I can see the moon

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) 16 July 2020

Egon Schiele Self-Portrait in Street Clothes, Gesturing 1910 Watercolor and pencil on brown paper 16 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (42.55 × 27.31 cm) Sheet: 17 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (43.5 × 31.43 cm) Mat: 24 3/8 × 17 1/2 × 3/8 in. (61.91 × 44.45 × 0.95 cm)

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

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Jean-Michel Basquiat in his room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City, 1984. Photos by Andy Warhol1

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Courtesy Alain Truong

The Bather, František Kupka

A Kabyle woman weaving a rug in Algeria (1973)

1950

- This vulture just had lunch with me.

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Peru, Chillon Valley near Lima. Chekta, block engravings

Photo: Caroline Philippone

Statue of an Acrobat (Member of the Tentyritae Tribe) on a Crocodile, Roman, probably 1stC BC-1stC

Made for the Mexican actress María Félix, “Les Sorcières” (“The Witches,” 1959). It melodramatically contains a cataclysmic pictorial voodoo of swirling feminine sexuality. Her technique is less wispy here, as she depicts some form of broomstick dowsing rod combo on which five women ride. This witching rod painting visually twitches with something of a not so terra firma and is the most enigmatic piece in the show. It seems to contain many florid possibilities of interpretation and thus seems magical. Indecision, ambiguity, and conflict become dynamic and useful values here in suggesting secret pleasures.

by Barry Webb