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Chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and designer

Mackintosh’s low-back armchair for Kate Cranston’s Argyle Street Tea Rooms combines Arts & Crafts construction, Scottish vernacular influence, and sculptural modernity in a design made... Read More

Design Objects.

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Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1910–1911. Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Gustav Klimt’s The Park, painted between 1910 and 1911, belongs to the quieter side of his late work: not the gold, bodies, and theatrical eroticism... Read More

Art History.

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Jewelled gold and silver-gilt mounted guilloché enamel bowenite Gum-Pot - Fabergé, with the workmaster's mark of Michael Perchin, St. Petersburg, ca.1896-1908. Formed as an apple,... Read More

Design Objects.

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A velvet curtain in watercolor painted around 1870 by Angelo Quaglio

Bertrand Lavier

Bruce Lee Cha Cha Dancing

Bruce Lee was genuinely cha-cha obsessive before he became the martial-arts icon. As a teenager in Hong Kong, he won the 1958 Crown Colony Cha-Cha... Read More

Archival Photos.

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To Feel In Love – Turbotito, Mirror Tree (Spotify)

Deep Cuts.

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I don’t read books. That’s not the right thing for me. I stand up. It’s better to move. I hear the thunder. Someone’s angry. This... Read More

Ulyses Razo.

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Belle Époque apartment in Paris by @bonnefoymarine. Photo by @francoiscoquerel via @whylessisnotmore.

Interiors.

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Tocco di Lusso (Spotify)

Deep Cuts.

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Velazquez girl by Eugene Shadko. 30x24cm. Oil on canvas. 2025. Shown here at 90º

Raf Simons

Photo by Martin Parr

It's almost time for reading at the beach. Before you grab a handful of magazines, here's a summary of what you can expect to read.... Read More

Lists.

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Desert Horses by Nick Bontorno

Art Desk.

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Colleen Barry "Female Nude with Pomeranians" 2026. Shown at 90º

Now showing at Half Gallery, 235 E 4th St.

Art Desk.

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I’m young. I might have forgotten the best and deepest things. I look like a good fresh memory. My mind is dying. You could give... Read More

Ulyses Razo.

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Symplegma by John Henry Fuseli

Art History.

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Abstract Expressionist, Joan Mitchell, in her studio. Paris, 1956.

Art History.

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Ingrid Bergman in Journey to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)

It reads:I'm going to Capri. To have a little fun, as you said. Museums bore me. You'll have more time for your pilgrimages this way.... Read More

Capote Alphabet.

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Photo by David William Baum. 90º

Capote Alphabet.

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In a bookshop this evening, I heard an author’s interview. An older woman, slightly out of breath, filled the room with her expressive and nervous... Read More

John White.

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Françoise Kirkland by Douglas Kirkland

This photograph shows Douglas Kirkland with his wife, Françoise Kirkland, in Paris. Kirkland was an American photographer whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning... Read More

Archival Photos.

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Since the kiss in the mountains, time is guided on the golden summer of her hands and the ivy swerves. Text by René Char

Notes Quotes.

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Roland Barthes. The Fashion System.

"Books".

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Rowena Cade, Photographer unknown.

This photograph, by an unknown photographer (possibly a friend or colleague on site) shows Rowena Cade being pushed in a wheelbarrow through Minack Theatre late... Read More

Archival Photos.

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THE ONLY PEOPLE FOR ME ARE THE MAD ONES, THE ONES WHO ARE MAD TO LIVE, MAD TO TALK, MAD TO BE SAVED, DESIROUS OF... Read More

Anthony Cudahy

Moulded leather bag by LEMAIRE

The Carlos Bag was a collaboration between Sarah-Linh Tran, co-artistic director of LEMAIRE and Chilean artist and craftsman Carlos Peñafiel.

Design Objects.

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Cy Twombly's Iron Curtain at the Vienna State Opera, 2010-11. Since 1998, the series

'Iron Curtain, conceived by @museuminprogress, has been transforming the safety curtain of the Vienna State Opera into a temporary exhibition space for contemporary art since...

Art History.

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Business card of Yves Klein

Important Documents.

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Designed and made by Wendell Castle

Now showing at "Art of Noise" at Cooper Hewitt. Stereo Chest, 1973; Designed and made by Wendell Castle (American, 1932-2018); Stack-laminated and carved walnut, leather,... Read More

Design Objects.

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Photo by Johnny Dufort / Lotta Volkova

Gary Bunt

Photo by Gaston Suaya

Anonymous Ensemble Authors.

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Photo by Adele M. Reed

Anonymous Ensemble Authors.

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Photo by Goldfield Foxe

Anonymous Ensemble Authors.

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Via Important Documents

Important Documents.

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Optimism! Laughs! Force yourself into good spirits! Drink a feeling of confidence and of being alive and be drunk always! Text by John White

Anonymous Ensemble Authors.

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Interiors.

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Photo by Eva Besnyö, “The Wannsee Lido, Berlin, 1931”. Colorized.

Eva Besnyö, though widely recognized for her striking photography of interwar Berlin and Amsterdam, is less often noted as a pivotal figure in the Dutch... Read More

Puiforcat for Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread’s collaboration with Puiforcat turned the creases and ridges of solid silver tableware in a way that reminds you of something like corrugated cardboard,... Read More

Photo by Theo Sion

Susan Meiselas, Dee, JoJo. Frankie and Lisa after school on Prince Street. Little Italy, New York City, USA, 1976

When Susan Meiselas made Prince Street, Little Italy in 1976, she was teaching photography workshops on the side to support her early projects. Few know... Read More

Archival Photos.

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Research sketches of different versions of the Fauteuil Grand Confort. Collection Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand.

Important Documents.

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Textile design by Grace Atkinson

Interiors.

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Fabric pendant lamp by Gunnar Eklöf, 1940.

Gunnar Eklöf (1909–1963) was a Swedish architect and furniture designer. He worked extensively with interiors for hospitals, schools, and civic spaces, where design was treated... Read More

Design Objects.

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Bedroom of Alexander Iolas, 1983.

Interiors.

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John Waters Senior, C-R-A-Z-Y, 1991. Collection of John Waters.

In 1994, filmmaker John Waters unwrapped an unusual Christmas gift from his father: a drawing hastily made after discovering how much his son had spent... Read More

Important Documents.

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School of Athens, 1961 by Cy Twombly (1928-2011, United States)

Art History.

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Letter from Bob Dylan to Katharine Hepburn

Important Documents.

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Detail from Willia Adolphe Bouguereau’s Pieta

Leda and Swan in Roman mosaic

Art History.

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Joel Meyerowitz

Morandi’s Objects by Joel Meyerowitz

Design Objects.

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Likely made by Elkay Manufacturing

German silver double-bowl undermount sink removed from a house in Chicago and likely made by Elkay Manufacturing circa 1920 in the Chicago area.

Design Objects.

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Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non lo so. Non... Read More

Anonymous Ensemble Authors.

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2025-08-14 16:18 (Spotify)

Deep Cuts.

Subnotes (2)

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The way human beings speak is so heartbreaking to me—we never sound the way we want to sound. We’re always stopping ourselves in mid–sentence because... Read More

What are people reading??

"Books".

Subnotes (11)

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Our aliveness is our erotic nature.

Her old gold sweater’s sleeves were rolled up above her elbows, with another of gray denim tied around her waist, with blue pants and black... Read More

John White.

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Walking down the street, in a kind of fog produced by the sun. At the train station, a Turkish man with his sleeves rolled up... Read More

John White.