A new app for discovering art, "chaos magic," and a favorite new short story (new to me)
The Sunday supplement #101
![Clare Woods, "The Long Arm", 2023, oil on aluminum, 118 1/8 x 157 1/2 in (300 x 400 cm)](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HKZ8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff48c7d4f-91ce-4db6-94dc-4980d17b1c4b_3600x2869.jpeg "Clare Woods, "The Long Arm", 2023, oil on aluminum, 118 1/8 x 157 1/2 in (300 x 400 cm)")
One of my wife’s and my favorite things to do on a Saturday morning is visit art galleries.
Years ago, I found them intimidating. The stuffy hush in the rooms. The silent clerk behind the high white desk. Why are the desks so high? But once I got over all of that, once I realized I could walk into practically any of them and see cutting-edge art for free—it’s been a regular, wonderful thing.
The trick is, for outsiders, how do we know know where to go, what to see, and when?Well, what do you know: there’s an app for that.
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