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When Caspar David Friedrich completed Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, or Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, in 1818, it “was not well received.” So says gallerist-Youtuber James Payne in his new Great Art Explained video above, which focuses on Friedrich’s most famous painting. In the artist’s lifetime, the Wanderer in fact “marked the gradual […]

We suppose it’s conceivable that a gift of a wooden Totoro figurine, hand-carved from a single block using 50 different kinds of chisels, might spark a reverence for traditional Japanese craft and nature in the next generation… Or, they may be left wishing you’d given them a vastly more huggable machine-made plushie version, especially if […]

Perhaps at some point in the future, the poems in your tongue I composed, will be brought to your notice, and if so, to delight will I then be disposed. — Curt Bloch, Het Onderwater Cabaret Zines typically tend toward the ephemeral, owing to their small circulations, erratic publication schedules, and the unpredictable lives of […]