Mark Rees
@reviewwales
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author & PhD researcher in the Gothic/ uncanny. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot.
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100 days until Halloween. And with that, a cold breeze filled the air... 🎃🍂
Today is the feast day of Mary Magdalene. This is said to be her skull, which was discovered by the monks of Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume in 1279. It's kept under a glass dome in a golden reliquary in the crypt of a Gothic basilica dedicated to the saint in Southern France.
John Carpenter tried to warn us: "An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital information" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Happy St. Swithin's Day!☔ What's the weather like? Today we discover if summer will be fair or foul for the next 40 days: “St Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain. St Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mare.” #StSwithinsDay
John Dee - occultist, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and Queen Elizabeth's very own magician - was born today in 1527. These eerie images (c.1825/ 1790) show Dee and Edward Kelly communing with a spirit in a cemetery by moonlight. As you do. #otd #onthisday #gothic
Story in The Times about a new AI film & TV production company. The suggestion is that AI can be used to save money on (e.g.) natural history documentaries, by just making it up. 1/2
A "huggable" piece of the Sycamore Gap tree to go on permanent display: "People will be able to see and touch part of its trunk at a Northumberland visitor centre near where the tree stood, as a permanent memorial to its mindless destruction" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
"Woman Washing Her Feet in a Brook" (1894) Happy birthday to Impressionist forefather Camille Pissarro – born today in 1830. 🎨 Indianapolis Museum of Art #art #impressionism
There's something comforting about the BBC pushing The Wicker Man on their home page: "Prepare to be unsettled by folk horror classic The Wicker Man" bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
Bayeux Tapestry to return to UK on loan after 900 years "The 70m-long masterpiece, which tells the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, will be loaned in a historic agreement to be signed between the French and British governments." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Who else owned – or still owns – this spooky classic? 👻 First published in 1983, the yellow and red cover features the Screaming Skull of Bettiscombe Manor in Dorset and the good old Amityville Horror house. “The World’s Greatest Ghosts” indeed — it terrified a generation! 👻
Watch our film of the exhibition ‘Within the Space of a Dream’ at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon. 3 pieces of my work are shown in the arts section. The exhibition closes on August 24th. If you’d like to see it, get there quickly. Otherwise, watch here: youtu.be/tjSJuUgezD8?si…