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Kneeling nude, 1947’s - by Karel Ludwig (1919 - 1977), Czech

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"Good-bye to the Fruits" — John Barth

“Good-bye to the Fruits” by John Barth I agreed to die, stipulating only that I first be permitted to rebehold and bid good-bye to those of Earth’s fruits that I had particularly enjoyed in my not-extraordinary lifetime.What I had in mind, in the first instance, was such literal items as apples and oranges. Of the former, the variety called Golden Delicious had long been my favorite,…

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'30 March, the Day of the Land', poster issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1986 on Land Day.

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Shooting stars, falling stars, and comets are collected here as I encounter them.

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"Leading a mass of people to think coherently together about the present reality is a far more important and “original” philosophical event than the discovery by some philosophical genius of some new truth that remains the property of small groups of intellectuals." -Antonio Gramsci

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R. Gargiolli, Mano di Poeta, 1868

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ANA MENDIETA, Untitled: Silueta Series

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RIP Akira Toriyama (1955-2024)

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Christine Lorenzen

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“A work of art is a prophetic loan, drawn on fugitive premises; the artist acts on it, and, presumably, sustains some faith that others will do so too, or at least could.”

Lyn Hejinian (1941 - 2024)

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Francesco del Cossa (Italian, ?–1477) • Saint Lucy • 1477-78 • Private collection

Some of these Renaissance paintings have surrealistic details!

Saint Lucy (detail)

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Charles François Jalabert (French, 1819 - 1901) • Young Man in Pink • c. 1860 • Oil on Mahogany panel • Private collection