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Paula Marvelly, Editor, The Culturium

Nov 05 2015

Jean Cocteau: The Art of Cinema

'Jean Cocteau' - The Culturium
Jean Cocteau.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

Capturing the soul of the artist on celluloid

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Literature · Tagged: blood of a poet, french, jean cocteau, jean marais, le sang d'un poète, le testament d'orphée, movie, orphée, orpheus, poetry, prose, the art of cinema, the testament of orpheus, video

Nov 03 2015

Sri V. Ganesan: The Ultimate Question

Paula Marvelly, ‘Sri V. Ganesan’ - The Culturium
Paula Marvelly, Sri V. Ganesan.
Photograph: [CC BY-SA 4.0] The Culturium

Sri Ramana Maharshi’s great-nephew expounds the teachings of India’s greatest guru

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film, Wisdom · Tagged: advaita vedanta, arunachala, bhagavan sri ramana maharshi, ganesan, hinduism, indian, interview, spirituality, tiruvannamalai, video, who am i?

Oct 29 2015

John Cage: Silence

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Rob Bogaerts, John Cage.
Photograph: Fotocollectie Anefo, Nationaal Archief,
[CC BY-SA 3.0 NL] Wikimedia Commons

How a composer was beguiled by the sound of nothing

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: The Performing Arts · Tagged: 4'33", american, john cage, music, new world symphony, silence, sonatas and interludes

Oct 27 2015

Alexandra David-Néel: My Journey to Lhasa

'Alexandra David Néel' - The Culturium
Alexandra David Néel.
Photograph: Preus Museum,
[CC BY 2.0] Wikimedia Commons

How a woman’s quest for solitude led her to Tibet’s forbidden city

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: alexandra david-néel, autobiography, buddhism, dalai lama, french, my journey to lhasa, nonfiction, prose, tibet, travel, women

Oct 22 2015

Rainer Maria Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet

Paula Modersohn-Becker, ’Rainer Maria Rilke' - The Culturium
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rainer Maria Rilke.
Photograph: [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

To write is to live, and to live is to write

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature · Tagged: austrian, letters, letters to a young poet, nonfiction, prose, rainer maria rilke

Oct 20 2015

Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty

Paolo Sorrentino, ‘The Great Beauty' - The Culturium
Paolo Sorrentino, The Great Beauty.
Photograph: Janus Films

Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye need to know?

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Film · Tagged: céline, italian, movie, paolo sorrentino, rome, the great beauty, video

Sep 07 2015

Sappho: The Tenth Muse

‘Detail of the portrait of a young woman (so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets' - The Culturium
Detail of the portrait of a young woman
(so-called Sappho) with writing pen and wax tablets
.
Photograph: Wolfgang Rieger, [Public Domain] Wikimedia Commons

The six types of Greek love and why Plato revered a female poet from Lesbos

Written by Paula Marvelly · Categorized: Literature, Wisdom · Tagged: ancient greek, lawrence alma-tadema, lesbos, philosophy, plato, poetry, roman krznaric, sappho, symposium, women

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