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| David Singer Grateful Dead at the Fillmore, San Francisco 1969 lithograph (poster) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Larry Zox Irminger Current 1969 acrylic on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Victor Vasarely Planetary Folklore Participations #1 1969 plastic elements in aluminum box Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Norman Seeff Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, New York 1969 pigment print Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| Pablo Picasso Vase of Flowers on a Table 1969 oil on canvas Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Asger Jorn Jorn: Au Pied du Mur (exhibition at Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris) 1969 lithograph NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Sonia Delaunay Untitled 1969 lithograph Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Joe Tilson Cover of Bela Lugosi Journal III 1969 screenprint Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York |
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| Roy Lichtenstein Modular Painting in Four Panels V 1969 oil and acrylic on canvas Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Jasper Johns Light-Bulb 1969 embossed lead Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Lucia Woods Lindley Bone Gully Fossil Bed, Webster County, Nebraska 1969 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Satty (Satty Wilfried Podreich) Seven Saturns 1969 collage on paper San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Andy Warhol Campbell's Soup II - Scotch Broth 1969 screenprint NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Clayton Pond The Shower in my Studio on Broome Street 1969 screenprint Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Robyn Denny Colour Box (2nd Series) 1969 screenprint Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami |
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| Bruno Müller-Linow Monika 1969 etching and engraving Städtisches Museum, Braunschweig |
Secrets
That we are always glad
When the Ugly Princess, parting the bushes
To find out why the woodcutter's children are happy,
Disturbs a hornet's nest, that we feel no pity
When the informer is trapped by the gang in a steam-room,
That we howl with joy
When the short-sighted Professor of Icelandic
Pronounces the Greek inscription
A Runic riddle which he then translates:
Denouncing by proxy our commonest fault as our worst,
That, waiting in his room for a friend,
We start so soon to turn over his letters,
That with such assurance we repeat as our own
Another's story, that, dear me, how often
We kiss in order to tell,
Defines precisely what we mean by love –
To share a secret.
The joke, which we seldom see, is on us;
For only true hearts know how little it matters
What the secret is they keep:
An old, a new, a blue, a borrowed something,
Anything will do for children
Made in God's image and therefore
Not like the others, not like our dear dumb friends
Who, poor things, have nothing to hide,
Not, thank God, like our Father either
From whom no secrets are hid.
– W.H. Auden (1949)