started something glib i've been thinking about for the last several years

Damnation.

Wu Guanzhong (1919-2010)

Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881-1949), 1914, 1918

Harry Clarke, 1919, on E. A. Poe...

Jacques Touchet, « Les Contes de La Fontaine », 1941, pochoirs d'aquarelle

Jiří Trnka (1912-1969)

I stayed up til 3 am (ie now) bc I was struck with the I-have-to-write-my-books-or-I-will-vomit-itis. Glad I did it and I feel better but also I’m gonna regret this….

In a 1966 issue of the New York Herald Tribune, Tom Wolfe wrote an essay titled "The Secret Vice." The essay is about how straight men of means were obsessed with custom tailoring. But since an interest in clothing was too embarrassing to openly share with others, they often guarded it.

Someone took issue with me saying that American male Protestants are unique in how they've removed themselves from aesthetics. I thought it was obvs that I'm talking about fashion and interior decor, which today are coded as "gay interests," not paintings or architecture. But let me elaborate. 🧵

Art is for opening little portholes to a subject we’re all familiar with in some way and saying “let me teach you how I see this thing, let me show you how to get emotional about it the way I get emotional about it”

7 year conversation

no offense to tumblr meant

what on earth was i watching on nov 27 2023

in the last bit of housekeeping im downloading the entire Box folders from my book -- idk when theyll be noticed and deleted, and there were two, for some reason. not like they were ever used but telling in retrospect of how not on the radar it was...