Art & Music

Pain in the Paint

• Death and Funeral of Cain | David Alfaro Siqueiros
• The Raft of the Medusa | Théodore Géricault
• Triumph of Death | unknown
• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Victor Vasnetov
• Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa | Antoine-Jean Gros
• Victim of Fanaticism | Mykola Pymonenko
• Unnamed mural at Supreme Court | Jose Clemente Orozco

Yours, Truly

• The Music Lesson | Johannes Vermeer
• The Cardsharps | Caravaggio
• La Horde | Wolfgang Beltracci
• Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife | Jan Van Eyck
• Hustler | Arthur Sarnoff

Stranger than Fiction

• Humans of New York | Brandon Stanton (emphasis on refugee stories)
• Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn | Ai Weiwei
• Diary of an Empty City | Liu Xiaodong
• 245 Cubic Meters | Santiago Sierra
• The Wait | Edward Kienholz
• Project Dust | Brother Nut
• Dismaland | Banksy
• Little Monsters | Flora Borsi

(Im)perfect Perspectives

• Wabi-sabi | Are there artists active today who embrace elements of wabi-sabi in their work? Is it a healthy mindset for valuing the world, or an excuse to settle for imperfection?
• Nonfinito works (emphasis on Michelangelo) | Are incomplete works by definition imperfect? Are "unfinished" and "incomplete" the same thing?

Jailhouse Rocks

• How to Make Gravy | Paul Kelly
• Folsom Prison Blues | Johnny Cash
• Laura Palmer | Bastille
• Liberty Needs Glasses | Tupac Shakur
• Negro y Azul | Los Cuates de Sinaloa
• Schindler’s List, Main Title Theme | John Williams

On a Pale Piano

• The Hurdy-Gurdy Man | Franz Schubert
• 15th Symphony, 1st Movement | Dmitri Shostakovich
• Danse Macabre | Camille Saint-Saëns
• 4th Symphony, 2nd Movement | Gustav Mahler
• Totentanz | Franz Liszt

A World of Tears

• Stink-Foot | Frank Zappa
• Industrial Disease | Dire Straits
• Another Day In Paradise | Phil Collins
• The Way It Is | Bruce Hornsby & the Range
• City of the Damned | Green Day
• Papaoutai | Stromae
• Sunday Bloody Sunday | U2
• Jenny Was A Friend of Mine | The Killers
• I Feel Pretty / Unpretty | Glee Cast Recording   
• Will I | Rent

It Gets Better

• Light (from Next To Normal) | Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
• Epilogue (from Les Misérables) | Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg
• Proud of Your Boy | Aladdin
• Born This Way | Glee Cast Recording   
• Glory | Common & John Legend