JL

Boston, I am tired of being inside you

Righteous

Hell yeah

Oh it is so totally your grandfather’s art museum

Cobra by Geese on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 3:05

Funny thing is, there’s a sense in which you put out a record as joyous as “Love Takes Miles” and then this, you’re already an all-timer. You’ve already grabbed a place in the books, the only question is how big

I was as surprised as you are (I suppose my colleague is not that young, early 30s, but still)

I don’t think that the young U2 fan in my department has ever seen it and that’s probably for the best

Discretely tucked around the corner of a bookcase so most people who enter my office don’t see it

View of copley square in Boston under a bright blue morning sky

Boston, I am inside you

Toronto Blue Jay
P. Kuhder
2021

Blurbs like “a singular vision!”

Fearlessly investigating recipes from across the world’s cuisines, determining how to make them using apples and oats

The good pears are back at the market and the cat in back in the bed

give me the confidence of a slightly different mediocre white man

It used to bother me that I didn’t care for Indigo De Souza but then I realized that it was the children who were wrong

Carey Young
Declared Void, 2005
Vinyl drawing and text on wall

a rare blue-bodied chandelier, decorated with glass-drops and bronze ornaments. Spotted in the church Saint Corneille in Puycesi /France

#lüsterliebe

I don’t post these so often as my listening habits don’t change fast enough to make it interesting, but at the risk of being overdramatic: the Geese record is making me reconsider my feelings about a lot of records from the last couple of years

It’s not just a river in Egypt, you can have it right here!

Happy birthday!!! 🎊🎂🎈🎉🎁

Bottom LH corner of broadside featuring: woodcut border decoration featuring flowers and branches, a woodcut vase with flowers, some typographical decoration, and in letterpress the first words from the imprint: “En Barcelona:”.

Decoration on a broadside from Barcelona 1682.

A cat orchestra directed by an owl, with sheet music made of little drawings of mice, cats playing instruments, a demon plays a horn with his butt, as well as some other nonsense

Unknown Lombard artist, Cats Singing, Directed by an Owl, c. 1700 (formerly Sotheby's)

How growing political interference is eroding the independence of European museums Many institutions are adopting a practice of “strategic silence” to protect funding and avoid censure

“Six out of ten museums, and three-quarters of national umbrella organisations, answered yes to the question: ‘Do you feel that the museums’ vision or (parts of its) programme in your country are subject to political pressure?’”

Sheet with age of two swans in a pond with other white birds flying in the sky against a background of trees above a calendar for the month of October

Theodorus van Hoytema
Swans in Autumn Pond (1902 Calendar: October)
Color lithograph

I think that’s typical museum staff style but I bet they would have been flattered to hear it!

Back of a canvas in its frame with “Marsden Hartley” written on it

Label on a painting stretcher bar reading “TEMPLE BETH EL ART FESTIVAL 400 Deering Avenue, Portland, Maine ARTIST MAREDEN HARTLEY SUBJECT MuSICAL THEME MEDIUM OIL ON CANVAS PRICE BRANDEIS NO.”

No, I don’t think the institution I was at then lent to that show. I do love these images of the back of that painting, though. It was a thrill to take the backing board off and see his signature, plus that old loan label—things were different back then

Marsden Hartley. The German paintings 1913-1915

I took that painting to Berlin a little over ten years ago for this exhibition

It’s probably not a fake but it could be something very different from what people have thought and there could be some furious backpedaling by some people (more likely they’ll dispute the interpretation but still, extremely funny)

RIP every scholar who wrote some endless exegesis of it if true

Is Vermeer’s ‘The Art of Painting’ in fact a lost work? An expert argues that a legal document by the artist’s widow, from which the painting’s title is taken, is not referencing the famous picture in Vienna

Wouldn’t that be a kick in the pants