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Images used for the posts published on this date in 2014, 2021, and 2023     Sometimes - especially those times when, like today, I can'...

Picasso: Gored Horse (1917)  Graphite pencil on canvas with ochre primer  (80.2 x 103.3 cm) Museu Picasso de Barcelona     I.    As readers...

      I.    Good people always insist : It's quality rather than quantity that matters [1] .   You'll be a much happier and more au...

Heide Hatry : Rusty Balloon Dog (2015)  Photo by Stan Schnier     I.    Ask a metallurgist and they'll tell you that rust is an iron ox...

Fig 1: D. H. Lawrence, Laughing Horse (c. 1924) Fig 2: Josef Moest, Lady Godiva (1906)     I.    D. H. Lawrence had very definite ideas on...

Shepard Fairey in front of his portrait of Barack Obama before its installation  at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2009...

Moschino S/S 2020 Ready-to-Wear Collection The American fashion designer Jeremy Scott has done many things in his time that ha...

Single release from The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979) I. In his 1925 essay 'Why the Novel Matters', D. H. L...

Congo and one of his more mature works Everyone knows that monkeys make great copyists. We even have a verb in English, to ape , m...

Still from a promotional video for Dalí Lives (2019) © Salvador Dali Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL. If someday I die, though ...

According to Hannah Roche, poor old Amy Lowell has been rather hard done by and her poetry unfairly neglected by readers and criti...

Édouard Manet: Le Déjeuner sur  l'herbe  (1863)  Oil on canvas, 208 x 264.5 cm Manet's controversial picnic scene, know...