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May your dreams be painted with vibrant colors and answers-happy holidays!

Prepping my home for future salons and dinners!

“You are doing a great job with Donna” from her longtime assistant, and beloved friend.

Listening to Chet Baker, 9/11 into 9/12. Stereo, 1959

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What are we to make of the Hilma af Klint phenomenon?⁠
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After decades of obscurity during which her works were stashed away in her nephew’s storeroom, the visionary Swedish artist and mystic’s 2018 Guggenheim retrospective broke all attendance records. In the show’s aftermath, we have seen the emergence of a veritable af Klint industry issuing forth an unending stream of books, posters, T-shirts, mugs, exhibitions, even an opera. In just the last year, this once forgotten artist has been the subject of solo shows at Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Tate Modern, and now, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.⁠
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But the resonance of Af Klint, Eleanour Heartney argues, is just one manifestation of the art world’s embrace of what we might describe as a spiritual turn—not a turn among artists, who have long been champions of alternate realities and transcendent experiences, but a turn by the institutional art world toward exhibitions that embody the search for a different set of values. The trend is wide-ranging, encompassing everything from an interest in esoteric rituals and the occult to the amplification of Indigenous, non-Western, and precolonial spiritual practices.⁠
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But why now? “Times of upheaval have historically engendered a spiritual turn, and ours is no different,” Heartney writes.⁠
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Read more about the institutional art world’s newfound enthusiasm for spiritually inclined work: https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/spiritual-turn-trend-hilma-af-klint-saya-woolfalk-1234748637/

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Montgomery Clift, Marilyn Monroe, and Clark Gable photographed during a publicity shoot in 1960 for the 1961 film The Misfits. This would be the last completed film for both Clark Gable (who died in 1960 before the film was released) and Marilyn Monroe (who died in 1962).

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At this point in my life, I really don’t want guests. But we’ve got great hotels downtown. I’m a good host, tour guide, not an inn keeper.