Are you *great again*, 'merica? Asking for a friend, which definitely isn't us Canadians, anymore, if ever again....
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 59m ago
Bart Gazzola
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#artcriticfromhell | arts writer & curator | I take pictures of what's left when the world ends | bartgazzola.com | curatednow.ca
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 59m agoFreedom of Speech, 1990, Faith Ringgold Faith Ringgold (1930 - 2024) was born on this day. She was a previously featured Artist You Need To Know : artishell.com/faith-ringgo...
Larry Towell was a previously featured Artist You Need To Know : artishell.com/larry-towell/ “If there’s one theme that connects all my work, I think it’s that of landlessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities.”
Bertrom.@bertrom.bsky.social · 7h agoLarry Towell. “My wife Ann and I had been digging and transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned.”
Pffft. Need a new therapist, as concrete problems require concrete solutions, ahem, to quote Slavoj Žižek, cough cough.
Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · 9h agoTherapist: "And what do we do when we’re feeling angry?" Me: *revs up chainsaw* Therapist: "No!"
Alito is a rabid catholic : why would anyone be interested in what a member of a cult that has raped more children than any group in history, while aiding and abetting the abusers, has to say? But scum gotta scum, ahem.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h agoIt should come as no surprise that a mean, angry man married to an unpleasant kook is not in favor of allowing other people to be in happy marriages. But Christian Nationalists are notorious busybodies.
Chika Aruga, Japanese (1975- ), encounter 14, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 140 cm, private collection
Émilie Charmy (1878 – 1974) painter of France's early avant-garde, whose work was in the fauvist style #WomensArt
You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? -- Ann Carson
Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12h agoCanadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize for literature. What a great honour. Congratulations.
This is not my tricycle toy. Neither does it belong to Andrea, ahem, who sent me the image, as my Australian correspondent with the dis [carted] project, ahem.
Fonthill October 7, 2026 From collaborator Sandy.
Today’s Canadian painting is “The Red Maple” painted by A Y Jackson in 1914. This is one of Canada’s best-loved and most-recognized paintings.
Train Landscape https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/train-landscape-1953
Untitled - Saskatchewan Harvest Scene Robert Newton Hurley 1975
Oh, very nice. I've never seen this work by Oppenheim. Oppenheim was a previously featured Artist You Need To Know : artishell.com/meret-oppenh... Her words : "Every idea is born with its form. I make reality of ideas as they come into my head.”
Jay Troyer@gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 2d ago6 October 1913 – 15 November 1985 Méret Oppenheim, German-Swiss (1913-1985), Squirrel, 1960-69, glass mug, plastic foam, and fur, 22.9 x 17.8 x 10.2 cm, edition of 100, MoMA, New York City, New York, USA
Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian (1962- ), Coulisses de la Féminité 3, 2019 photo mounted on antireflex plexiglas, 97 x 97 cm, private collection
Man Ray, American-French (1890-1976), Érotique-Voilée (Méret Oppenheim), 1933, photograph, gelatin silver print, 29.2 x 22.7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Tullio Crali, Italian (1910-2000), Aerei Sulla Cittá, 1929, pencil and watercolor on paper, 35 x 27.5 cm, private collection
A moment of unexpected urban art joy (and I provide footnotes, lol) to this fine image. Untitled (Blue Divided by Blue), 1966, Mark Rothko KA IV, 1980, Bridget Riley
Paula ⚪️@paulaflucas.bsky.social · 4d agoBridget Riley + Rothko MashUp! #aofoto #AccidentalArtist #AccidentalArt
Today’s Canadian painting is “October Sky” by A J Casson in 1928.
