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🚀 Read this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: She continued to work on music throughout the 1960s, but at a slower pace, while taking on various jobs including as editor of the influential Michigan Conflict Resolution magazine. In letters to loved ones, written just before she disappeared, she said she struggled in life "to find a place to connect with".What happened to her when she disappeared remains unknown - in 2023 To Anyone Who Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse, the definitive biography of her, author Howard Fishman writes of…

🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Art and design,Art,Frank Auerbach,Lucian Freud,David Hockney,Painting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toLast November, a work titled Potiphar's Wife by British painter Ioanoglu appeared at a special auction held by Christie's in London. “We were all very excited,” says art historian and curator Catherine Lambert. “I tried several times to find out where that photo was.” It depicts a woman lying on the floor against a blue wall, her legs crossed and her arms extended behind her, apparently to prevent a man in a shirt from leaving. They both…

💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Metal,Music,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'Isays singer Dax Riggs of the sudden TikTok-led renaissance of '90s psychedelic sludge label Acid Bath. "Guitarist Sammy Dewitt adds: "In the front row, you'll see an old fan and next to them is a 13-year-old kid singing all the words. What the hell is going on here?"Formed in the Louisiana bayou in 1991 with oppressive swampy sounds and tales of drugs, death and decadence, Acid Bath deftly jumped from melodic grooves to bluesy licks and speed studies, sometimes in the same…

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Deborah Levy,Gertrude Stein,Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe narrator of Deborah Levy's clever story of "fiction"—"fiction" is not the right word for this uncategorizable book—believes that Gertrude Stein would have loved Sigmund Freud. She imagines them enjoying cigars together while their wives make small talk. Could Frau Freud have exchanged her recipe for boiled beef with Alice B [Toklas]“Hashish candy recipe”? They never met (although, with her interest in the “underpersonality” and his interest in the “unconscious,” Stein and Freud had much to talk about), but…

🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Opera ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIn the morning I met Oliver Merz, director of the opera at Covent Garden, and I still walked on air. The other day I saw Wagner's epic Siegfried, part three of the Ring Cycle. Clocking in at nearly six hours, the film is an immersion into the world of gods and giants, heroes and warrior women – but also deep and poignant human relationships. With the wonderful Andreas Schager in the title role among a wonderful cast, this is Royal Opera…