answering "definitely" to someone but secretly meaning it in the "with distinct limits" sense

Happy 99th Birthday Leontyne Price Photo Credit: Carl Van Vechten, 1951 courtesy Beinecke Library

Remembering that time that Miles Davis brought flowers to Laura Nyro at one of her concerts and also stopped by a recording session to possibly play but after listening, declared, “this is perfect, it doesn’t need me!”

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Horkheimer, 1942/44

I have already seen Jon Bon Jovi more tonight than I ever wanted to in my life

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

The lion in winter

Chuck Klosterman's "Football" is a book for the game's biggest fans and haters. Give my review a read even if you're only going to a party for the nachos tonight: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Can’t wait for it to be like this. Spring scene with insects, from ‘Brehms Tierleben’ (Leipzig, 1892). Waddleton.b.1.146 @theul.bsky.social

I wrote about the Epstein files and what it teaches us about the rot in the art world.

Back from Paris

I’m into it

At least there’s more light

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones

When you find out they’ve been doing jello shots since jello. Just whiskey & a little brandy kicker #foodhistory

Holy Family, 1560s/70s Possibly by Marcello Venusti, b. 1512, d. 15 Oct 1579 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Oh man, if I hadn’t already made a grain salad for lunches this week

Takeshi Nishijima February, 1977 – A Branch with Plum Blossoms, 1976 Hand stencil-dyed print, ink and color on handmade kozo paper Worcester Art Museum 🐇🐇

Albany road trip

Constantly confusing Spirit of the Beehive with Voice of the Beehive

She makes it sound so easy

Fooled into sending a LinkedIn connection request

New to view

Barbier-Walbonne detail

We're going to be featuring a lot of Dan's work the rest of this week, but this is one I especially enjoyed and which no one else could have written. He had a lot of those. defector.com/one-last-tri...

Destruction and Hope, Paul Klee 1916

Brb, going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue

Looking at paintings to try to feel warmer

Et tu, First Baptist Church?

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," writes Neil Young. “The president's international policies and his support of ICE, make it impossible for me to ignore his actions.” He also announced that anyone in Greenland can access his entire catalog for free at his site.

Thinking of making a Big Emotions playlist

A selection of accessories from the exhibition. 1/2

“I propose a sort of long-term residential program for everyone who remains with ICE and CBP after this week, along with more or less everyone hired since the start of the second Trump administration.”

🎶 eating chicken and the cat doesn’t know 🎶

“The ultimate betrayal of the Pizza Ranch is that it serves neither ranch-flavored pizza nor pizza-flavored ranch.”

Seahawks-Rams, rescue us

Very happy that the Jewish Museum’s Joan Semmel show is getting the attention that it is

Homage to Leger with K. K. [Katharine Kuh], by Will Barnet American, 1911-2012 1982 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/119982

Alfredo Hlito, Curves and Straight Series, 1948 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137710

Every now and then that piano part just hits you

15 minutes into a management meeting that runs until noon and it already feels like a hostage situation

Listening to reports from Davos and how grotesque yet unsurprising that the message from American officials seems to have been “If Dirty want his money, I think y’all should give him his money”

Heat up, robe on, and in bed just past 630, all my life has been leading to this

Joe Burrow logging on for the first time in over a year to say the refs got both catch calls right. A true poster.

Mural at Sacramento Blvd. and Washington in Chicago

A little how it started/how it’s going for baby’s tenth(!) birthday (observed)