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This Day in Buster… July 16, 1922 The Columbus Ledger prints an ad for Buster Keaton’s “The Playhouse,” calling it a "comedy riot."

This woodblock print, designed in late 1855 (Ansei 2), is a prime historical masterpiece of the namazu-e (catfish print) genre by an anonymous Edo-period artist. Following the catastrophic Ansei Great Earthquake that devastated the shogunal capital in November 1855, hundreds of these unauthorized, satirical prints flooded the underground market. They functioned simultaneously as protective amulets, expressions of public anxiety, and witty social commentary on the forced redistribution of wealth. In traditional Japanese mythology, earthquakes were believed to be caused by a colossal subterranean catfish thrashing beneath the earth whenever the deity Kashima let down his guard.

Ohara Koson

Danny Lyon, The Dominoes Players, Texas Walls Unit, 1967

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© Atsushi Uemura, Sandpiper, 1994, Shohaku Museum of Arts

The Blue Sea Dragon, a species of small, blue sea slug. It is able to swallow the venomous nematocysts from siphonophores such as the Portuguese man o' war and store them in the extremities of its finger-like cerata.

Artist: Burnat

Federico García Lorca, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Federico García Lorca

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Egon Schiele - Still Life