Spectacles

Edward Weston
Violet Romer with Peacock Fan
ca. 1917
gelatin silver print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Gaspare Venturini
Allegory of the House of Este
1592-93
oil on canvas
Galleria Estense, Modena

Massimo Vignelli
Piccolo Teatro di Milano
1964
lithograph (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein
Dante surrounded by ten episodes from the Divine Comedy
ca. 1842-44
oil on paper
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence

Weegee
Time Is Short
ca. 1942
gelatin silver print
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Andy Warhol
Nine Marilyns
1979-86
screenprint on linen
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

David Wojnarowicz
Earth
1987
acrylic and collage on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Wojnarowicz
Fire
1987
acrylic and collage on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Wojnarowicz
Water
1987
acrylic and collage on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

David Wojnarowicz
Wind (for Peter Hujar)
1987
acrylic and collage on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Thomas Frederick Arndt
Inauguration Parade, Washington DC
1989
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Larry Towell
Untitled [Manhattan, September 11]
2001
digital print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Bob Thompson
St Matthew's Description of the End of the World
1964
oil on canvas
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Pavel Tchelitchew
Stage Design for Der Blaue Cabaret Theatre, Berlin
ca. 1920-23
tempera on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Anonymous Flemish painter after engraving by Jacques Callot
Fiera di San Luca at Impruneta in Florence
after 1620
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Joe Zucker
Pirate Junk with Gang Plank
1977
felt pen on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Edith Tudor-Hart
Chelsea Flower Show
ca. 1935
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Somewhere or Other

Somewhere or other there must surely be

        The face not seen, the voice not heard,

The heart that not yet – never yet – ah me!

        Made answer to my word.

Somewhere or other, may be near or far; 

        Past land and sea, clean out of sight;

Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star

        That tracks her night by night.

Somewhere or other, may be far or near;

        With just a wall, a hedge, between;

With just the last leaves of the dying year

        Fallen on a turf grown green.

– Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)