<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/02/03/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-764/"><img title="Muller-cheminee-Jambon" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Muller-cheminee-Jambon-404x600.jpg" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 764)" width="404" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. Name that aesthetic: Domino Paper (for those of us who find as much joy in a book’s &#8220;clothing&#8221; as its contents) The forerunner of wallpaper, domino paper achieved its golden age in the second half of the 18th century. It took the form a 36X45cm sheet of paper that was printed using engraved wood-blocks&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/03/25/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-768/"><img title="19.barnegat+bay+016+-+Copy" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/19.barnegatbay016-Copy-600x355.webp" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 768)" width="600" height="355" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. Rarely seen photographs of Josephine Baker at the Ziegfeld Follies, 1936 By the middle of the 1930s Joséphine Baker was firmly established as one of France&#8217;s brightest stars, and she had high hopes of furthering the great success she&#8217;d experienced with the French when she was engaged to be in the starry cast of&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/01/23/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-583/"><img title="chagall" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/chagall-480x600.jpg" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 763)" width="480" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. How Marc Chagall made the Paris Opera House Fresco Ceiling in the summer of 1964 (and should it be kept there?) On August 7, 1964, inside Hangar Y, (formerly the Chalais Meudon site where the world&#8217;s first airship hangar was built in&#160;the 1870s and is now an excellent art &#38; culture museum in the&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/03/25/shes-the-forgotten-parisian-gallerist-who-helped-make-picasso-and-matisse/"><img title="couverture-berthe-weill" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/couverture-berthe-weill-600x450.gif" alt="She&#8217;s the forgotten Parisian gallerist Who Helped Make Picasso and Matisse" width="600" height="450" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill was forced to close her Parisian gallery and go into hiding during the Occupation of France, she had already helped build the careers of artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Diego Rivera, as well as female including painter Suzanne Valadon, African-American sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/11/07/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-757/"><img title="maastricht4b-scaled" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/maastricht4b-scaled-1-600x450.webp" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 757)" width="600" height="450" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. The hidden worlds hiding inside Curtis Talwst Santiago&#8217;s jewelry boxes Canadian-Trinidadian artist Curtis Talwst Santiago uses reclaimed jewelry boxes as tiny stages for his elaborate miniature dioramas, which are part of his continuing “Infinity Series”. These meticulously built scenes—complete with lush plants, architectural details, and minuscule figures—are dense with narratives of home, intimacy, diasporic&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/04/23/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-771/"><img title="976055_582624135092524_220807740_o-930x618" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/976055_582624135092524_220807740_o-930x618-1-600x399.jpg" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 771)" width="600" height="399" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. The Crisp Shops of Madrid Spain, like the UK, has a big crisp culture, with fun regional differences in how they’re consumed. In Catalunya for example, you’ll often see crisps and berberechos (tinned cockles) topped with Salsa Espinaler during ‘L’hora del vermut’ (‘vermouth hour’) on a Sunday&#8230;. Not only are they to be found in bars across&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/04/14/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-vol-770/"><img title="image-4502578" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/image-4502578-480x600.webp" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet (Vol. 770)" width="480" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. Crazy about these Mixed Media Collages Find the designer Anton Elfilter here. Found via Moss &#38; Fog. 2.

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/03/05/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-767/"><img title="3 610484412_18552295171056529_4441310969055998486_n" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/3-610484412_18552295171056529_4441310969055998486_n-327x600.png" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 767)" width="327" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. The other Madame X Portraits When Madame X was shown at the Salon of 1884 it became instantly a salacious painting and a scandal in French society as a result of its sexual suggestiveness. The painting&#8217;s subject, socialite, Madame Gautreau, refused the painting, and Sargent, depressed and abashed, changed it, painting out the offending&#8230;

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2025/12/08/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-580/"><img title="31_HoreHouseMouse_Photo_Lill-Ann+Chepstow-Lusty_2019f" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/31_HoreHouseMouse_Photo_Lill-AnnChepstow-Lusty_2019f-507x600.webp" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 760)" width="507" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. Mistletoe sellers in Paris, 1928 Found here. 2. Collecting Modernist Mailboxes in Paris Photographed by Romain Laprade.

<div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2026/04/02/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-769/"><img title="577052972_1254600513368805_3821815922058598132_n" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/577052972_1254600513368805_3821815922058598132_n-600x576.jpg" alt="13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. 769)" width="600" height="576" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> 1. &#8220;Frasurbane&#8221;: a popular 90s postmodern design aesthetic titled from the 1990s TV show &#8216;Frasier&#8217; a style that draws from more wild postmodern design movements like Grunge graphic design (eg. David Carson), Memphis Milano &#38; Deconstructivism, but filters them through the lens of a more conservative and aging Baby Boomer population that was settling down,&#8230;