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"A painter is like the pilot of a small boat—constantly correcting course, ever alert to changes in the weather, trying not to get swamped by the wakes of larger boats, steering toward the distant shore. A lifetime of painting requires more than just will; agility of mind helps. “Alex Katz: Gathering,” the artist’s long-awaited retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, was both Olympian in scale and outlook and a hard-charging athletic event, sweeping in scope yet light on its feet."

nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/1

I followed @marcdionne's instructions and went to a restaurant that did just one thing. In this case, one of my favorite things, unagi.

We saw the new ant display at the AMNH last summer. It's incredible:

"It was a cold, gray afternoon in December, and at the American Museum of Natural History, a half million leaf-cutter ants were hunkered down in their homes."

nytimes.com/2023/12/22/science

'Perhaps his most famous photograph, Peter Magubane’s 1956 image of a Black maid tending to a white girl captured the racial divide in apartheid South Africa.'

nytimes.com/2024/01/01/world/a

Bottle with quadrupeds, glazed stoneware by @hunchbacksociety

@madparreira.bsky.socialhttps://madalenaparreira.com/Hunchbacksociety

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