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The gorilla is dying.

The man, the caregiver, has been the gorilla’s handler for the animal’s entire life.

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Jack Whitten, “9.11.01.” at New York City’s MoMA / Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times

For the next several months of 2025, the Museum of Modern Art is featuring a sweeping retrospective of Whitten’s career. The title piece is an example of radical vision; it’s a painting that’s built, not brushed.

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Life includes some measure of regret, experience as a basis for comparison. Authenticity can’t be regifted.

But for now, overwhelmed by the intense awareness of the cruelties of time.

And the need to cherish the people we love while we can.

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Munich Town Hall, Bavaria, Germany

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The Spanish Steps, one of Rome’s best known monuments.

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Elliot Erwitt, New York City, 1950

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"The miracle of your mind isn’t that you can see the world as it is, but that you can see the world as it isn’t. We can remember the past and we can think about the future, and we can imagine what it’s like to be some other person in some other place. And we all do this differently."

Kathryn Schulz, American journalist and author, Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong, TED talk [12:00-12:17], Mar 2011. (via amiquote)

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Australian Aboriginal rock paintings estimated to be between 15,000 and 40,000 years old

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André Lhote. Interior with seated woman (1920)

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Weegee. New York City, 1945

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- A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers // kagonekoshiro

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A previously unknown portrait of a noblewoman known as ‘England’s lost queen’ has been discovered by art historians Elizabeth Goldring, of the University of Warwick’s Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, and Emma Rutherford.

The portrait, which is in a private collection, depicts 16th century noblewoman Lady Arbella Stuart, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I, and a potential heir to her throne. She is shown wearing lavish court dress and standing in a garden at Greenwich Palace.

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Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

Spoken by the character Isabella:

“O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

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Montjuic cemetery in Barcelona