Today’s painting is *White House 1*, a oil on linen work by Alex Katz (United States, born 1927) dated 2012. The piece arrived at the museum through the following gift: Gift of the artist. 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.