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arthistory.bsky.social
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art historian with eclectic interests early modernist & medievalist, believe it or not
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 21h
She acted like a journalist's job was to do her PR when the journalist was completely in line and appropriate. No, we do not need more politicians throwing their (real or perceived) power around and punching down. Sheesh, no. Men should be held accountable too.
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d
Isn't it cool what funding research can do [gift link]
University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week
The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.
www.sfchronicle.com
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d
Instead of "stupid," you can use: ridiculous, outrageous, silly, wrong, ludicrous, careless, brazen, corrupt, immoral, incompetent, reckless, foolish, ignorant, confusing, mistaken, misguided, banal, fatuous, unwise, uninformed, oblivious, naive.

Accurate naming guides effective response.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d
Low intelligence or slowness is not a moral fault. Lying is.

Let's be accurate.
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d
"Stupid" means low intelligence or slowness of thought. Naw, we recognize immediately the disingenuous lies of the Supreme Court, the politicians, the lies at congressional hearings. It's not a perceptual problem.

The news needs to be able to call a lie a lie. Then we need consequences for lying.
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d
A note on "stupid." Many are expressing dismay by saying things like 'we live in stupid times.' The dismay is accurate, but we don't live in "stupid" times. We live in permissive times.

We are letting people get away with things we all know are lies. Calling it "stupid" is giving them a pass.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 1d
All the talented journalists out of jobs through no fault of their own and all the readers bereft of their work for want of a platform free of interference.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 1d
Jail voting soared in Colorado after the state implemented a first-in-the-nation mandate requiring polling places in county lockups, forcing officials to expand access despite their claims that ballots were already available.
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but the first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
Can't have the toilets cleaned at national parks but somehow

"The Federal government has shut down as of October 1, 2025, but there is no impact to your [For profit company name]-serviced federal student loans. You should continue to make payments as scheduled."
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
On Indigenous Peoples Day, here’s an image that gets to the point.

Cara Romero, Life in the West,
2022. Archival pigment print. Model Kaa Folwell holds a vessel made by her grandmother Kay Folwell (Santa Clara Pueblo)
Native woman in traditional attire lies tied on train tracks with a large ceramic vessel resting on her stomach. She is in foreground and the train tracks stretch far behind her. Black and white photo.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
This is not an image of self harm @moderation.bsky.app. This is a photograph by artist Cara Romero of an indigenous person harmed by oil but there is no graphic physical violence.
arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
Caught the last day of the joint Diego and Cara Romero show at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento and, sorry not sorry, it’s all Cara for me.

Oil Boom, 2015. Archival print.
Photo of indigenous person suspended in oil below high horizon line of oil pumpjacks. Oil toned print Close up of elegant suspended indigenous figure bare chested arms raised Grocery List on arm. “Coffee” followed by “photo” “stos”
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
ARGH. AI fail again.
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
Bay Area Folks, SFMOMA is closed Oct 13-15 for a private event in case you were hoping, as I was, to hang out at the only museum open Monday in the Bay Area
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
Caught the last day of the joint Diego and Cara Romero show at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento and, sorry not sorry, it’s all Cara for me.

Oil Boom, 2015. Archival print.
Photo of indigenous person suspended in oil below high horizon line of oil pumpjacks. Oil toned print Close up of elegant suspended indigenous figure bare chested arms raised Grocery List on arm. “Coffee” followed by “photo” “stos”
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 2d
Did you know it was Sandhill Crane wintering season and that there's a sanctuary in Lodi where you can watch the birds and their red head tufts? wildlife.ca.gov/Lands/Places...
View through binoculars of sandhill cranes on the Stockton Delta wetlands Sandhill cranes on Stockton Delta wetlands
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 3d
Happy #Caturday from the local #BlackCat
Photo Curled black cat with paw over eyes and ear listening on a red cushion
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 4d
While I was at Fort Point for the "Black Gold: Stories Untold" exhibition that has been closed due to the federal government shut down, I wondered if, how long, we'll be able to tell factual Black U.S. history in government spaces. Open this weekend thanks to Golden Gate National Conservancy & NPS.
Black Gold: Stories Untold — FOR-SITE
www.for-site.org
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 4d
On display at Fort Point, SF as part of LAST WEEKEND of Black Gold through Mon 10/13 www.for-site.org/black-gold-s...

Alison Saar, Los Boys, 2001 cast bronze and fabric — tribute to the 27,000 children who fled Sudan, often without shoes, during the second Sudanese Civil War 1983-2005.
what looks like leather shoe soles hanging from red cloth hung on a wall between windows indoors at Fort Point close up of "shoe sole" shows a face under the ball of the foot
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arthistory.bsky.social
Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 4d
The federal government shut down prematurely closed the Black Gold exhibit at Fort Point BUT it’s open this weekend through Monday thanks to donors. Catch it while you can and the weather couldn’t be better right now.
Mildred Howard’s statues wrapped in red fabric standing in the fort arcades under the Golden Gate Bridge
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 4d
Currently surviving the hellscape that is San Francisco
Beautifully clear photo of Golden Gate Bridge over serene park. Pretty landscape tranquil water
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 5d
Suzanne Jackson’s retrospective at SFMOMA is a forest of paintings. Got to love those hanging acrylics

www.kqed.org/arts/1398221...
Installation view of Jackson’s hanging acrylic paintings embedded with quilt pieces
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Art Viewer @arthistory.bsky.social · 5d
"the school removed or altered art it considered “political.”"

oh no. no, no, no. that's not what we do.
California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art
Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.
hyperallergic.com
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Sarah Hotchkiss @sahotchkiss.bsky.social · 6d
Letha Ch'ien on Suzanne Jackson (excellence on both counts):

"SFMOMA has dedicated a generous amount of gallery space to more of these floating unmounted paintings than I’d dared hope to see in one place. ... Standing next to them lifts gravity; one’s body lightens."

www.kqed.org/arts/1398221...
What the World Needs Now Is Love — and Suzanne Jackson at SFMOMA
The artist’s six decades of prolific, exploratory work shine in her first major museum retrospective.
www.kqed.org
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 5d
Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.
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