Jimi Hendrix: singer-songwriter, guitar miracle worker, voodoo child, systems engineer ⚡ spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix...

Ivana 18/25

New Yorker in Buenos Aires.

Time be thine.

Time be thine.

“Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography” exhibition, a close look at the celebrity-making machinery of the 20th-century Hollywood star system, at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

Self portraits (1884-5, 1912, 1937, 1945) in “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck” (1862–1946) at @metmuseum.org

Woman with a Child (1887); Maria (1909); The Tapestry (1914-16) in “Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck” (1862–1946) at @metmuseum.org

— I thought you hated Pride and Prejudice. —Or was she too prejudiced and Mr. Darcy is too proud? I can't remember.

Togethercoloured

Mary Magdalene (1535-40, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo); Saint Francis in Meditation (1635-9, Francisco de Zurbarán) at the National Gallery, London, UK.

Mme. et Mlles. @metmuseumbot.bsky.social

Garden Scene with Building, Villa Varramista (ca. 1910); The Brook, Purtud (1906-1908); Sea & Shore, Hammamet (1929)—“Emily Sargent (1857–1936): Portrait of a Family” at @metmuseum.org

The Wyndham sisters (1899); Mrs. Hammersley (1892); Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt, 1882)—John Singer Sargent, Gilded Age Portraiture gallery at @metmuseum.org

A certain utterly gorgeous, absolutely radiant, totally mesmerizing Mme. is back @metmuseum.org

“12 + 2” installation by Duane Linklater (Omaskêko Ininiwak from Moose Cree First Nation, b. 1976) at DIA: Chelsea @diaartfndn.bsky.social

Winter perspective

Stimulus — response ❄️

"... the ratio of words written by Kafka to words written about Kafka is now estimated to be about 1:10,000,000. A symbolic punishment for a man who himself claimed to be “made of literature.” 🪳Kafka Inc., Jared Marcel Pollen. libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Susanna, Dorothea, and friends, Chevalier d’Éon, NY (1960-63); Travestia magazine (1961-63)—Photographs and publications by and for a pre-Stonewall cross-dressing community in NYC and the Catskills through the 1960s in “Casa Susanna” exhibition at @metmuseum.org with The Mapplethorpe Foundation

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1985); Becky (1968); and Trabajador (1951) in the superbly beautiful and moving exhibition Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson (1922-2015) at @metmuseum.org

Diary; Two Home Countries; Beyond my Body—Blood, body, and the fabric of memories in the riveting works of Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972) for the “Two Home Countries” exhibition at @japansociety.org

Pasó el aniversario de Jane Austen y el año de “Frankenstein”, y nos deja irresuelto el dilema victoriano de emoción vs. virtud. Con la bondad llega la felicidad, como sostiene Elizabeth Bennet? O es la felicidad el germen de la bondad, como enuncia elocuentemente la Criatura?🤔

Portrait de Mademoiselle Chanel (1923); Femmes au chien (1923); Les Biches (1923)—Las damas y los perritos de Marie Laurencin (1883-1956), @museeorangerie.bsky.social

When in Rome, or Marylebone…

Le Café des Anges (2022); Lueurs d’un Soir (2023); Olivia (2025)—The vivid spirits of Diego Velázquez, Claude Monet, and Gustave Courbet are summoned by Bilal Hamdad for the exceptional paintings of the “Paname” exhibition at Petit Palais.

Uni 🦉

Winter perspective

"Everything We Do Is Music" by Elizabeth Alker is, hands down, one of the best books of the year. Exhibit 1 of many: This beautiful story of Sir Paul and his friend John ("you know, John Lennon") about the creation of an extraordinary piece of mind bending Beatle electronica 🙌

“In The Bronx, we have residents from every continent on the face of the Earth, including Antarctica if…” 😉

City night lights

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led a path of gutting and destruction of public, global health, and medical research resources, among others. How much did it save in federal spending? Nothing...it led to an increase www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Stitched jeans, stitched lips, stitched eyes and eyelashes, and surreal cigar ashes in the superb “Richard Prince: Folk Songs” exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, NYC.

La Ninfa e il Soldato, 2020; Guardando il Bosco III, 2025; Corsa VI, 2025–“Lorenzo Mattotti Ф Momentum” exhibition at Philippe Labaune Gallery, NYC.

Muy ilustrativo y entretenido el nuevo libro “Killing the Dead” de John Blair, historiador y arqueólogo medievalista de Oxford, sobre las actividades, actitudes, y personalidades de los muertos vivos. Spoiler: los espectros que uno ve salir de la tumba no son todos lo mismo, no.

Too hot for the Goth

New Year’s Hymns (Aramaic, Egypt, 400 BC); Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child (Hermeneia, Egypt, 897-8); “In tribulatione vehementi et in carcere”, Prayer book of Thomas More (Paris, 1530) in “Sing a New Song: The Psalms in Medieval Art and Life” exhibition at The Morgan Library and Museum, NYC.

The ignorance and data denialism of FDA intent of putting a black box on Covid vaccines when the evidence of benefit is overwhelming, even among children www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

The Hand of the Devil holding Woman; The Cathedral; the Secret—Auguste Rodin at Rodin Museum, Philadelphia.

Study for Dancers in the Country (1883); Dancers in the Country 1883)—“Renoir Drawings” exhibition at The Morgan Library and Museum, NYC

Self-portrait (1869); Boating couple (1880-81); Motherhood (Aline Charigot and Pierre Renoir, 1885) in the spectacular exhibition “Renoir drawings” at the Morgan library and museum, NYC

Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective—an absolutely, utterly stunning exhibition at MoMA, NYC.

Excelentes esta y otras notas de Sarah Lyall en NYTimes sobre el mundo encantador y luminoso de los fans de Jane Austen (de la que nada sabríamos si no fuera por la "Janeite" de esta casa) y los festejos en el 250° aniversario del nacimiento de Austen. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...

Aksel Waldemar Johannessen (1880–1922, Oslo (Kristiania))—Man on a Diving Board (1912), at @metmuseum.org “Among the most remarkable paintings that I have encountered!”, Edvard Munch. Hear, hear⚡️

Minjeong An, Self-Portrait_Rachaph (2024)—417: Body Constructs exhibition at MoMA, NYC.

Le Corbusier, Plates from Le Poème de l'angle droit (1947-53); Haus-Rucker-Co collective, Mind Expander/Flyhead Helmet (1968); General Motors, “Oscar” (1950s)—417: Body Constructs exhibition (on the bodies that would inhabit and use new objects and buildings) at MoMA, NYC.

Fishermen with nets (ca. 1945); Whalebone (1948); The Antagonist (1956)—George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa, 1919–2000) in “The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York” exhibition at @metmuseum.org

“Thread”, Essex Hemphill (1957-1995), poet; “I am a rainbow too”, Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972), artist—Poetry in motion, 1 train 🔴, MTA Arts and Design, NYC.

All the above

Superbly exhilarating performance of the amazing Kronos Quartet last night at the Kaufman Music Center in NYC. And what an electrifying closing with Terry Riley’s Sunrise Jam along with the über-talented students from the John Cali School of Music ⚡️👏