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We typically imagine that two things don’t influence each other because space separates them: Flares from alien stars are far away, and that’s why they don’t knock out power on Earth.

“The Attraction of Pink,” Janet Sobel, 1945 [Sobel] was noted by acclaimed gallerist Sidney Janis for her self invented method for applying paint, the very same method of drip painting that went on to influence some of the most famous names of the abstract

Hotel breakfast is the creation of the universe.

Like lovers' kisses, she biteth — she is a pleasure bordering on pain from the fierceness and insanity of her relish.

David Brooks: If there is an underlying philosophy driving Trump, it is this: Morality is for suckers.

A menu describes what a restaurant serves—but a menu also describes who is being served.

The Brinton Museum is built into a hillside outside Sheridan, Wyoming, and overlooks the Bighorn Mountains.

Nahwa is a territory that forms part of the Emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

He starts the day as he means to continue, with a wee dram.

Arriving in complete stillness at Emerald Lake.

For the first time in my life, I had paper and ink.

Detail from “Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest”

“For my friend Fong,” he says, and begins singing John Denver.

Detail from “Tutto fu ambito e tutto fu tentato” Tutto is [Ford’s] first body of work to focus on a single individual: the eccentric Milanese heiress Luisa Casati (1881–1957).

The show was plenty enjoyable with memorable tunes, but for me it fell a bit short of the lavish praise it’s been receiving.

This painting shows the view through the window of Morandi’s now-renowned studio in Bologna, a sacred place for his artistic production.

At the west portal of the U Bein Bridge.

It was the first font, and perhaps originally the only font that came with the engraver, so it suffered a nameless fate, familiar later to many bespoke bitmap fonts adorning the screens of early computers.

Our “present” does not extend throughout the universe.

‘Is there anything you would not give me?’

Have you ever had a great day?

A good friend recommended this series and it did not disappoint.

Slung low, charmingly frantic, seaweed everywhere (in a good way).

“22 Hours in Balthazar,” New York Times: Alvino is flying, his left hand’s fingers imperceptibly rotating the potato between upward strokes of the peeler, blindly flipping the naked spuds over his shoulder into the tub.

A student asked Donald Barthelme how he might become a better writer.

Q: Hola, quería saber el significado de esta frase que escuche en la película The Big Lebowsky: Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you.

[P]rior to about the 1920s, no self-respecting Japanese person would eat any kind of tuna at all if they could possibly avoid it.

Kevin Moffett in The Believer: Then, in my last year of college in Gainesville, Florida, I was given secondhand a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme to his students.