Posts by TheAird
Embarkation
Alex Colville
1994
This Canadian needs a break from American politics
Hard to believe it’s been a decade since Prince died. Born Prince Rogers Nelson on June 7, 1958, he died April 21, 2016.
Spider Pot 056
They have really big cats at Hong Kong Airport!
A white porcelain woman lying on her back on a bronze base one of her hands seems to be turning into a flower erupting out of the middle of her torso is a black figure that is bending down towards her face (an embrace?). Bursting from the back of this figure is a scaly anthropoid creature with flowers bursting from the front of its head and the back of his head entirely red. By the way most do drink tears that's a real thing. I know this friend I know this from the Elvis Costello lyric 🎶 A butterfly drinks a turtle's tears, but how do you know he really needs it?🎶
Moths Drink Tears — Shary Boyle, 2014
Porcelain, China paint, bronze
45 x 34 x 22 cm
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Good Afternoon✨
Fumio Fujito ~ Flower and Bird
(1977, woodblock print)
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
Michael Chaboud :
The tool becomes the artist, n.d.
A radio that combines the design language of old American muscle cars and the spacerace. The top is forest green with tailfins, the bottom is ivory white, and the front is shining silver, on a silver stand. Up top we find a single antenna, a red power/volume dial, and you turn the 'intake" of the rocket to change the stations (the tuning display is immediately behind the engine, incoporated into the body).
The Sharp Tranket transistor radio (1960)
Magic City Dance Hall, Paris (1931).
Some of Brassaï's most evocative photographs are of the drag balls which took place twice a year at the Magic-City Dance Hall. The police gave special permission for men to dress in drag as part of the carnival tradition of reversing class or gender identity.
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
i have been forbidden
Close up of a dragon’s head made of willow.
Deadly dragon
Ulster Museum, Belfast
The willow dragons (1 of 3) were created by the Ulster Folk Museum's master basketmaker, Bob Johnston.
#Woodensday
Thanks for all your amazing posts!
Gerard Richter
Often referred to as the Empress of the Blues - and it's not an inappropriate sobriquet - singer Bessie Smith was born on 15 April 1894.
😂 In the UK that is absolutely accurate.
Art Nouveau candelabra (circa 1900) designed by the French artist Georges de Feure (1868–1943) Tiffany & Co.
#art #glass #bronze #design #oldtimes
Tell me all about it
The Five Graces
Igor Shcherbakov
Powerful. Thousands of pairs of shoes were displayed yesterday in the town square in Amsterdam honoring the lost children and journalists to the genocide in Gaza. 💔
#Gaza #Palestinians #Israel
new reaction meme just dropped
Painting of a woman in the kitchen bending down to reach into the back of a dishwasher. a black cat is standing on her back, having jumped up to get a better view of the world
The Kitchen — Olivier Neuray, 2025
Oil on canvas
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A bathroom, a long-haired person in a tub, everything in the room, from the water running from a duck's beak, over the carpet, to the sinkt, with a snake's head spewing water out, is distorted, i.e. psychedelicized in luminous coloring
Radu Oreian (Romanian, b. 1984, Târnăveni, Romania, based Marseille, France) - A Week of Sundays, 2025, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
ISRAEL has also approved the DEATH PENALTY by public hanging chair or execution for more entertainment of any Palestinian they choose to accuse of major crime. Within 30 days. No appeal, no representation. They decide, every month who they are going to kill publicly, ready for unimpeded settlements.
Green spherical pendant light composed of stacked, curved metal bands that create a layered effect. Light filters through the gaps between the bands, while the inner cylindrical diffuser softens the glow, providing ambient illumination with minimal glare. Lindkvist worked at Granhaga beginning in 1961 as designer and sales head, spontaneously adopting the Carl Thore name during a client presentation.
Le Monde Pendant Lamp by Carl Thore (Sigurd Lindkvist) for Granhaga Metallindustri, Sweden (1973) #spaceagedesign