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Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Standing with fellow artists, writers, musicians, and cultural orgs, I see Fall of Freedom as both a protest and a vow. We will not be silenced, we will not accept historical gaslighting, and we will keep making the kind of art that tells the truth.... especially, when power demands otherwise.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

🤷🏻‍♀️ IDK. I still have it too. I can't even figure out why it's restricted because it says it not for nudity.

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently they censored it for something other than nudity so I'm at a loss.

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

For some reason it's labeled on this end and a few others can't even open it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, SO ironic....Bluesky, champion of “censorship-free speech,” just blacklisted images of the Sistine Chapel. Because nothing says “free platform” like censoring Renaissance art. Classic.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Hooked, Roped, Processed: How the Sistine Hell Works
When Michelangelo Buonarroti unveiled Il Giudizio Universale (The Last Judgment) on the Sistine Chapel’s altar wall (1536–41), he recast eschatological terror as a total environment; kinetic, anatomical, and theological.

Hooked, Roped, Processed: How the Sistine Hell Works

Sioux descendants file lawsuit against U.S. for federal recognition, monetary damages over land

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 1d

Sioux descendants have filed a lawsuit against the United States for federal recognition of their tribe, and for monetary damages over land that their attorney said was fraudulently dispossessed.

www.cbsnews.com

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

All “Cups of Coffee” go directly toward organizations dedicated to ending domestic and sexual violence. As always, I personally match each donation to double the impact. And as a survivor, this is a mission especially close to my heart.

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Soul Legend D'Angelo, 51, Dies After Private Battle with Pancreatic Cancer: Report

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

May he rest in power. Incredibly sad.

On Tuesday, Oct. 14, TMZ reported D'Angelo's death after a private battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 51.

people.com

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

Also thank you for reading!

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

As of yet, I've only written about his influence on different artists and movements but I'd absolutely do one down the road if you are interested.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 2d

The Pope in the Meat Locker
Francis Bacon’s paintings are among the twentieth century’s most concentrated meditations on bodily harm, psychic extremity, and metaphysical dread.
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The Pope in the Meat Locker

Names in the Night Air: Evidence, Refusal, and the Indigenous Gothic

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Today we don’t celebrate colonizers....we celebrate me.
Yes, me. A living, breathing, fabulous Indigenous person whose ancestors survived smallpox, stolen land, and centuries of nonsense....just so I could post this and remind you that Columbus didn’t discover squat.
#indigenouspeoplesday

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 3d

Names in the Night Air: Evidence, Refusal, and the Indigenous Gothic
Across Turtle Island, Indigenous artists, knowledge keepers, and communities have long engaged the uncanny; not as spectacle, but as protocol, pedagogy, and survivance.
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The Scythe Always Wins: Art’s Long Romance with the End

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 4d

The Scythe Always Wins: Art’s Long Romance with the End
Few figures have traveled farther, or worn more masks, than Death.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 4d

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

people.com

Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 5d

We're live!
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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 5d

Scales of the Dead: Your Heart vs. Her Ledger
Santa Muerte (La Santa, La Niña Blanca, La Flaquita) emerges at the meeting point of pre-Hispanic death veneration and colonial Catholicism, a folk-saint who mediates between living petitions and the strict arithmetic of death.
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Scales of the Dead: Your Heart vs. Her Ledger

When Time Rots: Dalí’s Clocks and Other Nightmares

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 6d

When Time Rots: Dalí’s Clocks and Other Nightmares
Salvador Dalí’s “hand-painted dream photographs” are often read as caprices, but their ice-cold finish houses a sustained anatomy of dread.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, Monday is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. No, I will not be humble. Please plan your adoration schedule accordingly.

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 7d

Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter (c. 1844) does not depict a monster so much as the moment architecture discovers it can open its ribs.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Specter (c. 1844) does not depict a monster so much as the moment architecture discovers it can open its ribs. A palace room (screens, blinds, ...

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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 7d

The Sheet That Haunts Back
In the late Edo through Meiji periods, Japanese printmakers transformed stage phantoms, folktale creatures, and ritual anxieties into a portable, mass-circulating visual culture of fear.
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The Sheet That Haunts Back