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Highlights of today: Conversation with a stranger about Alison Knowles. And this wall triptych:       

Paint daubs filter in Elements.

Flickwerk, The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics (PDF) urushitsugi “to patch with lacquer” ursuhitsukuroi “to repair with lacquer” urushinaoshi “lacquer repair” kintsugi “to patch with gold” kintsukuroi “to repair with gold” naoshi “repair” kinnaoshi...

Stunned in the neighborhood this morning, trees sparkling with sun drops.

International Pwoermd Writing Month starts tomorrow! I’ll be posting pwoermds here and on twitter. For more pwoermdists, check out http://napwowrimo.blogspot.com/ For a description of pwoermd, and other interesting vocabulary, see http://dbqp.blogspot.com/2005/05/essential-vocabulary-30.html

Thomas McEvilley, Critic and Defender of Non-Western Art, Dies at 73 If some of us have learned anything since 1984, it’s how to value indigenous arts. Thank you, Thomas McEvilley. …Mr. McEvilley was a...

I am really enjoying these last cold days in March. I will be sorry to see them go. A week ago Monday, snowing madly on my trip home from Jackson Heights. Cars piling up...