Michael Lobel

Probably a good time to read @ashleyspencer.bsky.social's glorious & delightful oral history of Tom Holland's "Lip Sync Battle" performance www.businessinsider.com/tom-holland-...

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Clear that these people aren't able to comprehend what "humanization" might actually mean www.grammarly.com/ai-humanizer

lololol- this just came up for me on Youtube. "Add warmth, sincerity, & nuance to your writing" by using a mechanical device. We really are living in the dumbest - and most dispiriting - timeline

"He's proven himself one of the most deceitful frauds in US history." How did he not realize this already like 8-10 years ago? And people think this guy is smart?? What a maroon

Portrait of Harry Belafonte, in an oval form, with his head tipped back in song and hands gesturing

Close-up of portrait of Harry Belafonte

Charles White's stunning portrait of Harry Belafonte, iconic singer, actor & civil rights activist born on this day in 1927

Charles White. Folksinger (Voice of Jericho: Portrait of Harry Belafonte). 1957 | MoMA Audio from Charles White: A Retrospective. Hear Charles White, Harry Belafonte, Kerry James Marshall, and others reflect on White's legacy as an artist, educator and social justice advocate.

It's a great picture- it was in MoMA's 2018 large-scale Charles White retrospective www.moma.org/audio/playli...

One of Carl Van Vechten's luminous photographic portraits of Harry Belafonte, from the Van Vechten papers at Yale's Beinecke Library archives.yale.edu/repositories...

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The specification of "Blue Boquira quartzite" is just so <chef's kiss emoji>

Portrait of Harry Belafonte, in an oval form, with his head tipped back in song and hands gesturing

Close-up of portrait of Harry Belafonte

Charles White's stunning portrait of Harry Belafonte, iconic singer, actor & civil rights activist born on this day in 1927

A metal plaque with raised lettering spelling out the phrase, "In a dream you saw a way to survive and your were full of joy."

Jenny Holzer, Untitled ("In a Dream..."), from The Survival Series, 1983–85

yep, checks out- perfect image for our present moment

A ghostly figure appears in a blasted, bombed landscape

George Grosz, Peace II, 1946 whitney.org/collection/w...

Image of table at which sit headless figures, a military figure, and a top hatted capitalist whispering in his ear. The sun above includes a dollar sign

Have been thinking about continuing relevance of Dada artist George Grosz's political critiques. His scathing 1926 painting "Eclipse of the Sun" portrays alliance between feckless political & military leaders and capitalist financiers. Grosz, branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, fled to the US in 1933

Quasi-apocalyptic rendering of a city skyline in the midst of destruction

George Grosz, Last Day, 1934 www.artic.edu/artworks/332...

Photo of crowd with placard held up at center, reading "This war makes me sick" in all capital letters

Jannos Dannavitz, This War Makes Me Sick, 1967 whitney.org/collection/w...

*its rarely-seen collection, in fact

Tehran has taste: the story of the MENA’s largest collection of modern art We’ve all seen the nostalgic posts on Instagram of Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979- featuring women with coiffed beehives and mini-skirts

And if you're curious, some info on the complicated history of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and its collection valued at around $3 billion www.dazed.me/art-photogra...

Tehran has taste: the story of the MENA’s largest collection of modern art We’ve all seen the nostalgic posts on Instagram of Iran before the Islamic Revolution of 1979- featuring women with coiffed beehives and mini-skirts

And if you're curious, some info on the complicated history of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and its collection valued at around $3 billion www.dazed.me/art-photogra...

Detail of a 1988 painting by the artist Martin Wong, which shows two male firefighters kissing in front of dilapidated brick buildings in an urban setting

"The world is violent & mercurial—it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love—love for each other & the love we pour into the art we feel compelled to share.... We live in a perpetually burning building, & what we must save from it, all the time, is love." -Tennessee Williams

Good to know that working from home is ok after all as long as you’re bombing countries

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Painting that looks like a comic book panel showing a fighter pilot in a cockpit shooting down a plane, with text: That was their mistake - because it gave me more targets than I could shoot at" and "No. 4! One more to make ace!"

This is probably either a really good or really bad time to point out that this classic Roy Lichtenstein Pop art painting from 1962, showing a fighter pilot shooting down a military jet, is in the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art www.lichtensteincatalogue.org/catalogue/en...

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Line drawing of a relatively young Andy Warhol sitting in a chair at a table, his head resting against his clasped hands. A cup and saucer and pitcher with flowers, among other items, sit on the table

Jane Wilson, Portrait of Andy Warhol, 1960 whitney.org/collection/w...

Photo of crowd with placard held up at center, reading "This war makes me sick" in all capital letters

Jannos Dannavitz, This War Makes Me Sick, 1967 whitney.org/collection/w...