“Please don’t cut an anemone into half hoping to get two anemones. You will instead get no anemone.”
[Unless you are certain it's a Bolocerides mcmurrichi. This is not. It could be the unidentified "wiggly star" found off Pulau Hantu in November.]

Interesting read in The Observer.
(If you are curious to know what David Bowie’s been listening to lately.)

In December, a friend sent out a request to several people for 8.5″ x 8.5″ portrait.  A depiction of her essence.

Acrylic and gouache on wine crate. Vial contains a dry martini.

Ceramic bottle cap from the northern coast of Haiti at the possible site of La Navidad, Columbus’ first settlement in the New World. Found by by archaeologist Kathleen Deagan in the mid-80′s.

Also: “the most important thing to have happened to Haitian archaeology in the past two decades” (Deagan was quoted as saying in 2008) is this guy.

It’s been cold.

Wrapping up the week with that large Gabriel Orozco exhibit at the MOMA (through March 1).
A glimpse into the workings of a really cool brain.

Maria, Maria, Maria
1992. Phone book page with erasures, 11 x 9 1/8″ (27.9 x 23.2 cm).

(Like that Tom T. Hall tune, Tulsa Telephone Book… “Readin’ that Tulsa telephone book can drive a guy insane, ‘specially when the girl you’re lookin’ for has no last name…”)

Still on display for another month is the Iris Apfel exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.
Creative uses, things used as other things. An eye for possibilities. And an incredibly strong neck.

Bird vessel used as pendant. Large hollowed nuts as bracelets.

The William Blake show at the Morgan closed yesterday.
Fortunately, the exhibition remains online as part of the permanent collection.

Behemoth and Leviathan from The Book of Job (1805-1810)
Pen and black ink, gray wash, and watercolor, over traces of graphite