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Mary Ruefle.

Robert Browning

'Opening Night' starring Gena Rowlands, dir. John Cassavetes, 1977

Whale. Culture: Chumash, California, 16th-17th century AD. Medium: steatite with bone and shell details. Dimensions: 11.7 x 41.9 × 21 cm. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Mark Irwin

Tom Jenks

romantic tutu for a sylph in michel fokine's les sylphides, worn by lydia lopokova(last pic) in 1909 for serge diaghilev's ballets russes. silk and cotton net, with metal armature for the wings. at the victoria and albert museum in london.

Stamp Moistener (fruit-shaped). House of Fabergé, St. Petersburg, c. 1895-1915. Medium: nephrite (jade), diamonds, gold. Size: 6.3 x 5.3 cm. Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, India Early Minshall Collection (acc. no. 1966.478).

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of the Hands), Pinturas River Canyon, Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Rock art executed c. 9,300-1,300 years BP (approx. 7300 BC-AD 700). The panels were painted with natural mineral pigments; the site has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1999.