inFocus

World Premiere of Ercole Amante
at the Paris Opera Bastille

Imagine the hype: a 300 year-old opera composed by a woman and never before fully performed.
Renate Stendhal

Memento Mori
Death and decay serve as powerful, melancholic metaphors for the passage of time.
The photography of
Jon Rendell
 

Keep Watching the Skies
Bugonia, Project Hail Mary
Their endings are directly opposed to each other, and I leave it to you to discover what they are.
Miles David Moore               

The Snare of Distance and the Sunglasses of the Seer/ Part Six
The emptiness that is space shows no sign of disturbance. Space is, for there is no way for it not to be.
Brian George

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August 2026

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