Just had the nicest possible lunch and afternoon with Graham Harman, which included a trip to the Philly Museum of Art to see Rousseau's Carnival Evening, a painting that's still holding things in reserve...over a hundred and twenty years later. I wasn't really sure it was painted that early. It wrote the book on the art to come without itself falling into avant garde categories. And it's remarkably object-oriented. More on this soon as I'm prepping my talk. What a painting. Also—Fish Magic by Paul Klee. A big surprise...
