Looking right at you: a goat (possibly demonic). With a kid (non-demonic). By today's artist, Jacob Cuyp of Dordrecht. Portrait specialist & father of Aelbert Cuyp.

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

On April 21, 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrated the “Panopticon,” the first, or among the very first, working movie projectors developed in the United States, allowing for the public screening of motion pictures. #OnThisDay

"In Europe, an actor is an artist.

In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum."

-Anthony Quinn #BOTD

Anthony Quinn had a parallel career as a visual artist

Silvana Mangano in "The Witches" - BOTD

This might be a good *define this account in one image* photos.

Alicia Alonso and what look like garage mechanics in tights.

#NewAcquisition

“I have no idea

why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.”

-Iggy Pop #BOTD

After being handed a jar of peanut butter during a show, Iggy "shares" it with the audience Cincinnati, Ohio, 13th June 1970

Spanish poster for Sengoku gunto-den (1959)

#ToshiroTuesday

Anthony Quinn #BOTD

Good morning!

I had that dream again

Book being held open to title page illumination, showing hemmed white silk curtain to protect it.

Get this... It has curtains!

Edie Sedgwick at Silver Hill Psychiatric Hospital in 1962.
#EdieSedgwick #BOTD

Freak Out USA magazine cover featuring the Monkees, the Fugs, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Frank Zappa, other unlikely teen groups

happy to see fanzine hemmorhage out of retirement & even happier to see them covering freak out, usa #1, published in fall 1967. fanzinehemorrhage.com/2026/04/16/f...

cover collage featuring fugs, lovin spoonful, a few mothers and more

ad for fugs button with handdrawn handwritten copy

Mothers collage

Jefferson Airplane: The Group to Watch

wowie zowie, the whole issue is on @archive.org. archive.org/details/frea...

"The human body is an alchemical athanor for those who have become familiar with the occult truth, like a pot in which the earthly aspirations by which an ordinary mortal lives are digested and boiled. In the human body, which contains analogues of everything that is present in nature in all its fourfoldness, there is an instrument for the highest purification of the four elements themselves, so that you can gradually achieve a higher state." — Giuliano Kremmerz "Corpus philosophorum totius magiae" Art: Collection of Alchemical Texts, c. 1701

What a spiritual practice actually looks like:

Joe’s bird_08.25

Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries For a time, eating and relaxing among the dead was a national pastime.

Remembering When Americans Picnicked in Cemeteries

Mikhail Bulgakov with a group of friends (Mikhail and Elena Bulgakov, Pavel Popov, Sergey Topleninov)

1934 • (?) Alexander Rodchenko

Black and white photographs of film actress and also theatrical star Valeska Suratt. she has heavy dark makeup around her eyes and is wearing an Indescribable hat with big feathers and a spider web brim which veils for face

Valeska Suratt, 1917

The poster for the stage play The Girl with the Whooping Cough starring of Valeska Suratt. Suratt's character passed the cough on to a number of men. The mayor and police commissioner got the Broadway production closed down.

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The image is a paper collage by the French artist Bill Noir.
Noir, born in 1981 and based in Strasbourg, France, is known for his analog collage work, which he often refers to as "chaosmos"—a term he uses to describe the blend of chaos and cosmos in his creative process.

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

good morning: nobody has built a more compelling mobile park bench than Fiat coachbuilders

www.broadarrowauctions.com/vehicles/ve2...

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

1963 Fiat 600 Torpedo Marina by Vignale

just absurd, spectacular work here

The cover of Grace Jones’ 1985 album Island Life, featuring Grace posing on one leg in a “workout” outfit, holding a microphone.

I love artists who don’t stop. They can take years between projects, but they work until they are no longer able. They are compelled to create.

I had that dream again

Woman in a Masquerade Costume Looking in a Mirror
~ Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1892)

Tonight's viewing - "Mysteries of Lisbon" - the TV Mini Series - directed by Raúl Ruiz - Continued

#420day The annual collection of cannabis seized by the New York Police Department Narcotics Bureau during the year 1924