I keep asking myself: would I be more or less terrified if they were competent?

A glued felt banner by the artist Mike Kelley showing a picture of a cookie jar with the words “Let’s talk about disobeying” above and below it.

Mike Kelley, Let's Talk (1987), Glued felt, 94 1/2 x 59 in. / 240 x 149.9 cm

Newly discovered fungus turns cave-dwelling spiders into ‘zombies’ | CNN Scientists have discovered a fungus that turns spiders into “zombies,” luring the arachnids out of their lairs before killing them and using their corpses to spread.

allegories abound

The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...

“The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of accommodation.” New: Mark Greif on the war against the bureaucracy.
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Full-Throated Explicit Dehumanization | Paisley Currah Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm. Signed on the day of his inauguration, Trump’s executive order “De...

“Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Carl Otto Czeschka, Design 8204 for the boudoir of Stoclet House (1911), a gouache on paper decorative work in blue, gray and white featuring a spiral motif of stylized flower petals

a quilt by Emma Lee Pettyway Campbell titled Pinwheel - Single Block Variation (1950s), with a radial arrangement of brown and cream-colored blocks resembling a pinwheel.

1. Carl Otto Czeschka, Design 8204 for the boudoir of Stoclet House (1911)
2. Emma Lee Pettway Campbell, Pinwheel - Single Block Variation (1950s)

me too!

A small painting of tan words on a red ground reading "No Coal, No Mars, No Americana"

No, 2020, oil on linen, 10 x 12 inches

This album is a titan of depression

one of four small oil on board studies by Gwen John of the view outside her studio. Circa 1920s. In the collection of the National Library of Wales.

one of four small oil on board studies by Gwen John of the view outside her studio. Circa 1920s. In the collection of the National Library of Wales.

one of four small oil on board studies by Gwen John of the view outside her studio. Circa 1920s. In the collection of the National Library of Wales.

one of four small oil on board studies by Gwen John of the view outside her studio. Circa 1920s. In the collection of the National Library of Wales.

four small oil on board studies by Gwen John of the view outside her studio. Circa 1920s. In the collection of the National Library of Wales.

A cut-paper collage of Japanese jazz fusion musician Jun Fukamachi holding a siamese cat.

Jun Fukamachi and his cat

A cut paper collage of a bouquet of flowers, some wilted, next to a stack of paperback books.

Definition of the word “Kakistocracy” as “government by the worst people”

Only January and here’s my word of the year

View of Mary Ellen Carrol's "indestructible language" at the Schoolhouse, Glasgow, 2021. An installation in the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) consisting of three-meter-high illuminated red neon characters made of lead-free glass, powered 100% by renewable energy, spelling out the phrase: IT IS GREEN THINKS NATURE EVEN IN THE DARK. (© Mary Ellen Carroll, MEC studios, 2021. Photo: Dougie Lindsay. © 2021.)

View of Mary Ellen Carrol's "indestructible language" at the Schoolhouse, Glasgow, 2021. An installation in the occasion of the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) (© Mary Ellen Carroll, MEC studios, 2021, Photo: Dougie Lindsay, © 2021.)

a painting by Alma Woodsey Thomas titled Orion, 1973; Acrylic on canvas, 59 3/4 x 54 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts

Alma Woodsey Thomas, Orion, 1973; Acrylic on canvas, 59 3/4 x 54 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts

RIP Jo Baer, 1929–2025. She went all the way out—way beyond the horizon—and returned, transformed. The rarest feat for an artist? She lived many lives.

Leonard Peltier, finally

picture of a tabletop showing bottles and tubes of paint and a brownish gray piece of paper cut in the silhouette of a man holding a cat