Salvador Dalí : The Anthropomorphic Tower, 1930 Pastel and stumping on tan wove paper 65 × 50 cm | 25-5/8 × 19-11/16 in The Art Institute of Chicago

William H. Johnson : Jitterbugs II, 1941 Screenprint and pochoir with hand additions 17 x 13-3/4" | 43.2 x 35 cm

Andy Warhol : Self-Portrait, 1964 Acrylic, silver paint, and silkscreen ink on linen 50.8 × 40.6 cm | 20 × 16 in The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. The Art Institute of Chicago

Gino Severini : Festival in Montmartre, 1913 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago

Mikhail Georgievich Abakumov (1948-2010) : Screaming Spring, 2010

Vincent van Gogh : A Pair of Boots, 1887 Oil on canvas 73 x 45.1 cm l 28.7 x 17.7 in Baltimore Museum of Art

Lyonel Feininger : The Lady in Mauve, 1922 Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm Thyssen Bornemisza Museum, Madrid Further description in the alt text 👇

Helen Frankenthaler : A Little Zen, 1970 3-color pochoir and silkscreen on white Arches Imperial rough watercolor paper 22 x 30.5 in | 55.9 x 77.5 cm Printed by the artist with the assistance of Maurel Studios, New York

Maryam Lamei Harvani (Iran) : Redemption, n.d. Acrylic & watercolor on cardboard 97x 67 cm More info in the alt text 👇

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In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs Peter (Finkelstein) Max (b.1937) : Original "Love Panorama", c. late 1960s Acrylic on Canvas, 29 x 47 in Further description in the alt text 👇

Rogier van der Weyden (Netherlandish, 1399-1464) : Portrait of a Lady, c.1460 oil on panel 34 x 25.5 cm | 13-3/8 x 10-1/16 in National Gallery of Art Further description in the alt text 👇

Alex Colville (Canada, 1920–2013) : Skater, 1964 Acrylic Polymer Emulsion on Hardboard 113 × 69.8 cm Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Just some of the many, many musicians we lost in 2025. 😢 All named in the alt texts 👇

Edward Gorey (American,1925-2000) : Christmas cards

Max Ernst : Portrait of Joan Miro, Blessed Painter, 1948 Oil on canvas Further description in the alt text 👇

Mariya Golub (Ukraine, b.1990) : The Old Is Forgotten, the New Begins, Everything at the Intersection, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm

"I’m just writing to wish you a happy New Year, may it be a good year for you in every way and, I add egoistically, for myself as well." ~ Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo, The Hague, approx. Tuesday, 3 January 1882 Poppies and Butterflies, 1890 oil on canvas, 35 cm x 25.5 cm More info 👇

Odilon Redon : Un masque sonne le glas funebre (A Mask Sounds the Death Knell), for Edgar Allan Poe, 1882 Lithograph, chine collé, on heavy cream wove paper Plate 4 of 6 26.1 x 19.3 cm | 10-1/4 x 7-5/8 in Harvard Art Museums

Ben Kimberly Prins (1902–80) : After Party Clean-Up, 1959 Saturday Evening Post Cover Illustration January 2, 1960 Gouache on Board 73.7 x 66 cm I remember well, when every party I used to have ended up like this - but as a hippie at the time, I never owned an apron. Lol

David Bowes : Studio Interior, 1993 acrylic on canvas 24 x 28 in. | 60 x 71 cm

John Ridgway's 1st collage of the new year : title: 1 January 2025 30 x 38 cm | 12 x 15 in vintage papers on cardboard

Banksy, 2019 Happy New Year to my Bluesky family! Wishing you all good health, happiness, prosperity and a Trump-free world!

Hilma af Klint : Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907 Further info in the alt text 👇

Remembering Henri Matisse on the anniversary of his birth otd in 1869 🎂 All descriptions in the alt text 👇

René Magritte : Le Coup au Coeur (The Blow to the Heart), 1952 Oil on canvas 50 × 60 cm | 19.7 × 23.6 in

Marcus Behmer : Verlöschende Kerze (Dying candle), 1903 Illustration for Oscar Wilde’s Salomé Further info in the alt text 👇

Hilma af Klint (Sweden 1862-1944) : Series 7, no.7d., 1920 Oil and graphite on canvas 41 x 31 cm The Hilma af Klint Foundation

Léon Spilliaert (Belgian, Ostend 1881–1946 Brussels) : Rockets, 1917 Watercolor, gouache, graphite 12-9/16 × 9-3/8 in | 31.9 × 23.8 cm Hearn Family Trust The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wassily Kandinsky : Black Accompaniment, 1924 watercolour and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount

My "goodbye" to 2025 songs: This Year - The Mountain Goats Dammit - Blink-182 Basket Case - Green Day Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine What would yours be??

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings. ~ Mary Oliver image info in the alt text 👇

Happy Birthday to the Queen! Patty Smith 🥳🥂🍾🎉🎈 📸 : Edward Mapplethorpe, c.2002 ?

📸 : Dan Budnik Diane Arbus the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967 Gelatin silver print 24 × 20 in | 61 × 50.8 cm

Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern : Die mondomoralische kulturbaumblüte, (The Mondomoral Culture Tree Blossom), 1958 Chalk on Paper, 73 x 51 cm

Ben McLaughlin (UK, b.1969) : From Anyone Awake, 2012 acrylic on canvas 150 x 100 cm

Rhonda Sharpe (Australia, b.1977) : Assorted Soft Sculpture Figures, n.d. Aboriginal Fiber artist

Remembering fashion designer and Punk icon Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (1941-2022), who slipped into the ether otd 3 years ago. Further info in the alt text 👇

Gustav Klimt : Buchenwald I, 1902 Further info in the alt text 👇

Wifredo Lam : Je suis (I Am), 1949 ©Succession Wifredo Lam, ADAGP, Paris/ARS, NY 2025 Further info in the alt text 👇

Gustav Klimt : The Large Poplar Tree , or Coming Storm, 1903 Between 1900 and 1907, Klimt spent his summer holidays with the Flöge family in the guest house of the Litzlberg Brewery on the Attersee. Further description in the alt text 👇

Alice Neel : Harlem Nocturne, 1952 Oil on canvas

Good interview with Chrissie Q: With the Pretenders’ debut turning 45 this year, how much was in the works before you met Pete [Farndon, bass], Jimmy [Honeyman-Scott, guitar] and Martin [Chambers, drums]?

@keemo_art (Curt) Collages (I'm a fan!) "I learned making art ... forces you to be alone with yourself, think about the world and how we fit into it. Which is exactly what my art is about; exploring who we are, how we all fit into this world and what the heck it all means." www.keemogallery.com

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Jean Cocteau Ceramics, c.1950s

The Traveling Wilburys, Encino, CA, 1988 Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison 📸 : Neal Preston