Betye Saar, Black Girl's Window, 1969 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137502

Quote with a fictional band that isn’t Spinal Tap: Buckeroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers

For #WorldBeeDay - Attic Black-Figure amphora, ca. 540 BC, showing the four men who attempted to steal honey from the hives that fed the infant Zeus - Laios, Keleos, Kerberos, and Aigolios - being punished by bees! 🐝🏺 Image: British Museum (1847,0716.1). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

"AI" reveals the fundamental incompatibility of oligarchic and ordinary worldviews. The former's Utopia is the latter's Hell: a future in which human desires, aspirations, and shortcomings are all irrelevant to economic growth and social evolution. A world in which people quite simply do not matter.

QRP with the doctor you'd trust leading the hantavirus response instead of RFK Jr.

From artist Joan Semmel, a good credo for anyone doing creative work:

Process Monster is #Odd and scary. He arrived after a particularly bad week fighting the bureaucrats at work, but quickly became too frightening to work on. He's in my workshop now, glaring out the window. #BlueSkyArtShow

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Odd . Here's a fork rocker, probably playing "The Tines They are A-Changing".

attn: @charlayn.eurosky.social

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post

Initially created from an Hilma af Klint’s retrospective, the collective “Hilma’s Ghost” isn’t just about the misunderstood mystic: “We  want to inspire people to work in an experimental way, to collaborate, and to do their own research to uplift people of color, women, and trans artists.”

Isn't it though.

If you see this, show the energy you bring to Bluesky:

Disassembled Bicycle Artist: Todd McLellan

Jim Dine, Five Feet of Colorful Tools, 1962 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136654

Yinka Shonibare, How Does a Girl Like You Get to Be a Girl Like You?, 1995 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136941

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My favorite muppet www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gsQ...

I woke up today thinking about Betye Saar, still creating at 99.

What's the perfect gif for your bluesky persona

The platypus... has hollow *and* spherical melanosomes in its fur. "Hollow melanosomes have never been found in mammals before, and the combination of hollow and spherical is not seen anywhere else as far as we know" www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

From 2022, an assemblage of fossilized barnacles, stone and rusted iron. The dead cannot forgive you. #BlueskyArtShow #Stone #Sculpture #Assemblage

What do you do with a weird flat slab of soapstone? Hollow it out into a bowl thing I guess. #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone #sculpture

Last year I experimented with carving my gift bears from stone rather than wood. This was my first attempt at using copper powder for the inlays, and the final results were not as good as I wanted. But the soapstone bears are so pretty. #BlueSkyArtShow #Stone #sculpture

I apologize for this idea

On Harriet Tubman Day, one of my all-time favorite images by Jacob Lawrence: the joyful & ebullient screenprint "Play," based on panel #4 from the 1940 "Life of Harriet Tubman" series. The series, thirty-one paintings in all, was one of Lawrence's first major bodies of work

Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kinshasa la Belle, 1991 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137796

I made this miniature drum set for my brother, who played the drums when he was younger. In case he wanted to try again, the kick pedals for the bass drum and cymbals actually worked. #blueskyartshow #round

This series began with an assemblage sculpture depicting Odysseus. Looking for an object to serve as a metaphor for Homer's iconic hero, I found an old ocean-battered, sun-beaten orange fishing buoy at a flea market. The rest of the sculptures took their cue from there. #blueskyartshow #round

Currently in pieces while I make a new base, but will be finished again someday. Called "Shelter" from the Irish proverb "it is in the shelter of each other that the people live". #blueskyartshow #round

I wanted to try making a stepping stone with some half round glass pieces I bought at an estate sale. Many mistakes were made, but I still like it. #blueskyartshow #round #caturday

Illustration of peacock fountain, from a 14th-c edition of Al-Jazari’s Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

For those looking for background: the group is called The First Amendment Troop, and the piece is entitled, "ResistDance." This appears to be their original Instagram post: www.instagram.com/reel/DU1-DrF...

Wow.

#Assemblage #sculpture which was accepted to a show with the theme "still life". I love the stained and worn handles of the screwdriver and paint brush, the grain of the oak baluster, the faded "We're Fussy, Be Fussy" on the wooden yardstick that is part of the frame. #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood

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I carve these as gifts for the people in my life for whom I feel love and gratitude. Inspired by Zuni designs. #BlueSkyArtShow #Wood

The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. Carl Jung

Marcel Jean, Specter of the Gardenia, 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136375

"Anthem" "Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in" #BlueskyArtShow #Sunlight

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Earliest known depiction of the fossil snake Haasiophis 🐡

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Marisol, LBJ, 1967 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136781

"When awake, all people are in one common world, but each, when asleep, is in a world of their own." (Hesiod, fragment 219)

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond.