Evening view looking west of Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyline, from St. George Hotel in Brooklyn. Fall, 1963.

Carrying a Telescope Aloft : Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren't visible from the ground. (via NASA)

Mies van der Rohe - Werkbund Exhibition - 1927

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

Atsuko Tanaka, Untitled, 1961

“June, July, August. Everything wrong, and nowhere to go.”

- Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems

Sarah Bernhardt, Ophelia 

Josef Sudek, Night Walk, Prague (1958)

How different does sunset appear from Mars than from Earth? For comparison, two images of our common star were taken at sunset, one from Earth and one from Mars. These images were scaled to have same angular width and featured here side-by-side. A quick inspection will reveal that the Sun appears slightly smaller from Mars than from Earth. This makes sense since Mars is 50% further from the Sun than Earth. More striking, perhaps, is that the Martian sunset is noticeably bluer near the Sun than the typically orange colors near the setting Sun from Earth. The reason for the blue hues from Mars is not fully understood, but thought to be related to forward scattering properties of Martian dust. The terrestrial sunset was taken in 2012 March from Marseille, France, while the Martian sunset was captured in 2015 by NASA's robotic Curiosity rover from Gale crater on Mars. Last week a new rover and a helicopter -- onboard Mars 2020 -- launched for Mars.

House Wolferskamp (1962) in Hamburg, Germany, by Günter Talkenberg

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I.K. Bonset (Theo van Doesburg), 1921

I.K. Bonset was one of many alter ego's Van Doesburgs used during his lifetime. It allowed him to create a new personality that could declare the exact opposite of what Van Doesburg was known to stand for. They gave him the liberty to escape the dogma's that he in part created himself.