10 October

Born in 1901 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter.

Above: Giacometti’s Walking Man I, 1961. In Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. [Background: Mark Rothko’s Yellow and Blue (Yellow, Blue on Orange)]

Also, born in 1917, American jazz artist Thelonious Monk.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by...What you don't play can be more important than what you do.