Bizarre. I don’t post about AI, so I’ve been scratching my head over how I was added to this list. Best guess is for liking this reasonable, polite post about the AI slop Tailor bird being shared around some weeks back, and blocking its OP who’d refused to take it down. bsky.app/profile/kohn...
Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”
Going through my attic found this great hand printed Bridget Riley shirt, bought from Pollocks Brixton High Road December 1976. Original photo by the great Ida Kar
In 1908, Picasso held a banquet attended by the leading lights of the Parisian avant-garde to celebrate the ‘primitive’ genius of Henri Rousseau.
This month, a landmark exhibition travelling from Philadelphia to Paris shows that he is indeed a painter to be admired, writes Susan Moore.
Crusade of the crossroaders The best way to kill the cars is to let them disappear at the crossings you make a cross which becomes a crossroad which becomes a round about the traffic circle is a trap the cars drive into the spiral get smaller and smaller and vanish in one point
electric green art with a face composed of fields taffy'd into a map of small lots and below in a different perspective a red fence hemming in vegetation
Don't know much about Friedensreich Hundertwasser but was taken by this little book of his art, and especially this art and commentary on cars.
Moment of energetic entertainment from #SuperbOwl courtesy, of course, of Hieronymus Bosch. Go owls!
Ad featuring an Olivetti typewriter with colorful curves for various letters above it.
Olivetti Typewriter ad from 1954 - design by Giovanni Pintori.
Olivetti ads are top notch mid-century design. Starting a 🧵 here.
#wardsmorguefile
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
Toussaint Louverture (2006) Edouard Duval-Carrié.
#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...
If you watch nothing else today, this week.
The Torment of Saint Anthony, or The Temptation of Saint Anthony (c. 1487–88), a painting attributed to Michelangelo. A bearded St. Anthony in black garb is accosted mid-air by a swarm of demons, which look like grotesque winged chimeras. Some are mostly fish-bodied with elephant-like trunks. Others are are more humanoid in form, but have horns, claws, green or red skin, and an overall Boschian appearance. This painting is an oil and tempera adaptation of an earlier engraving by Martin Schongauer. Historical records indicate that Michelangelo produced such a copy. Although there is physical evidence indicating that this specific painting is the copy Michelangelo himself made, such as characteristic cross hatching, not all experts agree.
Me at Age 12: I drew a frog with three different shades of green!!!
Michelangelo at Age 12:
A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh
A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh
A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh
A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh
Just gorgeous. I went through almost the whole thing frame by frame. Highly recommend the experience
At the very heart of the conflict raging in the United States is a conflict about human nature, a deep moral and philosophical conflict. I believe the isolationists will lose in the long run because they are not only out of step with the majority but they are out of step with reality....
My daily news diary for January, including: An IU Trident A price tag An empty vaccine syringe Three X logos A bag of money A peace protest sign A shattered ice cube Rama Duwaji's pointy black boot A Venezuelan flag A memorial candle for Renee Good An outline of Greenland A taco The Federal Reserve building A Golden Globe An oil tanker A steak A champagne bottle An Iranian flag A graduation cap A trans pride heart A cell phone with text thread Macron's sunglasses A thermometer and tear gas Liam Ramos's fuzzy hat Alex Pretti's hat and sunglasses Bovino's coat A Ring doorbell A snow shovel An airplane A wind turbine A stack of file boxes A protester holding an ICE OUT sign
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day.
One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.
Transforming the chaos into art is a really cool project. 👏👏
Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
"In response to criticisms she's heard about the hat being 'performative,' Mashaal, the shop owner, said the thousands of dollars that have gone toward supporting their community speaks for itself."
A surreal oil painting, framed in a glossy dark stained wood frame. Its palette is primarily golds, olives, and earthy browns. A model in a boat-like cloak, hovers upon a tiny wheel in the center of a strange showroom, the tailor behind her in the dead center of the image. Two other models are entering the room on the right, each in surreal, cloaked costume, while a customer sits on a couch to the left, inspecting the goods. Two ghostly versions of her sit to either side of her, engraved into the paint, also observing.
Art for today, from the MFA in Boston. Remedios Varo’s Tailor for Ladies, 1957. Spectacular to experience in person, and see the way the ghostly figures to either side of the client on the couch are scratched into the surface. Varo used moon-activated crystals to etch detail into her work.
On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday.
archive.ph/GFWzW
I loved college! So much to explore.
1. Flora of the Berkshires
2. History of the Native People of America
3. Surrealism
4. Camus
5. Color Theory
After I graduated, I did a three week intensive for fun, traveling though Greece on a bus for an Archeology of Ancient Greece summer class. Amazing.
It really does. Looking forward to someday seeing the original releases without all the added superfluous cg flourishes Lucas added later.
We’ve been doing this this week too—saw TFA last night. TLJ and maybe TRoS today. It was such a delight in particular to see episodes 4-6. Next we may watch Andor, methinks.
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
Tom Morello live in Minneapolis
Thank you, Senator!
