Check out how similar these two maquettes are: the one from the artnet story is Pope Clement XII by Pietro Bracci from the 18th C. The other is Pope Innocent X by Alessandro Algardi ca. 1640 at the Worcester Art Museum share.google/NAEfcJwy0sti...

Big L for Worcester. As someone who is not generally library-oriented, I am amazed at all the WPL team under his leadership has done to raise the profile of this institution.

Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Looks like the news is out - WPL Executive Director Jason Homer is leaving in November to become Baltimore's next Director. I am so happy for Jason and so incredibly sad for Worcester! www.telegram.com/story/news/l... www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

As a resident of another city whose paper of record was acquired by USA Today: Boo!

Tucson Sentinel@tucsonsentinel.com · 5d ago

The Arizona Daily Star is now entirely owned by newspaper chain USA Today Co., with Lee Enterprises selling its 50 percent share. The transaction with the company that owns the Republic comes just months after billionaire David Hoffmann took over Lee. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

Is there some kind of AI photo picker tool that news sites are using? There is a local news source that has had similarly inexplicable and occasional disastrous photo choices.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · 4d ago

bold and wildly inexplicable photo choice here

"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social

It was only tonight that I realized Senator Tammy Duckworth did not write the book "Grit"

Looks like they're doing some work on the Worcester Auditorium. Any news on that place recently?

Holy moly, it sure is fall all of a sudden

If any artists out there are stuck for titles of abstract or postmodern work. Maybe even even work backwards from the titles. Or create a drawing a day for a month challenge with these.

Eric Casey@ericcasey.bsky.social · last wk.

I recently remembered there was a Ripley's Believe It or Not! TV show in the early 2000's. It was hosted by Dean Cain, because of course. Turns out it's on Tubi. Haven't started watching yet but the episode blurbs are amazing. Just an amazing combination of words never seen before or since.

I appreciate Winston's homage to Eli, throwing the ball to absolutely no one, but Eli mixed some TD drives in there.

20-year-old me would be disappointed, but 20-year-old me was kind of a douche.

Beaux 🕋@obsidian.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Would 20 y/o you be impressed or disappointed by you today?

It took me nearly a half-century before I realized people in British TV shows were saying "ma'am" and not "mum"

I've watched and read a lot of Hannibal Lecter stuff, not because I like crime or horror stories, but because I respect a real liberal arts guy.

* Worcester specific post * I think we have this whole car crash thing wrong. She was clearly preemptively formulating an argument against protected bike lanes on Harrington Way.

I feel like Electric Feel by MGMT is weird commercial break music for an NFC football game.

When I was a kid there was an all big-band station in Worcester called WNEB. My great uncle had it on constantly in his Vernon Hill three-decker apartment. I also associate those memories with the refrigerated Lorna Doone cookies he gave me. At the time I was most excited because they had MTV.

"My 11-year tenure at WBJ has been a wild one, marked by so many fantastic stories from talented reporters. Yet, when I reflect on my time here, I remember one thing above all else: the people," writes WBJ Editor Brad Kane. buff.ly/tvG3hBO

From the Editor: Farewell, Central Mass. business community

The Central Massachusetts economy has many strengths, but its true strength lies in its people.

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Four paintings by Renoir taken from a museum in France. Two were then abandoned by the thieves on the museum grounds. www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

Renoir: Thieves who stole four paintings abandoned two in garden as they fled, says mayor

Two thieves broke into the museum on Tuesday morning - authorities initially said only one painting had been abandoned.

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A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

My gf: Are you going to vote today? Me: Probably not, Markey has it in the bag and we have no state rep race in our district. GF: Markey is leading by double digits in the polls. Me: Yeah but that doesn't mean anything because of low voter turnout....oh shoot...I guess I'm going to go vote!

Does music become "oldies" or "classic rock" based on relative age? Like, are The Strokes classic rock and Nirvana are oldies? Or, is membership to "oldies" and "classic rock" frozen at the time we started calling music that?

The best Veronica out there, made by a student who took my saints and relics class. Silkscreen, not made by human hands. I really like most of the books in my office, but few of them are this satisfying. Let’s hear it for college students.

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · last mo.

The veil of Saint Veronica, who wiped Christ's face on his way to Calvary, is a common art historical motif, but most artists chose to depict Christ's visage—transferred to the cloth—clearly and legibly. Zurbarán characteristically diverged from custom to depict a hazy, numinous form instead

Get his ass

Ever have a really dated thought? I was just thinking that I'd stop by a news stand and see who is featured in the jazz magazines these days.

I really hope that the MBTA doesn't use these Worcester line service cuts for necessary track repairs to permanently cut the schedule back. (As someone who wanted to take a non-rush hour train tomorrow)

years ago me and Ms. Moreno talked about how this came together and it was the greatest www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙@blabalino.com · last mo.

Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10

Sculptures by Kathleen Ryan

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · last mo.

We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car

It is somehow very funny to me that the fridge in the employee area at the museum is filled with lunches and Gatorade bottles from the operations and security staff and Ione bottle of champagne labeled "curatorial"

Artists that people think aren't deserving of the limelight have a huge advantage because when they get some attention from galleries or institutions, there are a lot of viral articles about them being undeserving, and I'm unsure that there is such a thing as bad publicity.