How it started / How it's going

Driving into work and seeing signs saying "De-icing efforts in effect"

Perfect time for SFMOMA and Guggenheim to show Paul Kos's "Sound of Ice Melting" (1970).

Trump looks like that seagull that fell into a vat of curry.

Since 1986, Don Miller’s 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy.

The circle motif reminds me of a Nasca llama bone flute in our collection. Flute Nasca (Peru) (100 BCE-800 CE) 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches

It's always fun when x-radiography and infrared reflectography reveal artists changing their minds, whether adjusting a hand here, refining a profile there, or in this case, reducing the size of a bull's gigantic cobblers: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Them: "Don't let this distract you from the fact they haven't released all the Epstein files." Me: "Don't let this distract you that we're six months out and there's no evidence of anyone receiving any of the $ 30,000,000 budget for Trump's 'Garden of Heroes'."

In 2016, UNC unveiled a Nobel Prize medal exhibit honoring the Aziz Sancar and Oliver Smithies. Both were in attendance with their Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology.

Nan Goldin "Heart-Shaped Bruise, New York City" (1980) 🏛️ MoMA

Maurizio Cattelan "L.O.V.E. [Libertà, Odio, Vendetta, Eternità / Freedom, Hatred, Revenge, Eternity]" (2010) 🏛️ Piazza degli Affari, Milan

Tired of all those George W. Bush paintings? Here, have some Jimmy Carter paintings. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a...

I am once again begging museums to put benches/some form of seating in front of videos. It is really just not that hard.

Bad Bunny is that kind of museum patron

Rest in peace, reina bsky.app/profile/elpa...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

I'm at the Kennedy Center I'm at the Trump Center I'm at the combination Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts

Michael O'Brien "Rob Reiner" 1988 (printed 2011) 🏛️: National Portrait Gallery

Our previous Associate Curator Molly Boarati curated a show focusing on the provenance research of one painting from the collection. It resulted in a new attribution of Joseph Wright of Derby.

Yolanda López "Who's the Illegal Alien, Pilgrim?" (1981) 🏛️: SAAM

Trump saying he "found" that Roosevelt painting like he's Indiana Jones

L: Albrecht Dürer "Melencolia I" (1514) 🏛️: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum R: Bollards on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis

ICE is in Durham. Fuck ICE.

In a reversal my bus was on time today. AND the bus is a new model. AND THE SEATS HAVE CHARGERS. 🤯

Zoe Leonard (2025)

We are all Superintendent Chalmers

I waited in the cold on an hourly express bus home. It never made it because of "driver error."

Around 460 families fed.

People helping people when the government won't

There's always the National Garden of American Heroes

Valeska Soares "Fainting Couch" (2002) 🏛️: The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

Does anyone know Cuomo’s move date?

I just heard my first Christmas carol on the radio. What is happening?

Rachel Harrison "Jack Lemmon" (2011) Wood, cement, polystyrene, acrylic, spray paint, mannequin, Dick Cheney mask, sweatshirt, sunglasses, glasses, butterfly net, and plastic lemon

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Visited the living museum Old Salem yesterday in Winston-Salem. Thoroughly enjoyed seeing and handling cochineal. The beetles are used to make red dye, notably used in textiles from the ancient Americas.

Wonderful news! Incidentally I saw one of these vessels yesterday when visiting Old Salem in Winston-Salem. 🏛️: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. I hope this email finds you well.

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Is there ANY evidence out there that any of these projects have started? Is there ANY record of ANYONE receiving funds from this?

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes