Edvard Munch, Attraction I, 1896

Édouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882

John Brack, The Bar, 1954

John Brack, Collins St., 5 pm, 1955

Hand with Reflecting Sphere

Left version (original) by M. C. Escher, right version by Katsuhiro Otomo

Shohei Otomo

"Both English and Russian titles refer to the nautical tradition that waves grow larger and larger in a series up to the largest wave, the ninth (or tenth) wave, at which point the series starts again."

Ivan Aivazovsky, The Ninth Wave, 1859

The top 10 sexiest works of art ever

Antonio da Correggio, Jupiter and Io, ~1530

Zaria Forman, Greenland #62, 2012

Giovanni Boldini, Spanish Dancer at the Moulin Rouge, 1905

Left: Diego Velázquez, Portrait of Innocent X, 1650

Right: Francis Bacon, Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X, 1953

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 50 cent Piece, 1983

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Leeches, 1983

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, Effect of Fog, 1903

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781

Albrecht Dürer, Melencolia I, 1514

Grayson Perry's first Reith Lecture is terrific. Listen here.

Takashi Murakami, Flowers & Skulls

Edvard Munch, Madonna, 1894

"A deeply disillusioned man, he saw humanity as essentially bestial and the city of Berlin as a sink of depravity and deprivation, its streets crowded with unprincipled profiteers, prostitutes, war-crippled dregs and a variety of perverts. A communist, his feeling of social outrage stimulated him to produce the most biting drawings and paintings." ~ Trewin Copplestone

George Grosz, Metropolis, 1916-17

Evokes Magnus Mills' Explorers of the New Century.

Caspar David Friedrich, The Sea of Ice, 1824

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Ship in Stormy Seas, 1858