he posted a couple of hours ago on the bad site that google had inexplicably locked his blog. said he's working on it

Yoooo, anyone know what happened William Poundstone's blog, Los Angeles County Museum on Fire? It seems to have vanished off the face of the earth? lacmaonfire.blogspot.com

Some Latino Chilean melancholy with poet Enrique Gómez Correa Vertigo of the Night This is why I allow my heart to descend into memory To remain inside silence So that I will always be That pure movement of dream.

The other day I was reading in @nybooks.com about Rose Valland, the Jeu de Paume curator who kept a detailed log of what the Nazis were doing with looted art. The review mentions a movie inspired by her story, a 1964 flick titled "The Train" starring Burt Lancaster. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Spy in the Jeu de Paume | Nina Siegal

The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis' looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.

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What a mess. lataco.com/99-cents-gal...

Remember the 99 Cents Only Art Show? Artists Allege They Got Ripped Off. ~ L.A. TACO

Local artists involved in a viral art show in a former 99 Cents Only Store tell L.A. TACO they’re still yet to be paid for their work that was sold.

lataco.com

Maximilian's arch is much more interesting than Trump's arch: greg.org/archive/2026...

Somebody bring this to LA. news.artnet.com/art-world/ma...

Please, Somebody, Put This Delirious Digital Artwork on View Somewhere Permanent! | Artnet News

Why this 4D "software poem" installation, 'Halcyon.exe: The Ride,' by Mark Fingerhut is a contemporary artwork that you should know.

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We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I see a Colo Colo game in my future. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Vozinha gets hero’s welcome in Chile after Cape Verde’s historic World Cup

Vozinha gets hero's welcome in Chile after Cape Verde’s historic World Cup.

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I love imaginative protest. futurism.com/future-socie...

Wild Footage Shows Man Blocking Flock Camera With Comically Gigantic Protest Sign

A Florida man named Carl Gunn is taking matters into his own hands after noticing an number of Flock ALPRs appear in his neighborhood.

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Inuk artist Peggy Ekagina, Fox shaman transformation (c. 1960), stone carving #WomensArt

Live footage of Mitch McConnell's spokesperson avoiding all questions about the Senator's condition

Shrek's Subtle Smirk

ALT: Shrek's Subtle Smirk

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The fake job spam is getting out of control. I got one that sounded like a realistic enough headhunter seeking to fit an art editor role until I saw that the base salary was 940K to 1.1 million. LMAO.

The family that lives next door to me all have covid right now.

Jen the Feisty Librarian@feistywaters.com · 5d ago

The most infuriating thing about all the Fauci stuff this week is that everyone is past tensing a pandemic that is still happening. Covid is still disabling and killing people.

this is my new favorite diagram

i've passed them and they shock anew each time, but i also remember when the statue of Sherman was regilded in Grand Army Plaza in nyc, and it was the same shock. it can be waxed, and toned down when the Great Reconstruction of The Republic starts, and we can fund it with his seized assets

Grand Army Plaza (Manhattan) - Wikipedia

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This is ugly as hell and I don't for a second buy that this is actual gold.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 5d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

I never met sculptor Melvin Edwards, but I feel like I got to know him through my visits to Juan Sánchez's studio — which I wrote about for Momus. momus.ca/2026/07/30/y...

“You Create Your Own Situation”: On Mel Edwards and Juan Sánchez | Momus

In the spring of 2013, I made the first of many visits to the Brooklyn studio of Juan Sánchez, to begin research on a monograph about his work. Back…

momus.ca

Essential reading. 👇🏽

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 5d ago

A few overlooked details from my July 18 piece on Rep. Max Miller—threading them below. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My man Juan Sánchez's traveling retrospective will kick off at the Phillips Collection in DC next summer — followed be stops at the Whitney and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico! 💃🏽 www.phillipscollection.org/event/2027-0...

Juan Sánchez

States of Liberation will be the first traveling retrospective of Juan Sánchez (b. 1954, New York, New York), one of the founding figures of Latinx art in the United States. For over four decades, Sán...

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“Caused a stir” is my favorite part of this.

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

Delighted to dig into some of the works that made Betye Saar such a special artist for the NYT — with gift link! (I actually remembered.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/a...

7 of Betye Saar’s Most Important Works (Gift Article)

The artist, who died just short of her 100th birthday, subverted racist tropes by turning mammy dolls into warriors and presenting the breadth of the Black experience.

nytimes.com

Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...

This Is Personal

YouTube video by TMZ

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Wow — Simone Forti and Milan Knížák gone this week, Alison Knowles last October...

ARTnews.com@artnews.com.web.brid.gy · 7d ago

This is the same pat JD Vance gave Usha on her knee.

Bryan Blessed@bryb.bsky.social · last wk.

I feel kinda bad for almost soiling myself laughing at this and yet, here we are.

If you live in Ohio, call one of Sen. Moreno's office to ask why he's furious about Anthony Fauci but doesn't care about his own family. www.moreno.senate.gov/contact/

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · last wk.

And also pouring boiling water on her, and also threatening her with a gun. (His colleague denies these charges.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The vast majority of people who work in film and television are not studio executives, nor are they famous actors. They are, overwhelmingly, blue-collar workers, freelancers, and small businesses. And they are in free fall." newrepublic.com/article/2136...

There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It

Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.

newrepublic.com

"The father and son are founder and president, respectively, of WallBuilders, a Christian nationalist advocacy organization founded in 1988. WallBuilders aims to 'teach US history and how our beginnings were overwhelmingly rooted in Christian ideology.'” popular.info/p/the-fake-h...

The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade

Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...

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Isn't K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop just... "Pop"?

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2mo ago

The GRAMMYs are introducing their first Asian category at next year’s ceremony. Best Asian Pop Music Performance will recognise K-Pop, J-Pop, C-Pop recordings that feature meaningful use of one or more Asian languages.