Issue no. 1

We believe that art is transformative. It makes you think, feel, contemplate. Art provides you with an opportunity to view your world from a different perspective. It inspires. Living with art, however you do it, is part of living mindfully. Art at home makes sheltering easier.

This is the first of our weekly missives… our way of staying connected to you, our community.

Some Good News

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
has acquired one of Liliana Porter's seminal
works from the 1990s.

Them with Christ IV (Dialogue with
Christ Lamp IV), 1997,
Cibachrome print with assemblage

Jim Campbell has interrupted the live feed
of his installation atop the Salesforce Tower.
At dusk, clapping hands join the international
movement to applaud medical professionals,
grocery clerks, and everyone else on
the front lines. Later in the evening, fluttering
prayer flags telegraph a message of
hope and compassion.

San Francisco Chronicle

Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia debut First-
hand Theatre for New Times, a 21-minute
play about dislocation, time, reality and
fiction.

Watch the full video here.

New to Inventory

Birgit Jensen's paintings feature vibrant,
unexpected color combinations achieved
through a meticulous process of layering
custom-made silkscreens. They speak to the
nature of perception, mediation,
interpretation, and memory.

More art that's new to inventory here.

Staff Picks

Looking for a good read? Todd recommends:

- The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
- The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine
- My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
- A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
- Death with Interruptions by José Saramago
- Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Butcher’s Crossing by John Williams
- The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferante
- The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
- The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian

We enter into books as if into a conspiracy; for company, of course, and narrative, and romance; for advice on how to be decent and brave; for a slice of the strange, the shock of the Other, the witness not yet heard from, archeologies forgotten, ignored, or despised; and also for radiance and transcendence, that radioactive glow of genius in the dark. — Tillie Olsen from Tell Me a Riddle (1961)

Image of Salesforce Tower by Carlos Avila Gonzalez, The Chronicle

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