Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
aka Deny Fear
🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
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Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
🎨 Robert Longo
No Threat, 2018
charcoal on mounted paper
Profile:
Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window
"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
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Dean Frey
@dean.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Another cup of coffee? No thanks, I've had plenty... Ha ha ha ha ha! I'm just kidding. Keep 'em coming. ☕️☕️☕️
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Lew Baxter in Her Own Money, 1922
This is a print from the great French photographer Roger Corbeau's silent Hollywood film collection.
Celebrate the Ingrid Thulin Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Bob Gomel, 1962
"That expressive face is the unforgettable image of the anxiety that surrounds Ingmar Bergman’s world.”
- David Thomson
📷 Bob Gomel, 1962
"That expressive face is the unforgettable image of the anxiety that surrounds Ingmar Bergman’s world.”
- David Thomson
January 27, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Celebrate the Ingrid Thulin Centennial 🎂💯
📷 Bob Gomel, 1962
"That expressive face is the unforgettable image of the anxiety that surrounds Ingmar Bergman’s world.”
- David Thomson
📷 Bob Gomel, 1962
"That expressive face is the unforgettable image of the anxiety that surrounds Ingmar Bergman’s world.”
- David Thomson
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I love finding more pre-toupe pics
The young William Shatner in New York. A nice portrait by Sam Tata, from 1959.
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I love finding more pre-toupe pics
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When someone mentioned to Kapellmeister Schwanenberg, a friend of Salieri’s, the rumor that Mozart had been poisoned by the Italian, Salieri replied: “Non ha fatto nulla, per meritar tal onore. [He did nothing to merit such an honor.]”
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
📷 Phil Bray, 1984
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
📷 Phil Bray, 1984
January 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
When someone mentioned to Kapellmeister Schwanenberg, a friend of Salieri’s, the rumor that Mozart had been poisoned by the Italian, Salieri replied: “Non ha fatto nulla, per meritar tal onore. [He did nothing to merit such an honor.]”
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
📷 Phil Bray, 1984
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
📷 Phil Bray, 1984
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For Mozart's birthday today:
Carlo Fiore's poster for the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, 2016
Carlo Fiore's poster for the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, 2016
January 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For Mozart's birthday today:
Carlo Fiore's poster for the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, 2016
Carlo Fiore's poster for the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia's production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, 2016
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For Mozart's birthday today, my favourite Brigid Brophy book.
Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us
"To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."
Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us
"To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."
January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For Mozart's birthday today, my favourite Brigid Brophy book.
Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us
"To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."
Mozart the Dramatist: The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us
"To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."
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"When I think of mankind's greatest benefactors, I feel that Mozart comes a close second to Jesus."
- Friedrich Gulda
He plays his arrangement of "In diesen heil'gen Hallen" from The Magic Flute. So beautiful!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQUV...
- Friedrich Gulda
He plays his arrangement of "In diesen heil'gen Hallen" from The Magic Flute. So beautiful!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQUV...
Friedrich Gulda play Mozart "In diesen heil'gen Hallen"
YouTube video by Musik Dokus Konzerte
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"When I think of mankind's greatest benefactors, I feel that Mozart comes a close second to Jesus."
- Friedrich Gulda
He plays his arrangement of "In diesen heil'gen Hallen" from The Magic Flute. So beautiful!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQUV...
- Friedrich Gulda
He plays his arrangement of "In diesen heil'gen Hallen" from The Magic Flute. So beautiful!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQUV...
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“You know that I live two leagues from Geneva: I never go out; & I was very ill when this phenomenon shone on the black horizon of Geneva. In short, he has left, to my great regret, without my having seen him.”
In 1766, Voltaire missed out on meeting the 10-year-old Mozart.
In 1766, Voltaire missed out on meeting the 10-year-old Mozart.
January 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“You know that I live two leagues from Geneva: I never go out; & I was very ill when this phenomenon shone on the black horizon of Geneva. In short, he has left, to my great regret, without my having seen him.”
In 1766, Voltaire missed out on meeting the 10-year-old Mozart.
In 1766, Voltaire missed out on meeting the 10-year-old Mozart.
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Frank Langella as Salieri & Dennis Boutsikaris as Mozart, in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
📷 Martha Swope, 1983
NYPL digital collection
I would have loved to see this.
📷 Martha Swope, 1983
NYPL digital collection
I would have loved to see this.
January 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Frank Langella as Salieri & Dennis Boutsikaris as Mozart, in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus
📷 Martha Swope, 1983
NYPL digital collection
I would have loved to see this.
📷 Martha Swope, 1983
NYPL digital collection
I would have loved to see this.
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My favourite work by my favourite composer.
Ali McGraw’s character in Love Story talks about Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto, K.488, as she’s dying. I plan on doing the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8x...
Ali McGraw’s character in Love Story talks about Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto, K.488, as she’s dying. I plan on doing the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8x...
January 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My favourite work by my favourite composer.
Ali McGraw’s character in Love Story talks about Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto, K.488, as she’s dying. I plan on doing the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8x...
Ali McGraw’s character in Love Story talks about Mozart’s A major Piano Concerto, K.488, as she’s dying. I plan on doing the same.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8x...
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A great story from Andrew Lownie’s Traitor King. The Duke of Windsor was a real piece of work.
“Once, after sitting through a concert organised by Lady Cunard, he asked, ‘Did that Mozart chap write anything else?’”
“Once, after sitting through a concert organised by Lady Cunard, he asked, ‘Did that Mozart chap write anything else?’”
January 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A great story from Andrew Lownie’s Traitor King. The Duke of Windsor was a real piece of work.
“Once, after sitting through a concert organised by Lady Cunard, he asked, ‘Did that Mozart chap write anything else?’”
“Once, after sitting through a concert organised by Lady Cunard, he asked, ‘Did that Mozart chap write anything else?’”
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“When Mozart died, having just written the magical and incomparable Zauberflöte, he was imagining an opera based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It makes you weep to think of it.”
- Jan Swafford, Mozart: The Reign of Love
A wonderful book!
- Jan Swafford, Mozart: The Reign of Love
A wonderful book!
January 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“When Mozart died, having just written the magical and incomparable Zauberflöte, he was imagining an opera based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It makes you weep to think of it.”
- Jan Swafford, Mozart: The Reign of Love
A wonderful book!
- Jan Swafford, Mozart: The Reign of Love
A wonderful book!
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Karl Barth's small book on Mozart was published for the Bicentennial in 1956. Barth said that when he arrived in Heaven the first person he would look for is Mozart.
January 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Karl Barth's small book on Mozart was published for the Bicentennial in 1956. Barth said that when he arrived in Heaven the first person he would look for is Mozart.
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Remembering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Stage set for the Queen of the Night, Mozart's Magic Flute, 1815
"Mozart heard the harmony of creation to which the shadow also belongs but in which the shadow is not darkness..."
- Karl Barth
🎨 Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Stage set for the Queen of the Night, Mozart's Magic Flute, 1815
"Mozart heard the harmony of creation to which the shadow also belongs but in which the shadow is not darkness..."
- Karl Barth
January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Remembering Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Stage set for the Queen of the Night, Mozart's Magic Flute, 1815
"Mozart heard the harmony of creation to which the shadow also belongs but in which the shadow is not darkness..."
- Karl Barth
🎨 Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Stage set for the Queen of the Night, Mozart's Magic Flute, 1815
"Mozart heard the harmony of creation to which the shadow also belongs but in which the shadow is not darkness..."
- Karl Barth
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he's such a great writer 'barney's version' and 'solomon gursky was here' two faves chez hass.
January 27, 2026 at 4:22 PM
he's such a great writer 'barney's version' and 'solomon gursky was here' two faves chez hass.
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Happy Birthday White Jesus
Remembering Samuel Palmer on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Happy Birthday White Jesus
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Mordecai Richler by Ulf Andersen, 1999
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
January 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Mordecai Richler by Ulf Andersen, 1999
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
"Unlike novelists who start strong & fade out, Mordecai got better & better."
- Robert Gottlieb
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Aislin (Terry Mosher) draws Mordecai Richler
One more time!
One more time!
January 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Aislin (Terry Mosher) draws Mordecai Richler
One more time!
One more time!
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Another Aislin (Terry Mosher) cartoon of Mordecai Richler.
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Another Aislin (Terry Mosher) cartoon of Mordecai Richler.
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
Richler had ruffled lots of feathers with his "Reporter at Large: Inside/Outside" article on Quebec in the September 23, 1991
issue of the New Yorker.
newyorker.com/magazine/199...
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Mordecai Richler by Aislin (Terry Mosher)
January 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Mordecai Richler by Aislin (Terry Mosher)
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"My first night on the Left Bank I settled into a table on the terrace of the Café de Flore, pulling out my notebook & pen, doing my utmost to appear pensive. Look at me, I'm a writer."
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
January 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"My first night on the Left Bank I settled into a table on the terrace of the Café de Flore, pulling out my notebook & pen, doing my utmost to appear pensive. Look at me, I'm a writer."
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
- Mordecai Richler in 1950. He was 19.
📷 Robert Doisneau, 1949
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Mordecai Richler by Reg Innell, Toronto Star, 1985
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
January 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mordecai Richler by Reg Innell, Toronto Star, 1985
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
"There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class."
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Remembering Mordecai Richler on his birthday 🎂
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
January 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Remembering Mordecai Richler on his birthday 🎂
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
📷 Andrew Stawicki, Toronto Star, 1987
"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
Remembering Samuel Palmer on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
January 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Remembering Samuel Palmer on his birthday 🎂
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
🎨 Portrait by George Richmond, 1829
"Something new had entered English Painting: the willingness to make pastoral landscape a vehicle for intense turbulent emotion."
- Mark Abley
Just came across Winter Aconite - Eranthis hyemalis.
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Just came across Winter Aconite - Eranthis hyemalis.
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
The names focus on how early this arrives: from the Greek ‘Er’ = spring & ‘anthos’ = flower & the Latin ‘hyemalis’ = winter flowering.
For someone who grew up in Alberta, Victoria’s winter plants sure make me think of spring!
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If I ever have my own studio for whatever, there's a 100% chance that I'll have a skull lying around for no reason whatsoever.
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM
If I ever have my own studio for whatever, there's a 100% chance that I'll have a skull lying around for no reason whatsoever.