Thissssss ❤️ 👇🏻 ❤️ What a generous way to be in the world...

Still thinking about Tommy Mishima's drawings of Andrew Carnegie's philanthropy in education, science, cultural institutions and the like. Installed in his former home office at the Cooper-Hewitt. It was helpful (depressing?) to see this examination of the networks of the robber barons of yore.

The Clip-On Method holds pride of place on my bookshelves. It's true--Cady got it.

Yeahhhh 😍

D'awww thanks @baevido.bsky.social ! Dean Sameshima is such an incredible artist!

v excited for this...

State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.

I *totally* trust Rubio's lead on this 🙄On the one hand, happy to hear PEPFAR resumes work. On the other hand, the instability bred by the incompetence of people with power is of no comfort. Like, at all. And is likely the point.

Many who criticize the demise of expertise as related to 45/47's administration are also quick to ignore or misconstrue expertise in this arena: here meaning curators, art historians, critics, etc. There are legit critiques to make about the artworld, but this ain't it.

A rebuttal to the wrongheaded, outrage-fueled misreading of the NPG installation of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" Portrait of Ross in L.A., 1991-- disappointed to see queer folks taking the bait as HIV/AIDS funding is slashed and denigrated here + around the world. Calibrate your energies.

#Booksky important term:
-Book Worm: Avid devour of stories, in any way shape or form
-Book Dragon: Avid collectors of book, mostly in physical form
-Book Wyrm: The dangerous combination of the first two, and I admire them so much

I spent too much time this morning looking through all the recent executive orders and here are my (glib) summaries. I know some are saving their energies for other things (rightly so) but so many of these are W.I.L.D.

Watercolor portraying a deluge with the text: "In 1525, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, I had this vision in my sleep, and saw how many great waters fell from heaven. The first struck the ground about four miles away from me with such a terrible force, enormous noise and splashing that it drowned the entire countryside. I was so greatly shocked at this that I awoke before the cloudburst. And the ensuing downpour was huge. Some of the waters fell some distance away and some close by. And they came from such a height that they seemed to fall at an equally slow pace. But the very first water that hit the ground so suddenly had fallen at such velocity, and was accompanied by wind and roaring so frightening, that when I awoke my whole body trembled and I could not recover for a long time. When I arose in the morning, I painted the above as I had seen it. May the Lord turn all things to the best.”

Albrecht Dürer, Dream Vision, 1525, Watercolor on paper (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). In this haunting sketch, Dürer describes his vivid and terrifying dream of a flood. (See alt text for translation.) #earlymodern

🔬TONIGHT! A new episode of 'Nobody Asked' launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT!

Starring Brian David Gilbert, Oscar Montoya, Ify Nwadiwe, Rekha Shankar, and Ele Woods, with special guests Paige Nielsen, Stefano Bloch, Andy Campbell, and Lisa Mac Corbin!

Dusting this one off again for no specific reason

TRAИƧA, by Red Hot Org 46 track album

I'll be here for a thousand days; ANOHNI, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Sade, Anjimile, Perfume Genius. What's helping me through? This.

redhot.bandcamp.com/album/tra-a/

"It softens the edges of the world we know, and invokes powerful dreams of the futures that might one day thunder from its cracks."

Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Pavel Tchelitchew, Hide-and-Seek, Derby, Vermont and New York, June 1940 - June 1942

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135301

Historical protest posters from ONE Archives at the USC Libraries tell the stories of #LGBTQ activism over the decades.

See more: www.advocate.com/activism/14-...

Oy. That nonanswer from Nick Turley on watermarking was beyond disappointing. Educator here, and the throwing up of hands (for a product lead!) on that and the environmental issue was insulting to everyone's intelligence. Thank you and @kevinroose.bsky.social for asking the questions!