George Condo, Nude and Forms, 2014

RIP

Along With Youth by Ernest Hemingway

A porcupine skin, 
Stiff with bad tanning, 
It must have ended somewhere. 
Stuffed horned owl 
Pompous 
Yellow eyed; 
Chuck-wills-widow on a biased twig 
Sooted with dust. 
Piles of old magazines, 
Drawers of boy's letters 
And the line of love 
They must have ended somewhere. 
Yesterday's Tribune is gone 
Along with youth 
And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach 
The year of the big storm 
When the hotel burned down 
At Seney, Michigan. 

Jesus and Mary Chain, Just Like Honey

Jackson Pollock, Untitled, 1950

Thomas Eakins, Between Rounds, 1899

Antonio Vivaldi, Stabat Mater

Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait Along the Boarder Line Between Mexico and the United States, 1932

André Lambert, Birth of Venus, 1916

Ryo Fukui, Scenery, 1976

NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover, Sunset on Mars, 15 April 2015

Marianne von Werefkin, Ave Maria, 1927

None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error. The methods of increasing the degree of truth in our beliefs are well known; they consist in hearing all sides, trying to ascertain all the relevant facts, controlling our own bias by discussion with people who have the opposite bias, and cultivating a readiness to discard any hypothesis which has proved inadequate. These methods are practised in science, and have built up the body of scientific knowledge.

Every man of science whose outlook is truly scientific is ready to admit that what passes for scientific knowledge at the moment is sure to require correction with the progress of discovery; nevertheless, it is near enough to the truth to serve for most practical purposes, though not for all. In science, where alone something approximating to genuine knowledge is to be found, men’s attitude is tentative and full of doubt. ~ Bertrand Russell

Piet Mondrian, Devotion , 1908

Spiritualized, I Think I'm In Love

Ansel Adams, Road, Nevada Desert, 1960

The legendary Luisa Casati

Augustus John, The Marchesa Casati, 1919

Giorgio de Chirico, Sophocles and Euripides, 1925

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Scene 4: Luzifers Abschied, Saturday, Licht Cycle

Max Ernst, La chute de l'ange, 1923

Alison Hein, hell is real / I-65, 2014