'The Angelus,' by Jean-François Millet, completed between 1857 and 1859, will be the star exhibit in Millet: Life on the Land at the National Gallery, London, from 7 August to 19 October.
Luigi Lucioni received a fellowship to The Tiffany Foundation that enabled him to spend two months at Laurelton Hall in Oyster Bay, New York over the summer of 1924. He returned often; this work 'Verdant landscape, summer,' was painted two years later in July 1926.
Reading a short story collection by Willa Cather and the book has this Grant Wood painting on the cover: Stone City, Iowa, 1930
Four shots from The Met this weekend
“Before discovering Atay in high school in Istanbul in the late 1990s, I had found Turkish literature dull and oppressive.”
Chinatown in Philadelphia
She wagged her tail so vigorously her entire backside was wigglin' with excitement
Everyone say hello to Lucy please
What, y'all have never been to the retro diner Burger King in rural Maryland before ??
American holidays are haunted by death, destruction, and failure.
Deep-frying turkeys that burn the house down
Fireworks that lead to lost fingers and hands during 4th of July
Car crashes from snow-covered roads for Christmas
The limits and exuberance of life
The American sublime at work
Absolutely devastated by the privatization of public space in Seville. The ravages of neoliberalism!
Selma Lagerlöf - BOTD
💙📚 #LiteratureSky
Nick is great
Democrats gave up on rural America and people noticed
NYRB sale is back btw
Dreams of finding that glorious salt mine of West Virginia, living on the rock and bringing forth the earth's bounty
It's a cold December morning.
Prague is covered in a dusting of snow. You catch the 22 tram then the 24.
We walk until we're in a blur of Hrabal's old neighborhood. Cats are everywhere. All is silent, the bulbs of light emerging as they melt their coats of snow.
Marbella, Spain!
The NYRB personals never give up and neither should you
More of a Rick Steves/Lonely Planet guy myself, but ...
Romanian cities are fascinating and wildly underrated
Pleased with my new podcast The Hope Axis, and all the amazing topics and guests I've had.
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Made a bunch of goulash before getting sick. The Lord guided my hand to get me through it all
The Barnes Foundation is a dream
It's good that Ohio is underrated because it keeps the property values low. Let people go ruin Texas, Florida, Oregon, et al
Here is a goose
