Improvisation 28, Vassily Kandinsky, 1912, Expressionism

London Bridge, André Derain, oil on canvas, 1906, Fauvism.

Woman with a hat, Henri Matisse, oil on canvas, 1905, Fauvism

Large Blue Horses, Franz Marc, 1911, Expressionism

"Street, Dresden", Ernst Kirchner, 1908, Expressionism

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907, Cubism

Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937, Cubism

Unique forms of continuity in space, Umberto Boccioni, 1913, Futurism

Fountain, Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Dada

Nude descending a staircase, Marcel Duchamp, 1912, the Armory Show (cubist and/or futurist)

The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz, photograph, 1907, Photo-Secession

Light Iris, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1924, Precisionism

Melancholy and Mystery of a Street, Giorgio DeChirico, 1914, Metaphysical Painting

The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali, 1931, Surrealism

Dutch Interior I, Joan Miró, 1928, Surrealism

Object, Meret Oppenheim, fur covered cup, 1936, Surrealism

The Two Fridas, Frida Kahlo, 1939, Surrealism

Suprematist Composition: Airplane Flying, Kazimir Malevich, 1915, Suprematism

Monument to the Third International, Vladimir Tatlin, wood/iron/glass model, 1919-1920, Constructivism

Composition in Black and White and Red, Piet Mondrian, 1936, DeStijl

Schröder House, Gerrit Rietveld, 1924, Utrecht Netherlands, DeStijl

The Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, 1925-1926, the Bauhaus

Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier, 1929, International Style

The Robie House, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1907-1909, Prairie Style

Kaufmann House "Falling Water", Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936-1939, Wright's later work

The Chrysler Buildings, William Van Alen, 1928-1930, Art Deco

Bird in Space, Constantin Brancusi, 1928, Organic Art

Reclining Figure, Henry Moore, 1947, Organic Art

Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange, 1935, Depression Era Art

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942, Depression Era Art

Migration of the Negro #58, Jacob Lawrence, tempera on masonite, 1940-41, Depression Era Art

American Gothic, Grant Wood, oil on beaverboard, 1930, Depression Era Art

Detroit Industry, Diego Rivera, fresco, 1932-33, Mexican Muralism

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.

I have anonymously helped many thousands.

I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don't think about people's feelings, too.

There are a lot of kids coming in to athletics, but there is also a big drop-out rate. We've got it right at the top end, but we have to maintain the base of the pyramid.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

I didn't come to Washington to be part of the problem.

I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.

Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.