Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Alana Bograd,Techno Forest Bather, 26”x32”, oil on canvas

May this one day happen to them.

Vintage embroidery, applique wall hanging from Gujarat, India #WomensArt

Protect Them Oil on linen 18"x24" 2026 Alana Bograd

Last year, I wrote about Jeffrey Epstein and Twin Peaks. I wrote about Laura Palmer. A generation of girls, now women, who grew up in Laura Palmer’s world. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/laura-palm...

“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.” www.jta.org/2026/01/30/u...

Happy to score this beautiful whistle from @nancyjosephson.bsky.social and help increase donations to local organizations that do important work for immigration protection services. Please consider donating to an immigration protection service org and call your representatives to defund ICE

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

The absolute accuracy of this.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

Well this was completely and utterly predictable: globalextremism.org/post/openais...

Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134740

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

So the understandable idea that we need leaders of "both sides" to denounce political violence is, I believe, a nonstarter. MAGA's whole rhetorical mode, for 10 yrs, has been advocacy of violence. It'd have to denounce itself. It won't. So what else we can do to slow the rush toward more? 2/3

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The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

Erik Satie Composer In 1917 Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso to produce Parade, a mixed media performance that included music, dance, and visual art. Satie, Cocteau, and company were charged with “cultural anarchy” and put in jail for 8 days. youtu.be/_Chq1Ty0nyE?...

This is kinda amazing. I wish I knew how to shave that well.

Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...

Quick drawing break of what’s in front of us-My daughter, Vera, drew our dog, Scooby, and I drew the author of the book “Vera, or Faith” (quick google image search of @shteyngart.bsky.social )

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe #WomensArt

The United States of America: No Kings since 1776. Donald Trump: Russian-owned since 1978.

This administration is marked by not just its cruelty but its complete inability to craft coherent policies or consider the obvious consequences of those policies. bsky.app/profile/phil...

wrote about what the protests say about the strength, or lack thereof, of the trump administration www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/o...

The Child Bearer Acrylic, gouache on paper 9"x12" 2016

Our Golem Is Up 11x14” Oil on linen

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

колобок с ногтями Kolobok With Nails 2025 Oil on wood 20”x20” Alana Bograd #art #painting #kolobok

бутерброд новый год (sandwich new year) ink 9"x12" 2022

Our Cosmic Behavior Oil, paper, ink on canvas 10"x8" 2024 Alana Bograd #art #painting

Full On Cosmic, 2025, 9”x8”, Oil, ink, wax, paper, on canvas, #wip, #painting #alanabograd #art #contemporarypainting

Spocked Hands Investigate 2025, 10”x10” Oil and wax on wood panel #alanabograd #wip #art #painting #womensart “Within the 2-dimensional internet world, new collectivities have arisen, invisible by the light of day-tribes with distinct worldviews, beholden to manipulations…” #timothysnyder

Running Out, 38x48”, Oil on canvas, Alana Bograd #womenartists #art #painting

Spock Hands Blessing, 12”x12”, oil, ink, paper collage on wood panel, 2023

Sleep of Reason, 14”x11, oil on canvas, 2025

Studio today

Nizar Ali Badr (Latakia, Syria) Refugees found pebbles

Elon Musk grew up in an apartheid country, backed a German political party that seeks to rehabilitate Hitler, was sued by the federal government for abuse against Black workers, promoted pro-Hitler tweets, and gave a Hitler salute twice in a speech. But what are his real political beliefs?

I wrote this in June 2023 a year or so after I tried to get mainstream outlets to cover the story. Haven’t been this angry about the collective failure of our society to properly address antisemitism in quite a while.

Ferenc Berko, Denture Shop, Rawalpindi, 1946

57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016. These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits. The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

Poignant piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social "the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us." The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

From a banana menorah to versions by Dalí and Peter Shire, artists have long remixed the traditional Hanukkah lamp.

*grabs a t-shirt and runs outside*