Thursday, November 6, 2025

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Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
Bauhaus Exhibition - Weimar
1923
lithograph (postcard)
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra


Raphael Sabatini
7 Shots from the Spotlight
1927
lithograph (portfolio cover)
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Saul Leiter
Sign Painter, New York
1954
C-print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Ben Vautier
Untitled
ca. 1965
lithograph (exhibition announcement)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

MelaquĆ­as Montoya
Basta Imperialismo
1970
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Joseph Kosuth
Untitled
ca. 1970
mixed media on paper
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Joseph Cornell
Susan Sontag
before 1972
collage on paper
(dust-jacket photo with text-blocks from the Vulgate)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Max Yavno
Los Angeles
ca. 1979-80
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jenny Holzer
Affluent College-Bound Students
(from Living Series)
1980-82
bronze plaque
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jenny Holzer
You Should Limit
(from Living Series)
1980-82
bronze plaque
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Lawrence Weiner
Bits & Pieces
1991
vinyl text panels
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Lawrence Weiner
Wind & The Willows
1996
offset-print (book cover)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Mark Grotjahn
Untitled
(White Butterfly Red Big Nose Baby Moose)

2005
oil on linen
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Koen Taselaar
Centrepiece (multititled 7)
2014
ink on paper
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Mark Dion
Cosmos-of-the-Classical-World-
2015
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mark Mothersbaugh
An Homage to When Rubber Was King
2017
screenprint
Akron Art Museum, Ohio

Damiano Bertoli
Barbara
2018
colored pencil on paper
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

from The Thirteenth Satyr of Juvenal, Imitated

    But must such Perjury escape (say you)
And shall it ever thus unpunish'd go?
Grant, he were dragg'd to Jail this very hour,
To starve, and rot; suppose it in your Pow'r
To rack, and torture him all kind of ways,
To hang, or burn, or kill him, as you please;
(And what would your Revenge it self have more?)
Yet this, all this would not your Cash restore:
And where would be the Comfort, where the Good,
If you could wash your Hands in's reaking Blood?
    But, Oh, Revenge more sweet than Life! 'Tis true,
So the unthinking say, and the mad Crew
Of hect'ring Blades, who for slight cause, or none,
At every turn are into Passion blown:
Whom the least Trifles with Revenge inspire,
And at each spark, like Gun-powder, take fire:
These unprovok'd kill the next Man they meet,
For being so sawcy, as to walk the street;
And at the summons of each tiny Drab,
Cry, Damme! Satisfaction! draw, and stab.

– Juvenal (AD 50-127), adapted and translated by John Oldham (1683)