There was a whole thing on social media where art critics and scholars were supporting each other because they "had to" touch art and casting guards as hall monitors in 80's movies.

I couldn't go to the LACMA opening but a friend sent this photo from the "incident report factory," as she called it. So long, paisley shawls, it was nice knowing you...

Something that has always broken my brain is the argument of accessibility to art objects vs. the safety of those objects. I appreciate both sides of the argument. It was a debate that ran through my head constantly in my time as a museum guard.

Note: The Worcester Art Museum is free today

A painting of a curved building at an intersection in Boston's North End

New painting of the intersection of Salem and Prince in Boston's North End

Oh wait, they're running in two days. I guess that makes more sense.

I honestly can't fathom a lifestyle where I'm like "Welp, I'm running 26 miles tomorrow. I'd better do a few laps around the city today!"

A bridge support with graffiti bearing the name of the great jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea

Apparently there are some big jazz fans in Worcester

That spot is great. I used to walk by there all the time with my grandfather when I was a little kid. I've been told that the neighbors would be more supportive of something cool than I suspected. I asked about a cafe/art space, so along the same lines.

Hey Worcester, the iconic Coca Cola building where Redemption Rock used to be is for sale. Could someone cool please buy it and put something RR-esque back there?

Almost a half century old, and three generations of Worcester knowledge to draw on and I only realized today the Forest Grove Middle School is by the intersection of Forest and Grove Streets.

Two square, acrylic on Canvas paintings depicting streets with a variety of safety-orange barriers and cones. At the center of each is a crudely constructed plywood box with red spray paint.

New paintings! Part of what will be a new series.
Road Work 1 & 2
Acrylic on Canvas
14" x 14"

Walking around with paint-stained pants is significantly less appealing when one is using a lot of burnt umber

Okay, after sitting with my feelings for 30 seconds after that game, I am officially more of a Celtics fan than a Knicks fan.

One reason I'm a bad sports fan is that my two favorite teams are the Celtics and the Knicks. So I hope they just all have a good time tonight.

Sometimes I fantasize about living off my artwork, or people ask if I'd want to do that, then I do some quick math and realize that at my prices I'd need to sell a painting every weekday all year and would only be barely getting by.

I tell ya, it's hard to stay hopeful for a pedestrian-friendly future when I'm just constantly hearing arguments like this.

Florida, Arizona, and California - three famously pedestrian-friendly states.

A USA Today photo of a derelict mall with the headline "The Mall was an American Experience. Not Anymore."

Given the state of the nation, I'd say the mall in this picture has had a fairly American experience.

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

I never pursued academia for the same reason I never tried to live in L.A.

A male turkey, puffed up on guard outside of Harvard Square Cambridge

Harvard Turkeys

Looking good!

An acrylic painting depicting a four-story brick building in Long Island City with newer, taller buildings in LIC behind it and the Manhattan skyline in the background.

Latest painting! A view of LIC and Manhattan.

I did not last long on Threads

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The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."

FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."

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