Tilda Swinton by Fabio Lovino, 1999.

Roxy Music ~ Virginia Plain (Island 45, 1972) #NowPlaying #RoxyMusic #MusicSky Live premiere appearance on Top Of The Pops, August 24th 1972. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BonW...

Another re-up. Shadows...

if you enjoyed The Wire series, check out Netflix Top Boy, same vibe. Well done.

“The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.” — Thelonious Monk

"In ’99, I commissioned my brother-in-law, who was a carpenter at the time, to build me shelves that can hold at least 50,000 records," said Questlove in 2014. Read more: dustandgrooves.com/ahmir-questl...

painted ruins at the old Portland Cement Factory #streetart #TagTuesday #BlueTue

📸🎩 On November 19, 1863, photographers captured President Lincoln delivering his famous speech at Gettysburg. This video lets you "step into" those historic photographs and identify Lincoln, his bodyguard, and other figures at the dedication ceremony. #history #civilwar 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/q6gI7

Willem de Looper, a fine artist from the Netherlands, retired in 1987, as Chief Curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington DC. He studied art and began his career at Phillips as a guard.

a small joy a bouquet of flowers for everyone #streetart #tagtuesday #haiga #haiku #shahai The mural is located in northern lower Michigan, and was created by artists Dominic Laporte and Anaïs Labrecque of Drift Mural Co.

@farmaid.org Hannah Tremblay and Caitlin Arnold Stephano joined us to talk about State of America's Family Farms 🎧 tinyurl.com/4mzdpaz5 Visit our resource page, theruralimpact.com, and learn how you can support farmers in your community. #FamilyFarms #Policy #Tariffs

Falce e martello, prova della bandiera di Enzo Mari, 1973 Photo by Aldo Ballo.

Tune of the day…Charlie Christian - Breakfast Feud. Christian’s electric guitar allowed him to play single note lines at a volume that could blend in with the band. His comping swing feel is intense behind Goodman’s solo, then there’s his perfect clean single note solo. #jazzsky youtu.be/4A4-tAy5eno

Man Ray (Emmanuel Rudzitsky, 1890-1976) : Acrobat, 1940-45 Oil on canvas 51.5 x 40.5 cm. "Painting is directed by the heart through the eye. Photography is directed by the mind through the eye. But desire and love for the subject direct both mediums. One cannot replace the other" More info 👇

Archive: "City" makes a void of the desert, surrounded by monotone hues of gray and brown an intense silence that can only be heard far off the grid, it felt like a kind of sensory deprivation, but we noticed ambient sounds of wind and insects, and City came into focus as a complex visual field

The Design Museum of London has been granted unprecedented access to Wes Anderson’s personal archives, Over 600 objects will bring together the director's meticulous craft of filmmaking through original storyboards, polaroids, sketches, paintings, handwritten notebooks, puppets, miniature models,

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. ― William Shakespeare, Henry V (spoken by King Henry)

Gustav Klimt, Fir Forest (1901).

To share a b&w frame with Jean Pigozzi is to belong to a large and ever-expanding club, and it’s become such a hallmark that if he’s at a party and isn’t seen taking selfies, hosts have more often than not approached him with hushed concern that something’s gone terribly wrong with their bash

#Photography Steve McCurry (1992), Kabul, Afghanistan. /Magnum Photos

WATCH Paul Myers (@pulmyears.bsky.social) on WGN TV Chicago discussing JOHN CANDY: A LIFE IN COMEDY! 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axzr...

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done Directed by Werner Herzog

Artist and designer Isamu Noguchi by Arnold Newman (1947).

Interview: For someone like Gertrude Stein, who was so much a self-mythologizer and had friends who were such self-mythologizers, there are just so many stories and anecdotes and preconceptions to wrestle with, which made her such a tantalizing subject.

The celebrations of the artist’s centenary, which began this fall and stretch into 2026, are just as interdisciplinary, sprawling, and ambitious as his oeuvre. There are no fewer than eight major institutional presentations of the artist’s work around the world,

“When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.” ​— Rev. Henri J. M. Nouwen

In 1993, the New York Times published an article criticising Federico Fellini and some other foreign language films for being "hard work". MARTIN SCORSESE sent this incredible letter in response.

National Geographic's "Into The Amazon" a comprehensive interactive exploration into the planet's largest, most diverse rainforest. Over 2 yrs, 16 scientists journeyed from the Andes to the Atlantic to research the Amazon's interconnected ecosystems. A wide-ranging look at this vital place

Ken Burns knows who won the American Revolution, it was “Ne’er-Do-Wells, Felons, and Immigrants.” The Civil War PBS new series is loaded with characters, ideas, and perspectives that, corny as it may sound, make history feel urgent and new. It’s also got a stacked group of voiceover performers

That time a two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Jack Kerouac was discovered last year during the disposal of items owned by Paul Castellano, who ran the feared Gambino crime family in NYC from 1976 until he was murdered in a hail of gunfire on December 16, 1985.

In 2006, students at Xavier HS were given an assignment by their English teacher to test their persuasive writing skills: they were asked to write to their favorite author and ask them to visit the school. 5 pupils chose Kurt Vonnegut, he never made that trip. Instead, he wrote a wonderful letter

'John Waters and David Lynch meet outside of Bob’s Big Boy restaurant in Los Angeles, 1979.'

Gary Cooper. Aspen, Colorado, 1949, by Peter Stackpole.

Another shot by Bill Eppridge from Blackout Night in New York, November 9, 1965. You might call this a once in a lifetime opportunity, but Eppridge's long career is full of amazing shots.

Sunday morning.... this is swell

Amy Sherald: “A lot of times when you don’t know what you’re going to make, it’s not because you have some kind of block, it’s just because you haven’t lived out in the world long enough." baltimorebeat.com/epically-ecs...

great posts today! well done. merci

The Poison (1939) by René Magritte

John with Bowl of Fruit (1949) by Alice Neel

#posture #poise

Nick Cave's lovely antidote to our existential helplessness www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/29/n...

November 8, 1968: Actress Parker Posey is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Lecture: In 1991, comedy legend John Cleese was asked by Video Arts to speak about his experiences with Creativity. Filmed in the Grosvenor House Hotel on 23rd January, 1991. (35min)

Richard Serra is being prompted by Charlie Rose to explain the various natures of the artistic practice. Long, coherent explanations delving into the heart of the matter. #masterclass (1 hr)

The process starts abstract,” says Ali Banisadr, “and then I start to see within it many, many infinite possibilities of what it could become. For Ida Ekblad, “The negative spaces between branches and leaves become a stroke. It’s almost like I’m finding my own paintings out in the world.”

For example, this feature I wrote on the LA Museum of Natural History receiving a NAGPRA grant goes into its plans for the funds, dealing with state and federal policies, challenging logistics for repatriated items, plus a style disclosure: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)