Plus fantastic documentaries from Raoul Peck & Zackary Drucker, the amazing art of Sonia E. Barrett, & the Quintessential Holiday Cheese Platter!
Reading: Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Listening #1: Looking Back by Amanda Lear
Listening #2: Woman of Faces by Celeste
Looking: The Art of Sonia E. Barrett
Viewing #1: Enigma (2025) — documentary about Amanda Lear & April Ashley, directed by Zackary Drucker (HBO Max)
Viewing #2: Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025) — written, directed & produced by Raoul Peck
Tasting: The Quintessential Holiday Cheese Platter!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Guy Davenport (November 23, 1927 – January 4, 2005): “Art is the attention we pay to the wholeness of the world.”
https://epicureanvagabonds.substack.com/p/aesthetic-arrest-george-orwell-celeste
