The release of “Farewell My Concubine” in 1993 put director Chen Kaige and Chinese cinema on the map for a Western audience. On our “Drum Tower” podcast, David Rennie 任大伟 and Alice Su 蘇奕安 examine what the film says about China’s past and present econ.st/3RO8GL6 👇

Honored to have my photographs of #Carabanchel in the new issue of Desencuadre's Revista D, along with thoughtful text by Evaristo Martínez. This past October marked 15 years since the infamous prison complex was demolished. Full issue online here: buff.ly/3vaVXcv

Check out this National Library of Medicine Circulating Now blog by NCI Center for Global Health's Mark Parascandola which discusses his research on the Harold Leroy Stewart Papers. Dr. Stewart's papers provide a unique window into early efforts to establish #CancerResearch activity in Africa. loom.ly/07qCjH0

The dying art of neon via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/12/09/wor…

Views from #MiamiArtWeek

Federico Garcia Lorca's stage directions for Blood Wedding show he knew the barren landscape of Níjar, where the actual events that inspired the story took place. A “panorama of brownish plains, everything hardened like a landscape of ceramic.” #Lorca125 buff.ly/3MVzA0v

Walking in #Dakar

Join moderators Mark Parascandola National Cancer Institute & Lekan Ayo-Yusuf University of Pretoria at Exploring Opportunities for Integrating Tobacco Use Cessation into TB and #HIV Care in Sub-Saharan Africa | #AORTIC2023 | Nov. 5 | Oval Room | 15:35-16:35 UTC+0 GMT AORTIC Learn more: buff.ly/3FGloof

Remembering the great poet, novelist, essayist and auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini who was brutally murdered #OTD 1975 in Ostia

Ile de Goree, Dakar, Senegal #sitesofconscience

Our next Innovations in Tobacco Control lecture takes place at noon on Thursday, Nov. 9 when Allyn L. Taylor speaks about her work and experiences laying the foundation for the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control. Register for this virtual lecture at publichealth.jhu.edu/institute-for-….

Needed to inject some Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee action into the #31DaysofHorror so revisited Eugenio Martín's ace 'Horror Express' (1972). A body hopping alien lifeforce absorbs the minds of its victims as it runs amok on a trans-Siberian train. A film that never gets old

15 years ago this month, a wrecking crew began dismantling the historic #Carabanchel prison in #Madrid , synonymous with the years of dictatorship. I photographed it in October 2008 in its final days. The ebook is now available free via Apple Books buff.ly/3lUQ6iw

15 years since the demolition of the historic Carabanchel prison in Madrid. Salvemos Carabanchel is livetweeting its final days 15 years on.

One of the perks of my job is getting to watch screeners. This weekend, we had the pleasure of watching Anna Maliszewska's 'Dad' ('Tata') and now I can't wait for Nov 29th when we'll be screening it as part of our #CinePolska series at The Avalon Theatre. Save the date! 📆 🧵⬇️

Before Killers of the Flower Moon, DiCaprio, De Niro, and Scorsese, worked together on a $70 million promo film 'The Audition' for Macao resort Studio City resort in Macao. I visited shortly after its opening, where the film played on an endless loop. buff.ly/46BsJkM

The Meadows Museum exhibit SPAIN arts & culture glosses over the most interesting part of the story: when oil man Meadows discovered much of his collection were #forgeries . The story of forger Elmyr de Hory was later retold by #OrsonWelles in 'F for Fake'. buff.ly/46EzUZG

Home of poet Antonio Machado in Segovia