This influential L.A. collector bought the artists no one else would. The art world is finally catching up Native Angeleno Eileen Harris Norton's seminal collection of artwork is on view through August at Hauser & Wirth in downtown L.A. Few people have done more than Norton to shape city's art scene over t...

Few people have done more to shape Los Angeles’ art scene than Eileen Harris Norton.

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6 Famously Controversial Works of Art

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Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Painter of Hotly Topical Images, Dies at 46

Anne Ellegood, a curator of the Hammer exhibition, told Elle magazine in 2018 that Ms. Dupuy-Spencer was on track to becoming “one of the great painters of her generation.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/a...

a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and a white suit is standing in front of a blackboard . ALT: a man with a beard wearing a cowboy hat and a white suit is standing in front of a blackboard .

it's just
tRump setting
up the next
Grift.

Title: "Wildfire - Evacuate Now !"
(c) 2026 WillKaal
48"Wx36"Hx1.5"D
Acrylic, charcoal, Pastel on canvas

#art #painting

Title: "Wildfire - Evacuate Now !"
(c) 2026 WillKaal
48"Wx36"Hx1.5"D
Acrylic, charcoal, Pastel on canvas

#art #painting

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he should've
recited
tRump 86:47

Their secret shows jam streets. One caused a riot. Dead City Punx are the last dangerous band in L.A. Dead City Punx fans swarm freeway underpasses for chaotic, secret shows, one of which Mayor Karen Bass called "unacceptable." Some in the rock and art worlds are intrigued. But can the band build a ca...

Contrary to the crusty, chaotic libertinism of their shows, the band is disarmingly sweet and funny in person despite being duly crude.

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how about
denying tax refunds
to registered Democrats ?

Every Video on Earth Runs Through His Code. He Chose Poverty. Google Sent AI Bugs. Its creator left in 2003. One developer chose minimum income for 11 years to keep it running. Google sent bugs, not money.

Every Video on Earth Runs Through His Code. He Chose Poverty. Google Sent AI Bugs.
by @canartuc

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In modern internet culture (especially on sites like Reddit or conspiracy forums), "Loosh" has been adopted by people who believe that humanity is secretly ruled by higher-dimensional beings, aliens, or "Archons."

- silly hoomans

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oh oh ?

Zeus the Zebra
is on the loose
In Placer county

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Iggy pop will be 79
on April 21,2026

happy birthday ig !

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The Courage of Letting Go

The most powerful thing an artist can do is pour their absolute truth into a canvas, hang it on a wall, and then step back and let it live its own life.

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Rothko famously painted them in dark, oppressive colors, hoping to "ruin the appetite of every son of a bitch who eats in that room." He eventually returned the money and took the paintings back because he couldn't stand them being used as mere decoration.

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"The AI service is temporarily overloaded. Please try again in a moment."

no more lobster
back to veggies

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anyone recommend
tRump to

"A Place for Don"

frank be flexin

4 Takeaways From Our Search for Bitcoin’s Creator

folks remember Cypherpunks ?

- who wanted to use cryptography — the art of securing communications through code — to free individuals from government surveillance and censorship.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

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sometimes,
we leave them
in the streets.

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Putler should just
do a tRump -
say you've won
and go home.

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"Praise be to Allah"

sounds like
tRump's Charlie Hebdo
moment.

Gas is $10 a gallon at a Big Sur station. The owner explains why his prices can't go higher Gorda by the Sea, a mini-mart and gas station in a remote hamlet in Big Sur is charging $9.99 a gallon for gasoline, but its owner says he's not trying to price gouge drivers. Gas prices are increasin...

thanks tRump

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🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥 🚨 🔥
French Senator
Claude Malhuret says what the majority of the world is thinking

They bought an S.F. alley for $26,000. Now it’s a community art project A San Francisco alley for sale? Three friends bought a block of roadway in the Sunset District. Now, they’re looking for 1,280 artists to paint a mural.

“One of the most rewarding things about Pursuit is seeing people out and about, enjoying our work, interacting with each other,” he said.

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#art #painting

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maybe now
the Epstein files
will be released

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gather round all
donnie demento
is in the hall
dishing up word salad
for those enthralled.

Opinion | The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets

"kids are animist until they go to school. Then we kind of knock it out of them...interesting that we exist in this un-animist bubble of Western, scientific materialism. But you push in any direction or have a psychedelic experience, questions are raised about it."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

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"At the same time, Samo assures me, he counts Karl Marx among his personal influences, and says Palladium has in fact published a Marxist. What he doesn’t mention is that they prefer to publish monarchists and white supremacists."
(J.Wu/Jacobin)

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Vance can't even tell
the truth
in the confessional.