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This and all the clutch pearl culture war issues I’ve lived through barely survived one election cycle and set cause so much damage before they die

4 silver scaled fish, half pointed left, half pointed right in an ordinary earthenware glazed dish. Glassy dead eyes, glinting multicolored scales. Fabulous painting.

Detail of fish from Velázquez's Christ in the House of Mary adn Martha, 1618, oil on canvas. London, National Gallery

5x6 grid of colored squares on white wall

Detail Of colored square reveals multicolored handmade dots in a grid making up the variegated color of each one

The regularity perceived derives from the variations of the hand colored enamel dots.

Jennifer Bartlett, Binary Combinations, 1971. Part of the feminist “Rhapsody: Works from the Cooper Rosenwasser Collection” exhibition at @bampfa.bsky.social

Brb, going to the grocery store now

elaborate gold headdress w/ double hoop earrings. Round gold forms, feathers, leaves, three shooting stars off the top of the head. ELABORATE.

Still looking for a place to wear this.

Headdress worn by attendant to Queen Puabi. Ancient Sumerian, c. 2550 BCE. Discovered Royal Cemetary Ur, Iraq but held currently at the British Museum, London.

There’s Not Enough Women Beheading Men in Art Anymore Saturday Night Social: Renaissance artists seemed to understand something today’s art world doesn’t: sometimes a woman simply needs to hold up a freshly removed head.

For @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom vetoed a 2023 bill that would have stopped the unscrupulous practice of county governments using foster children's benefit checks (e.g. social security survivor benefits) to reimburse themselves.

The bill was sponsored by @ib2real.bsky.social, himself a former foster child.

I voted for blue!

Terrible all around. The ICE suicide betting incentivizes torturing people for a monetary payout. Like admin officials betting on wars they can influence. It’s very direct.

I was thinking about the Christian condemnation of the Roma solders who drew lots for Christ’s clothes and how much worse the incentive to torture someone to suicide via betting.

Good case study. I'm glad it's in the curriculum! And I know I'm annoying about books, but seriously, what beats the codex?? Freaking fantastic technology with very minimal fail rate. Losing 1 page doesn't wreck the whole thing. Scrolls could never. And electronics, scared of sodas.

The ancient technology modern tech bros don’t want you to know: [click through to article] the CODEX.

I think precious few people, on either side of the US two party divide, think, truly, that children are people. :-(

Five mirror framed narrow vertical paintings on mulberry paper hung irregularly on gallery wall

Abstract vertical lines form an overall effect of sky. Small cut outs in the detail and one large circle cut out

Darker blue painting, vertical cut outs incised delicate and calm

A most beautiful artwork at the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha @bampfa.bsky.social retrospective but this one is made by Jesse Chun
(US, born South Korea, 1984)
1: concrete poem, stanza (for all the uninherited and inherited time travelers that hum through the slivers)
2025

quote from a Guardian article: "Also present on the plane in the countdown to Operation Epic Fury was a veteran film star, Dennis Quaid. At some point in the flight, Cruz filmed Quaid sitting next to Trump and persuaded the actor to reprise his role as Ronald Reagan in a 2024 reverential biopic, so that Cruz could frame the encounter as “two great American presidents”. Speaking as Reagan, Quaid declared Trump was “like me on steroids”. It was a highly stylised passing of the flame from the patron saint of Republican hawks to their current hero."

They had an actor pretend to be Ronald Reagan so the president could act out his fantasy of having a daddy-figure praise him. To say nothing of the motivations for this unwanted war. I begin to understand how the Roman senate let Caligula happen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Join our "Ships & Seafaring 1500–1800" series Monday 9 March, 1pm CET, for a book presentation by @csschmitt.bsky.social (Cornell): "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean". Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...
#earlymodern #History

And regardless of legal residency, nobody should be denied their needed medical care! Insulin!

Small ceramic bowl holds pieces of paper and thread. Labelled “surplus novel 1980 t.cha”

Object label: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha United States, born South Korea, 1951-1982 Surplus Novel 1980 Porcelain bowl, thread. and typewriter ink on paper Private collection The text inside the bowl reads they calling me they calling after me hey yoko hey yoko ono yoko ono yokoono i ain't your i ain't no / ain't your yoko ono i just want to i just want to be the wife the wife of the shoe shine man shoe shine man come dawn come dusk shine. shoe shine. shine. they all say please. please. take care of yourself. yourself baby, you are all you got i know. don't i know. i just want to be the wife. of the shoe shine man.

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Surplus novel, 1980. From the @bampfa.bsky.social retrospective in Berkeley

View of black cat’s head. Ears are alert, eyes are ridiculously big on a fluffy head with disproportionately fuzzy cheeks. Tight mouth, small neck wears a collars. Head cocked.

You can’t possibly be serious — my cat, perennially, living with human fools. #Caturday

Like everybody, I have a lot of feelings about Eileen Gu serving as Grand Marshall of the San Francisco Lunar New Year parade but my thoughts are overwhelmed by the familiar draining experience of Chinese American identity under debate yet again.

The difference between “how should I put what I think into words?” and “how would people, on average, tack on more words to these particular words they’re using here?” is, in my humble opinion, a VERY BIG DIFFERENCE

For sure. My utopian self thinks that's wrong.

It's not right

Pace Gallery is paying $22/hr for a gallery assistant in New York City. Requires BA + minimum 1yr work experience.

If that's 40 hours a week (and it probably isn't), you'd make $45,760/yr. Selling high culture with hunger wages.

Thanks for noticing and letting the rest of us know. It’s important to witness

I might note this kind of cool course requires a ton of research to even propose. The Warburg has a 1-1 teaching load vs the California State University’s 4-4.

One of my undergrad professors noted laws exist because people are doing something. It was one of those obvious but succinct lessons that has stuck with me ever since. How classrooms are teaching Jan 6 as peaceful?

Same situation for me. It's made a huge difference.