Indonesian Jester Puppets, perhaps 19th c.
Indonesia, Tegal, Central Java Wood, cloth, and mixed media via Asian Art Museum; From the Mimi and John Herbert Collection Jesters or clowns are among the most popular figures in the folk puppet...
View ArticleSt. Charles of the Flowers, 2008
By Thomas Christensen, based on historical photos by Nadar and Etienne Carjat Digital image, colored pixels Via the Sleep of Reason This image of nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire...
View ArticleSigned first edition of Plato’s Republic
Mofo Store Manager Kenneth Whirlow is pleased to announce the acquisition of a special addition to our store’s rare books selection. The book is a rare signed first edition of Plato’s Republic....
View ArticleThe fool and his sceptre, 1515, by Hans Holbein the Younger (Swiss, 1497-1543)
Ink on paper; marginal drawing in the first edition of The Praise of Folly, by Desiderius Erasmus (Dutch, 1466-1536) Kupferstichkabinett, Basel Erasmus, acclaimed as a great writer, was also a great...
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