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Commission SS26 by Isabella Mai Newman

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abandoned roadside diner by Freaktography, via r/urbanexploration

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from Akshay Mahajan's photo series To Die Is To Be Turned To Gold (2026)

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from Lovers and Friends series, by Sophia Wilson (2025)

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from Seamus Murphy's photobook Strange Love⁠ (2005 - 2009)

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Pool, by Jimmy DeSana (1980)

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by Zora Sicher

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Sarah Gony by Emnet (2026)

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from Étienne Dehau's photobook Voyage en Mongolie (Mongolia, 2000)

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Andrew Wyeth Christina's World, 1948 egg tempera on gessoed panel

Wyeth modeled the painting after his neighbor, Anna Christina Olson, who lived on a remote farmstead in Maine, and had a degenerative muscular disorder that prevented her from walking. Instead of using a wheelchair, she used her arms/hands to pull herself around her home and the rough terrain of the surrounding grounds.

"The idea for the painting struck Wyeth one summer afternoon. While watching from a second-story window, he saw Christina dragging her emaciated, twisted body across the sprawling, inclined field, heading back toward her distant farmhouse."

— Kate Green

"Reportedly, [Anna Christina] Olson loved the painting. 'Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be,' she said. 'Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture and I’m there.'

In fact, Olson and Wyeth maintained an extremely close relationship throughout their lifetimes. One year before he died, Wyeth told the L.A. Times that he wanted to be buried with Olson. 'I want to be with Christina,' he said."

— Zachary Small

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The Last Day of Twelve, by Nick Haymes (2014)

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Daniel Santangelo Untitled, 2026 acrylic and rhinestones on canvas

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by Nick Haymes

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by Andrés Ríos

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by Nadia Lee Cohen (2026)

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Rhine-Water Purification Plant (Rheinwasseraufbereitungsanlage), by Hans Haacke (Lange Museum, Krenfeld, Germany, 1972)

Haacke created a filtration system in which the water from the nearby Rhine River, which was extremely polluted with noxious chemicals and heavy metals as a result of Germany's postwar industrialization, was diverted into one of the museum's rooms, where it was purified to the extent it could support fish. This exhibit called attention to Germany's failure to address and mitigate the adverse effects of corporations' activities on the natural environment. Haacke frequently used real-time systems in his artwork to illustrate his criticisms of greater social and political structures.

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from Robin de Puy's photo series American (2022 - 2024)