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Here is a beautiful painting, Mulatos de Esmeraldas, made in 1599 by Adrián Sánchez Galque, an ‘Indian’ painter of the Quito school. Right now you can see it in person at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Karen Wilkin reviewed the show for the Wall Street Journal. Esmeraldas, on the north coast of Ecuador, is still a focal point for Afro-Ecuadorian culture today.

I have been working all day and into this evening at a steady clip. I am hitting my stride these days in a way I have not in several years, although I can certainly remember it, not without nostalgia. I am impressed. Lagniappe from this is the discovery that we can download some fascinating Venezuelan videos, including the famous The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, right here. As you can see from its main page, the site is a service of Venezuela’s ministry of culture.

In other painterly and poetic notes, I have wanted to update my old post Poems Like Keys, because it turned out to be one of my most sought after. It deals primarily with another poem by Vicente Huidobro, “Mirror of Water,” although its title refers to the poem most readers are searching for, Arte poética. I do not like that poem nearly as much as “El espejo de agua,” but there is some information on it in English here, including a poor translation.

Axé.