Mickalene Thomas "Beneath the Moonlight" New Works at the Shepherd, Detroit, MI June 6, 2026 — August 23, 2026

And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.

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Check out this incredible museum The Whale, in Andenes in northern Norway. Opens June 4, 2027. The architecture is truly incredible. I've been helping with one of the displays. thewhale.com

The Women’s History Museum seemed to be a rare cause almost everyone could get behind—but new challenges to its construction and content demonstrate that nothing is safe from Trump’s culture war, @kelseyables.bsky.social argues:

Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds from the Sea (1960) #WomensArt

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

Friday thoughts and greetings! xo *** 'The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.' -Ralph Waldo Emerson

the clear takeaway here is that the administration wants to unlawfully seize the smithsonian and make it a temple for white supremacist “history” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/a...

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

So they object to “Biden-era NAGPRA regulation that requires universities and museums to defer to tribes about the “appropriate” handling of cultural artifacts.” they want white people unencumbered to do some looting and without engaging the tribes. Good grief. It’s 2026.

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class, it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity." Anna Julia Cooper

French Impressionist painter Marie Bracquemond, was also a printmaker and created this self-portrait etching in 1880, titled "Young woman in front of her easel" #womensArt

Boots Riley is resolute in his belief that AI proponents and studio heads who say that gen AI is the future of filmmaking are simply lying. Read the full interview from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

France's Code Noir (the Black Code) - a legal instrument that invented categories of people to whom different laws applied - has yet to be formally abolished! Cross-party bill to annul it comes before the Assemblée nationale: 28 May. Essay by French lit prof Andrew S Curran. Gift link. 🗃

Sunday Sunday

the hungry observatory

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

Montanans are losing access to historic public trails after a controversial land swap tied to the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club. Floodlight went deep into the mountains to talk to hunters and hikers and find out exactly what’s happening:

Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape named one of the ‘most endangered’ historic places in the US. Pueblo leaders urge public pressure to save Chaco Canyon ahead of expected reversal on oil and gas drilling ban. ictnews.org/news/greater...

A books cartoon for @theguardian.com from a while back

Before Beatrix Potter became a children's author, she was a well-known mycologist. This is one of her watercolors.

i gave mine a little hat

How Native Fry Bread Fed Minneapolis During the ICE Raids. civileats.com/2026/05/18/h...

This may make me sound old as dust or too young depending on your perspective, but whatever: we are all so damn lucky that Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong recorded music together so frequently, like how insanely fantastic is that power combo? What a generous gift.

“No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has,” he once said. This was the “power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.” - Frank Capra, #botd in 1897 🎥

You do not spend generations suppressing a people you believe are weak.

Mural on the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Detroit, 2018 by international muralist Bunnie Reiss who is influenced by her Polish heritage, especially Poland's brightly coloured folk art #womensart

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

When The Buffalo Were Introduced to a Wind River Reservation School, Students Began to Thrive. nativenewsonline.net/health/when-...

The Trưng sisters were Vietnamese heroes who ruled for three years after rebelling in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. With an army of 80,000, led by 36 women generals, they stormed 65 Chinese-run citadels, reclaiming the region.

Dystany Spurlock is about to race to history. The Richmond, Virginia, native will become the first Black woman to compete in NASCAR’s top national series. https://bit.ly/4tIgttL

robert frank

Navajo Highways, a children’s series that highlights Navajo culture through puppetry, is nominated for two Emmy awards! nativenewsonline.net/arts-enterta...

Echoing the words of Lori Fogarty: "We must do what we can in this moment, and do it with courage and conviction." www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/27/c...

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

Legend tells that the cunning fox, wishing to move more quietly, turned to the mischievous fairy folk for help. They fashioned a flower of soft, bell-shaped blooms to slip over his paws, muffling each step. From this, it is said, foxgloves took their name. #FairytaleTuesday

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

Legendary cartoonist Nicole Hollander has passed away at age 86 www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

If you could be real life friends with one celebrity, who would you choose? Why? I would choose Jenifer Lewis. I love whatever is wrong with her 😍😍😍