Fujimura Institute @FujimuraInst

空が二つに分かれた夕焼け。

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Sonata for violin and harpsichord No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1018 (c. 1717–1723): one of the supreme masterpieces of Bach’s chamber music. The opening Largo, marked “Lamento” in one manuscript, unfolds in extraordinary four-part polyphony, unique within the set of violin sonatas, recalling the older sonata da chiesa tradition. From this deeply introspective lament emerges an austere fugue, an Adagio suspended in endlessly shifting harmonies and arpeggios, and a final Vivace of restless chromatic energy. Throughout the sonata, Bach achieves an astonishing balance between contrapuntal rigor and profound expressive intensity. A work of haunting beauty and architectural perfection. youtu.be/tZvMaawWXzM?si… #Bach #BWV1018 #JSBach #ClassicalMusic #BaroqueMusic

癒しの朝。

ART saves lives. :)

Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday

4 days ago

🚨: It's official — HIV is no longer a terminal disease! Modern Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) reduces HIV to undetectable levels, allowing patients to live normal lifespans.

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Excited to host Dr. Yao-Ying Lai (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) at Tohoku University on July 1! She will present her latest work on the neurocognitive mechanisms of semantic and pragmatic processing using behavioral and fMRI approaches. Everyone is welcome.

“And then — because these nights always have their small, human-scale miracles tucked inside the big ones — Ty and I ran into Sunil Gulati on our way as we stood in line to get very expensive T shirts. Sunil and I serve together on @BucknellU ’s board; he’s a friend, and one of the people most responsible, behind the scenes, for American soccer’s slow climb toward nights like this. Ty, who hosted the “We the Peeps” podcast that traced US soccers frustrating past, lit up immediately — he knew the story before I could even begin telling it: the time the team bus driver didn’t show in Panama, and Sunil — federation president, Columbia economics professor, the most credentialed man in the building — simply got behind the wheel and drove the team himself. I keep thinking about that image. The architect of the whole system, reduced — or rather, revealed — as the real driver. Someone has to get the team where it needs to go, and sometimes that someone does it without anyone noticing, without credit, simply because the job needs doing and he was the one standing there. There’s a whole theology in that bus.” My essay “A Son’s Gift” on @USMNT huge win at @FIFAWorldCup open.substack.com/pub/iamfujimur…

Vincent van Gogh

Impressions @impression_ists

3 weeks ago

Hiroshige 1857 / Van Gogh 1887 Japan reinvented Van Gogh

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Don't miss a special filmed conversation between Michael Morpurgo and Daniel Pioro, as they re-examine the elemental power of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons... Their new recording is released today on @weareplatoon gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…

Vivaldi Concerto for Violin and Organ in D minor, RV541 | Fabio Biondi E... youtu.be/orIkFo1QGgI?si… via @YouTube

The Sokal affair became one of the most famous academic hoaxes in modern science culture. In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal submitted a deliberately ridiculous paper to Social Text titled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” It sounded intellectual. It used physics words. It flattered the editors’ ideology. And it got published. Then Sokal revealed that the paper was a hoax. His real point was not “humanities bad.” The sharper point was this: if people use science and mathematics as decoration, without understanding them, language becomes a costume for authority. Sokal later summarized the test in one blunt question: “Would a leading North American journal of cultural studies… publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions? The answer, unfortunately, is yes.”

“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” ― Albert Einstein

“It looks useless, but ultimately it's useful." For chemist Susumu Kitagawa there is more to something that looks useless than meets the eye. He spent years working on chemical structures that others thought had no potential use. But he saw himself as a pioneer – someone that could create new things out of what seemed like nothing. He received the Nobel Prize in 2025 alongside Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of MOFs – chemical structures that have the ability to store and release molecules like water and carbon dioxide. In his Nobel Prize interview Kitagawa describes his scientific journey and the principle he lives by: “the usefulness of useless.” Watch now: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

The 50 best Beethoven recordings: 50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available, complete with the original Gramophone reviews, featuring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia, Takács Quartet and more gramophone.co.uk/features/artic…

Flowing. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

Stacking the Sky. - #gif #art #everyday #aftereffects #redgiant #loop #visuals #animation #vjloop #vj

なんだかとても癒される日の入り前の空だった。

Kamakura, Japan

Rainy night walk in Japan.

Tabasco design has not changed since this story of resilience - designer used #interdependent colors masterfully. See my argument for how we need this type of thinking for liberal democracy In “Behind the Veil” section of my “Art Is: A Journey into the Light” @yalepress

Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories

4 weeks ago

In 1868, a bankrupt Louisiana banker with a ruined plantation and no income took some pepper seeds of unknown origin, mixed the mash with salt mined from underneath his own property, aged it in barrels, and bottled it in cologne bottles because manufacturing specialty glass after

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美しい夜明け