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Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)

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Berthe Des Clayes; Frozen

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kumagai morikazu, “beans and ants,” 1958, oil

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This gets at what I love about Art. Not “art”, a theoretical collection of things we should recognize as great simply because everyone else does, but the works of artists in media that range from mundane to extravagant. The entirely human expression of what it is to live, and the equally human response of identifying with the lives of others.

This is the work of a person who is not looking to “elevate” the food he reviews as some have suggested. This is the prose of a man who has devoted himself to expressing the exceptional qualities of “common” food. A mundane artist sees mundane artists. I have so much love for him and those who make the food he reviewed❤️

One of my greatest inspirations as a writer is the late great LA Times food reviewer Jonathan Gold. I legitimately think he should be considered one of the best writers of the last 100 years. Look at this.

Poetry. Non-fiction par excellence. This is a man who not only understood the visceral, the sensory, the sublime, but he could put it into words.

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George Franklin Arbuckle; Barnyard Lane

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Tom Roberts; Street in St. John’s, NL

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Happy Alien Day! 🌟

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Grasses in the wind.

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Alan Collier; Near Black Diamond

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Frederick Stanley Haines; Mill at Wilberforce

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Frederick Challener; Spring Time in the Woods

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Phyllis Shafer, Magical Moment at Fallen Leaf Lake, gouache on paper, 17.5 x 22.5 inches.

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Do a funky lil dance when you give your dog a treat

Engraved gem (Gold, carnelian) with a youth and his dog inset into a hollow ring, Italy 3rd–2nd century BCE[2034x3000]

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Berthe des Clayes; The White Pony

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Whitney Bedford (American, b. 1976), Veduta (Munch Summer on the Shore), 2022. Ink and acrylic on panel, 73 x 92 cm

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Tom Roberts; Caledon School

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Alexis Arts; Near Abercorn, Quebec