Empire State Building Sojourn #empirestatebuilding #newyorkcity

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Cape Town could be the first major city in the world to run out of water

Residents must limit their showers to one-and-a-half minutes.

Cape Town and the surrounding region of South Africa is suffering from a severe drought. Three years of low rain levels and an unseasonably dry winter means that average dam levels are hovering just over a quarter full. The metro area of 3.7 million has less than 90 days’ worth of water in its reservoirs, making it the first major city in the world that could run out of water.

Cape Town residents and visitors can only use 13 gallons of water per day starting in February. For those who consume more, the city’s water utility will charge a special levy that is three times higher than the current rate.

The average American uses 88 gallons of water per day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

A wonderful modern, energetic, thick impasto, oil dated 1968 from Salvador and entitled “Paisagem e Figura”, initialed and dated lower right. $350 for sale. #mcm #midcentury #expressionist #abstract #impasto #latin

Excited to have found this gem today. It is by Anthony Triano, dated 1962, and entitled "Lysistrata", oil on panel, signed lower center. $750 for sale. #Abex #modernism #mcm #modern #painting #knoll #abstract #expression #midcentury #dekooning

Reading by the Shore (c.1883-1885). Charles Sprague Pearce (American, 1851-1914). Oil on canvas.

The work combines a brilliant light and free handling of paint with a tightly rendered fashion portrait of Antonia [the artist’s wife]. Pearce’s palette is an electrifying range of colors, with the tonal range of the background liberated from the conventions of knowledge, treated with little regard to local color, such as the pink sand beach with its lilac shadows.

“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” Arthur Schopenhauer

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