic and legal defeats, the Israeli public’s support for the Gaza war remains strong.

Israel’s military battled deeper into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, expanding its offensive into the city and driving more people out of it, while Israel faced growing international pressure and isolation over its war against Hamas.

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Aaron Boxerman

The New York Times - May 23, 2024

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Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Invading Rafah Doesn’t Help Israel

It may be in Netanyahu’s interest to flatten Rafah, because anything that prolongs the war keeps him in office, but it’s not in Israel’s interest.

For starters, the premise of those favoring a Rafah invasion is that the assault might be bloody but would enable the complete destruction of Hamas. But I’ve been arguing since the beginning of this war that Israel is unlikely to eradicate Hamas, any more than the United States eradicated the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Vietcong in Vietnam or violent militias in Iraq.

Gadi Eisenkot, a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and a member of the current Israeli war cabinet, also warned earlier this year that talk of the “absolute defeat” of Hamas is a “tall tale.” Likewise, Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued that invading Rafah will not eliminate Hamas fighters or end the insurgency — so it looks as if the demolition of Rafah would mostly just kill more Palestinians, risk the lives of Israeli hostages, further inflame Gazans to seek vengeance and advance the growing isolation of Israel in ways that undermine its long-term security.

Opinion by Nicholas Kristof

The New York Times - May 18, 2024

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Smoke rising after a strike in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

A Palestinian man carrying the body of a child from the rubble of a collapsed building after a strike in Nuseirat, central Gaza, on Tuesday.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

An Israeli military helicopter lifts wounded soldiers near the border with northern Gaza on Tuesday.

(Photo: Atef Safadi / EPA, via Shutterstock)

A Palestinian woman being comforted as she grieves over the body of her child after a strike in Nuseirat, central Gaza, on Tuesday.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Israeli Military Leaders See Danger in Lack of a Plan to Govern Gaza

As Hamas reappears in places Israel’s troops had cleared, Israeli commanders say their government’s failure to plan for stabilizing and administering Gaza will leave a perilous power vacuum.

By Damien Cave and Adam Rasgon

The New York Times - May 14, 2024

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Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 17, 2023.

(Photo: Mohammed Salem / Reuters)

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Frontispiece: LRB Vol. 46 No. 6 • 21 March 2024

The Shoah after Gaza

Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity have been built.

But these universalist reference points are in danger of disappearing as the Israeli military massacres and starves Palestinians, while denouncing as antisemitic or champions of Hamas all those who plead with it to desist.

By Pankaj Mishra

London Review of Books

Vol. 46 No. 6 • 21 March 2024

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED >> Read this article by Pankaj Mishra analysing key political, ethical and practical issues, towards a just and lasting resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

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A member of an Israeli ultranationalist group known as Hilltop Youth, which seeks to tear down Israel’s institutions and establish ‘‘Jewish rule.’’

(Photo: Peter van Agtmael / Magnum, for The New York Times)

Palestinian villager Iskhak Jabarin near his home in Shab al Butum. He is part of a petition to Israel’s Supreme Court seeking protection from Israeli settlers, including those from Avigayil, the settlement behind him at right.

(Photo: Peter van Agtmael / Magnum, for The New York Times)

After the Arab-​Israeli War of 1967, Israel controlled new territory in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. In 1979, it agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

(Map illustration: The New York Times)

A home in an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Since Oct. 7, some 7,000 settler reservists were called back by the I.D.F., put in uniform, armed and ordered to protect the settlements.

(Photo: Peter van Agtmael / Magnum, for The New York Times)

Baruch Goldstein, a doctor from Brooklyn who moved to Israel in 1983. He opened fire in a mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994, killing 29 Muslim worshipers before he was dragged down and beaten to death. His gravesite is now a place of pilgrimage for ultraright settlers.

(Photo: Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Talia Sasson delivering a report on unauthorized Jewish settlements in 2005. Her report found that it “was state and public agencies that broke the law, the rules, the procedures that the state itself had determined.”

(Photo: Flash90 / EPA)

Israeli settlers planting trees near an illegal settlement called Mitzpe Yair, in the South Hebron hills, as a way of claiming territory.

(Photo: Peter van Agtmael / Magnum, for The New York Times)

Ahmad Dawabsheh, the sole survivor of the arson attack by Amiram Ben-Uliel that killed his parents and younger brother, at the house in Duma where the murders occurred, which has been left untouched.

(Photo: Peter van Agtmael / Magnum, for The New York Times)

Israeli far-right nationalists, Itamar Ben-Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich, attending a special session at the Knesset to swear in a new right-wing government in 2022.

(Photo: Amir Cohen / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Palestinian villagers at the Israeli Supreme Court in January. They are among the residents of six villages in the West Bank asking the Israeli government to enforce the law there.

(Photo: Peter van Agtmael / Magnum, for The New York Times)

The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel

After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law.

This story is told in three parts.

PART I. IMPUNITY documents the unequal system of justice that grew around Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.

PART II. WARNINGS shows how extremists targeted not only Palestinians but also Israeli officials trying to make peace.

PART III. A NEW GENERATION explores how this ultranationalist movement gained control of the state itself.

Taken together, they tell the story of how a radical ideology moved from the fringes to the heart of Israeli political power.

By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti

The New York Times Magazine - May 16, 2024

How we reported this article: The reporters spent years interviewing more than 100 former and current Israeli government officials — including four former prime ministers — scoured secret government documents, and reported from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the West Bank and Washington. Natan Odenheimer, who contributed reporting from Israel and the West Bank, also obtained documents about how ultranationalist crimes went unpunished.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir in Israel’s parliament last year.

(Photo: Abir Sultan / EPA, via Shutterstock)

After the Arab-​Israeli War of 1967, Israel controlled new territory in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. In 1979, it agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

(Map illustration: The New York Times)

Takeaways From the NYTimes Investigation Into ‘The Unpunished’

Radical forces in Israeli society have moved from the fringes to the mainstream and put Israel’s democracy in peril. Here are the takeaways from our investigation.

For decades, most Israelis have considered Palestinian terrorism the country’s biggest security concern. But there is another threat that may be even more destabilizing for Israel’s future as a democracy: Jewish terrorism and violence, and the failure to enforce the law against it.

Our yearslong investigation reveals how violent factions within the Israeli settler movement, protected and sometimes abetted by the government, have come to pose a grave threat to Palestinians in the occupied territories and to the State of Israel itself. Piecing together new documents, videos and over 100 interviews, we found a government shaken by an internal war — burying reports it commissioned, neutering investigations it assigned and silencing whistle-blowers, some of them senior officials.

It is a blunt account, told in some cases for the first time by Israeli officials, of how the occupation came to threaten the integrity of the country’s democracy.

By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti

Ronen Bergman, a reporter in Israel, and Mark Mazzetti, based in Washington, interviewed more than 100 people, including current and former Israeli government officials, for this investigation.

The New York Times Magazine - May 16, 2024

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NYT video >> How Israel Became Radicalized - The New York Times [Released May 16, 2024 / 2mins.+8secs.]:

Our Reporter on the Radicalization of Israel

Behind the Reporting - Latest News On Camera

By Nikolay Nikolov and Ronen Bergman - The New York Times Magazine • May 16, 2024

For the past fifty years, Israeli officials have failed to restrain a violent settler movement, which has been allowed to operate with few consequences. Some of its most extreme members are now in government. According to officials in the Israeli security establishment who spoke with Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, the decades of failure to stop crimes by Jewish settlers and ultranationalists now threaten the future of Israeli democracy.

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Al Jazeera’s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, the day Israel ordered the network’s offices and broadcasts in Israel to shut down.

(Photo: Nasser Nasser / Associated Press)

The main headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar.

(Photo: Karim Jaafar / Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

The network office of the late Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Ramallah on Sunday. She was fatally shot in the West Bank in 2022.

(Nasser Nasser / Associated Press)

Palestinians carrying aid in early April amid widespread hunger because of the war.

(Mahmoud Issa / Reuters)

The aftermath of overnight Israeli strikes on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Monday.

(Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

Israel’s Shutdown of Al Jazeera Highlights Long-Running Tensions

The network will keep covering the war in Gaza, but it will be harder for Israelis to watch. Israel calls the network a security threat, while Al Jazeera says Israel wants to conceal its brutality.

By Vivian Yee, Emma Bubola and Liam Stack

The New York Times - May 9, 2024

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An Al Jazeera employee watches TV in the network's Jerusalem office in 2017.

(Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long labelled Al Jazeera a biased network.

(Photo: AP / Abir Sultan / pool, file)

Israel orders Al Jazeera to close local offices, escalating Netanyahu's long-running feud with news network

Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar's Al Jazeera satellite news network to close, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hard-line government as Doha-mediated ceasefire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.

Announcing the decision, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu called the network an "incitement channel", a charge Al Jazeera strongly denies.

What's next? Al Jazeera says it will "pursue all available legal channels... to protect both its rights and journalists, as well as the public's right to information".

Associated Press / AFP

ABC News - 6 May 2024

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Al Jazeera condemns Israeli government decision to shut down local offices

Israeli cabinet votes unanimously to close the network's operations in Israel with immediate effect.

Al Jazeera Media Network has condemned the Israeli government's decision to close its operations in Israel as a "criminal act" and warned that the country's suppression of the free press "stands in contravention of international and humanitarian law".

Al Jazeera [English language] news - May 5. 2024

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YouTube video >> Reuters news agency : Al Jazeera bureau chief says shutdown of operations in Israel is political [Released 7 May 2024 / 1min.+56secs.]:

Why did Israel shut down Al Jazeera? Following the government's decision to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations, Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by the agency as its de facto office on May 5, 2024).

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YouTube video >> ANC 24/7 digital news: Al Jazeera condemns Israel’s shutdown of local operations, vows it won't affect war coverage | ANC [Released 7 May 2024 / 6mins.+53secs.]:

ANC 24/7 digital news - On The Scene: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on Sunday (May 5), an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters.

Video obtained by Reuters showed plainclothes officers at the hotel taking camera equipment out of hotel in East Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet shut down the network for as long as the war in Gaza continues, saying it threatened national security. Al Jazeera said the move was a "criminal action" and the accusation that the network threatened Israeli security was a "dangerous and ridiculous lie" that put its journalists at risk. It reserved the right to "pursue every legal step".

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Aurora australis

Aurora australis as seen in north-west Tasmania in the early hours of the morning.

(Photo: Facebook - Ryan Shan)

Squeaking Point in Tasmania played host to deep blue and violet skies.

(Photo supplied: Tony Liu)

The aurora australis is captured at Port Arthur in south-east Tasmania.

(Photo:supplied: Jules Witek Photography)

The aurora australis at Howden, in southern Tasmania.

(Photo supplied: Ian Stuart)

The aurora australis as seen in Horsham, Victoria.

(Photo: Facebook - Lynton Brown Landscapes)

The aurora australis turned the sky red over Walkaway in Western Australia.

(Photo: Facebook - Katie Ann Thoars)

Aurora borealis

The aurora borealis glowed on the horizon at St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay on the north-east coast of England.

(Photo: PA / Owen Humphreys via AP)

Aurora borealis shines in the night sky over East Brandenburg, Germany on Saturday.

(Photo: DPA / Patrick Pleul via AP)

Aurora borealis appears above Lausanne, Switzerland, as seen from the Tour de Gourze lookout.

(Photo: Reuters / Denis Balibouse)

Northern lights in the skies over Loire-Atlantique, as seen here in Riaille, France.

(Photo: Estelle Ruiz/Hans Lucas via AFP)

Aurora borealis and australis dazzle viewers across the world for three consecutive nights, as massive solar geomagnetic storm hits Earth

Striking hues of green, pink, red and yellow have transformed the world's skies over the past three days.

The phenomenon, known as aurora australis in the southern hemisphere, and borealis in the northern hemisphere, was triggered by the first extreme geomagnetic storm in 20 years.

From Friday to Sunday, the world got to witness the most spectacular show of northern and southern lights many have ever seen.

By Tessa Flemming, Georgie Hewson and Basel Hindeleh

ABC News - 13 May 2024

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The aurora australis captured over Hobart's Tasman Bridge.

(Photo supplied: Scott Glyph)

Robin Moon flew from Sydney to Tasmania to capture the aurora australis.

(Photo supplied: Robin Moon)

Mount Barker in the Adelaide Hills.

(Photo supplied: Patrick Wynne)

Bruny Island, Tasmania.

(Photo supplied: Benjamin Convery)

A RFDS pilot's view of aurora australis over Spencer Gulf, South Australia, on Saturday morning.

(Photo supplied: Royal Flying Doctor Service / Eddie Fargher)

The Tessellated Pavement at Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania.

(Photo supplied: Jordan Cripps)

Aurora australis and borealis, caused by geomagnetic storms, put on another show

The geomagnetic storm has turned on another light show, with aurora australis and borealis dancing across the night skies in the southern and northern hemispheres.

Amateur and professional photographers flocked to beaches and other vantage points to capture the spectacular colours. Many commented they had never before seen anything like it.

ABC News - 12 May 2024

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A long exposure photograph with the northern lights glowing in the night sky above the village of Daillens, Switzerland.

(Photo: Keystone / Laurent Gillieron via AP)

The aurora australis over Port Arthur, Tasmania, on Saturday morning.

(Photo supplied: Jules Witek Photography / Port Arthur Historical Society)

What are geomagnetic storms and why do they produce the aurora australis and borealis?

Flares and coronal ejections shooting off from the Sun's surface struck the Earth overnight, causing a severe geomagnetic storm.

It was the strongest such event in about 20 years, leading to stunning aurora australis light displays in skies across southern parts of Australia and the southern hemisphere.

People in the northern hemisphere also saw and photographed stunning images of pink, red, green and violet skies brought on by the aurora borealis early on Saturday morning.

The solar event is predicted to continue over the weekend, bringing more bright aurora light shows with it.

But what are geomagnetic storms exactly, and how do they produce auroras?

By Basel Hindeleh, Loretta Lohberger and wires

ABC News - 11 May 2024

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