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Judy Garland performing “Ol’ Man River” on the debut episode of The Judy Garland Show (1963)

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Leticia Román in La ragazza che sapeva troppo (a.k.a. The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (Mario Bava, 1963)

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Undine Rising from the Waters: Chauncey Bradley Ives

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Stunning. Absolutely breathtaking.

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Fire at Night, Francisco Goya

Medium: oil,tin

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‘Biopiracy’ - Iris van Herpen F/W 2014 (2014)

“In the recent past, patents on our genes have been purchased. Are we still the sole proprietor of our bodies? From this question arises a sense of arrested freedom in one’s most intimate, solitary state. Models float in the air, embryonic, seemingly weightless and in a meditative suspended animation”

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“If the enemy waits then he should be pressured, put into obedience and deceived; teaching the enemy, the threatener of life, that he is not worthy of the pleasure of living.”

Francesco Ferdinando Alfieri, La Bandiera (1638)

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Close-ups of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Details of The Jewish Bride, c, 1665, by Rembrandt (1606-1669)

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Jessica Hurley Scott (American, b. 1978, NY, USA) - And Again, 2015 Paintings: Acrylics on multiple Acrylic Panels

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Unexpected Tales - 1930’s Jewish Woodcut, 3/3

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Paris/Vel d'Hiv, Lisa Rosowsky, 2011.

Two-sided quilt. Cotton, polyester, paper, glass, wood, 40" x 40"

When the French police rounded up Jews in the summer of 1942, they were taken to the Vélodrome d’Hiver, where they languished for days without adequate food, water, or sanitation before being deported to internment camps outside the city. Meanwhile, non-Jewish residents went about their daily lives in wartime Paris. The German magazine Signal, eager to show the world that the Nazis were benevolent occupiers, hired the photographer André Zucca to photograph Parisians enjoying “life as usual.” To produce this propaganda, Zucca was provided with what was then extremely rare Agfacolor film. The contrast between what was happening behind the walls of the arena—which people claimed to know nothing about at the time—and what went on in the streets was remarkable: two sides of the same city. The Jews were sent by train from the Vélodrôme d’Hiver to Drancy, and from there to Auschwitz. Witnesses recall letters being thrown from the trains, requesting anyone who picked them up to deliver them to loved ones back in Paris. I have included printed facsimiles of some of these letters in the borders of this piece, as well as other paraphernalia of the Vichy régime.