this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy
*taps the not ai sign*
"Here the scene takes place within a workshop, and though the painter is at his easel, his pose is clearly that of a performer, and he is dressed accordingly. At the far right, we see an important visitor, a gentleman seated with crossed legs... A number of people wait on him, including a cleric who points out the subject while others show deferential respect – raising a hat, enjoining silence – all of them attentive to the work of art as it is created....The artist has passed his palette and stick to a young assistant while handling a crayon holder, and his left hand holds a folded paper with a drawing of what is being reproduced. The sheet has a coloured version of the oval composition. The light-hearted, casual attitude of the artist whose gaze meets ours is accompanied by a nice turn of the hips and shoulders. He seems to be indicating a detail of the figure of Hercules resting on his club, his head turned to the right, sketched in brown grisaille. While the subject may recall the Farnese Hercules (now in the Archaeological Museum, Naples), the drawing is unrelated, since the celebrated ancient statue has a standing pose. Young apprentices assist their master, or engage in drawing, and the one in the foreground is distracted by a dog, to whom he offers a biscuit. Two other standing figures on the left side of the composition are shown closely examining the canvas. This group of spectators – no doubt real portraits, as De Dominici states – suggests that this was an important commission, and that the principal figure dressed in white and yellow is the patron; the Herculean iconography could thus be an allusion to his personal glory, or that of his family. The workshop is truly a performance space: on the right, a painting is seen on the wall (one can guess at its subject, a still life), earthenware jugs hang from a nail, and a large lamp is at the centre, although the room is lit by the open window at left."
Wonderful rediscovered painting of the Artist's Studio by Giuseppe Bonito, 1738/1740, at Galerie Canesso www.canesso.art/artworkdetai...
“If this habit had in any way distracted the president from dropping bombs on foreign schools or his ongoing domestic terror campaigns, it would be much easier to laugh about it.”
Birch Forest I, Gustav Klimt 1902
Birch Forest I, Gustav Klimt 1902
This record is built out of 70s pop and Vanessa Carlton, it’s wonderful
I’m two songs into this for the first time and holding my breath to see if it stays this good the whole way, how it unfolds
College students sitting outside on grass (grass, beautiful, beautiful grass) near a bronze sculpture
We are so back
The world needs more garage/country punk songs about planting veggies and flowers
The mother of a high school friend, whenever faced with the prospect of driving from Wakefield to Warwick for whatever reason, would always push back by saying, “but that’s a day trip”
I’m just grateful it’ll be consistently above freezing
Once again
Opening tomorrow in Ghent: Unforgettable, a major exhibition at the MSK on women artists of the 17th-century Low Countries. More than 150 works reveal how painters, sculptors and lace-makers helped shape the Golden Age - even if art history later forgot them.
Sending you all good wishes, take care and I hope the treatment is as swift and successful as possible
It’s Bandcamp Friday, the day I regret signing up to receive emails from so many bands on Bandcamp
Excellent fourth beer record
DePaul University’s decision to close its campus art museum has sparked outrage in Chicago, including an open letter that criticized the move as “short-sighted, wrong-headed, and grounded in some deeply disappointing principles of prioritization.”
It was odd but not crazy, he was at Rolling Stone then, before he joined MTV
I remember reading the liner notes Kurt Loder wrote for all the Velvet Underground reissues in the 80s with my friends and lingering over his description of Lou Reed as a guitarist “of raw protean power.” Finally someone offered, “I guess that means he only knows barre chords”
Happy to see that Kurt didn’t embarrass himself by anything more than still being on the everything app
Pretty fitting given the people in charge of things that basically every attempted official justification for what the US was going for in Iran and why they hadn't foreseen any of the extremely foreseeable consequences is basically at the level of something you'd hear during a field sobriety stop.
Persian miniature painting of children in school with their teacher engaging in normal school activities of their day and time like kids do everyday. The painting illustrates the site where Laila and Majnun fall in love
Persian, made in Shiraz, Iran
Laila and Majnun at School, ca. 1570
From a copy of the manuscript Khamsa (Quintet) by the poet Nizami (1141-1209)
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Right? I am also very pleased that Seven Sundays, a small Minnesota company that makes what I consider the best muesli on the market, has committed to them. If all goes as planned, that means I’ll be having their oats for breakfast in a matter of months
(And by grain salad, I mean whole oats)
I’ve got a grain salad with bok choy, peppers, snap peas, and peanuts in a sesame ginger dressing that I made early this morning to have all week 💪
We are still a few weeks and a lot of snow melt away from anything growing but seeing the light increase as the sun gets higher has been keeping me going
