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It’s actually signed “L & D Dillon” — like most of the work by this incredible husband-and-wife pair. More details in this blog post on the Mubi web site.

The Fox by Leo Dillon (1967)

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Sieglinde (Gitta-Maria Sjöberg) amazes herself by pulling the sword Nothung from a tree, in Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre directed by Kaspar Bech Holten, Royal Danish Opera, 2006.

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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Parodic sketch of Brünnhilde's slumber at the end of Wagner's Die Walküre, first published in the satirical pamphlet Schultze und Müller im Ring des Nibelungen by Alexander Moszkowski (Berlin: A. Hoffman, 1881?). Artist unknown, possibly Moszkowski himself but I don't think so.

Sluggo floating in midair and saying "no," from the Nancy comic strip by Ernie Bushmiller, 17 or 27 April 1953.

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you know this is totally how Wagner saw himself, too

lithograph by Henri Fantin-Latour, from Adolphe Jullien’s book Richard Wagner: sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris: J. Rouam, 1886), facing page xvi.

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what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

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i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this

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innovations in cat gifs, part 2

its a mystery

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innovations in cat gifs, part 1

Google Earth is Amazing

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In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

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I’m struck by the way this era’s artists conceived of an entire room (or even an entire building) as a combined artistic statement.

1902 is the same year that the Vienna Secession presented a tribute to Beethoven, centered on Max Klinger’s statue of the composer along with wall paintings and decorations by Gustav Klimt, Alfred Roller, Adolf Böhm, Ferdinand Andri, etc.

Bruno Möhring - Berlin. L'Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs modernes à Turin 1902

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LIMITED TIME - “DAWN” & “NIGHT” Small Art Prints are now discounted, while supplies last! You can check ‘em out in my web shop (in my bio)! ❤️

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Ricky the Rabbit, a.k.a. Easter, pop-up book by Vojtěch Kubašta. Designed and produced by Artia Prague, printed in Czechoslovakia, published by Westminster Books / Bancroft & Co., London, approx. 1960?

Kubašta was simply the best to ever do it

[sources: Stella & Rose's Books / White Fox Rare Books / Broward County Library]

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frontispiece to the play Le Danseur de Madame by Paul Armont & Jacques Bousquet, published by Éditions Lucien Vogel in 1921, with illustrations by Pierre Brissaud.

This piece is captioned "Enfin seuls!" (alone at last!).

oooh love love love this piece .... first time i saw it i was very touched

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Hey I Love You Thank God It’s Spring

3 colour riso prints :) available here !!

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Okay there is SO MUCH going on here

somehow I was compartmentalizing the fact that the greek shipping magnate maria callas had an affair with was in fact aristotle onassis of jackie kennedy onassis. how are there not 3-5 stage plays or possibly operas by gay men about these two women being in the same room

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Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.