So much power in that beaten face with cauliflower ears and broken nose.

Detail from the Boxer of Quirinal, ~330 B.C.

Amedeo Modigliani, Portrait of Maude Abrantes, 1907

Daniel Arsham, Eyes, 2010

Pablo Picasso, Bulls Head, 1942

“Jeff is like the man who fell to earth, who, in this grotesque time of art flippage and speculative mania, is either the icing on the cake or some kind of Piketty-esque harbinger of the return of Brecht’s ‘making strange.’ Or a glitteringly bent version of that alienated vision. He brings the cake and lets them eat it.” ~ Barbara Kruger in Jeff Koons Is Back!

Jeff Koons, Popeye, 2009-2011 (sold for $28.2 million)

Dariusz Zawadzki, I’ll Give You My Angel

Zdzisław Beksiński, Untitled, 1984

Egon Schiele, Male Nude with Red Cloth, 1914

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793

Honoré Daumier, The Chess Players, 1863

Edgar Degas, Dancer Putting on Her Slipper, 1896

Jean de Pomereu, Sans Nom 10

View of the pre-Hispanic Aztec city of Tenochtitlan (now part of Mexico city), the largest city in the world before its fall to Cortez in 1521.

Diego Rivera, Detail from The Marketplace Tlatelolco mural in the Palacio Nacional de Mexico, 1945

"Art must no longer be the expression of individual satisfaction (which) it is today, but should aim to become a fighting educative art for all." ~ David Alfaro Siqueiros

David Alfaro Siqueiros, The New Democracy, 1944

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