[Philip] Glass also worked as a plumber, and one day installed a dishwasher in the apartment of the art critic Robert Hughes.

to return and escape and return and escape again: I wrote about pop punk, nostalgia, and the best music of 2023, for ArtReview_

Signing off for the year from my temporary job ArtReview_ Text from newsletter Zander Leissle and I finished today all these gorgeous end of year essays (from rahel aima راهل ايما, Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊, Harry Thorne, James Hansen and many others) are here artreview.com/category/the-y… Here's to better times!

A fool, at any rate, if they are disappointed by not finding it.

and drifting, other than in the imagination, is expensive

Pausanias paused—for the wise men teach me to speak in equal measures like this—and Aristodemus said that Aristophanes was supposed to speak, but he came down with hiccups from being full or something else and wasn’t able to speak.

but you do what you know because what else is there?

Agelaus had dropped his sword when he was killed. With his strong arm Odysseus swung, slashed down and sliced right through the priest's neck, and his head, still framing words, rolled in the dust.

Looking back now, I see that, from start to finish, this case was only ever a matter of train and plane timetables.

brown, black, dusty pink, gray, dark turquoise, bil-berry, rust, yellow, cream, honey, bottle green, in which everything is tinged: trash cans, the beautiful salesgirls' skin (made up in those tones), stockings, hats, wallpaper, satin cushions, satin shirts, crepe dresses

with leg-of-mutton sleeves, hotel-front-desk phones, and so on: trash cans are as good as pale skin, in that room in the central police headquarters as well as in the gloomy retinas of today's gum-chewing teenagers. Here, colors win out over humans.

Lent David Lynch a lighter once

At the beach I felt my parents’ shinbones. The bones were flat and curved, like the slats in a venetian blind. The long edges were sharp as swords.

A charm a single charm is doubtful. If the red is rose and there is a gate surrounding it, if inside is let in and there places change then certainly something is upright. It is earnest.