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The French Surrealist-oriented magazine in print from 1933 to 1939 was originally intended to be a general review of the plastic arts: p...

After a series of delays (see previously here and here ) the first uncrewed mission of the Artemis programme took off in a predawn la...

Whilst not as iconic or famous as the so called “surgeon’s photograph” of the 1934 since exposed as an elaborate hoax, the first captured...

vendedores ambulantes : the sonic landscape and signature cries ( see also ) of the street vendors of Ciudad de México—via tmn   from erd...

Alternately titled St George and the Dragon and The Seven Curses of Lodac, the 1962 adventure fantasy by Bert I Gordon ( King Dinosaur , The...

chaoskampf : examining the mythology of dragons across cultures   hurrian hymn № 6 : learn about and listen to the oldest known song— see a...

the hero with a thousand faces : further exploration of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth— see previously   well, the zombie-fighting phase of th...

(The rhythm from the B-52s Rock Lobster playing throughout) We all know Loch Ness (I conflated the history of the struggle of control for...

Though this kind of exact date for something semi-legendary, laden with cultural baggage and millennia hence is notoriously hard to pin...

First championed by networks of storytellers in Sweden and Australia in the early nineties before being organised as a global observance in...

The Latin motto—drawn by fate—echoes through this intriguing Renaissance tarot deck called Sola Busca , limned with an anachronistic mar...

Considered one of the greatest operatic works of all time, the Italian language dramma per musica based on a 1705 stage play by French ...

Via Slashdot , astronomers are forwarding the conjecture that like the other Saturnine satellites Titan and Enceladus , the mysterious and i...

2020—too… : the moment it hits you  the colours of motion : spectral analysis of contemporary film classics   the timekeepers of eternit...

Whilst the moniker itself is somewhat of an exaggeration in most cases, the rediscovered species and newly classified species, lured to b...

an den mond “genuss, lieber mond” : a completist sorts and ranks every composition of Franz Schubert—via the morning news   chaotic good : m...

Passing away on this day in Florence, where he had spent his entire life, in 1572 (*1503), Agnolo di Cosimo, better known by his sobrique...

Courtesy of Laughing Squid , we are directed towards Pixar Studio’s celebration of the twentieth anniversary of Monsters, Inc . with a fou...

 Designated by an NGO calling themselves amigos of this trickster character of Brazilian folklore to coincide with Halloween as a way to cou...

A prolific and popular salon painter in his own time—though figural portraits of classical subjects fell out of fashion until a revival...