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Ryue Nishizawa -Teshima Art Museum- Japan

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Raoul Ubac (1910 – 1985) was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.

He had various and irregular artistic training and travelled in Europe between 1928 and 1934. He worked mostly on photography between 1934 and 1942, embraced Surrealism in Paris and took photos for the magazine Minotaure.

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“Pathologic”: Imaginative, Bizarre And Otherworldy Paintings Of Peter Ferguson

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The Ajmer Jain temple - Soni Ji Ki Nasiyan, Rajasthan, India

The Ajmer Jain temple, also known as Soniji Ki Nasiyan, is an architecturally rich Jain temple. It was built in the late nineteenth century.

The main chamber, known as the Swarna Nagari “City of Gold”, has several gold-plated wooden figures, depicting several figures in the Jain religion. This golden chamber of the temple uses 1000 kg of gold to carve out a depiction of Ayodhya.

“Ajmer’s main attraction is - for the Jainas - the prominently situated Nasiayan Digambara Temple, or rather the two-storied Svarana Nagara Hall behind the temple, better known as the Museum. Both the temple and the museum were built and are still owned by the Soni family of Ajmer.

The temple, dedicated to Rishabha or Adinatha in 1865, was constructed of red sandstone in a matter of a few years, but it took twenty-five years, from 1870 to 1895, to fashion - by artisans at Jaipur - the thousands of individual parts required to assemble a three-dimensional replica of the story of Rishabha in accordance with an old manuscript by Acharya Jinasena.

(via Instagram: Vamsi Mantena @vamsi_mantena)

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Club chair by Josef Hoffmann, 1910

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Dartmoor, from No Moor, Henry Woide

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Study for painting

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Accident, Zsigmond Perényi (then József Paksi) street, Budapest, 1964. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.  

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Featured image: A beautiful step well in Ahmedabad, India; like many others it has gone dry because the water table is even lower now than when it was constructed many years ago.

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“Kazanian Cat, Astrakhanian mind, Siberian reason, lived gloriously, ate sweetly, farted lightly"⠀ ⠀ More on this image and more Russian lubki (colorful broadsides, 16th–early 20th century) here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th–19th-century #Caturday

(Print to buy here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/d-a-rovinskiis-collection-of-russian-lubki-18th–19th-century

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La Nuit by Jean-Louis Hamon (1866)

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17th-century Dutch engraving showing a team of pigs spinning cotton, while in the corner a woman — who’d normally be associated with the work — sleeps: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-spinning-sow-1673

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Drawing by Yasuhiro Myogahara. 1978

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Isamu Noguchi, Pillar with Pink Petals, set element for the Martha Graham production, Dark Meadow, 1946, paint, wood, plastic, metal (performance copy),  The Martha Graham Dance Company

Photo by Kevin Noble

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“Have Microfossils, will Time Travel” for Colgate University’s Scene Magazine