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Great Women Painters: An Enormous Volume Surveys the Work of 300 Artists Across 500 Years

Great Women Painters: An Enormous Volume Surveys the Work of 300 Artists Across 500 Years — Colossalwww.thisiscolossal.com In the same vein as Phaidon’s formidable Great Women Artists and African Artists, a forthcoming book from the publisher similarly widens the art historical canon while recognizing some of the most inf...

Ran to the other room to let my spouse know the good news from France and then felt all the feelings I've been suppressing about the European elections

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, “Speaking to Falling Seeds” installation at the California African American Museum at USC. They always do cool things with the lobby space. Title comes from Zora Neale Hurston

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There's a bakery up the street from me where they saw my email on an order and started drawing tubas on the bags. So I saved em for a year and made a collage for them. Which they then hung up and curated like a museum piece. I love em there and they're always happy to see me ❤️

I give Kishi Bashi's F Delano from the Omoiyari album a listen each July 4

Kishi Bashi - “F Delano” (6-8-2019 Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA)www.youtube.com YouTube video by Richard Vining

The random plastic bag by bus stop "finding" of the stolen painting doesn't add up, but hey, at least we still have this Titian painting

Stolen 16th-century painting, found at a bus stop, sells for record $22Mwww.washingtonpost.com “The Rest on the Flight into Egypt,” by the Venetian artist Titian, was stolen from its owner’s home in 1995 and recovered seven years later by an art detective.

Willie Cole, How Do You Spell America? #*, 1993. Latex paint, chalk, oil pastel, and wood on Masonite.

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“American Flag, 1977,” by Robert Mappelthorpe.

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Old art just dropped and it's pigs

51,000-year-old cave painting may be earliest scene depicted through artwww.washingtonpost.com The artwork, an example of early storytelling, shows three humanoid figures and a pig. Sulawesi residents of that era were “besotted” with painting pigs, an expert said.

Simone Leigh sculpture in sun popping gold outside the California African American Museum at USC’s campus in Los Angeles

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Alt-text: Black and white photo of smiling Japanese American little girl who is a majorette in a parade. She is holding her baton and marching in uniform and white boots with squad in formation behind her. Others from Tule Lake Camp in CA watching from sidelines.

July 4th Parade, Tule Lake Internment Camp, 1943.

The dress show at the de Young Museum is exactly what you think it is plus some insipid music (I confirmed with the guard that yea, it was driving her crazy) but there was a Venetian Mariano Fortuny gown. Delphos Dress c 1920.

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Pouring one out for all the Idaho kids who won’t get to go to the library because their parents will get nervous about singing an affidavit.

This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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also even though its not perfect, if you can't while a full description for something like art or photos without text, you just put a few words in like "a drawing of an elf" or "a picture of my cat", its much much better than putting nothing and can get you started on the habit

For Disability Pride Month I’m once again begging for more artists to start considering accessibility and add alt text to your images. It helps low/no vision folks, neurodivergent folks, and more. Plus alt text shows up in searches! There’s a toggle in settings so you won’t forget. 👇

My life in vignettes of trying to nap on medical exam tables. Streaming music and a pair of headphones have really improved the experience.

"Obscene" should be in quotes. I don't know anybody in SF who isn't saying "Fuck the board" of the symphony these days.

San Francisco Symphony threatens to ban patron over obscene protest signwww.sfchronicle.com The San Francisco Symphony threatened to ban a patron over an obscene sign she used to protest the departure of music director Esa-Pekka Salonen.

A little inlaid skull from the floor at Santa Maria Mater Domini in Venice for your Monday

Streamed some Clara Schumann and now the algorithm is pushing "The Genius of Robert Schumann"

Slowly, slowly. Wouldn't be nice to be able to fine museums for every year they delay return once informed they hold stolen property or even from the date of acquisition.

Stedelijk Museum Will Return Matisse Painting to Jewish Heirs of Albert Sternwww.artnews.com The oil painting had been in the Amsterdam museum's collection since Albert Stern sold it in 1941.

Bought a pair of art glass pendants from a local guy flipping them from a rich person's house in Marin and am in the first blush of coquettish Rococo love with them like a Boucher painting. [L: Lundberg Studios R: Boucher, Spring from Four Seasons of Love, 1755]

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I spent time behind the scenes reporting about Betye Saar’s “Drifting Toward Twilight” which incorporates an array of Saar’s signature found objects as well as flora from the Huntington’s grounds. Mysterious, layered, the piece feels like something out of antiquity. huntington.org/frontiers/be...

Some of the wonderful Mickalene Thomas rhinestone portraits from her retrospective at the Broad in Los Angeles

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The Philly Inquirer had a chance to do the funniest thing imaginable, and they went for it.

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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When we had to move a conference from Texas, we got some very angry comments from a section of membership. I didn't know how to make people, especially people who cannot get pregnant, understand the new reality.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

When we create funerary monuments for the United States, I suggest using the dismayed putti of this Pietro Lombardo workshop monument to Marcantonio Sabello at the Correr in Venice.

Oh for $4k to own the Alison Saar edition of Octavia Butler's Kindred (gift link)

Artist Alison Saar, historic S.F. publisher create unique edition of Octavia Butler’s ‘Kindred’www.sfchronicle.com The artist created handmade artworks for Arion Press’ new edition of Octavia Butler’s novel “Kindred.”

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Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.

Am I the only person who thinks this CFP is coming from Sacha Baron Cohen?

Call for Papers: Displaying the British Museum: Past, Present, Future. Conference to be held at the British Museum 20-21 February 2025.

Call for Papers | Displaying the British Museum: Past, Present, Future - British Art Networkbritishartnetwork.org.uk The British Museum are pleased to issue a call for papers for an academic conference, scheduled to take place on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 February 2025.

What’s the German word for the feeling when your ex bf’s friend proudly says something ignorant on the internet?