Allan Smitheel

Bob Dylan - Masters of War (Official Audio) YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

Coffee is made.

Manatees are fed.

Time to take on our Monday - and the world.

Good Morning, America!

#RadioFreeAmerica

youtu.be/JEmI_FT4YHU?...

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE)) Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Pyramidion of the royal scribe Ramose (Deir el-Medina, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1275-1240 BCE))

Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy

Book Group The last Thursday of every month was Book Group,
when the books would gather together to discuss Brian. “It’s no fun here any more,” remarked Bleak House, glumly.
“Why doesn’t he read us?” whined the Grapes of Wrath. “It makes me so angry!” 
“I’m sure he only bought me so he can show me off to his friends,”
complained Ulysses, in a stream of self-consciousness. “I bet he can’t even remember my name, The Idiot,”
muttered a voice from the Russian literature section.
“That’s because he avoids you like The Plague,” said another.
“C’est vrai!” came a cry. “It is like I do not exist.” “Let’s not give up on him yet.” It was Brave New World.
After some Persuasion, they agreed to give him one last chance.
“Be quiet!” cried Waiting for Godot with Great Expectations.
“Here he comes now!” Brian entered the room, with his phone.
He sat down and watched some videos of baby pandas falling over.
After an hour or so, he started googling cats dressed as celebrities. On the shelf, the books waited with uncracked spines,
their silence speaking volumes. Brian Bilston

In celebration of World Book Day, here’s a poem called ‘Book Group’.

Don’t forget to move all your books forward one hour for World Book Day!

Riding with Death

Riding with Death, 1988
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5311

Post-modern blood bath,
red splashed tableaux, painter views
his massacred art.

#haikuhorrorprompt #tableaux
#haiku #senryu

Purchase

Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174616

Glider Containing a Water Mill in Neighboring Metals

Glider Containing a Water Mill in Neighboring Metals https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/glider-containing-a-water-mill-in-neighboring-metals-1915

Paul Gauguin, Hina, 1891 #museumarchive #paulgauguin

The Associates Fund

Double Gray Scramble http://www.moma.org/collection/works/62336

Landscape with Trees and Figures - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14575

#OwlishMonday Owl mosaic cleaned up by volunteers at the tragically abandoned Leeds Library which was once a veritable arts & crafts haven of learning & literature. How the council could have let it fall into disrepair is criminal.

Love this Paul McCartney shoot, from 1965 with Jean Shrimpton. Richard Avedon is the photographer. Here's a cool contact sheet from that session.
#PaulMcCartney #BOTD

Apples

Apples, 1878
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12007

#folkloresunday 'Thaw'
'Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from the elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass
What we below could not see, Winter pass.' (words Edward Thomas/Art Francesco Balsamo)

Untitled #2 (Sausalito), Richard Diebenkorn 1949

Untitled #2 (Sausalito), Richard Diebenkorn 1949

A favorite photo from long ago. Bonus points if you can name the car. Argus A-Four, Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros, 2010. #believeinfilm #filmphotography

The day and the night
Philosophical crackpots
Debating the light.

#weirdmicro #philosophicalcrackpots #haiku #senryu

#StreetArt by #JefAérosol
📸Via himself

Holding It In

#monoprint Acrylic on Paper

#art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

Ruth Vollmer Bequest

Lines, Not Long, Not Heavy, Not Touching, Drawn at Random (Circle) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/65196

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984

In Memory of an All-Girl Band https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483163

#SundayShadows Canonbury

And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.

don't even know anymore how many times I revisit this one from Ilya Kaminsky... #poetry

Gustav Klimt
Death and Life

Purchase

Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174608