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Current Enthusiasms

Rumaan Alam

Some things I find exciting, every two weeks.

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Current Enthusiasms #47: fake names

Emma Van Name, Joshua Johnson, c. 1805. Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2016. This is what comes up if you search “name” on the Met collection. It seemed apt!

I have a weird name. When I was a child, I hated its oddness,...

8 days ago
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Current Enthusiasms #46: improving my small talk

View of the Salon of 1785, Piero Antoni Martini, 1785. A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2009. I love paintings hung salon style; lot to discuss in a room like this.

I don’t get out much. I’m a man of stea...

22 days ago
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Current Enthusiasms #45: heterochromia and coincidence

When I’m writing a book, I send text messages to myself: words, ideas, questions. On the afternoon of July 10, I texted myself the word “heterochromia” with no further explanation required. As both the message’s sender and recipient,...
a month ago
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Current Enthusiasms #44: itching and scratching

Richard Humphreys, the Boxer, John Hoppner. The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1953. This is how I feel when too itchy: pugnacious.

I was at the beach for almost three weeks. In the unfathomable pandemic year, our family hid out...

2 months ago
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Current Enthusiasms #43: beach reads

Man on Beach, Florida, John Singer Sargent, 1917. Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950. This man doesn’t… ummm… seem to be reading.

In 2003, I went to Hawaii for my older brother’s wedding. I was with one of my oldest friends, A., and...

2 months ago
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