The Basket of Bread (1926) by Salvador Dalí. Happy new year. 02026? An affectation via the Long Now. The Cello Player (1926) by Edwin Dickinson. Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia von Harden (1926) by Otto Dix. The Virgin Spanking the Christ Child before Three Witnesses: André Breton, Paul Eluard and the Artist (1926) by Max Ernst. The Musician's Table (1926) by Juan Gris.

L'arco di Tito (1918). Benvenuto Disertori was an Italian artist with a parallel career as a musicologist. I forget how his prints came to my attention but they're just the kind of thing I like to see: meticulous monochrome views with an emphasis on architecture and eroded mineral surfaces. Some printmakers tend to concentrate on a single medium—wood engraving, for example—but Disertori embraced a wide range of etching and engraving techniques.

Image of a Spherical Black Hole with Thin Accretion Disk (1979) by Jean-Pierre Luminet. Via. • "I would be willing to bet that every student of fantastic fiction has at some point in his or her career read a book with the name EF Bleiler printed on its cover." Brian J. Showers of Swan River Press talked to EF Bleiler…

Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Ghost Stories: A collection of ghost stories by E. F. Benson.

A magazine ad. Of all the books illustrated by Harry Clarke the most scarce are a pair of slim volumes published 100 years ago by the Jameson distillery to promote their brand of Irish whiskey. The books were never widely distributed, being given away to distillery visitors. Copies of the illustrations were still hard to find in 2011 when I wrote a brief post about them.