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"Your accent says: I did not start here. And that is interesting." via this FB post on accent discrimination in France www.facebook.com/groups/15859...

Learning cursive: -allows you to sign your soul away to the devil in blood -helps with deciphering those fancy, webdings-esque fonts -has the added benefit of keeping your writings private from nosy, know-nothing kids -will help politicians sign bills into law again, which hasn’t happened since 2012

In the 1820s, British potters figured out something clever. Americans would pay more for plates with American buildings on them. So factories in Staffordshire, England started cranking out dinner sets decorated with scenes of places they'd never been. Hotels, capitols, canals.

Great list of funding links in France for studios who make all kinds of things - www.mekanika.io/en/financing...

Art Karlsruhe: "Collectors Often Start with Works of Paper" 'The diversity of works on paper is greater [than with other media]. And I have the impression that artists who work with paper are more spontaneous' - Kristian Jarmuschek, director france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/al...

I know, girl. I know.

The one big social media habit that we need to all break is going "look at how stupid this is!!" Yeah, we all know. Don't give it oxygen.

Question: did Mondrian owe his success to a cross-dressing lesbian artist who lived in a Cornish cove? Réponse: YES! (Il s'agit bien sûr de Marlow Moss) www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I lived in these neighborhoods aged 20-23, within a few hundred meters of each site. Cannot begin to explain how this institutional violence becomes tangled into memory when it happens on your street, where you greet your neighbors, in the places where you love and fail and build and live your life

Today's inspiration: artists commissioned to design public works for stations as part of the Art at Amtrak program @amtrak.com www.amtrak.com/at-the-stati...

A fascinating artist and life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bo...

If I was working the NYT end of year death list, I would write this one up so HARD. Rest in Power Cecilia Giménez, creator of Beast Jesus. www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

How many painters are there? Millions and they're all pretty good. Everybody is creative. Tony Cokes, Pittsburgh.Isms (still), 2022

Great resource for those working in the visual arts in France. It breaks down charges associated with producing, exhibiting, and sharing artwork in varied contexts reseau-astre.org/ressources/r... This particular site is specific for Nouvelle-Aquitaine but can be modified for anywhere in the country

Newest addition to the bucket list:

'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.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_W...

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 :) www.ebriel.com#/gilt-nostal...

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 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! 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."

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"

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:

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 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

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.

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/...

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

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

Saw her work in Valencia years ago - unexpected and bright and adds texture to the city

"1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked...teaching power what it can do" @timothysnyder.bsky.social's "On Tyranny"

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

"On Monday [the Louvre] was brought to a halt by its own striking staff, who say the institution is crumbling under the weight of mass tourism" I live a 20-minute walk frm the Louvre. Like most Parisians I tend to avoid it. Recently went to an evening event w/a friend who's a member but otherwise no

In the midst of the most banal Sunday afternoon, I receive news that someone close to me was in an accident, has a brain injury and broken bones, and they don't know if he'll wake up. The person they were with died. Life can slip away from us - just like that. Hold your loved ones close.

This print has me thinking of the couple weeks in August I'll be spending on Greek terraces with my favorite Parisien...

Silkscreen monoprint of air pollution and hand-lettered text from my dad's final interview on Ruscombe handmade Margaux Premier Cru linen paper. 70 x 50cm, 2023 Source photo: Strasbourg c 1975

Creativity at today's protests at Bastille @indivisibleparis.bsky.social

The Paris protest being at the bastille is iconic behavior

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

I'm joining the US Veterans and Military Families Caucus, the Diversity Caucus, Indivisible Paris and Democrats Abroad France to "protest against tyranny in the USA....We will rally in solidarity with thousands of "NO KINGS" protests taking place across the USA....and across the world"