Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Spectacles

Florine Stettheimer
Costume design for ballet Orphée - Androcles and the Lion
ca. 1912
oil paint, fabric, yarn and lace on panel
Museum of Modern Art, New York


Bob Stanley
Hedy Lamarr (Ecstasy 3)
1965
acrylic on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Franciszek Starowieyski
Operetta by Witold Gombrowicz
1977
offset lithograph
(poster for Polish production of satirical play)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Sandy Skoglund
The Wedding
1994
C-print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Martin Sharp and Robert Whitaker
Album cover for Cream (Disraeli Gears)
1967
offset lithograph
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Alexander Rodchenko
INGA: Theater of the Revolution
ca. 1929
lithograph and letterpress (poster)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jack Smith
Drawing for performance piece Brassieres of Atlantis
ca. 1970
ink on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Jack Smith
Drawing for performance piece Brassieres of Atlantis
ca. 1970
ink on paper
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Art Sinsabaugh
Illinois Skyline
1953
gelatin silver print
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

William Scharf
At Fire Level - The Meal of Alibis
1956
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Miriam Schapiro
Presentation
1982
acrylic and fabric on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Pamela Colman Smith
Overture 'Egmont' - Beethoven
1907
watercolor on paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Gobelins Manufactory
Battle of Zama
ca. 1688-90
wool and silk tapestry (woven for Louis XIV)
Musée du Louvre

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Hamlet and Ophelia
ca. 1865-67
drawing
British Museum

Laurie Simmons
Walking House
1989
C-print
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Thomas Struth
Monreale, Palermo
1998
C-print
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Auguste Renoir
Box at the Theater
1880
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Lucifer in Starlight

On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose.
Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend
Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened,
Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose.
Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those.
And now upon his western wing he leaned,
Now his huge bulk o'er Africk's sands careened,
Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows.
Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars
With memory of the old revolt from Awe,
He reached a middle height, and at the stars,
Which are the brain of heaven, he looked, and sank.
Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank,
The army of unalterable law.

– George Meredith (1828-1909)