Nell Dorr, 1939

Anna Maria Maiolino, Piccole Note, (ink on paper), 1984 [MoMA, New York, NY. © Anna Maria Maiolino]

Miklós Ligeti, Csók, 1902

audience members at Umm Kolthoum’s concert in Egypt, 1962

Roy DeCarava, Woman walking above, New York, 1950

Chris Drury Covered Cairn, 1993 TICKON (Tranekær International Centre for Art and Nature), Langeland, Denmark. This was commissioned as a temporary piece and comprises a cairn of glacial boulders enclosed by a dome of woven sticks

Josef Sudek, the Wind, 1918-22

“A little darkness, in itself, at the time, is nothing. You think no more about it and you go on. But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.”

—

Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

“Back in 1924, he [Paul Robeson] was rehearsing the last act of The Emperor Jones, and script called for Jones to exit, hands in his pocket, whistling a tune. Robeson said he couldn’t whistle. The director said, ‘Well, hum… or sing, if you want to.’ And that’s the beginning of his singing career.”

— From the documentary Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (dir. Saul J. Turell, 1979)

Hong Sang-soo

- Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

2000

Jean Cocteau by Germaine Krull