{"id":1950537,"date":"2026-05-21T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1950537"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:00:35","slug":"billie-holiday-comes-to-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1950537","title":{"rendered":"Billie Holiday Comes to Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Billie Holiday Comes to Queens<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Thomas J Price and Tavares Strachan are frontrunners for a new commission to honor the jazz legend. <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-21\">May 21, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 3 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>You\u2019ve heard of Chicken Little, but what about Chicken Linda? At her Upstate New York home, feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano opened the door for writer Taliesin Thomas wearing a \u201cdevotional chicken costume\u201d \u2014 words I never thought I\u2019d see in that order. The rest of their conversation is just about as unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre as you\u2019d expect. You simply must read it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A little ways south, Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and a shortlist of other artists are in the running to design a Billie Holiday monument in Queens, and the Museum of the City of New York is getting a new center for activism. Never a predictable moment in the art world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/chicken-linda.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-divine-powers-of-%E2%80%9Cchicken-linda%E2%80%9D\">The Divine Powers of \u201cChicken Linda\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano gave me a tour of her home-shrine and a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest through art. | Taliesin Thomas<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/01c7f9d2-4fcd-11f1-89de-de097870deb9-1.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x628\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><span>With hands-on, interdisciplinary coursework; high-level networking opportunities; and an engaging internship, the three-semester MA in Art Market Studies at FIT prepares students to shepherd artists in their careers, buy and sell artworks, and succeed at the business of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"news\">News<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_1462.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1116\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A 2006 film celebrating French soccer legend Zin\u00e9dine Zidane will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup.<\/li>\n<li>The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has revealed six commission proposals for a monument celebrating the legacy of groundbreaking jazz vocalist Billie Holiday.<\/li>\n<li>CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan was\u00a0booed during a commencement speech\u00a0by students who held signs protesting staff layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>The Museum of the City of New York will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement, social justice, and the city\u2019s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"community\">Community<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/memoriam-.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-f-john-sierra-valie-export-and-mary-lovelace-o%E2%80%99neal\">Remembering F. John Sierra, Valie Export, and Mary Lovelace O\u2019Neal<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor a champion of Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/CMoG_Image_5-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h3>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">This comprehensive and enlightening discussion of the inevitability of death reminds me of my naive late in life discovery of Epicurus (Epikouros) 341\u2013270 BC, a Greek philosopher, who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism that valued living a life of responsible pleasure rather than suffering valued by early follows of Christianity with reward in the afterlife, that Epicurus believed didn&#8217;t exist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Butch Murphy on Ed Simon&#8217;s \u201cArt\u2019s Greatest Gift of Death\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/surrealism.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-small-magazines-that-birthed-surrealism\">The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Surrealism Through Its Journals&#8221; reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word. | Lavinia Liang<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Billie Holiday Comes to Queens<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Thomas J Price and Tavares Strachan are frontrunners for a new commission to honor the jazz legend. <\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-05-21\">May 21, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 3 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>You\u2019ve heard of Chicken Little, but what about Chicken Linda? At her Upstate New York home, feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano opened the door for writer Taliesin Thomas wearing a \u201cdevotional chicken costume\u201d \u2014 words I never thought I\u2019d see in that order. The rest of their conversation is just about as unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre as you\u2019d expect. You simply must read it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A little ways south, Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and a shortlist of other artists are in the running to design a Billie Holiday monument in Queens, and the Museum of the City of New York is getting a new center for activism. Never a predictable moment in the art world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/chicken-linda.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-divine-powers-of-%E2%80%9Cchicken-linda%E2%80%9D\">The Divine Powers of \u201cChicken Linda\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano gave me a tour of her home-shrine and a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest through art. | Taliesin Thomas<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/01c7f9d2-4fcd-11f1-89de-de097870deb9-1.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x628\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><span>With hands-on, interdisciplinary coursework; high-level networking opportunities; and an engaging internship, the three-semester MA in Art Market Studies at FIT prepares students to shepherd artists in their careers, buy and sell artworks, and succeed at the business of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"news\">News<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_1462.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1116\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A 2006 film celebrating French soccer legend Zin\u00e9dine Zidane will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup.<\/li>\n<li>The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has revealed six commission proposals for a monument celebrating the legacy of groundbreaking jazz vocalist Billie Holiday.<\/li>\n<li>CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan was\u00a0booed during a commencement speech\u00a0by students who held signs protesting staff layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>The Museum of the City of New York will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement, social justice, and the city\u2019s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"community\">Community<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/memoriam-.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-f-john-sierra-valie-export-and-mary-lovelace-o%E2%80%99neal\">Remembering F. John Sierra, Valie Export, and Mary Lovelace O\u2019Neal<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor a champion of Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/CMoG_Image_5-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h3>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">This comprehensive and enlightening discussion of the inevitability of death reminds me of my naive late in life discovery of Epicurus (Epikouros) 341\u2013270 BC, a Greek philosopher, who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism that valued living a life of responsible pleasure rather than suffering valued by early follows of Christianity with reward in the afterlife, that Epicurus believed didn&#8217;t exist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Butch Murphy on Ed Simon&#8217;s \u201cArt\u2019s Greatest Gift of Death\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/surrealism.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-small-magazines-that-birthed-surrealism\">The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Surrealism Through Its Journals&#8221; reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word. | Lavinia Liang<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>You\u2019ve heard of Chicken Little, but what about Chicken Linda? At her Upstate New York home, feminist performance artist Linda Mary Montano opened the door for writer Taliesin Thomas wearing a \u201cdevotional chicken costume\u201d \u2014 words I never thought I\u2019d see in that order. The rest of their conversation is just about as unexpected, zany, and charmingly bizarre as you\u2019d expect. You simply must read it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A little ways south, Thomas J Price, Tavares Strachan, and a shortlist of other artists are in the running to design a Billie Holiday monument in Queens, and the Museum of the City of New York is getting a new center for activism. Never a predictable moment in the art world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lisa Yin Zhang, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/chicken-linda.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-divine-powers-of-%E2%80%9Cchicken-linda%E2%80%9D\">The Divine Powers of \u201cChicken Linda\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Pioneering performance artist Linda Mary Montano gave me a tour of her home-shrine and a glimpse into her lifelong spiritual quest through art. | Taliesin Thomas<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/01c7f9d2-4fcd-11f1-89de-de097870deb9-1.jpeg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x628\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><span>With hands-on, interdisciplinary coursework; high-level networking opportunities; and an engaging internship, the three-semester MA in Art Market Studies at FIT prepares students to shepherd artists in their careers, buy and sell artworks, and succeed at the business of art.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"news\">News<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/IMG_1462.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1116\"><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A 2006 film celebrating French soccer legend Zin\u00e9dine Zidane will be screened from June 11 to July 19 at the Guggenheim Museum, timed with the first and last whistles of the FIFA World Cup.<\/li>\n<li>The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs has revealed six commission proposals for a monument celebrating the legacy of groundbreaking jazz vocalist Billie Holiday.<\/li>\n<li>CalArts President Ravi S. Rajan was\u00a0booed during a commencement speech\u00a0by students who held signs protesting staff layoffs.<\/li>\n<li>The Museum of the City of New York will open the Puffin Foundation Center for Social Activism, dedicated to civic engagement, social justice, and the city\u2019s rich history as a hotbed of political organizing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"community\">Community<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/memoriam-.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"remembering-f-john-sierra-valie-export-and-mary-lovelace-o%E2%80%99neal\">Remembering F. John Sierra, Valie Export, and Mary Lovelace O\u2019Neal<\/h3>\n<p>This week, we honor a champion of Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/CMoG_Image_5-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"2000x1125\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Tough Stuff: Women in The American Glass Studio<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Highlighting works from the 1960s through today, this survey at the Corning Museum of Glass celebrates the legacies of women artists who helped shape the Studio Glass Movement in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"member-comment\">Member Comment<\/h3>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-callout-card kg-callout-card-yellow\">\n<div class=\"kg-callout-text\">This comprehensive and enlightening discussion of the inevitability of death reminds me of my naive late in life discovery of Epicurus (Epikouros) 341\u2013270 BC, a Greek philosopher, who founded the philosophical school of Epicureanism that valued living a life of responsible pleasure rather than suffering valued by early follows of Christianity with reward in the afterlife, that Epicurus believed didn&#8217;t exist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Butch Murphy on Ed Simon&#8217;s \u201cArt\u2019s Greatest Gift of Death\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/51\/f8\/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/surrealism.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"the-small-magazines-that-birthed-surrealism\">The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Surrealism Through Its Journals&#8221; 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