Arthur David Spota

Goodnight🌕

Michelle Sunna ~ Night owls

Witches' Brews: The Use of Psychedelics in Medieval Witchcraft The following is an excerpt from Paul Devereux’s The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK), reprinted with permission. The Long Trip is… …probably the most co...

Related story from way back on the Grail:

www.dailygrail.com/2009/10/witc...

From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whet...

The chemistry of witchcraft.

www.chemistryworld.com/features/fro...

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

Gino Severini
Festival in Montmartre

Gino Severini, 1912, Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin,
oil on canvas with sequins, Museum of Modern Art, New York

FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime From ICE Gestapo raids to vaccines, from economic policy to Epstein files, the Administration's priorities are summed up perfectly in those three words. #FTK.

FUCK THEM KIDS: A Fitting Mantra for the Trump Regime
(Greg Olear)

"They was terrified. Kids were crying, people were screaming, because they was bringing the kids down too, had them zip tied to each other. One of them literally laughed. He said, f*** them kids”

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YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic Madness

Miles Davis ~ Madness
(from Nefertiti, 1967)
#NowPlaying #MilesDavis #JazzSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjmj...

The condescension of two-bit Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi today underscores that the only thing this administration excels at is a complete lack of self-awareness.

Joseph Cornell, American artist and film maker, and one of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage.

Untitled (Tamara Toumanova), ca. 1940
(collage with tempera on paperboard)

#JosephCornell #Surrealism #Collage

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), “Untitled (Tamara Toumanova)” (c. 1940), collage with tempera on paperboard.

YouTube video by Free Prog Rock Adrian Belew - All her love is mine

Adrian Belew ~ All Her Love is Mine
(from Op Zop Too Wah, 1997)
#NowPlaying #AdrianBelew #MusicSky

Beautiful melody, otherworldly ambiance, otherworldly guitar. Belew at the top of his art.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BkG...

Horst P. Horst ~ Muriel Maxwell
(for Vogue, August 1st, 1940)
#HorstPHorst #Photography #Vogue

American Fashion Model Judy Dent, photographed by Frank Horvat for Élegance, Paris 1961.

#Photography

Twiggy lounges on a modern chair

Bert Stern
Twiggy in a Le Corbusier chair
Vogue, November 1967

Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958) Overpopulation, manipulative politics, imbalances of societal power, addictive drugs, even more addictive technologies: these and other developments have pushed not just democracy but civilization its...

Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958)

Good Evening✨

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat ~ Melting Point of Ice, 1984
(acrylic, oilstick and silkscreen on canvas)

#JeanMichelBasquiat #ContemporaryArt #Primitivism

YouTube video by Jamila Woods - Topic BASQUIAT

Jamila Woods ~ BASQUIAT (2019)
#JamilaWoods #MusicSky

Chicago poet and singer-songwriter Jamila Woods' LEGACY! LEGACY! is a celebration of past, present and future by way of looking at influential artists, writers and thinkers like Sun Ra and Jean-Michel Basquiat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XezE...

Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time. - Jean-Michel Basquiat

Horn Players (1983)

This strikes me as pretty bad

This acrylic on canvas is part of Sakai's Ondulaciones (Undulations) series. The title is a homage to the 1968 Miles Davis album of the same name. Multicolored swirls on a green background.

Filles de Kilimanjaro III (Miles Davis) by Kazuya Sakai (1976)

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic Fall

Miles Davis ~ Fall
(from Nefertiti, 1967)
#NowPlaying #MilesDavis #JazzSky

Another near perfect Miles album with his legendary quintet: Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Ron Carter.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmWX...

Miles Davis didn’t begin to draw and paint in earnest until he was in his mid-fifties. He was said to have worked obsessively each day on art when he wasn’t touring. His style was a bold and masculine mixture of Kandinsky, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Picasso and African tribal art.

#MilesDavis

Paul Jenkins, American abstract artist and member of the New York School.

Phenomena of Air Striae, 1959
(Oil and enamel on canvas)

#PaulJenkins #AbstractExpressionism

Paul Jenkins was an American abstract artist and member of the New York School. His innovative practice was to avoid the paintbrush altogether, instead allowing pigment to roll across the surface of his canvases to create fluid fields of color.

#PaulJenkins #AbstractExpressionism

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Kluger

Paul Jenkins, Phenomena: Junction Red, 1963
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