Marianne von Werefkin, The Black Women, 1910

Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain

John Coltrane, Olé Coltrane

Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man

Orville Peck, Big Sky

Marianne von Werefkin, Gasthaus

L. S. Lowry, Saturday Afternoon, 1941

Erik Satie, Gymnopédies

You and your whole race by Langston Hughes 

You and your whole race.
Look down upon the town in which you live
And be ashamed.
Look down upon white folks 
And upon yourselves 
And be ashamed
That such supine poverty exists there,
That such stupid ignorance breeds children there
Behind such humble shelters of despair—
That you yourselves have not the sense to care
Nor the manhood to stand up and say
I dare you to come one step nearer, evil world,
With your hands of greed seeking to touch my throat, 
I dare you to come one step nearer me:
When you can say that
you will be free! 

Louis Lozowick, New York , 1923

Urs Graf, Two mercenary soldiers approach a seated prostitute while Death sits in a tree, pointing to an hourglass, 1524

David Lynch, In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator)

Richard Strauss, Im Abendrot (sung by Jessye Norman)

Cut by Sylvia Plath

For Susan O'Neill Roe

What a thrill ---
My thumb instead of an onion.
The top quite gone
Except for a sort of a hinge

Of skin,
A flap like a hat,
Dead white.
Then that red plush.

Little pilgrim,
The Indian's axed your scalp.
Your turkey wattle
Carpet rolls

Straight from the heart.
I step on it,
Clutching my bottle
Of pink fizz.

A celebration, this is.
Out of a gap
A million soldiers run,
Redcoats, every one.

Whose side are they on?
O my
Homunculus, I am ill.
I have taken a pill to kill

The thin
Papery feeling.
Saboteur,
Kamikaze man ---

The stain on your
Gauze Ku Klux Klan
Babushka
Darkens and tarnishes and when

The balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence

How you jump ---
Trepanned veteran,
Dirty girl,
Thumb stump.

Gustave Courbet, The Calm Sea, 1869

Edvard Munch, The Death Chamber, 1896

David Roberts, Colossal figures in front of the Great Temple of Aboo-Simbel, 1838

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Jubilee Street

George Bellows, Club Night, 1907

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Umbrellas, 1886