sometimes you’re listening to springsteen on shuffle and you just kind of

Anna Akhmatova, Selected Poems

Steve McCurry ITALY. Rome. October. 1994

A flower boy at the roadside  (Daqinh Mountain, Inner Mongolia, 1998)

@Liu Zheng

Allan Randall Freelon was a Philadelphia artist and educator known for his pioneering and ground-breaking achievements. In 1912 he became the first African American to earn a four-year scholarship to study painting, drawing, and craft at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts). He later learned printmaking techniques from fellow Philadelphians Earl Horter and Dox Thrash. Freelon also studied psychology and pedagogy at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1921 he was appointed Assistant Director of Art Education for Philadelphia schools. This position helped make Freelon an outspoken champion of childhood public arts education.

“Our Lady of Good Voyage,” before 1935, by Allan Randall Freelon © Estate of Allan Randall Freelon, courtesy of Philip Freelon 

Honestly I could watch these 8 seconds from The Eric Andre Show for the rest of my life and I’ll still laugh every fucking time

— John Keats.

EZRA MILLER for GQ Style (2018), ph. Yoshiyuki Matsumara.

Someday, out of the blue, it will find you

What books have you checked off of your reading list this week?

 "The Orchard Window,“ 1918, by Daniel Garber © Estate of Daniel Garber 

Cafe

Valeriy Gridnev (Russian, b. 1956. Active in the UK)

Oil on canvas