Jenny Holzer - Redaction Paintings. Holzer’s images were based on documents redacted by the US government before being made publicly available.

Publicity design by SCHUNKE-FIETZE, Düsseldorf. Scanned from Graphik – Werbung + Formgebung, 11, 1962 designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr...

installation view

Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi (1617)

#FossilFriday Stack of opalised vertebrae from an Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur. Another remarkable fossil on display in the South Australia Museum, Adelaide.

Golden Moonglow lichen on quartz. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

omg- this Salman Toor portrait of a teenage Zohran Mamdani, painted in 2009, is just so stupendous on so many different levels www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/a...

Milton Glaser - Graphic Design (1973)

Sketch by Georgia O'Keeffe of one of her beloved chow dogs asleep collections.okeeffemuseum.org/object/702/

I suggestivi "spiriti"di Karoo Ashevak, scultore Inuk, in osso di balena fossile; creazioni che affondano le radici nell'immaginario culturale delle popolazioni eschimesi, popolato di spiriti e magia.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled," 1991, originally appeared on a series of billboards throughout NYC. Gonzalez-Torres, a wildly inventive and influential artist, died of AIDS in 1996, age 38. #WorldAIDSDay

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

GAWKER! thou shouldst be living at this hour

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

Aurora by Leon Gordon Miller (1976) #screenprint

Welcome (Shaking Hands), by Bruce Nauman, 1985, 📸 by William Vasta

Four dogs in the distance Each stands for a kindness

✨🧡 Autumn magic is lighting up the Arboretum with a stunning display of color! Come get your fall fix and soak in the season. 🍂🍁 #MNarboretum

‘Symphony 357’ by Dick Higgins, 1968 #music #composition #fluxus

Printing presses kept their letters in cases. Capital letters went in the upper case. Smaller letters went in the lower case. This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’ Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press? MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

Love / Arthur Lee ~ A House is Not a Motel (from Forever Changes 1967) #ArthurLee #MusicSky Arthur Lee's amazing testament to the disintegration of the American Dream. "And the water's turned to blood, and if you don't think so, go turn on your tub" www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xz...

need this for my medbed. way better than the felt base of recent years, low pulse sequences during a MRI

The old WFMU blog, Beware of the Blog, has not been updated since 2015, but we've continued to keep all the pages accessible to the public. Our host Typepad is now going out of business (let this be a lesson as to how unsafe "the cloud" is), and all blog pages will disappear on September 30. (1/2)

The photo was captured with a motion-activated camera. Not mentioned, the scent of freshly baked cookies

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

Paul Cupido

Walter Crane 1899

Some criminally short, sublime eye candy from American underground filmmaker Stan Brakhage, one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Night Music (1986) #Experimentalfilm www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCcc...

The basic fallacy in chasing votes by being "tough on immigration" is that the modal American's position on the issue is "Deport the Bad ones and keep the Good ones," and they alone know who is which, and that simply does not translate into workable policy. So this kind of gestapo stuff (1/2)

Three glass eyes with portable velvet carrying case & mirror, c.1870. These were likely meant to be carried by an ocularist – someone who specialized in making and fitting prosthetic eyes – to assist them in making the best possible match.

Joker BA Sticker, Walnut Creek, California, 1993⁠ ⁠ Part of the Skills Archives, Greg Lamarche’s collection of materials from the making of Skills magazine in the 1990s. ⁠ #Graffiti #SubscriptionToMischief #JokerBA #JokerTranscend

Bally Shoes, France (1981) Poster design by Jacques Auriac

Yasunao Tone Anagram for Strings 1961, announced 1963

So much conveyed in a couple of coloured smudges... What a genius. J.M.W. Turner, '?Boats at Sea', c.1830–45 (watercolour on paper, Tate)

i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally

Oh look, I found David Zaslav’s business plan for HBO

Pantone Color of the Year 2025

School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines.

When engineers discover biology... They massacred my boy 🤦‍♀️

Eduardo Paolozzi, Turkish Music, 1974 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1117638

Sonic Boom - Rock n Roll Is Killing My Life [UK, Synth Rock/Electronic?, Suicide Cover] (1989) https://redd.it/8wdis3 https://youtu.be/KTPa2Obfqzs

RIP Clem Burke, a magnificent rock (and disco) drummer. The isolated drums of "Dreaming," which are essentially non-stop fills for the entire track--genius. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xse...

Toronto's Sam the Record Man storefront, 1971.

International Festival of Contemporary Music, 1970 Warsaw, Poland Poster design by Hubert Hilscher

Last week I was lamenting the lack of graffiti etc speaking to the moment in NYC. Today on the subway

D961,299 - issued in 2022 for a design for a "record holder." #DesignPatents