Rachel Daucé

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Joyce DiDonato & Time for Three【🎧】Emily - They shut me up

Album released on January 30, 2026

 

In honor of Emily Dickinson’s 195th birthday, this music sweeps you up in her deserved celebration. Emily may have lived alone in her room, yet she brought an entire world and more into existence through her poetry. This music composed by Kevin Puts explores more and more about her poignant, vulnerable, audacious world of words, imaginings, questions and humanity. 

They shut me up in Prose – 

As when a little Girl 

They put me in the Closet – 

Because they liked me «still» – 

Still! Could themself have peeped – 

And seen my Brain – go round – 

They might as wise have lodged a Bird 

For Treason – in the Pound –

 

Himself has but to will 

And easy as a Star 

Look down upon Captivity – 

And laugh – No more have I – 

Emily Dickinson

SHORT FILM 🎬 A Moral Man

 

A clergyman advocating assisted death faces an ethical quandary when asked to end the life of a non-terminally ill woman. 

Directors: Paul Wade, Simon Wade 

Writers: Paul Wade, Simon Wade 

Stars: Toby Jones, Claudie Blakley

 

Maciek Jasik

                                            

 Maciek Jasik

Migo Welsh

Migo Welsh 

SHORT FILM 🎬 Light Hearted

 

"Light Hearted" explores the unexpected consequences of bringing someone back from the afterlife. Joy, a widow still grappling with her husband's death, receives an unexpected and peculiar delivery that disrupts her quiet routine. As she comes to terms with the strange presence in her life, the past and present collide, leading to moments of both humor and heartbreak. The film offers a touching and quirky exploration of grief, memory, and the complexities of moving on, all with a dose of unexpected warmth. "Light Hearted" is a poignant, darkly comedic reflection on love, loss, and what it means to let go.

Director: Sye Allen 

Writer: Sye Allen 

Stars: Gillian Wright, Simon Greenall, Dominic Rawson

 

Enrique López Llamas :: I am the Resurrection and I am the Life

 

One of the best works on view at Salón ACME in Mexico City this week hands down is the sculpture, “I am the Resurrection and I am the Life,” 2026 by Enrique López Llamas. This monumental sculpture consists of 28 figures, hand painted on acrylic polymer. It brings to mind images both spiritual and our everyday existence.

 

Paul Kessel :: NYC

Paul Kessel