The First Day — Rene Magritte

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Midnight Marriage — Rene Magritte

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Landscape with Cloudy Sky — Koloman Moser

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Last Day (Peanuts)

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Cloister — Giuseppe Abbati

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Sacred Music — Edward Okuń

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“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music”

Grotesques — Cesare Baglione

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Palace Life — Kilian Eng

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Oranges, Limes, Lemons, and Citrus Lumia — Bartolomeo Bimbi

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Announcement — Agostino Arrivabene

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Lead White — Dragan Bibin

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Fish Sermon — Oskar Laske

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Haskell Wexler talks about shooting Medium Cool

RIP Haskell Wexler, 1922-2015

Three Books (or, My three favorite reading experiences in 2015)

These were my three favorite (?!) reading experiences in 2015:

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Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. 1973 first edition trade paperback by Viking. Cover design and illustration by Marc Getter.img_1218

Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. First Vintage Contemporaries edition, trade paperback, 1998. Cover design by Carol Devine Carson.

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Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed. 1978 mass market paperback by Bard Books, a division of Avon Books. No designer or illustrator credited.

“Dickensian Children” — Roberto Bolaño

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