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【写真展開催】
3年ぶりに個展を開催します。
5月15日(金)より、会場はタカ・イシイギャラリー フォトグラフィー / フィルムです。
本作「photographs」は「flowers」(2021)、「windows」(2023)に続く三部作の最終作になりまして、かつて祖父母や父が暮らしていた家で発見された、百冊を超える家族アルバムをもとに制作した作品です。
また会場では、同名写真集『photographs』が先行発売されます。プリントも全作品購入できます。是非お越しください。
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奥山由之「photographs」
会期:2026年5月15日(金)– 6月13日(土)
時間:12:00 - 19:00
会場:タカ・イシイギャラリー フォトグラフィー / フィルム(東京都港区六本木5-17-1 AXISビル2F)
定休日:日・月・祝祭日

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The Man Nobody Is Talking About. His Name Is Sir Philip Barton.
Buried inside Tuesday's committee testimony, beneath the headlines about constant pressure, bullying and secret job searches, is the detail that may prove the most consequential of this entire affair. It concerns not Olly Robbins, not Morgan McSweeney, not even Keir Starmer. It concerns the man who was there before all of them. The man who said no. The man who then left his post eight months early.
Sir Philip Barton was the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office when Peter Mandelson's appointment was announced in December 2024. He was, in other words, the most senior civil servant in the building at the precise moment the machinery of state was being directed to place a man with documented links to Russia and China into the most sensitive diplomatic posting in the Western alliance.
What Robbins told the committee on Tuesday is this. Barton pushed back. When the Cabinet Office argued that vetting Mandelson was unnecessary, that a peer and Privy Councillor did not require developed vetting, Barton refused to accept it. He insisted that vetting was a requirement. He had to be, in Robbins's own words, very firm in person. He also voiced reservations about the appointment to Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, reservations that were noted and not acted upon. He was worried, Robbins suggested, about exactly the same reputational risks that had been detailed to the Prime Minister before the appointment was announced.
Then Sir Philip Barton left his post. Eight months before his tenure would otherwise have concluded.
The question Richard Foord put to Robbins on Tuesday was the right one. Why did Barton's tenure end early? Robbins said he did not know. He suggested ministers may have felt it was time for a change. That answer is not an answer. It is the absence of one.
Consider what the timeline now shows. A senior civil servant pushes back against the appointment, insists on vetting when the Cabinet Office wants to bypass it, raises reservations with the National Security Adviser, and departs eight months ahead of schedule. His replacement arrives to find the appointment already treated as a fait accompli, the vetting process under constant pressure from Downing Street, and the question of outcome entirely subordinate to the question of speed.
If Barton was removed because he stood in the way of this appointment, then Robbins was not the first civil servant sacrificed to protect it. He was the second. And the question of who else was moved aside, overruled or silenced in the months between December 2024 and the moment the security services finally said no, becomes the most important question this affair has yet produced.
Starmer sacked Robbins for following the rules. The Foreign Affairs Committee will now call Barton to give evidence. What he says will either confirm what the timeline already suggests or provide an alternative explanation that the evidence does not currently support.
There is a pattern here that goes beyond process failure. Process failures are random. They point in different directions. What this affair has produced is a series of events that point consistently in one direction. Officials who comply are retained. Officials who push back depart. The security services are bypassed. The vetting is treated as an administrative inconvenience. And the one question nobody at the top of this government will answer is why this appointment, this man, this post, mattered so much that every obstacle was removed to make it happen.
Barton apparently asked that question. He left eight months early. The country deserves to know why.

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@KennyDeCort @tenshinryu Judo occasionally.
Aikido rarely.
Kenjutsu / battoujutsu never.
In my experience.
Eesti

@tenshinryu “First and foremost, I would like to congratulate you on practicing this admirable traditional martial art.”
My question: “When practicing the various martial art with fast techniques, do injuries often occur?”
🙏 Kenny De Cort
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L’an dernier, j’ai eu la chance de consulter à Tokyo les incroyables manuscrits de Kenzaburô Ôe, prix Nobel de littérature. Pas besoin de connaître le japonais pour en apprécier la beauté. Mardi 17 mars à 15h, au Collège de France, je recevrai Kenichi Abe, professeur à l’université de Tokyo, pour une conférence sur ces trésors dont il a la garde. Le 24 mars, une seconde conférence portera sur les traductions de littérature japonaise pendant la guerre froide. Entrée libre. Renseignements : college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/conf…

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My Fellow Shakespeareans - I’ve recorded all 154 Sonnets for my latest project, “Patrick Stewart Performs the Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare”.
This special audio production is available to listen to April 7.
Preorder now: audible.com/pd/Patrick-Ste…
@SimonAudio


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東京キモノショーのメインコンテンツ、キモノスタイル展の監修をしています。
美しい着付けの展示で、きものの美しさをしっかり見ていただけるよう、精鋭の着付け師さんたちにご協力いただいています。
先日はスタイル展の着付け初参加や1〜2回目の新人研修。
今日は何回も参加している着付けさんたちのレクチャー。着付け指導の須田久美子先生にがっつり指導受けます。
トルソー着付けというと、普段からトルソーで練習している人たちにとってはその難しさのイメージがわかないかもしれません。
例えば、こういう企画展示でのトルソーは一般に使われている和装用ボディではありません。デパートの展示もそうですが、胸がツンととんがってウエストキュッ、肩が張った洋装用ボディです。
これを好きなだけタオル補正して使えるわけでもありません。仕立てがモデル仕立てなこともあります。そもそもモデル仕立てがどんな仕立てか、知らない着付師さんも多いのですが、それも含めて何がきても、同じ仕上がりに着付けなければならない難しさがあります。
九州、関西、東北と、日本中からスタイル展の着付けをするために集合してくださる着付師さんには感謝の一言です。
ミュージアムのような展示を目指す東京キモノショーのキモノスタイル展。
皆さんに「うわ〜💗」と見ていただける展示、目指します。きてくださいね!


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今週末3/7(土)
カジュアル着物×英語の交流会
簡単な帯のほかに、
通常の角帯も持っていこうと思う。
そしたら比較にもなるよね🤔


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2026年1月20日に国立国会図書館デジタルコレクションの表示機能を一部変更し、スマートフォンやタブレットでもコンテンツが見やすくなりました。
dl.ndl.go.jp
新しいデジタルコレクションを是非お試しください。



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12月に公式ウェブサイトがリニューアルし、電子展示会も少しお色なおし。全ての電子展示会にこのページからアクセスできるようになりました。国立国会図書館の資料の世界の入口として、引き続き電子展示会をお楽しみください。どなたでも無料でご覧いただけます。
ndl.go.jp/d_exhibitions




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EXCLUSIVE 🚨In a remarkable report for The New World, the award-winning podcaster and broadcaster @maitlis joins a deportation plane-spotter to watch Trump’s shock troops kick ordinary people out of the US
🔓 Free to read
Full report ➡️ buff.ly/QwTtsw3

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Beginning around 18 mins - Full audio interview here with Nick - where he explains how the policy has changed from previous administrations - and how little transparency or due process there now is. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
The News Agents@TheNewsAgents
At Minneapolis airport, @maitlis watches on as shackled ICE deportees board an aircraft. "It's one of the most dystopian, the most chilling things, I think i've ever witnessed." "The plane doesn’t have a name or number, it’s a 'dark plane' - it doesn’t officially exist."
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EXCLUSIVE: Emily Maitlis writes for @TheNewWorldmag about the appalling scenes in Minnesota
@maitlis
thenewworld.co.uk/emily-maitlis-…
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Right-wing journalists are appearing on Question Time more than twice as often as left-wing reporters, fresh research suggests #Echobox=1768923918-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thenational.scot/news/25777778.…
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