Alphabetarion # Ask | Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015
Aleksei Kruchenykh, Explosion in a Trunk, Universal War, 1916 “No one asks poor people if they want war.” Viet Thanh...
1910s
A pioneer of Swedish Modernism | Paintings by Axel Törneman, 1880-1924
Axel Törneman, Shadows, 1925 Axel Törneman, In the garden, 1907 Axel Törneman, Illuminated landscape with trees Axel Törneman, The White...
Days [ ) Face | A. A. Milne, 1917
Marc Riboud, Tokyo, 1958 “His dress told her nothing, but his face toldher things which she was glad to know.”...
Summer in the Country | Robert Walser, 1914
Fairfield Porter, South Meadow, 1972 WHAT DO you do during a summer in the country? Good God man, what do...
Alphabetarion # Quiver | D.H. Lawrence, 1915
Mark Rothko, No. 8, 1952 “The light grew stronger, gushing up against the dark sap-hire of the transparent night. The...
Painters [*/ ) Flowers and Fruits | Kokei Kobayashi, 1883-1957
Kokei Kobayashi, Fruit, 1910 Kokei Kobayashi, Fruit, 1930s Kokei Kobayashi, Red Painting Kokei Kobayashi, Fruits and Flowers, 1938 Kokei Kobayashi,...
At Night | Franz Kafka, 1917-19
Agnes Martin, Kyrie, 1962 "Deeply lost in the night. Just as one sometimes lowers one's head to reflect, thus to...
Days [ ) Remembrance | Marcel Proust, 1913
Antonio Mora, Nobody Knows Me “Remembrance of things past is not necessarilythe remembrance of things as they were.” Marcel Proust,...
It’s Raining | A poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1916
Guillaume Apollinaire, Il Pleut, Calligrammes, 1916 its raining womens voices as if they were dead even in memoryits raining you...
Δροσιά τοῦ πόνου | Γεώργιος Δροσίνης, 1915
Pierre Mignard, Lady holding a dish of pearls, 17th ce (detail) Δροσιά τοῦ πόνου κρυφογέννητηΒγῆκε στὸ φῶς κ’ ἔγινε δάκρυΚ’...