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Sinister | Scott Derrickson | 2012

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William Gedney, This is the Beginning of Something

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Max Ernst, Praise to Tanguy, 1955

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Shoji Ueda, 1950

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Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953), Le chat blanc [The White Cat], c.1940-43. Oil and pencil on cardboard, 47.7 x 39 cm.

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From K Svetu, 1906.

Slithery: my unusual collection of vintage snake imagery.

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my year of rest and relaxation, ottessa moshfegh

So I did not step back. Instead, I put my hand out. I touched the frame of the painting. And then I placed my whole palm on the dry, rumbling surface of the canvas, simply to prove to myself that there was no God stalking my soul. Time was not immemorial. Things were just things.

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Eliot Hodgkin (British, 1905-1987), Five Oyster Shells, 1961. Tempera on board, 24.8 x 38.2 cm.

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Huang Yuxing (Chinese, b. 1975), Feeding the Tiger, 2003. Oil on canvas, 80 x 120 cm.

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Kitty Sabatier

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Georges Melies’ A Trip to the Moon premiered on this day in 1902.

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Hernan Bas (American, b. 1978), Eating roses in the rain, 2018. Acrylic on linen, 72 x 60 in.

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I want, I don’t want. How can one live with such a heart? Long ago I gave up singing to it, it will never be satisfied or lulled. One night I will say to it: Heart, be still, and it will.

Margaret Atwood, from The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart in “Selected Poems II: 1976-1986″ (via adrasteiax)

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The #ICPMuseum is the first venue in the United States to present “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment"—it’s a real treat for photo lovers. The exhibition is a crash course of one of the most influential photo books in the world. http://bit.ly/2rlQdZt 📷 Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Albert Camus, from Carnets 1935-1942

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I have been stricken with intagibility.

Hélène Cixous, from “Poetry In Painting: Writings on Contemporary Arts & Aesthetics,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Trieste Fishing Boat 1912

Egon Schiele