International Surrealism Now 2025, The Philippines

From January 15 to February 15, the International Surrealism Now exhibition will be on display, organised by the ADFP Foundation, mentored by the Portuguese artist Santiago Ribeiro, who has been travelling with his art to numerous corners of the world.

International Surrealism Now began in 2010, organised by the Bissaya Barreto Foundation, and now features 126 artists from 52 countries.

 

The facilities where the event will take place are at the Conimbriga Hotel do Paço, whose building origins date back to the 14th century. Here, kings and distinguished members of the European nobility slept. Initially destroyed in the French invasions, the hotel was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1993, it became Pousada de Portugal, and since 2019, it has been a charming 4-star hotel.

 

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Santiago Ribeiro, Spiral, 2009

 

 

Gemini 11 astronaut Dick Gordon "riding" the Agena target vehicle

This image has moved people to call Gordon "a real-life space cowboy." Later, Gordon would fly to the Moon as Command Module pilot in Apollo 12.

Richard Francis Gordon, 1929-2017

Typical Gemini-Agena flight profile

Alexander Calder - "The Forest"

If "unremarkable" has no meaning, then _______.

On first leaping into Plutarch's Lives

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January 5: "Twelfth Night: Or, King And Queen" by Robert Herrick

Twelfth Night: Or, King And Queen

Now, now the mirth comes
With the cake full of plums,
Where bean's the king of the sport here;
Beside we must know,
The pea also
Must revel, as queen, in the court here.

Begin then to choose,
This night as ye use,
Who shall for the present delight here,
Be a king by the lot,
And who shall not
Be Twelfth-day queen for the night here.

Which known, let us make
Joy-sops with the cake;
And let not a man then be seen here,
Who unurg'd will not drink
To the base from the brink
A health to the king and the queen here.

Next crown the bowl full
With gentle lamb's wool:
Add sugar, nutmeg, and ginger,
With store of ale too;
And thus ye must do
To make the wassail a swinger.

Give then to the king
And queen wassailing:
And though with ale ye be whet here,
Yet part ye from hence,
As free from offence
As when ye innocent met here.

                                              - 1648

“Lord of Misrule” - David Teniers the Younger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The custom of choosing Twelfth Night “royalty” is described in Herrick's poem. The king and queen are those who find a bean (the king) and a pea (the queen) in a plum cake; thus the revelers have their king and queen. Twelfth Night, or Epiphany Eve, is celebrated the twelfth night after Christmas.

Tonight, January 6, is Epiphany, or Three Kings Night, which is celebrated with children opening presents. 

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