toynbee tile in philadelphia

a machine for reading hopscotch

(Juan Esteban Fassio’s “Hopscotch-o-matic,” illustrated on pp. 56–7 in Julio Cortázar’s Around the Day in 80 Worlds, trans. Thomas Christensen.)

(Selina Swayne, book installation in The Floating Exhibition, Serpentine Pond, London, May 2006. Via wood s lot.)

(Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin, ca. 1435–1440, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)

(Frontispiece to Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic, published by MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1897. Online version here.)

(Julio Cortázar, 62: A Model Kit, Pantheon, 1962. Design by Kenneth Miyamoto.)

(Han van Meegeren’s Christ and the Adultress with soldiers at the end of WWII, from Errol Morris’s series on van Meegeren & forgery.)

(Michael Sweerts, Plague in an Ancient City, ca. 1652–4, LACMA)

(Arshile Gorky, Staten Island, 1927, collection of Rita & Vartkess Balian. On show in the PMA’s “Cézanne & Beyond”.)