probably @cmonstah.bsky.social was how I discovered the Art Institute's Chrome extension that displays a random artwork every new tab you open. using it for a few years has altered my idea of art history in a small way! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/art-i...

Art Institute of Chicago: Art Tab - Chrome Web Store

Sneak some inspiration into your day. See a new, random artwork from the museum's vast collection every time you open a new tab.

chromewebstore.google.com

Carolina A. Miranda@cmonstah.bsky.social · 2h ago

Whoa this quilt I just saw on the Art Institute's website... The pattern is of pomegranates. It was made sometime between 1830-50. www.artic.edu/artworks/760...

God knows how many times this track took one of our parties to another level in Urbana in the early and mid 1980s at the University of Illinois. Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azure, Antibes. July 28, 1966. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGO...

Mack The Knife (Live At The Cote d'Azur, 7/28/1966)

YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic

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Jasper Johns Device 1962

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.

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“The Insider” (1999) holds up as both as surveillance drama and scathing critique of corporate journalism. Hopefully Wired doesn’t fold like Wallace and Hewitt. (better Michael Mann film than “Heat” imo)

Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · last wk.

MSG’s new lawsuit against @wired.com isn’t just about defamation. It’s an attack on the newsgathering process itself. If journalists can be sued for talking to sources with NDAs, powerful institutions have another way to keep their secrets.

I was saddened of course to hear of the death of Betye Saar, who passed away on Sunday 4 days shy of her 100th birthday, but it's hard to imagine a life more richly lived. I was fortunate enough to speak with her in 2019 for this C Mag feature. Rest in Power Ms. Saar. magazinec.com/culture/la-i...

A beautiful testament to Betye's life by @cmonstah.bsky.social www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac, has died

Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies, and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined th...

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Andy Warhol? illustrator of those great jazz albums?!

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Those who dismiss Warhol as merely artist of Campbell's Soup Cans are likely unaware he spent a decade as a commercial illustrator before becoming a Pop artist in 1960s. That's where he learned many techniques he would later use; note similarity of color/B&W split between ad & later Marilyn painting

This is so good! youtu.be/cpmKvidgRDA?... Excellent work (as always), @darcyjamesargue.com (and Brad and everyone else involved)

Brad Mehldau - ARTE Concert

YouTube video by ARTE Concert

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the “buy instead” list seems spot on, useful info from @worseonpurpose.bsky.social (the good stuff is durable so look for used on FB marketplace, craig’s)

@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

soundtrack of every bus stop and billboard in San Francisco rn

Joshua Noble@fctry2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Business AI for Business transforms your Business into AI Business www.instagram.com/reel/DZCtsqh...

One of the most profoundly historic places in North America - that we don’t fully understand yet. the difficulty to reach by car emphasizes the achievement of ancient straight roads, for hundreds of miles. Click the blue “Participate Now” button, leave a comment eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

"Seen by an outsider, the Glencoeites are a quiet, somewhat placid, extremely friendly group of people. But they have one devastating passion: lawn mowing." —Louis Malle narrates God's Country is like Agnès Varda meets the Coen Bros + a touch of Frederick Wiseman

Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Louis Malle’s documentary didn't just feature bigwigs and lawyers, but also included frank talks with some of Glencoe’s oddballs about how stressful it was to conform with a small town’s expectations about gender and marriage in the 1970s and 80s." Streaming on Criterion, available on DVD at hclib

RIP Sam Neill (incredible that the nearly five hour director’s cut was so difficult to see for 25 years, but now it’s the default on Criterion Channel!?)

rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · 3w ago

ah, Sam Neill (1947–2026). Until The End of the World, dir. Wim Wenders (1991) remains my favourite film,

the well-known corner of 58th and Telegraegraph

saw this painting for the first time at the NGA last year for Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment and it was so wild you know that phenomena where you only know something as an image from books or the internet and then seeing it in person is like viewing a mf'ing singularity

Claude Monet@monet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Monet’s Impression, Sunrise (1872) captured Le Havre rebuilt after the Franco-Prussian War. Critics mocked its “unfinished” style, but some historians now read it as a symbol of France’s regeneration.

the Cheech is one of the best art museums in California in part because it features artists that you may not have heard of vs. every other museum that offers the same Artforum/ Gagosian/ Sothebys/ 20th century white art history flotsam. You'll experience actual surprise and discovery there.

Stephanie Porras@periodeye.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s been a minutes since I cried in a museum, but the Cheech got me. Astonishing exhibition of Chicano photography and an important show focusing on Chicano identity. What a museum

Ethan drops a new jazz typology! "Burble: is moving lines, advanced technique and busy harmonic movement. Everything is stated and resolved. Sleek: is spacious, groovy, and fashionable. The sentences are not completed and tensions are not resolved."

Ethan Iverson@ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 4w ago

New open.substack.com/pub/iverson/...

As you were, America. youtu.be/eKlL5X0iuEI?...

The Star Spangled Banner (Live at Newport Jazz Festival 1958)

YouTube video by Louis Armstrong - Topic

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July 4th 1970, Nixon's nonpartisan Honor America Day turned into a massive protest against the Vietnam War and Kent State.

Today I learned influential photographer August Sander had a son, Erich, who was a socialist & activist imprisoned for high treason by the Nazis. Erich Sander smuggled a camera into prison where he took photos like this one of French Resistance member Marcel Ancelin weristwalter.eu/project/port...

saw him around SF a bunch of times, with his Leica. this post is so good, so relevant. RIP

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · last mo.

I'll miss this voice. We talked about him writing a book. I wish he had, but I guess he was a blogger to the core [complementary]. om.co/2026/05/25/w...

Manzanar Relocation Camp. July 3rd, 1942. Dorothea Lange.

Billy Wilder photographed testing a prototype of the Lounge Chair by Charles and Ray Eames.

listen on YT www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcvX...

Marcel Duchamp - The Entire Musical Work [Full Album]

YouTube video by OnAScaleof1to10

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Marcel Duchamp@mduchamp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp http://www.moma.org/collection/works/183953

Twelve Hands of Miles Davis and his trumpet, photographed by Irving Penn #Photography #MilesDavis

saw the Raphael show at The Met today it's truly a once in a generation exhibition with so much greatness, his paintings are insanely tight (and amazing drawings from red chalk to metalpoint), dude was just obsessed with process

Rest in Power, maestro Abdullah Ibrahim. Here is a fine NPR Music obit by Martin Johnson.

Abdullah Ibrahim, quiet giant of the jazz piano, has died at 91

The South African musician's "Mannenberg" was often called his country's unofficial anthem during the final years of apartheid.

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Vaillancourt Fountain this morning - all that is left is the pool and presumably some of the plumbing. According to the renderings, this will someday be a mound of grass

Wayne@wayneb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

the next generation will come across photos of the idiosyncratic, inconvenient, not-beautiful sculpture and wonder why we replaced it with a rendering, slouching towards Blandistan