photos by Paula Harrowing

— Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin

Something Different, 1963 (dir. Věra Chytilová)

The Mirror / Зеркало (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Spanish painter Maruja Mallo in her studio, 1936

Arkhip Kuindzhi, Evening in Ukraine, 1878

Australia: Tiwi islander painted for pukumani Ceremony

by Marina Fomina

“In effect, the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access by their contribution to reducing the media's costs of acquiring the raw materials of, and producing, news. The large entities that provide this subsidy become "routine" news sources that have privileged access to the gates... in the case of the largesse of the Pentagon and the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy, the subsidy is at the taxpayers' expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”

Carsten Höller's 'Upside Down Mushroom Room' from 2000 in the Fondazione Prada, Milan

Tribal masks: New Ireland Papua New Guinea

The Last Judgment. The Western wall of the Cathedral of St. Vladimir in Kiev. 1885-1896 Artist Viktor Vasnetsov

Kárhozat (Béla Tarr, 1988)

𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚓𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚘 𝙹𝚘𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚜𝚔𝚢