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Mayumi Oda, Treasure Ship, Goddess of Flowers, 1976

Paul Klee, Der Goldfisch, 1925

How about an Isaac Hayes code? Mandatory Shaft music on everything now

Arab manuscript, ca. 1766, Traité d’hippiatrie

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Cats Forming the Japanese Characters for 'Catfish', n.d.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Hilla Rebay Collection © 2007 Mondrian/Holtzman Trust

Composition No. 1: Lozenge with Four Lines by Piet Mondrian, 1930
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137542

Jeanette Jones, At Kinky Galinky's, London, 1990

i like when my bus driver says Beep Beep to a bus driver going the other way it’s so richard scarry’s busytown

Along Came an Influencer: How America’s Bestselling Writer Became MrBeast’s Co-Author After decades atop the thriller game, James Patterson is fending off waning sales by doubling down on collaborations—and dabbling in romantasy too.

Kind of a "who ghostwrites the ghostwriter" situation here.

painting of a white chrysanthemum

painting of a red chrysanthemum

drawing of the head of a chrysanthemum

One aspect of Mondrian's early work I wish was better known are the many gorgeous paintings and drawings he made of chrysanthemums, which tend to focus on the flower's detailed structure

Urgent need for focaccia

*me, an 18th century courtier after the wave of copycat suicides inspired by The Sorrows of Young Werther*: "More like Werther's Unoriginals, am I right?"
*The Duke of Anjou publicly rebuking me*: "People died, Violetta."
*me, months later, facing the guillotine*: "It was funny! Like the candy!"

ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.

New, with @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social: Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse. Inside Trump's plan to jail many, many more people:
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Omg I'm so glad

Lucian Freud, Small Naked Portrait, 1973-74

Mark Rothko, No. 5/No. 22, 1950

Balthus, Le chat de la Méditerranée, 1949

An ancient olive tree on fire when settlers burned trees in Sinjil, West Bank. Image courtesy of B’Tselem.

Between October 2023 and January 2025, Israel destroyed at least 2,290,000 olive trees in Gaza

In the West Bank, "Israeli settler attacks tripled on olive farmers and their land during the 2024 harvest"

news.mongabay.com/2025/03/gaza...

The Poet Laureate of the UK is famous for his translation of St Gawain and the Green Knight, and Kym once got up on stage, looked him straight in the eye, and then performed this.

Unsurprisingly enough, every time they've encountered each other since, he's remembered them.

Vibrant painting of a row of poplar trees above a watery canal or body of water

Although Mondrian's abstract compositions are recognized for their anti-naturalistic geometries, some of his earlier paintings capture the vibrancy of natural forms, as in his 1908 "Row of Eleven Poplars"

Picture of a windmill in vibrant colors, including yellow and red

While Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist born #OnThisDay in 1872, is rightfully celebrated as one of the key figures in development of modern abstract painting, I'm partial to some of his earlier, representational works as well (thread). First up, his vibrant & luminous 1908 "Mill in Sunlight"

“Ooo! You’re right, Sir Dwayne! If I knock right here, I can make him start buzzing. ... Ooo, and he’s angry!”

“Ooo! You’re right, Sir Dwayne! If I knock right here, I can make him start buzzing. ... Ooo, and he’s angry!”

Looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris, behold the enigmatic "color analysis" charts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel from her 1901 book Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color.

More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...

Not blue, not interested. Fuck off with this one Yves

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Bat World Sanctuary

Detail

Caravaggio, Doubting Thomas, 1601-02

Charleton Heston had bad vibes not sorry

Well that was a very long movie ok

Small sculpted bison resting on a rounded base

Small sculpted bison resting on a rounded base

I have five small pieces in the Enormous Tiny Art Show! They'll be dropping Tuesday, March 17. You can sign up for early access here: nahcotta.myflodesk.com/leslie-levings

Here's one of the pieces.