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(No title) from Sadao Hasegawa 01 (1990).
It’s good to be able to finish the year with another artistic discovery. I’d not come across Sadao Hasegawa’s work before but this page has an extensive (complete?) selection of his paintings and drawings. This is gay erotica with a twist, being Japanese in origin yet incorporating figures […]

Philosophy from The Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929).
I’ve procrastinated for an entire year over the idea of writing something about Hugh Ferriss and now this marvellous Flickr set has forced my hand. Ferriss (1889–1962) was a highly-regarded architectural renderer in the Twenties and Thirties, chiefly employed creating large drawings to show the clients of architects […]

Proving once again the centrality of James Bond to contemporary British identity, the Royal Mail releases these stamps on January 8th, 2008, the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s birth. If a misogynist state assassin seems an awkward choice of cultural ambassador, Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill present a more iconoclastic view of the super spy […]

La folie Lovecraft
| The Maison d’Ailleurs exhibition profiled in Libération.

Looking for Mother (2002).

Gourmand (2002).
• Official site
• Williams Gallery pages
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• The fantastic art archive

A Little Christmas Dream (Punch Magazine, December 26th, 1868).
Mr. L. Figuier, in the Thesis which precedes his interesting work on the world before the Flood condemns the practice of awakening the youthful mind to admiration by means of fables and Fairy Tales, and recommends in lieu thereof, the study of the Natural History of the […]

French Girl.
One of the snow sculptures at the 20th International Ice-Snow Sculpture Expo in Harbin, China, which opened on Thursday. Exotic France in Harbin is the theme this year although this “French Girl” looks more like the kind of heroic revolutionary sculpture favoured by Communist regimes than anything that might originate in France. More […]

The Unlimited Dream Company
| Sam Scoggins’ 1983 Ballard film unearthed at Ballardian!

A selection of Christmas card designs by American illustrator Antonio Petrucelli (1907–1994). There’s more of these at VTS among a series of pages showing his wonderful magazine art and Fortune covers. See also Phil Beard’s centenary tribute from earlier this year.
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• The illustrators archive

Midvinterblot by Carl Larsson, showing the sacrifice of King Domalde.
If you were in Brighton, England today, you could celebrate Burning the Clocks.