"Find the burn that keeps everything awake." -- Federico Garcia Lorca

It’s like poetic justice how there’s a double rainbow outside the John Kennedy Center as Trump’s name is being removed.

© Daido Moriyama - Osaka, Japon, 1997

Duane Michals Photographer And Storyteller Dies Aged 94 tinyurl.com/3utwmwvw Duane Michals died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 94. His Death was confirmed by Bridget Moore of DC Moore Gallery, which represented him. @DCMooreGallery @moma @michalsduane

📸 Duane Michals

The path to summer

No signal, view of Manhattan from New Jersey, 1980s, by Steven Siegel

Elliott Erwitt, BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. 1973.

Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian-French cartoonist, filmmaker and activist, has died, France's presidency announced Thursday. She was 56. People close to Satrapi said that she “died of sadness” after the death of her husband, Swedish film producer and actor Mattias Ripa, a year ago, French media reported. In the 2000s, she won major acclaim for her black-and-white comic series and movie "Persepolis," a story that mirrored her own upbringing during the Islamic Revolution. The film received a 2008 Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature Film; she was the first woman to receive an Academy Award nomination in that category. Her other graphic novels included “Broderies” (“Embroideries”) and “Poulet aux prunes” (“Chicken with plums”), about the death of her great-uncle. Among her directing credits were the feature films "Radioactive," starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie, and "The Voices," starring Ryan Reynolds. In the early 2020s, she coordinated the publication of a book that artistically depicted the women's revolution in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini. The resulting work, “Woman, Life, Freedom,” denounced the Iranian government's repression. "We are not asking any Westerners to come and make a revolution in our place. Just look at these people. They really need people to watch them, they need somebody to testify that everything they’re doing for freedom means something," she said of the book in 2024. "And this is the way we change politics, through public opinion."

A true Master has passed nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/… #RIPSonnyRollins. Walking on West 26th Street

One of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest photographs: “Smoke at the University of Michigan”, 1950

Luigi Ghirri Luzzara (Serie: Paesaggio Italiano) 1985-89 .

"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." -- James Cameron

Paul Klee Limits of the Mind

David Gonzalez - Dancers in Mott Haven - South Bronx, 1979

A first look at Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘FATHERLAND,’ starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, has been released. Set to premiere in competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."  -- Anaïs Nin

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Garrett Strang

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Helen Frankenthaler Red Hot 2002 .