Saint Reading the Scriptures — Bernardino Luini (c. 1480-1532)
Friends I, 2021 by Susanne Kühn (b. 1969)
The Six, 2007 by Axel Krause (b. 1958)
Richter’s Cat, 2021 by Marc Dennis (b. 1971)
Reading Girl, 2008 by Liu Ye (b. 1964)
L’Inaudibile, 2020 by Agostino Arrivabene (b. 1967)
Economimesis, 2008 by Nigel Cooke (b. 1973)
Unconditional Love, 1958 by Leonor Fini (1908-1996)
Ya tienen Asiento, (plate 26 from Los Caprichos), 1799 by Francisco Goya (1746-1828)
Paul Thomas Anderson is interviewed in Variety about his new film, Licorice Pizza.
From the interview, on what inspired Licorice Pizza:
A very long time ago I was walking around my neighborhood, and I passed Portola Middle School. It was picture day, and I saw this very energetic teenager flirting with the girl who was taking pictures. It was an instantly good premise. What happens if you have a kid invite an older woman to dinner, and what if that girl against her better judgment says yes? That seemed ripe for humor. That didn’t go anywhere, but then I had a friend who grew up in the San Fernando Valley. He was a child actor who got involved in the waterbed business. And he told me all these stories, and each one was more wonderful than the last. Like there was this time he’d appeared in the movie “Yours, Mine and Ours” with Lucille Ball, and he was on his way to New York for a publicity tour and needed a chaperone. He ended up hiring a burlesque dancer who lived in his neighborhood to take him. And Lucille Ball was on her second marriage to Gary Morton, and she used to scream “Gary!” all the time. That was my friend’s name, so he’d think, ‘Holy shit, she’s yelling at me.” But she was screaming at her husband.
Death on a Pale Horse c.1825-30 by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
The Village of the Mermaids, 1942 by Paul Delvaux (1897–1994)
Orplied (detail), 1955 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Ventriloquist, 1959 by Francisco Icaza (1930–2014)
Orplied, 1955 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
Fallen, 2020 by 
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