Thank you, @karenattiah.bsky.social for honoring both J. #Khashoggi and the ideals of free discourse that used to mean so much to us here in the US.

RIP #J.Khashoggi, the 1st amendment, and US democracy. Another sad day in the tyranny we have become. Mutual defense pacts, foreign investment, and trade deals outweigh democracy and freedom of the press, when 2 authoritarians meet. There is no horror too deep. “Things happen.”

News flash: The National Gallery of Art in DC is reopening!!!!! Our thoughts: almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/n... Chakaia Booker, It’s so hard to be green, rubber tires and wood (2000). #womenartists #BIPOCartists #occupiedDC #NGADC

On a beautiful fall day, homage to #smithsonian and #AlmaThomas #arthistory #womenartists #occupiedDC #GovernmentShutdown #blackartists

Same effect here in Occupied DC.

Such a sad state of geopolitics when our dictator can’t have another medal to put on his chest or desk

Greetings from Occupied DC!

Federal Govt. Shutdown is closing DC’s public art museums. Our thoughts: almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/10/08/f... Olga Albizu, “Radiante” (1967), on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. #womenartists #arthistory #Smithsonian #GovtShutdown #nationalgallerydc

RIP, Patricia Routledge, Hoity-Toity Housewife of ‘Keeping Up Appearances,’ Dies at 96 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Go see #HilmaafKlint "What stands behind the flowers" @hilmaafklintofficial @themuseumofmodernart before it closes 9/27/25! #spiritualism #arthistory @women_artists @hilmaafklintsatelje @arthistorywomen Our thoughts here:

Amy Sherald’s exhibition in the DMV after all! As the artist explained, “Trans Forming Liberty challenges who we allow to embody our national symbols—and who we erase. It demands a fuller vision of freedom, one that includes the dignity of all bodies, all identities. Liberty isn’t fixed. She…

The exhibition "Ode to ’Dena: Black Artistic Legacies of Altadena" runs at the California African American Museum through October 12, 2025.

Let's hear it for hope for the future after the #LAfires. I would love to see this show centering Altadena's Black artists. This review previews many of the works. @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1036035/mont... #arthistory #BIPOCartists #womenartists

Didn’t know the Nats had a Nazi outfit…. #noBrownshirtsDC #occupiedDC @nationals.com #noKings

Let's take comfort in the dissents, protests, and examples of our forebears. Artist, educator, and advocate Vivian Brown explained her works as "my kind of protest," from which the exhibition at the Phillips Collection takes its name. Read our review at almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/l...

#DCstatehood now! His Insecurity didn’t call up the DC Natl. Guard during the insurrection he led! Rule of law, not a police state under a tyrant’s whim. @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @nwlc.org @aclu-dc.bsky.social @aclu.org @eleanornorton.bsky.social

#nokings rally today in Grand Rapids, MI!

Chakaia Booker exhibition at the National Gallery of Art! How the artist creates these delicate, multiple textures from something as rigid, yet unwieldy and polluting as discarded tires and treads is amazing. Our review: almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/c... Chakaia Booker, Acid Rain (2001)

I'm attending Popular Democracy's event, “Rally: Healthcare Cuts Will Kill” - sign up now to join me! #POPULARDEMOCRACY www.mobilize.us/cpda/event/7...

Trump is planning a military parade here in DC on June 14, but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we as a nation take everywhere else. See you on No Kings Day to reject strongman politics and corruption!! app.sosha.ai/s/utxuwKNN

Alma Thomas now has a street named for her in DC! Raised in DC, she taught art in the public schools, earned art degrees from Howard Univ. & American Univ., owned a gallery, & frequented integrated arts spaces like #PhillipsCollection & #LittleParisGroup. almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/a...

Ignoring Federal court orders to correct extrajudicial removals, targeting attorneys for their clients, creating specious mortgage fraud cases against prosecutors & perceived enemies, investigating fundraising #Actblue, and now arresting a state-court judge. This is tyranny. @aclu-dc.bsky.social

Who is #HilmaafKlint 's art for? The chair of the foundation safeguarding her legacy says it's only for fellow believers, in spite of Hilma's efforts to exhibit internationally almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/w... Hilma af Klint, Altarpieces Series, No. 10 (1915). Oil and metal leaf on canvas.

History and Resistance: Quilts as Protest Art Prepare to be blown away by the Renwick Gallery’s exhibition, "We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists." #SmithsonianAmericanArt #Blackwomenartists Sylvia Hernandez, Flint Water (2017)

This is truly bizarre. Intentionally causing widespread suffering engenders an aspirational masculinity?!?!?

Excellent assessment presented in multiple threads about how tariffs function as largesse.

Love it!

IMLS staff were placed on administrative leave following the Trump Administration’s Executive Order, which eliminated federal funding for libraries. Take action today! www.everylibrary.org/statement_im... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Hung Liu renders the overwhelming struggles of overlooked women in history. Yet Liu's images always include her distinctive visual vocabulary to situate the women in a historical context of strength and dignity, even at the most hopeless of moments. Street Library (2013)

Exploring our common history affords us all the possibility of empathy. I support @smithsonian @americanart @asianart @africanart @americanhistorymuseum www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Delighted to read this appreciation & re-contextualization of illuminated manuscript artist Susanna Horenbout, lauded by Duerer and Holbein.

Truly stunning

Disgraceful. so much is wrong here, and the administration gets $40M in pro bono for its pet anti-civil liberties projects.

So much for FOIA disclosures if no one's privacy is honored.

Jarring, excellent summary of where we are in our republic

#libraries are vital!!!

Libraries and federal funding Leonardo da Vinci, folio of ink drawings of spring mechanisms and gears (c. 1493-97). As seen at the DC Public Library's exhibition in 2023. For curious and active citizens, what is and should be the role of government in learning, the arts, the sciences, and…

So excited about this!

Shameful for one of the first integrated parts of the US Govt to not live up to its history.

Unfathomable for the foundation tasked w/preserving Hilma af Klint’s enormous work & legacy to restrict it all to some undetermined, biased litmus test of belonging. See biographer & art historian Julia Voss’ thoughtful comments. @spiraltemple @hilmaafklint.bsky.social #hilmaafklint #womenartists

An Elizabeth Catlett retrospective is coming to DC in 2025! almahilma.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/a...

Senators are asking the DC Office of Disciplinary Counsel to look into the torrent of abnormal and rule-shattering statements Jan. 6 organizer Ed Martin has issued since Trump gave the conservative activist his first-ever prosecutorial job: DC US Attorney. www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Seeing RED: Alma’s exploration of energy Alma W. Thomas, Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music (1976). triptych, acrylic on canvas. Looking at Alma W. Thomas' huge triptych at SAAM, I'm reminded of all the adversity she faced. Against all challenges she experienced as a Black woman…

Please read this urgent, accurate assessment by an expert in totalitarian regimes and how they impose their dogma.

So apt

Honoring Ukraine and abhorring the depravity of today’s Oval Office debacle

Excellent questions to pose to a multilateral organization whose exhibitions I have enjoyed @hyperallergic.com @cmonstah.bsky.social #oasgallerydc

We cancelled our @washingtonpost.com subscription after the grossly ill-founded decision not to issue a prez endorsement when the rule of law was at stake and editorial censorship of political cartoons reproving Bezos’ kissing the ring