Grayson Perry's first Reith Lecture is terrific. Listen here.

Takashi Murakami, Flowers & Skulls

Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1894

"A deeply disillusioned man, he saw humanity as essentially bestial and the city of Berlin as a sink of depravity and deprivation, its streets crowded with unprincipled profiteers, prostitutes, war-crippled dregs and a variety of perverts. A communist, his feeling of social outrage stimulated him to produce the most biting drawings and paintings." ~ Trewin Copplestone

George Grosz, Metropolis, 1916-17

Evokes Magnus Mills' Explorers of the New Century.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice, 1824

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Ship in Stormy Seas, 1858

Eugène Thivier, The Nightmare, 1894

Henry Fuseli, Hamlet and his father's Ghost, ~1780-1785

Henry Fuseli, The Artist Moved by the Grandeur of Antique Fragments, ~1778 - 1779

Tuesday | 1 October 2013 | 02:32 PM

Hans Kanters

Jeremy Mann, The Forgotten (Version One - Abandon), 2012

Diego Rivera, Man, Controller of the Universe, 1934

Erik Thor Sandberg, House, 2009

El Greco, Opening of the Fifth Seal, 1608–1614

Ludolf Bakhuizen, Ships in Distress in a Heavy Storm, 1690

Rex Whistler, Girl with a Red Rose, 1935

Jules Bastien-Lepage, Diogenes, 1873

Thomas Hart Benton, The Twist, 1964

Gabriel de Cool, The Muse, 1895

"the content was something like I'd never seen before, anywhere, the level of mayhem, violence, dismemberment, naked women, loose body parts, huge, obscene sex organs, a nightmare vision of hell-on-earth never so graphically illustrated before in the history of art." ~ Robert Crumb on the work of S. Clay Wilson

Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Night, 1885