Isolated heroes series, Photography by David Sims, Fashion by Raf Simons, 1999.

Isolated heroes series, Photography by David Sims, Fashion by Raf Simons, 1999.

Notes on sculptures, Painted bronze and stone, 87 x 81 x 50 cm, Tatiana Trouvé, 2016.

Walter De Maria, Photography by George Maciunas, 1961.

Inferno (detail), Chalk on blackboard, Tacita Dean, 244 x 1220 cm, 2019.

Bacon Ice cream series, Yoshiyuki Okuyama, 2015.

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli, Photography by Brett Lloyd, 2022.

23 Blue Breaths, Detail view, D Harding, 2020.

Bullet Through Banana, Dye-Transfer color print, Photography by Harold Eugene Edgerton, 1964.

Bullet Splash, Gelatin silver print, Photography by Harold Edgerton, 1940s.

Using a stroboscopic flash to achieve exposures as fast as 1/1,000,000 of a second, Edgerton revealed aspects of motion and of the structure of the world not visible to the naked eye in real time. Here he recorded the powerful “splash” as a bullet collides with a steel block.

Shaker rainbow, Photography by Wolfgang Tillmans, 1998.

Green Glazed Jug, ead glazed earthenware, Made in Mill Green, Essex, England,14th century.

The speckled green glaze is typical of medieval ceramics from the kilns at Mill Green, about forty miles northeast of London. For about a century, beginning around 1270, potters there created tableware both for local use and for sale in the capital and at other locales within about a forty-mile radius, including Kent, Cambridge, and […]

Fragment, Nephrite, 1902.

Early Small Paimio Model 42, Design by Alvar Alto, 1930.

Miniature gold figure of a llama, Peru, Inca, ca 1500.

Nu au fauteuil, Oil on board, 49.5 x 55.9, Edouard Vuillard, 1900.

Pitchet, Scavo glass, Ermanno Nason for Vetreria Cenedese, 1967.

Bottle with Blue Trails, Glass mold-blown with applied decoration, Attributed to probably Syria, 12th century.

Glass compound eye bead, Glass, Greek culture, ca. 4th century B.C.

Semi-opaque turquoise blue ground; additions in opaque white and translucent cobalt blue. Squat spherical shape with rounded ends to large vertical hole. Staggered pattern of six white disks, each with rosette of seven eyes in white and blue, but with one disks having only six eyes. Intact; dulling, some pitting, and faint creamy iridescent weathering. […]

Glass spoon, Roman period, 1st–3rd century A.D.

Translucent blue green. Fire-rounded, thick, uneven rim, forming end of handle; long hollow neck, tooled in around base, forming handle; body shaped into bowl of spoon with angular bottom and tubular edge. Intact, but small weathered chips in bottom edge of bowl; some elongated bubbles in neck; slight dulling and pitting, and faint weathering on […]

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup), Etruscan culture, late 4th century B.C.

Obverse and reverse, ketos (sea monster). Because the trip to the Underworld was believed to involve a sea voyage, marine creatures, both real and imaginary, were often associated with death in Etruscan culture. Both hippocamps (sea horses) and kete (sea monsters) were presented in a positive light, often guarding the deceased or transporting them to […]

Eaton’s Neck, Long Island, Oil on canvas, John Frederick Kensett, 1872.

The Sea at Dieppe, Watercolor on laid paper, Eugène Delacroix, ca. 1852–54.

Beside the Sea, Marble, August Rodin, ca 1907.

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