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Félicien Rops - L’Amour crucifié (Crucified Love)

Michalina Janoszanka (Polish, 1889-1952) - Spring (1920-29)

René Magritte, La corde sensible, 1960

Salvaged from the ruins of Beirut after 1982, Abu Ali's early film has only recently been made available. Shooting under extraordinary conditions, the director, who worked with Godard on his Ici et Ailleurs (Here and Elsewhere), and founded the PLO's film division, covers conditions in Lebanon's refugee camps, the effects of Israeli bombardments, and the lives of guerrillas in training camps. They Do Not Exist is a stylistically unique work which demonstrates the intersection between the political and the aesthetic. Now recognised as a cornerstone in the development of Palestinian cinema, the film only received its Palestine premiere in 2003, when a group of Palestinian artists "smuggled" the director to a makeshift cinema in his hometown of Jerusalem (into which Israel bars his entry). Abu Ali, who saw his film for the first time in 20 years at this clandestine event noted: "We used to say 'Art for the Struggle', now it's 'Struggle for the Art'"

Jacob Binck, The witch attacking the devil

Gaspar Bouttats - Edward Oldcorne & Nicholas Owen.

Saint Lucy’s eyes painted by Francisco de Zurbarán, ca. 1635-40

Pupils following class in the school of the Khan el Shib Palestinian camp. Syria, 1974 @Jean Gaumy

📷 Richard Bellia

Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac

Christian Death featuring Rozz Williams – The Path Of Sorrows

Brian Eno and Salvador Dalí, Paris, 1973

The Lusty Men - Nicholas Ray - 1952 - USA

Jessica Harper in Suspiria (1977).

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

Porat says that, before the arrival of Israeli troops, she and other civilians had been held by the Palestinians “for several hours” and treated “humanely.”