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Remembering Umberto Eco on his birthday 🎂
📷 David Alan Harvey, 2002
"Whatever his merits as a novelist, Eco was an exceptionally shrewd self-promoter: it is not often that an academic keeps company in the book charts with Jackie Collins & Dick Francis."
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"Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion."
- Umberto Eco, "Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball"
"We live for books."
- Umberto Eco

📷 Leonard McCombe, 1949 Image
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I came across four @NewYorker cartoons about Ad Reinhardt’s black paintings in 1967. There may be more.
Robert J. Day, March 4
Everett Opie, April 22 & May 27
William O’Brien, August 19
Reinhardt died on August 30, 1967
I knew there would be more Ad Reinhardt cartoons in the @NewYorker
J. B. Handelsman, October 30, 1989 @metmuseum
Robert Day, April 20, 1968
Everett Opie, January 26, 1976
... and even more!
James Stevenson, January 18, 1958
Ad Reinhardt painted his first black painting, "Abstract Painting" at the @MuseumModernArt, in 1963
moma.org/learn/moma_lea…
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