Jason Farago

Critic-at-large @nytimes

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@radiozuerio3i1 Me every single day pretending I have my life together:

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KYOTO — Chuichi Nishigaki, “X-Ray Room,” 1936. A lovely little bachelor machine byobu in the exhibition “Nihonga Avant-Garde”

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SAN FRANCISCO — Four seasons by two hands. Manet’s “Spring” (from the Getty), Morisot’s “Summer” (Musée Fabre), Manet’s “Autumn” (from Nancy, unfinished),…

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@sweetjamsae i'm sharing this purely for the benefit of mankind

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@orrenkarp If content was a currency this would be a million dollars

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Fair youth (Gainsborough, c. 1770-72, coll. Tate)

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BRIXEN/BRESSANONE, Italy — Learn to read. Adam Baldauf, martyrdom of St. Cassian (patron saint of schoolchildren and also stenographers), 1616 🔠

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@poeminpixel i've been staring at behind her for 4 minutes trying to figure this out...

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DRESDEN — In a china shop. Meissen rhinoceros, 1731, and other fragile things seen on my first visit to the Porzellansammlung 🦏

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@DamarisSavoie my screenshot album just got its newest and greatest entry

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BARCELONA — Disputation of St. Catherine, painted c. 1241–1255 for the cathedral of Seu d’Urgell — and other marvels from my first visit to one of Europe’s greatest collections of Romanesque art

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@dr_saidasnoussi the accuracy of this is making me uncomfortable fr

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Léger, “The Armistice,” 1918

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PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Love is a fighter. Eros disguised in Heracles’s lion skin, c. 150–100 BC

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HUMLEBÆK, Denmark — I wish I had it more often, that sense I had when I first saw Kaari Upson at Ramekin a decade ago: that sense, as I tried to understand her resin and urethane sculptures drooped in a corner or sagging on a misaligned wall,…