Mono print

There are so many artists who are in a crisis of confidence right now. Affordability, AI, streaming, and the devaluing of their life’s work. It’s all so fucking much and there are a lot of people wondering if it’s worth it anymore. If there’s an artist you love, TELL THEM and remind them that it is!

Made myself sick finishing this one for a deadline in Miami 12 yrs back. “In my Little Thatched Hut” ~22x30 watercolor and ink on paper Loosely based in the Sydney Opera House.

Quit this garbage platform. The second best time to do that is right now.

Painting from a years back on view in Miami this wknd

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Painting from a years back on view in Miami this wknd

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die.

Tree equivalent of peaking in high school

Dying Plants (Sterbende Pflanzen) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/33938

What if we razed every Data Center to the ground and salted the earth where they stood

Stuntman with Mustang on the set of 'The Misfits' (1961) 📷 by Ernst Haas

Yer an ape-man in a prehistoric veldt, minding yer own business, when this attractive monolith appears. How do you open?

Rest in power to artist and curator Rich Jacobs

A mono print

“In 2029 we will rebuild the White House and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, his family, and all of his companies and organizations. We publicize the name of every contractor involved with this project and permanently ban them as corporate entities and individuals from public contracts.”

The Bisti Badlands feature a variety of unique rock formations, such as hoodoos and cracked eggs, created by millions of years of erosion on layered sandstone, shale, mudstone, and coal. The landscape was once a swamp in an inland sea during the late Cretaceous period. #geology #hiking #NewMexico

Friends! Two more days and this design is retired. Click on by: www.neufolkshop.com/shop/max-kau...

November 26, 1993: A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Souls of Mischief and tha Alkaholiks live from The Warfield in San Francisco, CA. 📸: @djshadowreconstructed (Instagram)

Proper

Paraphernalia worthy of a tuxedo-clad sales approach? Ad for the Grass-hopper, made with mahogany wood and Portuguese cork. Sort out your seeds and stems with elegance, I guess. From the Berkeley Barb, November 22-28, 1974...

“In this episode- Lydick Bog OR the ghost of a mountain” Mono print on arches paper. 10x10”, framed to 12x12”

Angus McEwan (Scotland, b.1960s) : "Colour of Time" n.d. watercolor on paper | 17×12 www.artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/...

A Moroccan artisan meticulously working on "gebs", the traditional carved plasterwork that decorates walls in Moroccan architecture.

Carl Andre, Hour Rose, 1959 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137032

It's that time of year

Last night Billy Corgan kicked off a residency at his Chicago hometown’s Civic Opera House, performing Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ with Lyric Opera’s 60-piece orchestra and chorus 🌚 stereogum.com/2480545/bill...

This is how I got Linds to marry me.

In this fight we find ourselves in—the struggle for independence in the modern age—, we need to fearlessly push back against all market concentration wherever it arises. I wrote an essay from the heart and mind about independence and the current state of culture industries.

“In this episode- Lydick Bog OR the ghost of a mountain” Mono print on arches paper. 10x10”, framed to 12x12”

1970

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

Cassette ghosts

Leonora Carrington : Spiderweb (for Edward James), 1948 woolen tapestry 90 x 82 in |228.6 x 208.3 cm

Cassette ghosts

Pras Michel of the Fugees has been sentenced to 14 years in prison

American photographer and artist Harold Davis, who has expanded the parameters of his field with imagery, new techniques and as an author and educator. Bridge of Light #HaroldDavis #Photography

Today's architecture column. “This is a unique little jewel box,” Chicago art historian and stained glass expert Rolf Achilles said of Ave Maria chapel in the West Lawn neighborhood. “[It’s] absolutely unique. There’s nothing like it in Chicago.

Morning.

Richard Artschwager, Johnson Wax Building, 1974 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137037

RIP

Ibram Lassaw, Kwannon, 1952 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136336

Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity