#obituary — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #obituary, aggregated by home.social.
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Caroline Bienstock, Former President/CEO of Carlin Music, Dies at 68
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Disney TV Veteran & Suite Life of Zack & Cody Co-Creator Jim Geoghan Passes Away
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Jim Geoghan Dies: ‘Suite Life Of Zack & Cody’ Co-Creator & Producer Was 79
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"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ...
He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once called himself ‘the most gifted writer of my generation,’ a statement of such pomposity that the brigade was moved to pie him eight times."
#giftlink #nytimes #pie #obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world/europe/noel-godin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.QlQ6.n1mq1WaNUewR&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ...
He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once called himself ‘the most gifted writer of my generation,’ a statement of such pomposity that the brigade was moved to pie him eight times."
#giftlink #nytimes #pie #obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world/europe/noel-godin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.QlQ6.n1mq1WaNUewR&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ...
He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once called himself ‘the most gifted writer of my generation,’ a statement of such pomposity that the brigade was moved to pie him eight times."
#giftlink #nytimes #pie #obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world/europe/noel-godin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.QlQ6.n1mq1WaNUewR&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ...
He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once called himself ‘the most gifted writer of my generation,’ a statement of such pomposity that the brigade was moved to pie him eight times."
#giftlink #nytimes #pie #obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world/europe/noel-godin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.QlQ6.n1mq1WaNUewR&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ...
He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once called himself ‘the most gifted writer of my generation,’ a statement of such pomposity that the brigade was moved to pie him eight times."
#giftlink #nytimes #pie #obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/world/europe/noel-godin-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._lA.QlQ6.n1mq1WaNUewR&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1193278/ Georgy Matyukhin, Russia’s First Central Bank Chief, Dies at 91 #CentralBank #Obituary #Russia
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Bruce Davis Dies: Longtime Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Chief Executive Was 83
#News #Obituaries #AcademyofMotionPictureArtsSciences #BruceDavis #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/bruce-davis-dead-ampas-chief-executive-1237070322/
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Bill Oddie, much-loved member of The Goodies comedy series in the 1970s, dead at 85
British actor, comedian and broadcaster Bill Oddie, best known to Australian audiences as a member of the 1970s…
#NewsBeep #News #TV #AU #Australia #BBC #billoddie #britishcomedy #classicbritishtv #comedian #Entertainment #ITV #obituary #rochedale #thegoodies
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Bill Oddie, much-loved member of The Goodies comedy series in the 1970s, dead at 85
British actor, comedian and broadcaster Bill Oddie, best known to Australian audiences as a member of the 1970s…
#NewsBeep #News #TV #AU #Australia #BBC #billoddie #britishcomedy #classicbritishtv #comedian #Entertainment #ITV #obituary #rochedale #thegoodies
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/606442/ Bill Oddie, much-loved member of The Goodies comedy series in the 1970s, dead at 85 #BBC #BillOddie #BritishComedy #ClassicBritishTv #comedian #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #ITV #obituary #rochedale #TheGoodies #TV
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Un des plus grands n’est plus
David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026
English version : click here
Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
«La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.
https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7
J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.
Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.
Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.
Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans
David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture
Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019
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Death of a giant
David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.
There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).
David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.
A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.
It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.
Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.
See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian
Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019
More images in French section
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#20eSiècle #20thCentury #21eSiècle #21stCentury #art #artist #DavidHockney #Dessin #drawing #nécrologie #obituary #painter #painting #peinture -
Un des plus grands n’est plus
David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026
English version : click here
Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
«La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.
https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7
J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.
Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.
Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.
Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans
David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture
Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019
Top
Death of a giant
David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.
There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).
David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.
A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.
It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.
Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.
See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian
Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019
More images in French section
Back To Top – Retour en haut
#20eSiècle #20thCentury #21eSiècle #21stCentury #art #artist #DavidHockney #Dessin #drawing #nécrologie #obituary #painter #painting #peinture -
Un des plus grands n’est plus
David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026
English version : click here
Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
«La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.
https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7
J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.
Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.
Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.
Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans
David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture
Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019
Top
Death of a giant
David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.
There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).
David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.
A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.
It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.
Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.
See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian
Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019
More images in French section
Back To Top – Retour en haut
#20eSiècle #20thCentury #21eSiècle #21stCentury #art #artist #DavidHockney #Dessin #drawing #nécrologie #obituary #painter #painting #peinture -
Un des plus grands n’est plus
David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026
English version : click here
Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
«La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.
https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7
J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.
Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.
Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.
Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans
David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture
Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019
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Death of a giant
David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.
There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).
David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.
A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.
It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.
Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.
See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian
Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019
More images in French section
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Un des plus grands n’est plus
David Hockney est décédé le 11 juin 2026
English version : click here
Il y a des tas d’expositions nouvelles en ce moment, partout. Et tous les jours, il y en a d’autres qui s’ouvrent. Je ne sais pas où donner de la tête, ni des doigts.
«La joie de la nature», au musée Van Gogh 2019 (photo JW)
Mais aujourd’hui, il faut que tout cela attende, que tout s’écarte. Un grand, un géant de l’art est mort hier, et comme tant d’autres, je ne peux m’empêcher d’y aller, moi aussi, de mon ode à David Hockney (1937-2026).On connaît son histoire. Né à Bradford, dans le nord industriel de l’Angleterre, dans une famille ouvrière, David Hockney découvre très jeune son talent et très jeune aussi, il reçoit une formation au dessin. Plus tard, il descend à Londres, où il peut poursuivre ses études au prestigieux Royal College of Art. Le succès vient très vite. Ensuite, il s’envole pour New York, plus tard pour la Californie. C’est là que, ébloui par la lumière et les couleurs, il fait ses fameuses peintures de piscines (comme le célèbre « A Bigger Splash »). Et pendant des années durant, il fera plus ou moins la navette entre la lumineuse Californie, son Yorkshire natal et, plus tard, la Normandie, où il passera en tout cas le temps de la pandémie, et où il fait une de ses plus belles fresques, exposée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton en 2025.
https://youtu.be/KyiByo5yMR8?si=fDmDxtOu2sHUAE-7
J’ai écrit déjà plusieurs fois sur Hockney et certaines de ses expositions (au Van Gogh Museum, au musée Teylers, et à d’autres endroits encore). Et à chaque fois j’étais éblouie, soufflée, par ses couleurs, sa vitalité, et sa capacité de se réinventer à chaque fois. Hockney n’hésitait pas à explorer, puis à embrasser et à perfectionner de nouvelles techniques, la photo, l’i-pad, la vidéo, ou des combinaisons de tout cela, et à chaque fois, il nous coupait le souffle. Il fallait du courage, car au départ, le monde artistique n’appréciait pas forcément ces «mélanges» entre informatique et peinture. Mais Hockney n’avait pas froid aux yeux, et il l’a montré aussi en affirmant que les peintres d’antan se servaient d’instruments (d’optique, de mesure) pour établir la perspective. Sacrilège! Mais Hockney tenait bon, il en a fait la démonstration dans ses oeuvres à lui – et il avait probablement raison.
Son oeuvre reste, et c’est formidable. Qu’il s’agisse de paysages, de portraits, d’« instantanés » (comme la trace de la plongeon dans la piscine), de dessins au fusain, de peinture sur i-pad ou de vidéos, la virtuosité de Hockney est immense. Et son oeuvre nous reste. Alors, autant on est triste que ce grand artiste nous ait quittés, autant on peut se réjouir de pouvoir, encore et encore, admirer cette oeuvre.
Pour en savoir plus: regardez A Bigger Picture, documentaire de Bruno Wollheim (2010). Vous pouvez le voir en ligne ici (pour le voir en entier, il faut payer), ou vous pouvez regarder 80 films courts fait pour les 80 ans de David Hockney.
Voir aussi: La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney, grand peintre britannique, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans
David Hockney : « J’ai toujours voulu faire des images » | France Culture
Image en tête: Le printemps arrive à Woldgate. Musée Van Gogh, 2019
Top
Death of a giant
David Hockney (b. 1937) died on June 11, 2026.
There are many new exhibitions to write about, and I started doing just that. But today, everything has to wait. Today – like so many others – I have to commemorate David Hockney (1937-2026). He is one of the contemporary artists I admire most, and I am not the only one. I have written about several of his exhibitions (among others in the Van Gogh Museum, or in Teylers Museum).
David Hockney, Spring in Woldgate, charcoal on paper, 2012; shown in Van Gogh Museum, The Joy of Nature, 2019Born in the industrial city of Bradford in a working class family, his talent was discovered when he was still very young, and he had drawing lessons from a very young age, too. Later, he went to London where he was admitted to the Royal College of Art. There, his talent was noticed as well, not only by his teachers and other students, but also by galleries and art merchants. Success came pretty soon. Hockney certainly was not one of those artists whose recognition comes only after their death, or late in life. Right away, his work sold well – which permitted him to travel and to live comfortable. He went to New York, then to California, where he was as smitten by the light and colours as Van Gogh was in Provence. It was in California that he made his famous swimming pool paintings, among which ‘‘A Bigger Splash’’.
A room in the Hockney exhibition in Paris (Louis Vuitton Foundation, 2025)Yet Hockney didn’t forget the Yorkshire of his youth, and he returned there regularly, even for longer periods. There he made – among many other works – his famous ‘‘Spring’’ series, and it was also there he started working with new techniques. I remember his earliest i-pad ‘‘paintings’’, one of which represented rain – like a video, except that it wasn’t a video. Hockney was probably the first painter to embrace those new techniques – and to incorporate them in his paintings. He was quite brave in that respect, for in the beginning his use of the i-pad was frowned upon in certain circles. ‘‘Painting’’ with an instrument like that wasn’t serious! In the same way, Hockney proclaimed that painters in earlier centuries used instruments to establish the perspective in their pictures. Sacrilege! It couldn’t be… But he was probably right – and he showed it in his own work.
It was also on his i-pad – perfected by himself – that he made his ‘‘Normandy’’ series. He stayed in his house in Normandy during the pandemic, and each and every day he painted the landscape, that changed with the weather and the seasons – like the landscape he portrayed in Yorkshire. A combination of hundreds of these small pictures and a gigantic ‘‘fresco’’ was shown (among other places) in 2025 in the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Hockney’s year-round paintings made in Normandy, 2022 ; here shown in Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 2025Few artists are or were so inventive and prolific as Hockney. He probably was creative and busy till his last moments. In a way, his death makes us orphans. But fortunately, there is his work, which we can see and admire time and time again. In that sense, artists are never really gone.
Interesting: A Bigger Picture, documentary by Bruno Wollheim (2010). You can watch it online here (to watch the whole film, you have to pay), or you can watch 80 short films made for David Hockney’s 80th birthday.
See also La joie de la peinture : Hockney à Amsterdam – Vu du Nord
David Hockney obituary | Painting | The Guardian
Header image : The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate. Van Gogh Museum, 2019
More images in French section
Back To Top – Retour en haut
#20eSiècle #20thCentury #21eSiècle #21stCentury #art #artist #DavidHockney #Dessin #drawing #nécrologie #obituary #painter #painting #peinture -
Radio Free Skaro #1070 – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs1070.mp3Jingle bells are probably silent this Christmas as, if RTD’s hinting in the UK media has led the Three Who Rule to conclude, after Mr. Davies stating he won’t be filming anything this year, so…whither Doctor Who Christmas Special? We get after it! We also look into the spectacular looking 4K release of the 1996 TV Movie, our thoughts on the Mandolorian and Grogu, the usual Big Finish Zaprudering, and an interview with Sophie Aldred, Paul Cornell and author Adrian Tchaikovsky and their involvement in the Salvation’s Child graphic novel! Space Comics!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Radio Times report on supposed upcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special
- Russell T Davies on LBC: “I’m not filming anything until 2027”
- Sylvester McCoy and Paul McGann on the Whoniverse Show
- Jonathan Helm on the Doctor Who TV Movie pre-titles sequence
- Doctor Who TV Movie 4K review
- Doctor Who Magazine 630 released
- Doctor Who (1963-1996) coming to Britbox in Australia in June
- Doctor Who Adventures: Save the Humans! due Aug 18
- Cybertropolis The Art & Times of the Cybermen from Andrew Skilleter due autumn 2026
- Big Finish: Torchwood: Fare Well released
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Fixers due July 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures: The Hallamshire Incident due July 2026
- Big Finish: Doctor Who – The Third Doctor Adventures: The Planet Killers due October 2026
- Paradise Towers: Unalive the Multiverse Kickstarter from Cutaway Comics
- Marcia Lucas passes away
Interview:
#AdrianTchiakovsky #AndrewSkilleter #BigFinish #BritBox #CutawayComics #DoctorWhoAdventures #DoctorWhoAmI #doctorWhoMagazine #DoctorWhoTVMovie #JonathanHelm #MarciaLucas #Merchandise #Obituary #ParadiseTowers #PaulCornell #PaulMcGann #RussellTDavies #Series16 #SophieAldred #SylvesterMcCoy -
Jay Daniel Dies: Producer On Groundbreaking If Troubled Series ‘Roseanne’, ‘Moonlighting’ & ‘Cybil’ Was 82
#News #Obituaries #JayDaniel #Moonlighting #Obituary #Roseanne -
After more than two weeks, the Grauniad now has an #obituary for #CraigVenter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/14/craig-venter-obituary I was kind of surprised that he died at a normal age, rather than using his resources to engineer his own immortality.
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Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2026/05/01/craig-venter-raced-to-decode-the-human-genome
#HackerNews #CraigVenter #HumanGenomeProject #Obituary #ScienceLegacy #Genetics
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Matt Dinerstein Dies: Set Photographer For ‘The Bear’, ‘Chicago’ Shows & Others Was 69
#News #Obituaries #ChicagoFire #ChicagoPD #MattDinerstein #Obituary #TheBearhttps://deadline.com/2026/05/matt-dinerstein-dead-set-photographer-the-bear-chicago-p-d-1236878810/
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"J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at 79.
Venter rose to fame in the field for publishing the first bacterial genome ever decoded, along with a list on gene annotations, in 1995. The achievement kicked off an age of discovery in genetics, with researchers racing to decode the genomes of other pathogens—and eventually, animals."
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Barbara Gordon Dies: TV Producer Who Wrote Of Valium Addiction In Memoir-Turned-Movie ‘I’m Dancing As Fast As I Can’ Was 90
#News #Obituaries #BarbaraGordon #I039mDancingAsFastAsICan #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/04/barbara-gordon-dead-1236863537/
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Jessie Jones Dies: TV Actor & Prolific Playwright Was 75
#News #Obituaries #JessieJones #MurphyBrown #Newhart #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/03/jessie-jones-dead-tv-actor-playwright-1236770438/
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Matt Clark Dies: Character Actor In Scores Of Films & TV Shows Spanning 50 Years Was 89
#News #Obituaries #MattClark #Obituaryhttps://deadline.com/2026/03/matt-clark-dead-character-actor-in-westerns-1236756764/
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Gary Dontzig Dies: ‘Murphy Brown’ Writer-Producer Who Won Three Emmys Was 79
#News #Obituaries #Becker #GaryDontzig #HannahMontana #MurphyBrown #Obituary #StateofGrace #SuddenlySusanhttps://deadline.com/2026/03/gary-dontzig-dead-murphy-brown-writer-producer-1236744318/
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NPPA Awards Honor Late Boston Globe Picture Editor Lloyd Young https://petapixel.com/2026/02/27/nppa-awards-honor-late-boston-globe-picture-editor-lloyd-young/ #photocontest #bostonglobe #competition #lloydyoung #Industry #industry #obituary #honor #News #nppa
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Actor Robert Carradine Dies At Age 71
#News #KeithCarradine #Obituary #RobertCarradinehttps://deadline.com/2026/02/robert-carradine-dead-age-71-1236734055/
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Sly Dunbar Dies: Drummer Of Celebrated Reggae Rhythm Duo Sly And Robbie Was 73
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Khaleda Zia, who became Bangladesh’s first female prime minister in 1991 and went on to develop a bitter rivalry with Sheikh Hasina, died at 80 on Tuesday after a long illness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/khaleda-zia-bangladesh-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #obituary #bangladesh #khaledazia #southasia #dhaka
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RIP Buck Rogers.
#GilGerard #obituary #BuckRogers
Gil Gerard, ‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ Star, Dies at 82
https://variety.com/2025/tv/obituaries-people-news/gil-gerard-dead-buck-rogers-in-the-25th-century-1236610578/ -
Viogression – Thaumaturgic Veil Review
By Angry Metal Guy
By: Nameless_n00b_602
For every well-known, successful band, countless similar acts haven’t caught the same break or enjoyed the same recognition.1 For every Thou, there’s an Indian; every Abigail Williams, a Crepuscle; and every Obituary, a Viogression. One of the original but unsung stalwarts of death metal’s earliest days, Viogression formed in 1988 and released a well-received debut, Expound & Exhort, in 1991. The 1992 follow-up, Passage, failed to meet expectations, leading the band to take a three-decade hiatus. Their third full-length, 2022’s 3rd Stage of Decay, was praised for its old-school core and modern flair. Three years and a major lineup shuffle later, they return with their fourth full-length and first self-release, Thaumaturgic Veil. Promising a transcendent discourse on the interconnectivity of infinity and individuality, can this new version of Viogression maintain its momentum and deliver?
Like the good doctor, Vickie Franks, Viogression stitches together the genre’s most recognizable touchstones, but parts of themselves peek through, distinct from their influences. Sole remaining founder and vocalist, Brian DeNeffe, exhumes Obituary and Pestilence for his unintelligible rasps and howls, but employs impressive gutturals and layered screams of his own on “Vulnus Sclopetarium” and “Summon.” Guitarists Lief Larson and Johnathon Ibarra evoke the doomy vibe and disorienting, whip-crack tempo shifts of Autopsy and Asphyx (“Jinx,” “Light Extinguisher”), but the western dust on “Superposition” belongs to Viogression alone. An uncharacteristically twangy chorus and heavy distortion build an atmosphere for a clean, soulful guitar to cut through. Larson, Ibarra, and drummer Erik Schultek halve and double their tempos on “Renumeration” to create a pace both consistent and in flux. Punky album high point, “Pummeled,” sees DeNeffe acting as a rare counterpoint for a jazz-infused solo.2 These moments showcase the band’s excellent synthesis of influence and individuality when the stitches hold and the heart pumps strongly.
But the stitches don’t always hold; Thaumaturgic Veil suffers from indiscretionary inclusion, or poor compositional choices. Bassist Jason Hellman provides Cannibal Corpse-esque hooks (“Jinx,” “Travesty öv Darkness”) and a palpable heft to the album, but his performance often feels like parody. The opening basslines of “Superposition” and “As the Light Fades” plod and meander in ways that recall the tongue-in-cheek parts of Green Day’s catalogue. A recurring nasally guitar tone tries to instill unease but is instead repetitive and annoying (“Jinx,” “As the Light Fades”). “Eaten by Flies” invokes Polka and, like “Superposition” and “Summon,” is paratactical in its lyrical delivery, imitating amateur slam poetry. This disharmonious construction hamstrings Viogression’s ability to cultivate the philosophical and contemplative tone their subject matter requires.
Even with more consistent songwriting, Thaumaturgic Veil would still feel stitched together and disjointed. The album presents less as a coherent work and more as a series of vignettes. Each proper track (save closer, “Light Extinguisher”) is paired with an intro, giving the sensation of moving from painting to painting in a gallery rather than viewing one grand tapestry. It’s an interesting idea, but it fails for three reasons. First, these intros don’t bleed into their songs. I struggled to find a correlation in these pairings, whether musically, thematically, or lyrically. Second, without stronger connective tissue, these intros only add bloat to a relatively lean record.3 Third, and most damning, they prohibit the listener from building any momentum throughout Thaumaturgic Veil. This start-stop-start-stop structure makes the album feel twice as long as it is and turns every spin into a test of endurance.
While I can applaud the ambition of Thaumaturgic Veil, the execution ultimately falls short. “Pummeled,” “Renumeration,” and “Vulnus Sclopetarium” show that Viogression has the chops to write and perform a great, concise album, but uneven songwriting quality and an interrupted flow mar what could have been a prime offering from the old guard. Either of these flaws in isolation would have been manageable, but taken together, their impact compounds. There’s potential here, and with tighter threading and a more cohesive structure, I have no doubt Viogression could achieve the recognition they deserve.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Self-Released
Websites: viogression.info | Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: July 11th, 2025#20 #2025 #AbigailWilliams #Asphyx #Autopsy #Autospy #CannibalCoprse #CannibalCorpse #Crepuscle #DeathMetal #GreenDay #Independent #Indian #Jul25 #Obituary #Pestilence #Review #Reviews #SelfRelease #ThaumaturgicVeil #Viogression
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American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed Apollo 13 mission that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival, has died at the age of 97. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/09/world/science-health/lovell-obituary/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #nasa #us #jimlovell #space #obituary
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Radio Free Skaro #1016 – Bonestorm
http://traffic.libsyn.com/freyburg/rfs1016.mp3
It’s “Wish World”, the penultimate episode Season 2 of Doctor Who, but the moment has been prepared for! What did Steven, Warren, and Chris think of this lead-up to next week’s finale “The Reality War” and all the many campy bits therein? Will the Doctor regain his identity and crack the code of a 1950s inflected dystopia? Will Ruby work out the mystery of a forgotten world? Will Belinda get anything to do? Tune in and find out! Plus Barbie, Big Finish, and more!
Links:
- Support Radio Free Skaro on Patreon
- Doctor Who S2E07 “Wish World” Review
- Doctor Who S2E07 Unleashed
- Doctor Who S2E07 Behind the Scenes
- Varada Sethu Interviews Carole Ann Ford
- Dugga Doo full version
- Dugga Doo 24/7
- Fifteenth Doctor Barbie due July
- Ruby Sunday Barbie due July
- Doctor Who Magazine 617 released
- Doctor Who: River Song Choose Your Own Adventure Hardcover due Feb 12, 2026
- Big Finish Call Me Master: Monsters due September 2025
- Big Finish Doctor Who: Alixion due September 2025
- Bonnie Langford & Colin Baker answer Big Finish listener questions
- Big Finish: Star Cops – Conflict returns in 2026
- Peter David died
- BBC arts broadcaster Alan Yentob dies aged 78
#AlanYentob #Barbie #BigFinish #BonnieLangford #CaroleAnnFord #ColinBaker #doctorWho #doctorWhoMagazine #DoctorWhoUnleashed #Merchandise #Obituary #PeterDavid #Season2 #TheInterstellarSongContest #VaradaSethu #WishWorld
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Kazuo Sumi, former president and chairman of railway operator Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, died at his house in the city of Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, on April 26, sources said Wednesday. He was 76. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/07/japan/ex-hankyu-hanshin-chief-dies/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #obituary #rail #hankyu #hanshin
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I just heard the news about the death of Ōtepoti musician Martin Phillips, frontman of Flying Nun band The Chills since the 1960s. To mark his passing, here's a track called Sleeping Giants from the 1992 Chills album Soft Bomb;
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iMu3r8YffQI
The lyrics of this song have never seemed more timely;
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/2765387/The+Chills/Sleeping+Giants
(1/?)
#listening #music #GuitarPop #TheChills #Obituary #MartinPhillips
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#BobNewhart Dead: Iconic #Comedian Was 94
Bob #Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical #comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, #died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94.
#obituaryhttps://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bob-newhart-dead-comedian-1236077300/
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Joan Benedict Dies: ‘Candid Camera’, ‘General Hospital’ Actor, Widow Of Rod Steiger Was 96
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Joan Benedict Dies: ‘Candid Camera’, ‘General Hospital’ Actor, Widow Of Rod Steiger Was 96
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Joan Benedict Dies: ‘Candid Camera’, ‘General Hospital’ Actor, Widow Of Rod Steiger Was 96
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Joan Benedict Dies: ‘Candid Camera’, ‘General Hospital’ Actor, Widow Of Rod Steiger Was 96
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"The World Needs More Writers"
In the Paul Auster obit thread, Kattullus commented with a lovely personal remembrance of the author, and the enduring resonance Auster has had in his life.
#anecdotes #Auster #author #Kattullus #literature #obit #obituary #remembrance #reminiscence
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Alec Mills Dies: Camera Operator And Cinematographer On James Bond Films Was 91
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BravePicks 2023 - OBITUARY's Dying Of Everything #1https://bravewords.com/news/bravepicks-2023-obituary-s-dying-of-everything-1
#Obituary #DyingofEverything #IndieMetal #BravePicks2023 #HeavyMusic #MetalMusic #GuitarSolos #KennieSmith #InTheTrenches #LyricalContent #MetalAlbum #FlamesOfTheInsane #Precipice
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@davidho Also remembering #FrancisGolding, without whom the worlds of #FineArt, #architecture & #UrbanPlanning in the #UK are poorer. He was killed while #cycling home in #London.
1 obituary: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/obituary-francis-golding-1944-2013
1 small part of the legacy: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/francis-golding-life-clothes🚴💀💔 , RIP.
#BikeTooter #obituary #ArchitectsJournal #tribute #MuseumOfLondon #inspiration #RoadSafety #LivableCities -
Here's my updated #AOTY2023 list:
1. #Obituary - Dying Of Everything 4/5
2. #Screamer - Kingmaker 4/5
2. #Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags 4/5
3. #Memoriam - Rise To Power 3,5/5
4. #TwilightForce - At The Heart Of Wintervale 3,5/5
5. #AllMyShadows - Eerie Monsters 3/5
6. #AirRaid - Fatal Encounter 3/5 *NEW*
7. #MONOINC - Ravenblack 3/5
8. #AllOutWar - Celestial Rot 3/5
9. #Leiþa - Reue 3/5
10. #InFlames - Foregone 2,5/5
11. #Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars 2/5 -
Good morning folks.
Just listened to Celestial Rot from All Out War. Entertaining, but nothing stood out after one spin. I bet this is much better live.1. #Obituary - Dying Of Everything 4/5
2. #Screamer - Kingmaker 4/5
3. #Memoriam - Rise To Power 3,5/5
4. #TwilightForce - At The Heart Of Wintervale 3,5/5
5. #AllMyShadows - Eerie Monsters 3/5
6. #MONOINC - Ravenblack 3/5
7. #AllOutWar - Celestial Rot 3/5 *NEW*
8. #Leiþa - Reue 3/5
9. #Katatonia - Sky Void of Stars 2/5
