How embarrassing to be human.

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE 1946・dir. Robert Siodmak

Maria Magdalena by Guido Cagnacci (1601 – 1663) | Germanic warrior with helmet by Osmar Schindler (1867 – 1927)

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Shawn Braley Illustration

Illustration of Dante and Virgil leaving Hell ~ Unknown Italian Artist, 1477.

The Cold Constellations, Ana Popescu

Stipan Tadić aka Стипан Тадић (Croatian, b.1986, Zagreb, Croatia, based Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY, USA) - Bodega Cat - 50 St, 2023, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

'winged lady,' 1985 in let them eat cheesecake: the art of olivia - olivia de berardinis (1993)

I Just Heard the Universe Sigh, Shana Tugbert, 1976

Les deux têtes (1898) - Auguste Leroux for Victor Hugo’s “La confiance du marquis Fabrice”

Alexander McQueen’s “It’s Only a Game” 2005

Nadia Waheed (Pakistani, 1992) - Giving Tree (2025)

“Excuse me… who are you?”

"Galanin’s work engages themes of persistence, power, and survival in the face of settler colonialism and its legacies of institutional racism and collective amnesia. Here, the floor plan of the British Museum is painted over a blue field. Pictograms of baskets, masks, woven hats, weapons, tools, and textiles reference the contested objects held in the museum’s collection, while a red line maps an escape route for these examples of Indigenous cultural production. In many Native cultures, hide paintings relay histories across generations and objects embody lineages; in referencing both, Galanin is proposing a getaway plan for his ancestors."

Komorebi, Duri Baek

Berglzimmer - one of the apartments in Hofburg palace, painted in 1766 by Johann Wenzel Bergl for Empress Maria Theresia | Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria | photo by Alexander Eugen Koller.

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