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Monday's image: January 5, 2026

Luis Jiménez, Man on Fire, Fiberglass in acrylic urethane resin on painted wood fiberboard base, 269.9 x 203.8 x 74.9 centimeters, 1969, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Monday's image: December 29, 2025

U.S. Navy, USS Los Angeles, Photograph, 1924, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Monday's image: December 22, 2025

David Gilhooly, Lite/Light Lunch, Painted and glazed ceramic and wood, 33 x 50.8 x 39.4 centimeters, 1983, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU, Pullman, Washington

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Monday's image: December 15, 2025

Robert Mapplethorpe, Baby’s Breath, Gelatin silver print, 35.6 x 35.5 centimeters, negative 1978, print 1991, Getty Museum, Los Angeles

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Monday's image: December 8, 2025

Lewis Hine, Heart of the Turbine, Gelatin silver print, 24.5 x 19.5 centimeters, 1930, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Monday's image: December 1, 2025

Marko Behar, Political Prisoner, Indian ink wash on paper, 242 x 173 millimeters, 1957, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

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Monday's image: November 24, 2025

Joan Vernon Connew, Blackout, Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2 centimeters, 1942, Imperial War Museum London, U.K.

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Monday's image: November 17, 2025

Josef Váchal, Vedra (Heat Wave), Woodcut, 26.5 × 18.9 centimeters, 1943, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

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Monday's image: November 10, 2025

Catherine Lee, Other Voices, Cast aluminum, copper, bronze, iron, 254 x 358 x 5 centimeters, 1993, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

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Monday's image: October 27, 2025

Frank McClure, Farmer Leaning on Staff in Field, Ink on paper, Undated, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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Monday's image: October 20, 2025

Jeffrey Edwards, A Narrow Escape, Screenprint on paper, Publisher: Dickerson, Printer: Kevin Harris, 1973, V&A Museum, London, U.K.

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Monday's image: October 13, 2025

Tony Carter, Virus — Of War and Subjective Seeing, Three easels, painted wooden chair and oil paint on photographic print with printed text, Dimensions variable, 1979-82, Tate, U.K.

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Monday's image: October 6, 2025

Jon Eric Riis, Freedom’s Price, Woven metallic thread, 67 x 30.25 x 1 inches, 2005, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

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Monday's image: September 29, 2025

Jos De Mey, Simbolise simbiose van een populier met de bijbelse bouwverwarring, Oil on canvas, 1200 x 820 millimeters, 1981, Collection Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium

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Monday's image: September 22, 2025

Robert Breer, Eyewash, 16 millimeter silent film, color, 3 minutes 10 seconds, 1959, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. (Note: Video is hyperlinked via the artwork title.)

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Monday's image: September 15, 2025

Yun Gee, Street Scene, 28.3 x 40.8 centimeters, Oil on board, 1926, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Monday's image: September 8, 2025

Tomás Saraceno, Pneuma 5.5, Hand-blown glass, polyester cord, velvet cord, monofilament, Tillandsia, 60 x 60 x 60 centimeters, 2021, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain

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Monday's image: September 1, 2025

Alexandra Wejchert, Floating in White Blue and Red, Mixed media on board, 153 x 153 centimeters, 1973, Collection of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland

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Monday's image: August 25, 2025

Miriam de Búrca, Anatomy of Chaos II: The Legacy of Madness, Ink drawing on man-made vellum, 51 x 65.8 centimeters, 2018, Collection of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Ireland

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