Billie Holiday, 29¢
Artistamp, by my dad.
Milwaukee bus passes
Just beautiful.
Minority report: Mr. Turner
“Dick Pope’s cinematography makes every landscape, every seascape, every interior a painterly composition. But in this portrait of the artist as a gruff man, it’s difficult, at times impossible, to understand what he’s saying.”
From a title page
A Funk & Wagnalls logo.
A is for Artichoke
Sally Rightor Parks’s A is for Artichoke (Pasadena: Water Works, 2014) is a book of fifty-two paintings, two for each letter of the alphabet.
Gotham Book Mart bookmark
The art is no doubt the work of Edward Gorey.
Valentine art
When I tried to erase, the ink smudged.
“The evolution of big sound”
Rock ’n’ roll: A Jim Flora illustration for Life.
Artwork labels
At Oscar’s Portrait, an exhibition of artwork labels.
MLK
An Edward Bieberman painting.
Orange batik art
Cooper Hewitt’s Object of the Day.
Ellsworth Kelly, drawing
“I want to work like nature works.”
Solidarité
A New Yorker cover.
Art by Lucille Clerc
“Break one, thousand will rise.”
Yesterday / today / tomorrow
The image is by a London-based French illustrator, Lucille Clerc.
Mayberry and abstraction
“You see, Goober, abstract paintings are not representational.”
Jane Freilicher on “the cutting edge”
“To strain after innovation, to worry about being on ‘the cutting edge’ (a phrase I hate), reflects a concern for a place in history or one’s career rather than the authenticity of one’s painting.”
Jane Freilicher (1924–2014)
“One of the more anomalous figures to emerge from the second generation of Abstract Expressionists.”
An Erik Spiekermann poster
“Start reading. Stop Googling.”
No college?
“But people are capable of making their own choices, even if they never went to college.”
Some rock islands
By Izumi Masatoshi.
Empty case
Is it wrong to take pleasure in a musuem’s empty display cases?
“Not yet, son of Poeas!”
A blackboard drawing, the work of my student Hannah Isabel Gay.
A WPA Halloween poster
A pumpkin-headed roller-skater.
Scenic wallpaper
“It’s rivers and trees, all the way down.”
“Objects on which to lavish attention”
Susan Sontag: “The history of the arts is tantamount to the discovery and the formulation of a repertory of objects on which to lavish attention.”
Leigh Fermor’s Brueghel
“When no buildings were in sight, I was back in the Dark Ages. But the moment a farmhouse or a village impinged, I was in the world of Peter Brueghel.”
Slackerism’s first cousin
“Illegitmate absenteeism is a first cousin to slackerism“: a WWII-era poster.
June Fine’s art
Elaine’s mom’s art.
Eraser cap, eraser cap, eraser cap, eraser cap
DIY Warholism.