I shall ritualize what has been a latent tendency: when I relish the canvases of someone who decorated the Doge’s Palace I will protest imperialism later in the day. Tomorrow: Tintoretto* and Hands Off Venezuela.

Directions from one to the other:
If you’re Joseph Biden, walk north from the Saudi embassy and take a right at K street.
If you’re Kamala Harris, take a left at New Hampshire and a right at the White House.
If you’re Beto O’Rourke, walk out of the awesome think tank with fresh ideas towards the cool people who have specific views of the zona with Caribbean beaches that’s been politicized.
If you’re Elizabeth Warren, wait at first, certainly don’t arrive early with the military or the Red Cross but perhaps with a humanitarian aid convoy commanded by Elliott Abrams.
If you’re Bernie Sanders, walk back and forth until you get to the DNC, the next day say you are not being held there and if you were it’d be the Russians’ fault.
If you're Amy Klobuchar, have your staff carry you in a sedan chair, barefoot, the long way.
If you’re Donald Trump, John Bolton will try to navigate you across the North Lawn and when you get lost, call the Secret Service.

This one's by Michelangelo: Can you pick the Guaidó supporters out of these white guys?

* (3/16 am) actually forgot - they postponed the opening til the 24th, but I won't let that spoil a blog post..

What's up for one more day, fair week edition, v. أربعة عشرة

Excerpt From "The Adored Ones" Federico Solmi 2018 from Federico Solmi on Vimeo.

Solmi at the Ronald Feldman booth

I paced the downtown map of the Nada fair (Aaron Gilbert at Lyles & King, below), which locates in galleries this year (pdf) with some temporary shows amid the month long runs, meaning the one day I tunneled in this week I was a weary trekker upon entering Armory as well as being up 24 hours, Spring/ Break which I missed entailing more curators and less walking. Collapsing at Armory would be a misuse of pathos, or at least I retain that part of my upbringing. If you are sleep deprived, so this retention goes, do not upon reflection trifle redundantly in the darknesses you have beheld or imagined in the boom market with its royal scribes, its high line, its shed, its grand stairwell designed by a real Englishman: but who gets out of there scot free? The artists? not even the collectors.. Will you choose ethics or aesthetics? Which is being forced on me? ..and indeed the next night at the job here I met the Medici family ah yes as I am like most folks more removed from them and their care than some and for my part fastidious about content, and the spring air. Which is for sale?

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