SERENDIPITY ?

I just came across these photos. Serendipity? They were made in the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, if I remember correctly, in 2006. The quote painted on the wall appears to be a paraphrase of the Bible, although some say it comes from George Whitman, the store's former owner. "BE NOT INHOSPITABLE TO STRANGERS LEST THEY BE ANGELS IN DISGUISE" I do not know. In any case, with these pictures and this quote, I wish the readers of the Utisz Blog a blessed Christmas and a happy new year.

 

EXHIBITION IN BRUSSELS

 

Click here to see the virtual opening of the exhibition of István Orosz with welcome words of Tamás Iván Kovács, Ambassador of Hungary in Belgium and Luxembourg, presentation of Dr. Dirk Huylebrouck, doctor in linear algebra, Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and short introduction of the artist, István Orosz.

You are welcome to visit the gallery of the Cultural Institute Brussels on weekdays from 10AM to 4PM upon prior registration via info@bmki.be. 

 

 

NUNNERY ...

A new graphic work and a strange post scriptum. Do you remember Hamlet's words to Ophelia: Get thee to a nunnery. Does it mean: Go to a convent? Specialists of Shakespeare's  language say that "nunnery" in  common Elizabethan slang was nothing else but "brothel," (as nun has been slang for a prostitute) and that therefore Hamlet's words are ironic and even more despairing than it seems.