outsider art: revisiting the narrative embroidery of Agnes Richter and other works in the Prinzhorn Collection
market sundries: the paper bag baron of the East End—via Strange Company
the crispy r: more on rhoticity and unusual consonant pentimenti: conservators reveal a hidden demonic figure in Joshua Reynold’s “The Death of Cardinal Beaufort”—see also
the statistical breviary: an overview of the history of digital design
uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, cinco, seis: DJ Cummerbund (previously) presents a mashup of the The Offspring and Boney M—with quite a few other musical cameos
face-hugger: the parasitic crustacean Phronima sedentaria was the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s Alien
sgraffito: the alleged safe-room where Michelangelo hid from his political enemies, decorated with his anatomical and engineering studies opens to the public
