Rembrandt van Rijn, Abraham's Sacrifice, 1655

The Jesus and Mary Chain, Happy When It Rains

August Strindberg, Ice boulders on the shore, 1892

Edgar Degas, Woman seated on the edge of a bath sponging her neck, 1895

Jeff Koons, Dom Pérignon Balloon Venus, 2013

Steve Emberton, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, 1978

Kees van Dongen, Les Amies, 1922

Ramon Casas, Young Decadent, 1899

Karen Dalton, Katie Cruel

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