Elizabeth Briel

stained glass window depicting a black christ

'60 yrs ago Wales gifted a commissioned stained glass window to a community in the US city of Birmingham, Alabama, in the aftermath of a bomb that killed four black girls
John Petts visited Alabama and opted to construct a stained-glass image of a Black Christ.'

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A green hardback of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Inside the book an inscription, in beautiful swooping cursive penmanship: To Major R.C. Miller For those moments while you’re waiting for the forecast to verify - a few meditations of another misunderstood genius. Lt. Mac August, ‘56

My father, rooting about his shelves, found a book he’d inherited from his father. Opened it for the first time. Inside an inscription.

My grandfather, Robert C Miller, was a US airforce metrologist. He developed the first tornado forecast. The inscription is during the development of that forecast

Ça me rappelle au passage le projet Guilt nostalgia de @ebriel.bsky.social ici :)

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Thanks John! This is a great overview

pale blue rags hang from wooden shelves next to stacks of papers under a stone ceiling

This week in the studio: full-on paper production. Rags hang from every surface and dehumidifiers work overtime

I remember going with my parents (a surgeon and an anesthesiologist) to a museum in France filled with medieval era medical instruments, and when we got to the section on gynecological instruments they were shocked to see that what was used in the 1400s was basically what is used now. Thread.

It's World Physical Therapy Day! Shoulder Wheel, oil on canvas by Francis Criss, 1944, commissioned by the US Army and a peculiar kind of masterpiece:

the best.

Oooh gorgeous!

The curators of the exhibit Chinese officials demanded be censored in Bangkok have fled to the UK and plan to seek asylum, citing fears of retaliation from authorities.

A detail from a Schreibmeister book of c17 Germany. The emblematic print shows a hand with wings and a quill writing a book. In the left of the framing ornament is an ink pot, and on the right is a pounce pot. On the top of the frame is a Chewie like head holding a quill in its teeth. Source: Kunstrichtige Schreibart Allerhand Versalie[n] oder AnfangsBuchstabe[n] Der Teütschen, Lateinischen und Italianischen Schrifften : aus unterschiedlichen Meistern der Edlen Schreibkunst zusammen getragen (1655).

A! winged! hand! writing! a! book!

"There is a six-panel folding screen, donated just recently by a Hiroshima family, whose gold expanses are streaked by black rain: the most terrifying abstract painting I have ever seen."

Thank you for posting this

Thanks for posting this! Now on the list for my next trip

Scottish artist Elizabeth Keith wrote of this woodblock print "Flower Street, Hong Kong" (c.1944):
"A rather difficult one to print. I could not leave the printer to his own sweet will. I suppose that is why I had so few printed...
There will never be a Flower Street like that again in Hong Kong"

Agree. There were some great arts writers. Many have migrated to more image-heavy IG, but discourse there is flakier

Perfect — Coffee, Edward Hopper, 1955. ☕

A tiny, space-age looking Nakagin capsule bathroom

Gordon Parks' photograph of watermelon, an eerie "dye inbibition" print, ca. 1967-69:

Would be interesting to know more. Maybe @andybrouwer.bsky.social knows someone who knows something

Jazz88.FM--Twin Cities' Voice for Jazz, Roots Music and Education Studio Line: 612-529-5236--As a program of the Minneapolis Public Schools, we offer a hands-on educational program focused on broadcasting and production.

It's Sunday morning in Paris and I stream the same radio station I'd paint to late into the night as an art student in Minneapolis where it's just gone 3AM and this world of ours thanks to tech has become so small and gets smaller every year www.jazz88.fm

Remaining Native - BlackStar Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner struggling …

Remaining Native by Paige Bethmann (Haudenosaunee) is a documentary from POV of a 17 y.o. Native American runner and aspiring collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, future.

Aug 2 Philly + online
#FilmSky

SO HUNGRY right now

US Government To Auction Works By Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Diane Arbus Purchased With Funds from 1MDB Scandal The artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso and Diane Arbus were surrendered by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and producer Christopher McFarland.

For ARTnews, I looked into the four artworks by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Diane Arbus now being auctioned online by the US government with connections to the 1MDB scandal. Three were gifted to Leonardo DiCaprio by Jho Low and one was forfeited by a producer of THE WOLF OF WALL STREET.

Elizabeth Briel on Instagram: "🇫🇷 en commentaires If you are in Paris and happen to have torn/stained/badly-fitting denim you haven't worn for a while, I'm looking for you! I work with paper in many ... 18 likes, 1 comments - ebrielart on July 29, 2025: "🇫🇷 en commentaires If you are in Paris and happen to have torn/stained/badly-fitting denim you haven't worn for a while, I'm looking for you! I wor...

If you are in Paris and have torn/stained/badly-fitting denim you haven't worn for a while, I'm looking for you!
For my major 2025 project "Waves of Influence" I am seeking donations of secondhand blue denim to create a large paper installation. More info via: www.instagram.com/ebrielart/p/...

Exactly!

I am an artist in a film. I swan about the studio, covered in painted clothes while drinking wine with palette in hand, occasionally having my partner come over for an afternoon of wild sex. Exhibitions of my work happen with no effort; in fact the paint's typically wet when I hang them in a gallery

As a frequent headache/migraine sufferer this sounds great

I've been listening to this podcast since researching a move to Paris several years ago, and am happy to discuss the nature of creativity, the trajectory of cultures through the medium of paper technologies, and a life lived internationally:
laviecreativepodcast.com/2025/07/15/i...

“Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.”

- US artist
Carrie Mae Weems

#womensart