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Too many people underestimate how evil Google is and how impactful its evil is. Yeah, the company that struck down its "don't be evil" maxim a while ago, because I guess it felt too constraining.

The three painters hug each other, laughing, in a gallery. In the foreground, a man looking at paintings.

I never get tired of posting this 1957 Burt Glinn photograph of Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler & Grace Hartigan. Today it's in honour of Mitchell's birthday 🎂

Mitchell sits on a window ledge. A wonderful light is coming in through that window.

Remembering Joan Mitchell on her birthday 🎂
📷 Walter Silver, 1950s
NYPL digital collection

"When I first heard Charlie Parker in Chicago, I could see he *was* a symphony. We were all trying to bring that spirit, that spontaneous energy, into our work."

Pavlova in a dance pose, reaching out to touch her toe

Anna Pavlova in 'The Dying Swan'
📷 Frans van Riel
vintage bromide print, c. 1928

Painting of the dancer sitting on a chair

Remembering Anna Pavlova on her birthday 🎂
🎨 William Orpen, 1920

"Dancing was meditative for her; she would often lose herself in her performances to the point of tumbling over and causing accidents."
- Anuradha Sroha

Arundhati Roy and Lea Ypi are among writers longlisted for this year’s UK Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. Sixteen authors are in contention to win the £30,000 award. The judges will announce a shortlist on March 25, with the winner revealed on June 11.

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“I don’t close my eyes and hope for the best. If I can get into the act of painting, and be free in the act, then I want to know what my brush is doing.” - Joan Mitchell #botd

Poetic justice Kevin Puts' new song cycle shone a beautiful light on Emily Dickinson's poems

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Emily Dickinson, Nicolas McGegan, Mozart, and more.

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Time for a drink or a cup of coffee at Teeter's...

#FilmNoir Out of the Past (1947)

A movie audience at the Warner Hollywood Theatre, which opened to much fanfare in April 1928 with the premiere of GLORIOUS BETSY starring Delores Costello and Conrad Nagle.

Black Panthers (Short 1968) Directed by Agnès Varda focuses on the Black Panther Party's protests in Oakland, California, and their efforts to free co-founder Huey P. Newton who was imprisoned in 1967.

Title: Ring cameras feed data to ICE to help round up immigrants Subtitle: ✨ Get a full refund direct from Amazon ✨ Body: In the past few months Amazon Ring enabled AI and facial detection by default for all users. Worse, they altered existing features such that your footage can end up in the hands of Flock Safety, the company responsible for 80,000 license plate readers across the country. ICE has been documented using Flock to know exactly where to go to find susceptible community members. Don’t help ICE round up your neighbors. What can I do? You can get a full refund directly from Amazon. Request a refund telling them their agreement with Flock is a breach of trust and invalidates the reason you invested into their security products in the first place. Amazon refunds because what they are doing is blatantly against the Terms and Conditions under which you originally purchased. ➡️ Reolink or Defender PhoenixM2 are great comparable camera alternatives. ➕ Request refunds for Amazon Blink Cameras as well on basis of lost trust.

If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Movie actor Bud Cort (1948 - 2026)

RIP Bud Cort 💔🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #cinema

Mary Quant (with scenes from "The Haunting", "Ferry Cross the Mersey", "Georgy Girl" and "Two for the Road" where Quant provided the costumes) - BOTD

still from Harold & Maude showing a young man sitting in a church pew and an older woman in the pew behind him

RIP to the legend Bud Cort

They had a great Valentine's Day back in 1931

Quant checks her lipstick in her car, parked outside a shop with a "MARY" sign in large silver letters.

Remembering Mary Quant on her birthday 🎂
📷 Gered Mankowitz, 1986

"Quant reset the dial on the way we get dressed. Under her influence, women rejected their parents’ vision of beauty and embraced their own."
- Karen Dacre

Remembering the Poet, Novelist & Short Story Writer - SYLVIA PLATH - who took her own life 63yrs ago today, aged 30.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Trump Admin Removes Pride Flag From Historic Stonewall National Monument

The Trump administration removed a Pride flag at the NYC monument honoring the Stonewall uprising, a key turning point for LGBT rights in America

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

How about 'Pretti Good Hospital?' - 48 hills A move to replace Mark Zuckerberg with the people who died fighting ICE

Activists are making a bid to rename SF General after those who died fighting ICE, saying the ethical values behind Zuckerberg's Meta—particularly privacy rights and the social platform’s role in polarization within politics—don’t reflect SF values.

Formal portrait of Price in a green dress & pearls, against a classical landscape with columns.

Leontyne Price by Bradley Phillips, oil on canvas, 1963
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Colour photo of a smiling Price wearing a long white scarf blowing in a breeze.

Happy birthday Leontyne Price! 🎂
📷 Jack Mitchell, 1982

"One of the things about this extraordinary instrument that I have is the blackness in it, the natural flavor. It’s something extra."

"Vissi d'arte" from Act II of Puccini's Tosca:

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SOMArts to Gather SF Arts Community During ‘State of Emergency’ The cultural center will host a community meeting on Feb. 13 in an effort to save the local arts ecosystem.

If you've been feeling frantic and powerless while SF arts institutions close left and right, SOMArts is hosting a community convening this Friday to channel all those feelings into action:

www.kqed.org/arts/1398653...

"I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths."
-*Fahrenheit 451*

What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon. Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or the origins of the Department of Homeland Security,

What to read to understand the ICE phenomenon.: Our friends at Verso have prepared this ultra thorough ABOLISH ICE reading list, featuring a number of excellent titles that can help explain how we got here. Histories of American immigration, or the origins of the… #BookstoresandLibraries #Events

The aversion to learning different languages and proud willful ignorance for only knowing English is entirely unique to the US. Every time I travel most people I encounter can speak multiple languages. I don't get why the US is like this.