Today’s painting is *May 6, 1973, from the series Daily Self-Portraits 1972–1973*, a gelatin silver print work by Melissa Shook (United States, 1939–2020) dated 1973. The piece arrived at the museum through the following gift: Museum purchase with support from the Irving B. Ellis Fund, the Photography Fund, and the General Acquisitions Fund. This is placeholder copy. Set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and re-run `python scripts/generate_daily.py` to replace every essay with a freshly generated, curator-grade meditation on this specific work, drawing only on the cataloged metadata above. The feature rotates through 22,000 works in production, with a permalink for every calendar day so subscribers can collect favorites and share them.