(Head of Aphrodite with cross carved in it; 1st century, Parian marble, found near the Tower of the Winds, in the Roman Agora in Athens. Usually in the National Archeological Museum in Athens; currently at the Onassis Cultural Center as part of “Transition to Christianity: Art of Late Antiquity, 3rd–7th Century A.D.”.)
(Jan Saenredam, Beached Whale near Beverwijk, 1602.)
(Charles Demuth, Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange, 1929, Met)
(The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, translated by Harold Norse, preface by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Alberto Moravia. Published by Jonathan Williams, 1960; cover by Ray Johnson.)
83-52 Talbot Street, Kew Gardens, New York. Right around the corner from the very nice Kew Gardens Cinema, which probably still looks like it did when Puig would have visited it.
(Jan Gossart, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, ca. 1520–2, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemaldegalerie, Vienna.)
(David Markson’s list of the rejections of Wittgenstein’s Mistress, from the back of the program of the memorial service at NYU’s NY Institute for the Humanities.)
(Juan O’Gorman, 1942, MoMA)
(Charles Burchfield, Study for Skunk Cabbage, watercolor, 1931.)
(Denton Welch, The Coffin House, watercolor and ink on paper, 1946, private collection. Recently on show at Tibor de Nagy’s “Town and Country”.)