It's telling I had not even realized that I had not posted a new entry since a week. A sign that it is time to pull the plug, and this t...

    The 1978 album Die Mensch-Maschine (English: The Man-Machine) is the seventh studio album by German electronic music band Kraftwerk....

David Frankel's 2006 movie The devil wears Prada is very good, and the poster is even better. A stylish design, forsaking the stars...

  Sad news: yesterday we heard the news that Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina has passed away, aged 93. She had been my favourite living c...

  We came across this painting many years ago (pre-Corona) at a visit to Den Bosch to see a special exhibition of works by Dutch painter Ja...

Some time ago I came across this beautiful fashion illustration at an Art Deco blog. There was no information provided, but I managed to f...

  About the band: Genesis are a British rock band formed in 1967, whose output in the period 1970-1976 (the Gabriel and/or Hackett years) ...

  Bonniers Veckotidning (Bonniers Weekly) was (is?) a Swedish magazine, but unfortunately I cannot find much information about it on the int...

This freeze frame from 2009 is one of my most popular shots from the years I spent on Flickr, and a personal favourite as well. This is t...

Spiegel im Spiegel (lit. 'mirror(s) in the mirror') is a work for violin and piano from 1978 by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (1935...

The New York Central System, nowadays better known as New York Central Railroad, was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and...

    Fur and Gold is the 2006 debut studio album by Folktronica singer Bat for Lashes (real name Natasha Khan), a Pakistani British singer, ...

   Going back about a century, when this Irving Cummings movie hit the theaters, accompanied by a beautiful jazz age poster. The movie itse...

The term "second best" often sounds a bit disrespectful. However, when I state that to my taste English composer Gerald Finzi (190...

Last month we visited the Museum More in Gorssel, and this beauty was on display as part of their permanent collection. Dutch artist Jan Too...

  This is a book cover from our own collection - we bought it at a second hand market a few years ago. I could not find any relevant info...

  About the band: The Buoys were an American pop/rock band from the early 1970s. Their career was short-lived, they never got to record an...

The magazine Judge is well known for its stunning covers, but this colourful Art Deco extravaganza is one of the best. It's based on w...

  Over the years, we visited the organ museum in nearby Elburg a couple of times. A lovely experience, and I was particularly impressed by ...

Symphony No. 4 in C major was completed in 1933 by Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939). It is the best known of his fo...

  This 1930 poster is a prime example of why vintage posters is a category in this art blog. A beautiful design and execution, the work of ...

  Snow Borne Sorrow from 2005 is the only studio album by the art rock band Nine Horses, a cooperation between David Sylvian, his brother ...

  An early Art Deco masterpiece, this Danish version of the movie poster for the 1925 Robert Vignola movie starring Eleanor Boardman and Ma...

One of my favourite chamber music CD's. The two most famous Schubert string quartets (No. 13 in A minor 'Rosamunde' D804 and No....

  A few years ago I came across this artist I had never heard of before: Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894-1941). This Hungarian master painted fresco...

  It's a nice picture of a girl in an orchard in full bloom, and the red parasol really stands out. Still, what's so special about ...

About the artist: Steven Wilson (1967) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer, most closely associated with the pr...

  One could argue that the best vintage Vogue covers were in the twenties, but this one from 1932 is right up there with my other favorites...

This is without a doubt the most beautiful bookstore I've ever visited: the Xinhua shop in the Aegean Place mall in Shanghai's Min...

The Curlew is a song cycle from 1922 by British composer Peter Warlock (actual name Philip Heseltine, 1894 - 1930) on poems by W. B. Y...