The best. A relationship built on gestures, grunts, and snorts — and some very nice walks in the park.

Another better view (in color) on this Instagram account:
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It is really nice. I decided that social media is work (for which I don't get paid), so it's now confined to working hours!

A tile mosaic by Matisse features brightly colored leaves in shades of blue, green and red, against a white background.

A vintage magazine photograph from 1966 shows a man in a suit and tie seated next to his wife, wearing a white shift and sporting a puffy bob, sitting before the Matisse mosaic.

Always love finding a photo of art in situ.

At left, Matisse's 1953 tile mosaic at LACMA; at right, Sidney Brody and Frances Lasker Brody before that same Matisse on their LA patio, which they commissioned from the artist.

Photo at left is mine; right comes from LIFE mag 1966

A couple of months back I deinstalled all social media apps from my phone and now only do social media from my laptop when I'm working. Highly recommend.

Yes. She woke up exhausted.

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Poisonous Objects | Carolina A. Miranda Two exhibitions in Los Angeles respond to the racist monuments to Confederate soldiers that have been erected all over the United States.

"One chunk of granite bears the spray-painted command 'do better.'" @cmonstah.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Kees van Dongen, "Woman with a Cigarette," c. 1906-08 — spotted in LACMA's new Geffen Galleries.

A Kees van Dongen's painting shows a woman with massive bags under her eyes smoking a cigarette.

I have found the most perimenopausal painting.

Detail of a forest spirit figure carved by an Ijo artist (Nigeria) in the early 19th century -- spotted at LACMA's new Geffen galleries.

A wooden sculpture features multiple heads all facing in diferent directions and appearing to scream.

How your email found me.

A vintage black and white photograph shows museum patrons posing in a museum gallery, some dressed in furs.

LACMA gala, c. 1965.

Bless these ladies wearing fur in Los Angeles.

Four Africa-influenced masks hang on a bright yellow wall, one with what appears to be a Bantu-knot hairdo and blue tinted skin; another with a heart shaped face rentered in brown and white; one with feline features features; and one in a luminous combination of blue, red and yellow.

A selection of masks created by the late Noni Olabisi to celebrate "Day of the Ancestors" in Leimert Park, 2019-2021. Spotted at the Laband Art Gallery a couple of weeks back.

Love that blue one at the bottom.

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Drinking excessively, purging perceived enemies and worrying about the nature of FBI merch.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

That's Not What Unc Means You’d never know the meaning of unc or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media.

On the origins of the word "unc" and how Black vernacular culture is stripped of context on the internet.
aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

Mezzanine: Agnès Varda's VAGABOND w/ Megan O'Grady Tickets | $15 | 9 May @ 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles | DICE Mezzanine presents VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi), a film by Agnes Varda. 1985, France, 105m, DCP. Followed by a conversation with writer Megan O’Grady and Car...

Mark yer calendars: I'm going to be chit chatting with fellow art scribe Megan O'Grady following a screening of Agnès Varda's "Vagabond" on May 9th!
dice.fm/event/l8d2rp...

The jury for my last job interview, unimpressed by the gaps in my resume I am unable to explain.

I thought this was settled. It's the Straight of Vermouth.

Nominally independent media institutions celebrating press freedom by serving canapés to president fake news is some bleak, black comedy but the venue is chef’s kiss

LACMA Geffen Galleries Opening Gala Brings Out Artists, Supermodels, Oscar Winners & Studio Chiefs – Photo Gallery The Geffen gala drew a diverse crowd: from Bob Iger and Casey Wasserman to Alicia Keyes and Alejandro González Iñárritu to Paris Hilton and Lori Loughlin.

I wonder what LA artist was overlooked so that Casey Wasserman could have a seat at the LACMA gala.
deadline.com/gallery/lacm...

*Vallejo

Roser Bru Llop's "Inventario de Valljejo," 1982 — spotted at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago, Chile.

A painting by Roser Bru Lop shows the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo against a grey background, thoughtfully resting his chin in his hand. His image is mirrored on a horistonal black surface. Before that stand a horse, a donkey and a dog.

How your email found me.

We're all just living in the simulation.

"Attention Passengers: Flight 547 to Toledo is boarding by the Raymond Lowey."

He also makes a reference to an airport terminal, so my initial description still stands! (ha ha take that Vanity Fair)

Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions? Built on tar swamps and two tortuous decades in the making, Lacma’s latest addition used twice as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. How did America supersize revered architect Peter Zumthor?

"It is less a museum than a mighty piece of infrastructure, a 110,000 sq ft warehouse-cum-bridge, jacked up nine metres in the air and looming above the street with a brooding, muscular heft."

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

blessss you

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff CEO is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

I don't have a sub so can't read the story, but this headline made me combination snort laugh/roll my eyes.

www.ft.com/content/0210...