Contemporary Native American artists, plus a century of Surrealism

Above: Detail of Martine Gutierrez’ “Queer Rage, Imagine Life-Size, and I’m Tyra, p66-67,” from Indigenous Woman, 2018.

Work by nine contemporary indigenous artists was assembled for “Native America: In Translation,” curated by artist Wendy Red Star and displayed at the Blanton Museum of Art.

No one was going to put me on the cover of a Paris fashion magazine, so I thought, I’m gonna make my own.”

Martine Gutierrez referring to her 2018 art magazine, Indigenous Women, Curator notes

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Nigh time to spread some Bottlecap cheer

“I Guess It’s Christmas,” Bottlecap Mountain

Time to weigh your blog consumption

Above: A peacock on the grounds of Real Alcazar in Seville, Spain

Are you sure you’re feeling okay? On examining the list of the most-read posts during the past twelve months, it hit me what is missing. Food. I think this might be the first time since launching these biannual roundups that not one post about restaurants appears on the list. Perhaps while I’m out plumping up during travels, all my readers are on Ozempic.

It always surprises me how different my list of favorites would be than yours. Your interests remain all over the map, which is good because postcard delivery lags way behind our travels. I have a full album of photos waiting to pop up willy-nilly from Mexico, Italy, Spain, England, France, Turkey and the Netherlands.

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