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Eliana Riva, Esami fra le rovine: la prima maturità a Gaza dal 7 ottobre, «il manifesto», July 20, 2025

Image (still from a video): Gaza students sit exams for first time since war began in October 2023, «Al Jazeera», July 19, 2025

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July 14 Woody Guthrie's birthday

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Roger Ballen, Roger the rat

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Tree of Life

Masters of Surreal Storytelling, The husband and wife team Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison

Their highly constructed scenes take on multiple disciplines including theater, sculpture, painting and photography.

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I am conscious of cold

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Emil Nolde, Yellow sea with small steam ships (1946)

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Arthur Rimbaud, October 20, 1854 / 2022

(image: Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. Notice par Paul Verlaine, La Vogue, Paris, 1886, Edition of 200)

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Partial solar eclipse by John Adams Whipple, Harvard College Observatory, 1852

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rip Faith Ringgold

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Conques, abbatiale Sainte Foy, vitraux conçus par Pierre Soulages

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Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, October 2023–January 2024, A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (LAP), February 1, 2024 (pdf here)

Plus: A Talk About Israeli Damage to Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Gaza, by ArabLit Staff, ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly, February 8, 2024

(image: «This is what remains of my younger brother's home library. My brother is an extraordinary scholar of Arabic language grammar and was about to earn his PhD and who has introduced six books into the Arabic language rich collection of scholarly books.» – Mosab Abu-Toha)

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Torino, Italy. This picture has been shot at 6:52 pm on 15 December 2023, when the Basilica di Superga, the pyramidal profile of Monviso and the Moon were perfectly aligned. The author is Valerio Miniato and this photo has been awarded by NASA and Michigan Technology University as Astronomy Picture of the Day (25 December 2023).

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Rivoluzione Vedova, M9 - Museo del 900 Venezia Mestre

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Happy Birthday, Alfred Jarry

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Sue Fuller, Geometric VIII, (vacuum relief print on paper), 1977, Edition of 25 [© The Estate of Sue Fuller]

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Brigid Doherty, Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, [the printed version of this article appeared in the Museum’s Fall 2022 Magazine] [image: Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine #2, (oilstick, coal dust, and varnish), 2004. Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY / Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA / Thomas Dane, London / Chantal Crousel, Paris. © Glenn Ligon]