AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).
how it feels to say "sprezzatura"
Advil PM box art I edited to read Email PM The moon and cloud over the classic advil vanishing point blue gridlines the capsule replaced with a blue envelope and notification bell signifying "1" The box reads: Oh my god it's 10:00pm. Does this person have no life or what's the deal? Below the envelope it reads: Honestly Sad* *Super Sad Actually
The latest issue of New York Magazine, with the headline, “My Lost Art World” by Jerry Saltz
It’s the “They feed us poison so we buy their “cures” while they suppress our medicine” meme
Benjamin Franklin on a Soviet stamp, 1956.
What if, instead of being 60 degrees in springtime, it was 40 on odd days and 80 on even ones?
Thrift store rack of t-shirts, one bearing the logo of a certain company with a logo that is a circle withh a downwards facing arrow underneath
Environmental storytelling
Guy who believes conspiracy theory that birds aren’t real and is stoked people are coming around to Geese being a psyop
Always Closing Always Be
I remember when I used to hang art in the UES and I was surprised at how much closer a deli sandwich in the area cost to what it did in the neighborhood where I grew up when I went out to lunch in HS, simply because the residents there were older wealthy NYers
This seems very new but is sort of what reading the Iliad is like
Sending a gallery my portfolio in View-Master slide format
I don’t know if movies are getting worse or I am getting grumpier, but I consider Spencer (2021), Licorice Pizza, Trenque Lauquen, Sound of Falling, and Panda (2026) to all be masterpieces
I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call
Girl in a Room, Richard Diebenkorn 1958
Girl in a Room, Richard Diebenkorn 1958
I believe the phrase is "Hang it in the Louvre"
important news:
I placed a bet on Tony Montana and his wife on Buckaroo
NATURE IS HEALING
Can’t stop thinking about the lady on the subway I watched put on latex gloves to peel and eat an orange, and then took them off immediately after
Lady at the FedEx Ship counter did a little happy dance when she noticed my nails were painted
The audacity of this petty-Constantine
The only news from the United States I can get excited about involve an olympic athlete and manned spaceflight orbiting the moon, welcome back 1968
A kid breathlessly told me I was the first painter he’d seen in Bayside, and I shared my tater tots with a lady passing by, since I’d only bought them to use the bathroom. CVS also had a bathroom, I was told.
Algorithmic Field Painting #28
(40°45'36.8"N 73°46'09.6"W)
2026
Oil on canvas
21 x 18 in.
I love how bitchy the lunar flyby commentary sounds out of context; "the team has requested an attitude change, but needs to discuss it internally first"
Incredible
Film and music have the healthiest fanbases, prove me wrong. Is anyone going, “yeah, I just finished Sons and Lovers and now I’m going to dive into a Craig Shaw Gardner novelization”? “Going to head to the local pay to play gallery to look at pour paintings after I see that Richard Tuttle show”?
Said no art store, ever
If less than two dairy products mix with flour, a sauce fails the Béchamel test. Gravy? Fails the test
Free idea: reboot Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? for Gen Alpha, guest hosted by popular GeoGuessr vloggers
Sitting. Neither horizontal nor vertical. The knight’s move of postures