Hint: It’s on the outside of the building where I have my main office. It was inspired a bit by Diego Rivera’s mural “Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central.”

Answer: It’s a mural of the most important Central American modernist painters. I commissioned it from one of my favorite contemporary Central American artists, Allan Arguello, who tragically died halfway through painting it. Fortunately, his daughter, who is also an excellent artist, was able to finish it. I am very happy with the results. And, yes, that’s me in the upper righthand corner.

Hints: They are sisters. They lived to be 30 to 40 years old… more than 6,000 years ago. And these are not photos.

Answer: What you’re looking at is 3-D reconstructions of two adult sisters who lived and worked in a brutal mining community in what is now the Czech Republic. The stunning reconstructions are based on a new analysis of the sisters’ remains, which were unearthed more than 15 years ago from a prehistoric chert mine in the South Moravian region. According to a study published in the June 18 journal Archeological and Anthropological Sciences, new evidence suggests that the sisters worked in the mine, extracting heavy rocks to be used as tools and weapons.

Name two things that are eminently predictable about this.

Hint: No, this isn’t the same “What Is This?” that I published in the Sept. 22 issue. This one is photos of the chancellors of the American Academy of Poets.

Answer: But, yes, it’s basically the same thing. There is only one White man in the group, and he is “gender fluid.”

Name two things that are eminently predictable about this.

Hints:
1. These are the eight recipients of the Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation yearly prize for “visual arts journalism.” (The foundation is based in Portland, Oregon.)

2. Yes, there are seven women and only one man.

3. Only one of the eight works for a major publication.

Answers:
* The man is not White. He is Comanche.
* The woman who works for a major publication (the NYT) identifies as a “they.”

Hints: Yes, they are animals. Animals with horns. They are running. They do this every year. And there are millions of them.

Answer: It’s called “The Great Nile Migration” – six million antelope storming through a pocket of Africa in the world’s largest land animal migration. Watch it here.

Stargazing Alert! 

Photograph by Ralph Ehoff, Getty Images

Hint: It’s in Utah, a state where such amazing views of the stars are not uncommon.

Answer: It’s Rainbow Bridge National Monument in one of the state’s certified “dark sky” communities and parks.

See the others here.

Hint: Yes, it’s a painting. It’s by an artist, a foreign artist, a modern artist whose name you know – but you won’t guess his name judging from what you see here.

Answer: It’s The Sun by Edvard Munch.

Edward Munch is defined by The Scream as an artist of angst, alienation, and agony. Yet he had a long, prolific, and varied career, producing portraits, landscapes, and decorative commissions from late 19th century Naturalism to WWII. Here are 10 paintings that prove he was much more than that single open-mouthed howl.

Hint: The cat is the economy; the goat is me.

Answer: This is how I feel about my stock investments right now.

Hints: Yes, it’s a Picasso. Well, it was a Picasso. This happened to it last month in Montreal.

Answer: It’s Pablo Picasso’s L’Hetaire, painted in 1901, which was on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The pink splash was the work of a man who has been identified only as “Marcel.” He is a member of the Canadian chapter of The Last Generation, a group of nutcases that believe they can save the world by destroying works of art.

2nd prize winner in the annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest in the “People” category… 

A Chinese couple unfolds an oil-paper umbrella in front of a small temple, “evoking the subtle beauty of Chinese culture.”