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Sascha Wiederd  (German, 1904-1962)

Archers, 1928

Oil on cardboard and canvas, 204 × 240cm

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IBRAHIM MAHAMA

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Eliran Kantor

'Human Target', 2019

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Sacha Abou Khalil (b.1964) - Grignotages II. 2019. Oil on canvas.

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St. Louis

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Grip Face

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Wandjina Street Art

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Classic work by Roa still going strong in the East Village.

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Cover of Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka, illustration by Ottomar Starke

Via @Obridge, in 1915 Kafka explicitly asked in a letter to his publisher that the “insect” not be depicted:

Dear sir, you recently wrote that Ottomar Starke is going to do an illustration for the title page of The Metamorphosis. Now I have had a slight probably wholly unnecessary shock. It occurred to me that Starke might want, let us say, to draw the insect itself. Not that, please, not that! I don’t want to restrict his authority, but only to make this request from my own naturally better knowledge of the story. The insect itself cannot be drawn. It cannot even be shown at a distance.

Maud notes, “somebody forgot to tell Nabokov.”

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Daan Van Golden

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Burns

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Curse Bird. The Mekons.

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Robert Motherwell

The USA, 1915-1991

Basque Suite #50, 1970

Gouache and lithograph on paper 22 x 17 in. | 55.9 x 43.2 cm.

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Wandjina Street Art

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Yupik Wolf mask

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An illustration of butterflies from E.A. Séguy‘s Papillons [1925].

Full text available here.