Imani Taylor

@muriellondon @ThecentaurusM @ReachROCKIN Nice. The surrealism holds together which AI art almost never does.

🫶🏽 Great news. I’m honored to be selected as a Finalist in the @ThecentaurusM Open Call 2026. “The Weight of Silence” placed 6th among the finalists. Grateful to the Centaurus team and special thanks to my dear @ReachROCKIN for the support and for creating space for artists exploring AI, emotion, and social themes on Solana. 1/1 • 1 SOL

@etiennefd Wilson went with 'complicated.' A surrender. French just sidesteps the whole thing

just checked the Odyssey translation I read (Victor Bérard, 1924) to see how it dealt with the polytropos thing, and I'm pleased to report that French entirely sidesteps the issue by having "tours" mean both turns and tricks

On Monday, our King Philippe and Queen Mathilde attended the first final session of the 2026 Queen Elisabeth Competition for #cello 🎶🇧🇪 @MonarchieBe

I keep thinking about how Gandhara happened just because Greek rulers put two traditions in the same room. Saadiyat is doing the exact same thing.

The poodle casting will make or break this. Schopenhauer loved that dog more than any person

@thepropgallery Floor prices stopped making headlines so everyone decided it was dead

NFTs never went anywhere, all that left were the grifters The core of this space remained and is doing just fine

@invitinghistory The Diamond Necklace Affair barely needed a novelist. Dumas just made it official.

Book cover for a vintage edition of Le Collier de la reine by Alexandre Dumas. From my collection.

@Dr_TheHistories 3.7cm. A knight you could lose in your pocket. Medieval children must have been very careful.

A medieval toy mounted knight from 13th or 14th Century AD. It is considered one of the earliest known surviving toy soldiers, originating from Europe. The figure itself is cast bronze, while the lance currently featured is a modern replacement. (H. 3.7cm; W. 4.3cm) The Walters Art Museum

Dubai Opera doing hybrid live/digital work. Good. This is what the venue is for.

Still remarkable that the most recognizable piece of film music is basically a coyote howl and some whistling. Morricone trusted audiences to sit with strangeness.

Violinists #MaximVengerov and #IvryGitlis shared a deep, enduring mentor-mentee relationship and a close friendship 🎻🎶 Vengerov frequently cited Gitlis as a major musical influence. The two often spent time together discussing life, music, and philosophy.

@OdenKate 'Doris Lessing lite' is generous. She was working something out and forgot to make it art.

This was good, but not great—sort of Doris Lessing lite, perhaps going for the titillation a little, a commercial play. Nevertheless compellingly imagined.

@zach_vasquez the Eichmann poster in the background is really doing a lot to prove your point here

Wes Anderson continues to prove the hardest auteur to satirize because the people who try seem to have never actually watched one of his movies.

@invitinghistory Everyone talks about Bowie but Kitano is the one who stayed with me.

Using my day off to catch up on library holds that are due soon, so finally time to watch "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence!"

@LinusEkenstam Volume up on a black screen. Bold curatorial choice

Unreal 6 wild reaction in Paris, volume up, it’s absolutely nuts

@MeriaRmsTitanic elgar conducting. wood conducting. mengelberg came over from amsterdam. they all just showed up

On 24th May 1912, a concert in tribute to the musicians of #Titanic (Titanic Band Memorial Concert) was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 473 musicians were present. This concert raised money for the musicians' families. #Titanic2026 #Titanic114 #OTD #OnThisDay

@Kalshi_Film Nolan understands constraint. Most directors just want infinite options.

Christopher Nolan’s dedication to practical effects is one of the reasons his films feel so immersive.

@RoseElla1234 Grant was worried about Method actors taking over while making one of the most purely cinematic films of the decade

“To Catch a Thief” (1955) looks like a silky Riviera fantasy, but behind the glamour was an aging star, a future princess, and a director who mostly wanted a working holiday in the south of France. Cary Grant had actually talked about retiring before this film, worried audiences now preferred brooding Method actors like Brando. Hitchcock tempted him back with two promises: Grace Kelly as his co‑star and weeks of filming on the French Riviera, even though Grant was fifty playing a thief meant to be in his thirties. Grace arrived as Hollywood’s cool blonde, but on set she was playful and sharp. In the famous picnic scene, when she purrs, “Do you prefer a leg… or a breast?” the charged line and Grant’s quiet reaction slipped cheekily past the censors and turned a simple lunch into pure innuendo. Hitchcock laced the film with private jokes, even giving Robie a backstory as a circus acrobat, lifted straight from Grant’s own youth as Archie Leach in a traveling troupe. And while the story is about stolen jewels, the real theft happened off screen: during location shooting in Monaco, Grace Kelly fell in love with the place itself, soon to become her home as Princess Grace after she married Prince Rainier.

The action sequences during the silent film era were quite frightening.

@NolanAnalyst $75 for a making-of book about a film nobody's seen yet.

Filming THE ODYSSEY: Inside the Making of Christopher Nolan’s Modern Epic’ is now available for preorder for $75 in a Barnes & Noble exclusive edition, featuring a premium cloth cover and two collectible 8x10 art prints.