Some of you may know Steve Keene, the hyper-prolific painter who creates entire bodies of work in single days, sells them for no more than the price of a compact disc, and has done album art for Pavement, Silver Jews, and Apples in Stereo. His bio states, “I want buying my paintings to be like buying a CD: it’s cheap, it’s art, and it changes your life, but the object has no status.” A few weeks ago I ordered a piece without knowing what I’d get (he sends you whatever he was painting on that day).

Yesterday evening, to my shock and glee, I unwrapped not ONE, but FIFTEEN PAINTINGS. Fifteen. Yes. I know!!

His explanation, via email this morning?

“I was doing some house cleaning.”

Lucky, lucky, unbelievably lucky me.