26 November

Born in 1807 — William Sidney Mount, American artist.

Above: Dance of the Haymakers (Music is Contagious), 1845

Also, born in 1909, Romanian-French playwright and critic Eugène Ionesco.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.