Reposted by Frankie GardinerThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/05/2025Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.newyorker.comMy Brain Finally BrokeMuch of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension. 614251 142
Reposted by Frankie GardinerBen Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com · 05/04/2025#HANDSOFF #NYC 10086795310487 68K
Reposted by Frankie GardinerRep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 26/03/2025MAJOR!! @democrats.org James Malone FLIPS a state senate seat in Pennsylvania! This was a ruby red Trump +15 district in November. 621971368 2K
Reposted by Frankie GardinerRichard Kooyman @richardkooyman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025A new blog post at www.richardkooyman.com about how a March blizzard blew our power out which led me to think about the Italian philosopher Bifo and his ideas about Art feeding the soul. 5373 37
Reposted by Frankie GardinerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up. 427616613426967 166.1K
Reposted by Frankie GardinerDomenica Brockman Artist @domenicab.bsky.social · 20/03/2025New painting for a private commission completed today! “Open Fields, 2025”, 40”x40”, encaustic on panel #art #encausticpainting #geometricart #domenicabrockman #abstractart 1582 58
Reposted by Frankie GardinerAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025And that’s on that 😌 1255723998621 72.4K
Reposted by Frankie Gardinerwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The gender pay gap exists in art as elsewhere. Using a sample of 1.9 million auction transactions from 1970 to 2016 for 69,189 individual artists, researchers found that work by female artists sells for 42% less than work by males. Poster by the Guerrilla Girls 126255 262
Reposted by Frankie GardinerMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 14/03/2025John Walker, March Light, 2001 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 0638 63
Reposted by Frankie GardinerPhilip Low @brainking.bsky.social · 15/03/2025MY THESIS Musk is Donald Trump’s Russian handler, and he is working alongside JD Vance to destroy Europe, and with Trump to end democracy, abolish the Constitutional Republic, and invade at least all of Central and North America, which he intends to rule as Dictator. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...m.facebook.comLog in or sign up to viewSee posts, photos and more on Facebook. 57628275 628
Reposted by Frankie GardinerJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This affidavit, filed by a former Social Security employee in one of the DOGE cases, reveals a shocking exposure of personal info to DOGE operatives & possible compromise of parts of the system. Everyone should read this. Start at para 9. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 663123416126 12.3K
Reposted by Frankie GardinerMoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 08/03/2025John Walker, Numinous I, 1977-78 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont… 11068 106
Reposted by Frankie GardinerFear and Loathing: Closer to the Edge @fearandloathing.bsky.social · 05/03/2025open.substack.comWHEN A FORMER KGB CHIEF SHARES YOUR ARTICLE—AND THE AMERICAN MEDIA IS STILL ASLEEPSomething bizarre just happened. 412954 129
Reposted by Frankie GardinerTwo Coats of Paint @twocoatsofpaint.com · 04/03/2025New Post --> twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/03/dais...twocoatsofpaint.comDaisy Sheff: The anatomy of fairy talesContributed by Jason Andrew / Daisy Sheff’s exhibition “Begun in the Dazzling Sunshine” at Parker Gallery’s new space on Melrose in Los Angeles, intertwines reality with the fantastical. Her … 0503 50
Reposted by Frankie GardinerUkrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 01/03/2025🪧💢 Pro-Ukraine protesters confronted J.D. Vance during his Vermont vacation, accusing him of betraying Ukraine. They called him a “traitor” and shouted, “Go ski in Russia,” criticising his stance on US support for Ukraine. 571109258 1.1K
Reposted by Frankie GardinerLisa Rawlinson @lisarawlinsonart.bsky.social · 01/03/2025When the U.S. government fails, the U.S. people can still act. It's always been about us, the people, and we hold the cards. Here's a way to directly support our friends, the people of Ukraine: u24.gov.uau24.gov.uaUNITED24 - The initiative of the President of UkraineUNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of... 0195 19
Reposted by Frankie Gardinerminkcov.bsky.social @minkcov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Small painting 5 by 4” oil on linen 1201 20
Reposted by Frankie GardinerGail Rickards @gailrickards.bsky.social · 23/01/2025New painting - first post on Bluesky 0251 25
Reposted by Frankie GardinerAlex Paik @alexpaik.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Lots of beautiful quotes in this Howard Zinn essay! www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comThe Optimism of Uncertainty 061 6
Reposted by Frankie GardinerR&F Mo @randfmo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Hiding from a monster - water paint on cardboard- 45cm x 45cm (17” x 17”) @bsky.art #paint #draw #picture #painting #narrative #figurative 4878 87
Reposted by Frankie GardinerMelanie Parke @melanieparke.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Inspired by fragrant garden walks by night. Mer 60x48 o/c 2024 (in a private collection via Meyer Vogl Gallery, Charleston) 2502 50
Reposted by Frankie GardinerBrian Frink @bfrink.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Shadow 2025 Acrylic on birch plywood 18.5x18.5 1281 28
Reposted by Frankie GardinerRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 31/01/2025It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE.... 342723547 2.7K
Reposted by Frankie Gardinerjon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests 1629406805064 40.7K
Reposted by Frankie GardinerBrian Frink @bfrink.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Here's my TEDX talk from a couple of years ago. I was freaking terrified and pretty much messed it all up. However, the pros made me look ok. youtu.be/uz8uQyFmxuo?...youtu.beTaking Risks in Art and Life | Brian Frink | TEDxMNSUYouTube video by TEDx Talks 1111 11
Reposted by Frankie GardinerHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 24/01/2025Surrealists’ art was not just about dreams — it became a powerful political tool, exposing the oppression at the heart of modern political systems.hyperallergic.comSurrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist ActivismA show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation. 312128 121
Frankie Gardiner @frankiegardiner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025January 1 oil on canvas, 10x8” It really feels like this right now. Temperatures up and down, balmy one day, freezing slush the next, then piles of snow, and long dark nights. Just under nine hours of daylight. And always good to start the new year painting. 1321 32
