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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. The painting followed me from Amherst to my first job in New York, and on to London and Delhi. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. I’m especially moved by those first moments of validation by which an artist comes out to himself, as it were. It’s this, the inexorability of the correspondence between an artist and the world, that gives those first steps their magical quality.

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He was a model to me of artistic labor and discipline, even if those early paintings were painfully amateurish. IT WASN’T MY intention to start an essay about artistic beginnings with a story of artistic death. No one captured the massive cultural and economic disparities of my life in Delhi (and his in Lahore) like Toor. But quite unbeknown to me, Toor’s life in New York had opened up a new vein of material. Not everyone who sees a Michelangelo can go off and paint a Michelangelo.”THERE ARE SO many ways to begin.

☆ London Bids Farewell, for Now, to a Beloved, Overstuffed Walrus
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Southeast London has temporarily lost one of its most famous residents: a giant taxidermy walrus that has been on display for more than a century. For most of the past 120 years, the walrus has sat in the middle of the Natural History Gallery at the Horniman Museum and Gardens. The museum displays the collection of Frederick Horniman, a wealthy tea trader who lived in Victorian England. The collection will include more context about how Mr. Horniman came to own the walrus. The museum’s website notes that Mr. Horniman’s wealth was “reliant on the exploitation of people living in the British Empire.”

Persons: Frederick Horniman, —, Louis Buckley, Horniman, ” Organizations: Horniman, Gardens Locations: London, Victorian England, British

☆ The Crispiest Chicken Cutlets You Can’t Mess Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Margaux Laskey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

For something equally lovable but a bit less hands-on, try Eric Kim’s ritzy Cheddar chicken breasts. They rely on Ritz crackers and are baked in the oven, which means no Jackson Pollock oil splatters to clean up. Speaking of vegetarians: Priya Krishna calls vegetable pulao “a weeknight staple in many Desi households” because it’s wildly flexible. Not only is it less messy, but I find it’s easier to get an even thickness when the slippery meat is neatly contained. You can do this in advance, then roll or fold up the sheets — meat included — and store in the fridge until you’re ready to bread and fry.

Persons: Eric Kim’s, Jackson Pollock, there’s David, Priya Krishna, ”, Natasha Pickowicz, Guy Organizations: Ritz Locations: Victorian England

☆ Archeologists in China 'burst into laughter' after unearthing a 2,200-year-old flush toilet
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Isobel Van Hagen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Archeologists in China discovered a flush toilet between 2,200 and 2,400 years old. The ancient toilet is "deceptively advanced" because of the water drainage system. "Everybody at the site was surprised, and then we all burst into laughter," an excavation team member said. He added it was that servants would have had to pour water into the toilet bowl every time it was used. "It is the first and only flush toilet to be ever unearthed in China.

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