Full of urgency and movement, many of his sketches document anarchist militias engaged in street battles; others depict more sanguine scenes after the fighting stopped. In charcoal and watercolours, Rey Vila produced arresting portraits of red-capped volunteers, nurses tending the wounded, and the women of the milicianas raising their fists on the move. His work travelled far at exhibits and in widely reproduced booklets, raising international awareness before Picassoâs cubist horrors relayed the destruction of Guernica to the world.
Both nations are tarred by irreconcilable crises that could unravel democracy itself â sanity and stability have never felt further from reach
A feature of living at the end of an era is that some events in the present already feel like future artefacts â things you expect to see in a school history book, or a documentary many years from now. Here is King Charlesâs 2026 state visit to the United States, right between the chapters on the war on Iran and the global energy crisis. Here is an image of the entire constellation of Trumpland, dining on spring-herbed ravioli and dover sole. Look at this interesting antiquity of the time: the gold plates, the universal sign of a regime at the peak of excess. And there you see the foreign dignitary, making a speech that at the time felt like bold truth-telling, but as we all now know was little more than naive theatre while the whole world teetered on the precipice.
The cast of characters behind the era-ending crisis were present, helpfully concentrated in one place to illustrate to those in the future how it came to this, and by whose hands. The money men, the Lord Haw-Haws, the nepo babies, the quislings. Seven guests from Fox News, seven members of the Trump family, Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook and â a little treat for golf-loving Trump â the Masters champion, Rory McIlroy, who the president made stand up to show off, breaking away from his state address to say: âCongratulations! Very proud of you.â If you wanted a snapshot of the forces that underpin the Trump administration, indifferent to its colossal violations, here it was â billionaire-funded corporate media, big tech, private equity and stars just happy to be so close to so much power.
The rise of multisensory installations like Frameless are an inspiring way for children to interact with art â but do they risk making the real thing seem less exciting?
You know Hieronymus Boschâs The Garden of Earthly Delights? That psychedelic triptych chock-a-block with creatures real and imagined and the monstrosities of hell? Well, my toddler and I are in it. To be precise, weâre slap-bang in the middle of the cosmic central panel, which is projected on to the wide walls around us, as well as the ceiling and the floor. There are naked men and women riding bareback on ducks and deer and horses. Camels and cattle. Butterflies and birds. Pale legs lolling from a shell.
This is our first trip to Frameless, an immersive art experience near Marble Arch in London that bills itself as a place âwhere art breaks freeâ. Call me a traditionalist, but digital art isnât usually my thing. I enjoyed David Hockney at the Lightroom, where I also took my son to see the dinosaurs â the day we went, the audience was almost exclusively made up of tots and their adults. But I prefer paintings to be still rather than animated. I like to concentrate on a canvas rather than watch it deconstruct and dissolve. I want art to be meaningful and long-lasting. Tangible. Real.
Mexican spring soup followed by black bean and three-cheese quesadilla
I have always loved the evident (though not proven) link between how foodie a country is and its love of soups. In Mexico, where nose-to-tail eating is a given, broths maintain a steadying presence in any self-respecting cantina, and soups are commonplace on most menus. We donât eat a crazy amount of meat at home, but having homemade stock in the freezer is an ingenious fast track to flavour and goodness. Here, whether your stock is chicken or vegetable, homemade or shop-bought, the joy is in the gentle spicing, a scattering of herbs, zingy tomatillos and some lovely spring leaves.
New government accused of âperformative justiceâ and making deals with suspects in 2013 Tadamon massacres
Ahmad al-Homsi is a deep sleeper, but when he was woken last month and told that Amjad Youssef, a Syrian intelligence officer who killed civilians in the 2013 Tadamon massacres, had been arrested, he bolted out of bed. He ran into the street to find other people already celebrating the news.
âWe stayed out for almost three or four days celebrating. People from neighbouring areas sent camels, sheep, livestock for us to slaughter and distribute them to people. The tears of joy didnât stop,â said al-Homsi, a 33-year-old activist with the Tadamon Coordination Committee, which documented the atrocities in the Damascus neighbourhood.
Aan de Bloemenlaan in Rotterdam-Feijenoord is in de nacht van zondag op maandag brand uitgebroken in een auto. De brandweer was er snel bij om het vuur te blussen.
UTRECHT (ANP) - Door een seinstoring rijden er maandagochtend geen treinen tussen Utrecht en Den Haag. ProRail kan nog niet inschatten hoe lang de problemen gaan duren, maar voorziet zeker gevolgen voor de ochtendspits.
De seinstoring is gelokaliseerd bij Moordrecht (Zuid-Holland) en de oorzaak wordt onderzocht. "Maar als die bekend is, moet de storing nog worden verholpen en daarna moet het treinverkeer weer op gang komen", zegt een woordvoerster.
Een dodelijke uitbraak van het hantavirus aan boord van het Nederlandse expeditieschip MV Hondius heeft tot nu toe drie levens geĂ«ist; een vierde patiĂ«nt ligt in kritieke toestand op de intensive care in ZuidâAfrika. Nederland bereidt de repatriĂ«ring voor van zieke bemanningsleden en een overleden opvarende.
De eerste slachtoffers zijn een 70âjarige man en zijn 69âjarige echtgenote, beiden Nederlanders, die ernstige symptomen van een acuut respiratoir syndroom ontwikkelden. De man overleed aan boord; zijn lichaam werd later overgebracht naar het Britse eiland SintâHelena, terwijl zijn vrouw in kritieke toestand werd geĂ«vacueerd naar ZuidâAfrika, waar zij overleed in een ziekenhuis in Johannesburg. Een derde slachtoffer, een 69âjarige Brit, raakte eveneens zwaar ziek en is op dit moment opgenomen op de afdeling intensieve zorgen in Johannesburg, waar bij hem in het laboratorium een hantavirusbesmetting is bevestigd.
De Nederlandse rederij Oceanwide Expeditions, eigenaar van de MV Hondius, bevestigt dat Nederland de repatriëring zal leiden van twee zieke bemanningsleden die dringend medische zorg nodig hebben. In hetzelfde traject moet ook het lichaam van een overleden opvarende terug naar Nederland worden gebracht, samen met een naaste die zelf geen ziekteverschijnselen vertoont. De rederij benadrukt dat de repatriëring afhankelijk is van meerdere factoren, waaronder toestemming van de Kaapverdische autoriteiten en de medische toestand van de betrokkenen.
Onzekerheid over oorzaak en situatie aan boord
Oceanwide Expeditions stelt dat nog niet vaststaat of de dood van de drie opvarenden rechtstreeks is toe te schrijven aan het hantavirus. Ook twee zieke bemanningsleden aan boord hebben vooralsnog geen positieve test op het virus; nader onderzoek moet duidelijkheid geven over de exacte oorzaak en eventuele onderlinge verbanden. Aan boord kunnen zoân 170 passagiers en ongeveer 70 bemanningsleden en gidsen verblijven, maar het is onduidelijk hoeveel mensen er daadwerkelijk aan boord zijn en in welke toestand de overige opvarenden verkeren. Het Nederlandse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken heeft de opvarenden gevraagd in hun hut te blijven en biedt consulaire bijstand aan familie en bekenden van Nederlandse passagiers.
"So yesterday the Devteam (it is always the Devteam) released version 5.0 of legendary and venerable rogueike compuer game NetHack," writes the Rogue-like games column @Play. "It is 39 years old..."
MilenCent (Slashdot reader #219,397) writes: In addition to play changes it's left for players to discover, this version updates the code to compile with C99, makes it much easier to cross compile the code for other systems than the one running, and now uses Lua for its dungeon generation. Happy hacking!
For new players, "Nethack 5.0 now has an optional tutorial in the early phases of the game that might help you," notes the Rogue-like games column @Play:
Three systems binaries are provided: Windows, MS-DOS and Amiga. Yes, Nethack still supports MS-DOS, and yes, it still supports classic Amiga: it explicitly supports AmigaDOS 3.0, meaning it can still run on 68000 machines... That these are the only systems they provide binaries for shouldn't be seen as an indication that these are the "most important" platforms for Nethack, it's more that, since it's entirely open source, building it yourself is entirely possible, and more expected than with most software. Nethack can be built for Linux, Windows 8-11, AmigaDOS, MacOS (I'm not sure if this includes classic Mac too but it might), Windows CE (wow), OS/2 (additional wow), BeOS, VMS and multiple Unixes... Another option is to play through public Nethack servers. The most popular of these are probably alt.org and Hardfought.
