The Fairy Circus https://www.wikiart.org/en/dorothy-lathrop/the-fairy-circus-1931-9

Before the Ball https://www.wikiart.org/en/frank-w-benson/before-the-ball-1893

Blue and White http://www.moma.org/collection/works/109763

Sandpipers and Moon https://www.wikiart.org/en/ohara-koson/sandpipers-and-moon

ALBANIA — Seems like it should be a bigger deal that Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury resort project is being massively protested, with the people demanding the PM’s resignation and firebombing homes over the corruption of their project partners.🤷🏼 The Trump grift is endless.

The time has come to weigh those things This space is getting hot You KNOW this space is getting hot.

The Departure of Charles II from Scheveningen, 2 June 1660 [23 May os] (Mauritshuis, The Hague)

Daybreak on the Bay. ☘️ Maybe the boat is going out to search for the meteor.

Art Basel Paris has named the 206 galleries from 41 countries set for its 2026 edition at the Grand Palais, Oct. 23–25. It's the first under new director Karim Crippa, succeeding Clément Délepine. Nearly 30 first-timers include Hong Kong's Empty Gallery and the newly formed Pace Di Donna Schrader.

Wow. That got awkward fast, even considering the participants.

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein—the art world figure behind "Jerry Gogosian," the pseudonymous account that delivered pithy, irreverent gossip and commentary starting in 2018—was found dead in São Paulo on May 31. Police are treating the death as suspicious. www.artforum.com/news/jerry-g...

Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, widely known as a curator, art-world satirist, and architect of the internet persona Jerry Gogosian, passed away suddenly this week. Her well-known Instagram account cut through the art world's self seriousness through humor.

UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Popped into the British Museum to see my boo: I’ve been visiting the horse head of Selene (inspiration for chess pieces everywhere!) for over 40 years, but the older I get the more sure I am that she should be in Greece…

The Box with the Gilded Mask

More Americans think the moon landing was fake than those who believe it’s OK for Trump to slap his name on buildings

Could he be any more honest? #DutyToWarn

Afternoon listening ⚡️ music.youtube.com/watch?v=lDfn...

Autour de la Lampe https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.452

Most insightful thing we’ll read this week most likely, from @betsyphillips.bsky.social. Tho we’d posit Nashville has already lost a significant % of its artistic base. (Noted in article: downtown musicians play free which is disgusting and outrageous.)

Seated Clowness (La Clownesse assise)

It will probably pick up on days when festivals are happening, but little to no TN media mention of Pride month starting today.

"A handful of African nations are rejecting American health aid, outraged by the Trump administration’s demands for access to private health records and even minerals in exchange for lifesaving medicine..." www.wsj.com/world/africa...

1:45pm The Severe Thunderstorm Watch for SW TN (Memphis) has been CANCELLED, but remains in effect for north MS. Storms ARE still expected to form later this afternoon, and we likely will see  a new watch issued that goes later into the evening. The threat is NOT over.

The Fairy Circus https://www.wikiart.org/en/dorothy-lathrop/the-fairy-circus-1931-2

When I paid $90 for a tank of diesel today, I thought to myself, “I’m sure glad Trump tore down the East Wing for a gold ballroom and built a UFC cage on the front lawn.” #Sarcasm #Vote #VoteBlue

Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor spent years researching the racial slur, but never revealed that her father was the legendary comic who used it profusely. Her new book is Something We Said. n.pr/49A7cwr

Trafalgar Square https://www.wikiart.org/en/piet-mondrian/trafalgar-square-1943

Harlequin https://www.wikiart.org/en/victor-vasarely/harlequin-1936

The photo that proves America has finally reached peak absurdity under Trump www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

“Why is that not essentially beating people over the head with the Bible?” phil williams asks Republican candidate for governor Rep. Monty Fritts about his Christian nationalist views (including banning Islam) Full: youtu.be/0FNmhZGWaBQ?...

Under GOP control, TN had 0% job growth in past 2 yrs. Now, BLS data shows first contraction in TN's overall labor force outside the pandemic in a decade. Unemployment rate=3.6%, but for 5th month in a row, the number of people employed statewide dropped from 3.42M in 11/25 to 3.38M in 4/26. #jobs

We can’t imagine what kind of a sweetheart deal Musk continues to get for #xAI in Memphis, which should be paying fines every single day for its use of unlicensed methane turbines.

'Eddie and Old Man Morpheus,' (1931) depicts Carl Gartner's studio in Cleveland, Ohio and his friend Edward Dubrowski, sleeping in a chair in front of an easel. An artist exhausted from his work or taking a sleep to spark inspiration?

I'm not saying we should abandon electrical technology, it's very good. But I will say I think we should return to mechanical means for many things. You do not need an app for your door lock. You do not need a smart fridge. You do not need a coffee machine with a camera. Bring back the mechanical.

Happy 79th birthday to Ron Wood! Here performing ‘Ooh La La’, a song he co-wrote with Ronnie Lane for the Faces’ fourth studio album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=158q...

In February 1888, Van Gogh left Paris for Arles. The southern light, he wrote, was ‘sulphur yellow’ and intensely blue; his colors began to burn, pushing him past Paris’s half-tones.

This handsomely illustrated book, based on one of the world’s largest textile collections, sheds light on a little-understood category of global art: the intricate, astonishingly varied block-printed cloths that were designed in pre-modern India. buff.ly/BkTZCTF

Arts Council England (ACE) has overhauled its flagship organisational strategy known as Let’s Create after a UK government-commissioned report last year criticised the framework for being overly bureaucratic. buff.ly/UDi6i9Z

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Wakey wakey folks...

Here’s last night’s story about who Trump has pardoned since he’s been in office, why, and what to do if someone brings a cattle prod to a dinner party. https://youtu.be/crzxR8enx6o

#Memphis #Mane

A Garden in Okayama https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshi-yoshida/a-garden-in-okayama-1933

FLASHBACK: Barbara Walters called out Trump for being $3 BILLION in debt, infidelity, not talking to his son, reading the works of Hitler, etc Real Journalism used to be a thing! (Now ask yourself what long-term promises you might make to people if you were billions in debt…)

ICYMI: This year we're celebrating ten years of publication! And are gratified by the impact our authors have made teaching students about important and complex environmental issue. Read more about how they are using case studies in the classroom here 👇 www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/c...

I asked a mining billionaire about his environmental philanthropy. It didn’t go well.