1. This Parisian illustrator
Lovely work by Yukiko Noritake.
2. Who Ate Where: The Restaurants (and clientele) that defined New York
I just finished watching Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote vs The Swans and found this compendium of NYC’s social history told through its restaurants, quite interesting:
It’s only in New York that we have the rap-mogul restaurant, the supermodel café, the indie-director diner, and the club kids’ breakfast nook. … Restaurants are extensions of our offices and refuges from our tiny kitchens, many of which are barely functional. With respect, our best spots are not defined only by their cooks and their hosts and their servers; they are defined by us, the indefatigable regulars. What would La Côte Basque have been without its swans? Mr Chow minus Andy and Jean-Michel? It’s impossible to imagine the Odeon without McInerney, Sylvia’s with no Sharpton.
Find the full article on Grub Street. (If you’re not subscribed, open the link in an incognito window for a one-off read).
3. The Eames Archives (which you can visit)
The Institute now offers scheduled, guided tours of the collection in Richmond, California.
4. Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa to Underground Chamber to End ‘Public Disappointment’
“We’ve been thinking about it for a long time, but this time everyone is in agreement,” Vincent Delieuvin, the Louvre’s chief curator of 16th-century Italian painting told the French newspaper Le Figaro. “It’s a large room, and the Mona Lisa is at the back, behind its security glass, so at first glance it looks like a postage stamp,” he said. Delieuvin said that the impact of social media and mass tourism demands a greater effort, as they have multiplied the artwork’s celebrity far beyond anything imagined after its theft in 1911.
A new underground chamber for the painting would be part of a future “Grand Louvre” renovation, including a new entrance to the museum. Visitors would bypass the glass pyramid entry and be led directly to underground rooms: one for the Mona Lisa and the other for temporary exhibitions.
“The mood in the museum is now ripe,” des Cars said. “We have to embrace the painting’s status as a global icon, which is beyond our control.” The budget for the Louvre’s overhaul is estimated at €500 million, according to Le Figaro.
Found on ART News.com
5. Iconic Art, Playfully Recreated with Emojis
By comic artist ND Stevenson, found on This is Colossal.
6. What Happened to Shelley Duvall?
Back in 2020, we asked that very question: (article here). And this month, The New York Times answered. After two decades, the actress known for her roles in era defining films like “The Shining” and “Nashville” has returned to acting.
Read the article here: “Shelley Duvall Vanished From Hollywood. She’s Been Here the Whole Time.”
7. Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Writing and Life
Included in The Portable Jack Kerouac:
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
- Try never get drunk outside yr own house
- Be in love with yr life
- Something that you feel will find its own form
- Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
- Blow as deep as you want to blow
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
- The unspeakable visions of the individual
- No time for poetry but exactly what is
Find the other 20 on The Marginalian.
8. Will be watching:
Also see: Taking a bath in Hitler’s tub for Vogue.
9. The Trixie Motel in Palm Springs
Now open for bookings after an American reality television docuseries followed Trixie Mattel (the stage name of drag queen Brian Firkus) and her partner David Silver as they bought and renovated a rundown motel in Palm Springs, California.
10. On the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs” (and the literature he inspired)
Richard Owen, the Victorian scientist who first named the “dinosaurs”, claimed that he could identify an animal, even an extinct one, from inspecting a single bone. Richard Fallon revisits other Owen-inspired fictions — by R. D. Blackmore, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Kingsley — and finds literature layered with scientific, religious, and political interventions, spurred by the discovery of prehistoric life.
Read the article on Public Domain Review.
11. ‘To the train lady with dark brown hair … ’: extraordinary stories of four couples who found love via small ads
Do you remember our post about the artist who illustrates Missed Connections found on Craigslist? This article on The Guardian is a fascinating foray into the subject…
It would be nice to know the very first time someone did it: liked the look of someone, missed a chance to get their details, and so searched for them instead through printed words. Though he may not have been the first, Samuel Reeves did it in 1709. Writing in the British periodical the Tatler, Reeves sought the attention of a woman he had helped out of a boat. He “desire[d] to know where he may wait on her to disclose a matter of concern”, he said, and provided an address where he could be reached […] Two centuries ago, the person you met eyes with at the theatre probably read the same high society journal that you did. Today, what are the chances that the girl on the train platform also uses Craigslist, and will check it at exactly the right time: not before, but after you’ve posted?
Read the full article here.
12. Please Stop Emailing us Harriet: A Thread to restore your faith in the internet
Found on Kottke.
