Paintingness

Like what’s the purpose of a portrait? Might be literally to establish the legitimacy of a ruler (emphasize dynasty, familial relation to the past ruler) and to glorify them. What does painting have to do with this? Your skill as a painter correlates to their glory

Structural integrity of this chip is incredible. Thought I was perhaps in a honeymoon phase with these but I’ve bought 4 bags in a month. Perfect salt levels perfect crunch perfect toothsome morsel. And they certainly live up to their name. If you see them try them

clearly not a glass key. was he stupid?

He's reading Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Bataille

the aromatic sensorial world of painting has been extinguished, the smell of flax, pine, resin, wood and oil has been completely eradicated from the ritual of image-making... i just sliced through a roll of belgian linen and the smell put me into a state of religious ecstasy.

This is true.

i love how each recall post receives its own ominous portrait of RFK jr.

5th century Greek eyes. Today at the Met I have talked to students about funerary monuments, labor history, birth and pregnancy in the classical world, perfume and sensoria and more. Putting students in front of actual things cannot be beat— and reminds me why I do it!

i need to go to ragebait camp where i get ragebait exposure therapy and i train to not gaf.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

yeah and

Adorno bumper sticker: “The bourgeois want art voluptuous and life ascetic; the reverse would be better."

i got nothing to say anymore.