𝙊𝙆❟ 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 '𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙜𝙪𝙮'

#EcksteinsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge

A song title that begins with "she"

She Goes On | Crowded House

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YouTube video by Van Morrison - Topic Madame George (1999 Remaster)

Madame George | Van Morrison
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@eriksdotter.bsky.social I know how it feels when the pain immobilizes and demotivates, so do not respond.

Just checking in to send love and let you know we're thinking of you. 💙

YouTube video by Little Feat - Topic Long Distance Love

Long Distance Love | Little Feat
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YouTube video by Traffic - Topic The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys

Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys | Traffic
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Fairfield Porter #art

Stuart Davis #art

YouTube video by zeeyoutoo Can't Find My Way Home - Bonnie Raitt & Lowell George & John Hammond Jr & Freebo

Can't Find My Way Home | Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George, John Hammond Jr & Freebo

*there's a long into, but so worth it. skip to about 02:25 for the song.

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YouTube video by Enric Berneda Music Pat Metheny & A.M.Jopek "Are you going with me" (audio and video restored)

Are you going with me | Pat Metheny with A.M.Jopek
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I remember the day the CD dropped. The song was so huge you couldn't find it for love or money anywhere for weeks!

a cartoon girl is laying on the floor with a book and a cat ALT: a cartoon girl is laying on the floor with a book and a cat

Show me a person who says they hate cats,
and I'll show you a person who fucked around with cats
and found out when they were a kid.

I fully understand. I do.
But proceed with caution. 🚧 This is the girl who wrote, in a song about an ex, "I faked it every time."

She takes no shit! 😂

Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, Frederick Varley 1920

Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay, Frederick Varley 1920

Delicatessen Counter, Wayne Thiebaud. 1962.
In American Still Life exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery.
From The Menil Collection, Houston

A chalk drawing of a cloud

I also went to the Menil Collection, and it was amazing. Particularly astounded by the work of Tacita Dean. This is CHALK on a BLACKBOARD.

American artist Elizabeth Colomba painted her cousin Armelle while thinking with (and against) the language of canonical portraiture. The pose and polish nod toward John Singer Sargent’s "Madame X," but the remake shifts what is centered. It's not spectacle, not rumor, but presence and Black womanhood held with dignity and specificity. Armelle stands in an elegant interior, her body angled slightly while her face turns in profile. Her eyes look up and to our right, toward a framed painting on the wall. Her skin is a beautiful warm brown tone under soft, controlled light. Her black hair is gathered into a neat bun, and small earrings catch a faint highlight. She wears a crisp black-and-white ensemble with a white, button-front top with a deep black collar and black trim at the sleeves, paired with a long black skirt that falls in a smooth, heavy drape over a white underskirt hem. One hand rests lightly on a small wooden table, fingertips relaxed. The other hand holds a single pale pink flower on a long stem, hanging downward like a quiet punctuation mark. The floor beneath her is a bold black-and-white checkerboard, sharpening the geometry of the room. In the upper right, the framed picture shows an outdoor scene with a standing figure beneath palms. It's an image that pulls her attention and organizes the whole moment around looking. Armelle’s sideways glance toward the “painting-within-the-painting” (a 1885 watercolor painted in the Bahamas by Winslow Homer called "Under the Palm Tree" at the National Gallery of Art) creates a triangle of looking: we look at her, she looks toward art history, and art history looks back ... all reframed through family, roots, and choice. Colomba has described beginning from an existing story and remaking it to feel true to her mixed French and Caribbean inheritance. Here, that remaking reads as both critique and care, claiming the museum’s visual grammar as a space where Black beauty is not an exception but a standard.

"Armelle" by Elizabeth Colomba (French) - Oil on canvas / 1997 - Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ElizabethColomba #Colomba #TheMet #BlackArt #BlackArtist #art #artText #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #WomenPaintingWomen #MetropolitanMuseumofArt

Mexican artist Diego Rivera painted this in Paris during his Cubist period, and it is also a candid portrait of his life there. A standing woman is his first wife, the artist Angelina Beloff, speaking with their friend and fellow artist Alma Dolores Bastián (nicknamed “Moucha”), who is seated. The setting is tied to their Montparnasse building at 26, Rue du Départ for an everyday studio world reframed through the avant-garde grammar of multiple viewpoints and flattened space. The two women fill a tall canvas built from crisp, interlocking planes. At left, Alma, in a white dress, reclines in a chair. Her bent arm and hands gather around a small book, its warm cover a rare block of earthy color amid cool grays. At right, Angelina, in a deep blue dress, leans slightly forward, hands clasped at her waist as if pausing mid-thought. Their faces, hair, and bodies are “broken” into facets with cheeks, collarbones, and sleeves suggested through angled shapes rather than smooth contour … so we experience them as both people and architecture. Behind the two ladies, a simplified Paris skyline rises in stacked blocks, turning rooftops and walls into a rhythmic backdrop. The mood is intimate but unsentimental showing two artists sharing space, attention, and conversation inside a modern city that feels close enough to press against the figures. The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts notes Rivera looked out on a “vast sea of rooftops” with a “rumble of trains” nearby, a sensory detail that fits the painting’s angular pulse of city and motion. The work’s comparatively lighter palette hints at Rivera’s next turn when he moved away from abstraction and toward socially legible imagery. Within a few years, shaped by revolution and the impact of Italian frescoes, he redirected his ambition into murals meant for broad public audiences, carrying this hard-won modern structure into storytelling about workers, politics, and Mexican history.

“Dos Mujeres” (Two Women) by Diego Rivera (Mexican) - Oil on canvas / 1914 - Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, Arkansas) #WomenInArt #DiegoRivera #Rivera #ArkansasMuseumofFineArts #ArkMFA #Cubism #PortraitofWomen #art #AMFA #artText #BlueskyArt #MexicanArt #CubistArt #pintura #MexicanArtist

without a heart
it is not art

Edgar Alwin Payne (American, 1883-1947)
“Sunset, Canyon De Chelly” 1916
Oil on canvas

If June has the greatest number of longest days,
how come it's not the longest month?

So glad! 🙂

🙂

That's your question? 😂
Not "why is it balancing an ashtray on its butt?"

¡Buenos días, cariño!
Es un sueño y una tranquilidad, ¿verdad?

Modern Conveniences | Charles Demuth

YouTube video by BBC Radio 1 Phoebe Bridgers x Arlo Parks - Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) - Radio 1 Piano Session

Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead) | Phoebe Bridgers & Arlo Parks
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YouTube video by MeiSemonesVEVO Mei Semones - Koneko (Official Video)

Koneko | Mei Semones
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YouTube video by Todd Rundgren - Topic A Dream Goes on Forever (2015 Remaster)

A Dream Goes on Forever | Todd Rundgren
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