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1922 Sculpture "Shapes and Light" by Ossip Zadkine. From Art Deco Around the Globe, FB.

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It's time for Trilobite Tuesday! Some trilobite fossils can only be fully appreciated after skilled preparators have completed their rock-removing magic. This includes prime examples of the strange, spinose Middle Devonian genus Radiaspis—one of the more dramatic (and difficult to prepare) trilobites ever to emerge from the fossil-abundant Moroccan Lagerstatte. Few complete examples of this 1.6–3.1 in- (4–8 cm-) long odontopleurid have been successfully extracted.

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1929 "Au coin de cafe - le soir" by Tancrede Synave. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism, FB.

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1930 c. Perfume bottle in the Duncan model crafted by Rene Lalique for collection, inspired by Isadora Duncan. From Art Deco Around the Globe, FB.

The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (b. 3 July 1883)

“Mary’s Child” (Marienkind), Brothers Grimm. Illustration: Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, 1904.

Photo: Yash Bhagwanji, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

Chia-Chi Yu aka 余嘉琪 aka Damu aka Yu Jiaqi aka 達姆 (Taiwanese, b. 1977, Taipei, Taiwan) - Frog Pond, Painting: Digital Art

Sander captured this photograph in 1930, during the twilight of the Weimar Republic. Just three years later, the Nazi regime came to power, completely upending the framework of institutional care.