Good morning and welcome to Daily 25. Your horoscope: Sustenance matters more than novelty.
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Around the Web:
Green Dot author Madeleine Gray: ‘Chosen family is big in the queer community’
‘I want them to feel the emotion’: the pop artist capturing the excitement of the Super Bowl
Around Town:
Today (1/25): January Run Club. Tracksmith Trackhouse. 185 Franklin St. Brooklyn.
Tomorrow: Towheads plus Q&A with Shannon Plumb and Derek Cianfrance. Roxy Cinema. 2 Avenue of the Americas. Manhattan.
Tuesday: Virginia Evans and Patrick Ryan. McNally Jackson Seaport. 4 Fulton St. Manhattan.
Wednesday: Andre Howard: Hitting the Head. Rizzoli Bookstore. 1133 Broadway.
Wednesday: Short Cuts 35MM. Roxy Cinema. 2 Avenue of the Americas. Manhattan.
The Spinning Room: Mikado
Recently clicked: Velvet Shadows, Happy Hobo, Madlib Music Library, Book Club, Soft 60.
The last word: Late coffee
Recent Notes
Recent Articles
Autotune and the Aesthetic of Antihumanism
An experimental computer-colorized image based on a black and white photo by Phil Stern of Rita Moreno during a rehearsal for ‘West side Story,’ 1961.
Auto Tune The argument against the mass use of Auto Tune is not about favoring “technical facility over inspiration,” as Alex Pappademas monstrously wrote in... Read More
How To Read a Book
Detail of Henri Matisse’s ‘Marguerite Reading‘ (1906)
Many people go to book stores, join book clubs, and claim to still read those things. Reading, like cooking, is an activity with degrees of... Read More
What to Do This Winter in New York
Chinatown, New York. iPhone photo by Eric Van Nynatten
Things happening in New York this Winter. Art-wise. See the newly restored Frick, now open. Charlie Stein: Almost Human at LOHAUS SOMINSKY, at 62 White... Read More
Stone Carver Massimiliano Pelletti: On Perfection, the Classics, and Geology
Silver cave, 2023, travertine silver. Edition 1/1. Photo by Nicola Gnesi.
What appear to be imperfections in the material are stimulating elements for me because they become a kind of challenge, in being able to transform them into virtues on the final work. Read More
Unseen Helmut Newton Photographs to Be Exhibited in Caraglio
Ferdinando Scianna, Marpessa, Caltagirone 1987 © Ferdinando Scianna
CARAGLIO, ITALY—From October 23 through March 1 of next year, the Filatoio di Caraglio in Cuneo, Italy, will present Helmut Newton. Interweaving, an exhibition organized... Read More
Classical Art: Raphael Exhibit Coming to the Met Spring 2026
Raphael: Sublime Poetry. Courtesy of The Met
UPTOWN—In spring 2026, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the most extensive U.S. exhibition ever dedicated to Raphael, according to Artnet, offering a... Read More
Flats
Comme des Garçons Mary Jane ballet flats, Spring 1999
A quick look back at a small but unmistakable moment from Spring 1999. Read More
Works on Paper: Renoirs at The Morgan This Fall
Auguste Renoir, Study for The Great Bathers (1884 to 1887). Photo: The Morgan Library & Museum.
UPTOWN—A large show of works on paper by Pierre-Auguste Renoir is being organized for this October by Colin Bailey, the Morgan's new director, according to... Read More