“I carry the fruit of early summer in woven wooden baskets to put into iced water, garnished with basil and rosemary.”

Girl with a pomegranate (detail), 1875
oil on canvas
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
“Once we name something, you said, we can never see it the same way again. All that is unnamable falls away, gets lost, is murdered.”— Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
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Liu Xiaodong (Chinese, b. 1963), Relaxing in Water, 1999. Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 161.4 cm.