by Christine Tomasa for the Carl Kruse Blog The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often referred to as the “Doomsday Vault,” stands as a monumental safeguard for global agricultural biodiversity. Situated on the remote island of Spitsbergen in Norway, approximately 1,300 kilometers beyond the Arctic Circle, this facility serves as a repository for the world’s crop … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog The Francis Bacon exhibition in London’s National Gallery comes at a fine time. The world is dying all around and we are beginning to see the skeletal trees beneath the absorbingly great colours of the leaves. Existentialism has been noted for bringing the discussion of death, … [Read more…]
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog On Autumn ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round that thatch-eves run’ John Keats’ opening lines of ‘To Autumn’ picture a busy god culminating the over-brimmed ‘clammy cells’ … [Read more…]
by Asia Leonardi for the Carl Kruse Blog She was a thinker, a philosopher, a writer, the first woman to become a psychoanalyst: but more than anything, Lou Von Salomé was a free woman, independent and careless of people’s thoughts. Her magnetism enchanted illustrious figures of the time: from Paul Rée to Friedrich Nietzsche, from … [Read more…]
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It was as if it was meant to be. At the end of 2021, when most of us were just wishing we might be glimpsing the rear end of the Covid-19 pandemic, astronomers in Western Australia looking earnestly at the night sky were greeted by inexplicable … [Read more…]