Looking-glass

Annunciation, in a charming Flemish domestic-ecclesiastical interior, 1480. By Aelbrecht Bouts, whose day is today.

Musical Party in a Garden

1647, English

Canvas worked with silk thread

(Met Museum)

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

#nokings
Portland frog brigade

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.

My guess is 48 hours away from: "So what if he hung out with teenaged girls, what's the big deal?" The goalposts never stop moving.

Woman Reading in an Interior by Clement Servau

Aleman by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Two Women at a Table by Richard Diebenkorn

The Large Bathers by Paul Cezanne

“Self Portrait with a Pipe” by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Friday Finnish!!

Akseli Gallen-Kallela 1865-1931 Finnish painter known for illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity.

Ekolan Sauna-Juonas
~ "Sauna-Juonas" at Ekola 1887
Oil on canvas
35,5 cm x 23 cm

And now for something completely different..

Carl Larsson 1853-1919 Sweden

"Lizbeth And The Lily" (1901) Watercolor

Colleague’s cat - Jennie Larsdotter

Pritzker: And we have a president who claims to love America but hates our military so much that can’t be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen U.S. soldiers.

A color photo of a delicate and fluffy white medium-haired cat sitting on a window ledge. They are looking at the camera. What makes this photo extra special is that the cat is backlight by the sun coming through the window, the light illuminating their fluffy hair making them appear glowing and angelic.

Luminous angel babby from my collection, ca. 1960s.

Dancers by Moses Soyer

So, the guy who was gonna end all wars has bombed Yemen, threatened to bomb Iran, and threatened to invade Greenland.

Did I get that right?

Had a rough patch with the love of my life.....

Will resume sharing great artwork....

When you are so afraid of Trump calling you Shutdown Schumer that you willingly accept Surrender Schumer as your legacy.

Pictorial textile artwork featuring blossoming plants with different yellow pink and red flowers on curving stems against a green background

Michelle Mischkulnig, contemporary Australian textile artist #WomensArt

"Unconstitutional" seems like too mild a term for this.

Is the Democratic leadership suggesting now is not the time to be disruptive? If not now, when? Because it really seems like now is the time…

"I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings’..."

Stanley Kubrick 🙏
July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999