Desert Archipelago

Jean Cocteau, picture from Le sang d'un poète, 1930

Mohammed Sami (Iraqi, b. 1984), Meditation Room, 2022. Mixed media on linen, 280 x 230 cm

Title: Mindset/ My religion, my livelihood and end of my matter Year: 2022-2023

from San Francisco Oracle No. 7 (1967)

Die Nornen” (“The Norns”) by Franz Stassen, 1917.

Unique in its array of geometric friezes, Mitla was constructed in approximately 850 A.D.

T1941-14

Francis Bacon: Two Figures (1952). Detail

Zheng Chongbin

fire by utagawa toyokuni , woodblock print dated 1832

Over 4,500 years old rare Egyptian beadnet dress, dating to the reign of King Khufu (2551–2528 BCE). The dress was meticulously reassembled from around 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed burial, making it the earliest surviving example of a beaded overgarment, once shimmering in blue and turquoise tones inspired by lapis lazuli and turquoise.

painting by Italian artist Nicola Verlato (b. 1965-)

Thomas Hoepker

Incised piece of conch shell depicting a seated noble with a cigar in his mouth. Maya civilization, ca. 600-900 AD. Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

Vincent Van Gogh, Patch of Grass, 1887.