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Kimberly Van Munching

@herdarkmaterials.bsky.social
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I’m trying to make all the things. This is my note pad. 🪡🧵🧶🌈🇵🇸🌹

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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Duryodhana statue, a 10th-century Cambodian sandstone statue looted from the Prasat Chen Temple in Koh Ker in northern Cambodia in the 1960s or 1970s and offered for sale at Sotheby’s in 2011. The statue was transferred back to Cambodia in May 2014 after a long legal struggle.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Bishop blessing an anchoress. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 079, f. 96r. An anchoress was a religious woman who chose to be walled into a small cell in order to live a life of contemplation and honesty…I can see the appeal.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Oasa DuVerney Black Power Wave as Bodhisattva Manjushri Sankofa, 2023 Graphite on hand-cut paper (courtesy the artist and Welancora Gallery) Wish I were in San Francisco for “Unbound: Art, Blackness, & the Universe” at the Museum of the African Diaspora (10.1.25 - 8.16.26)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Minnie Evans Untitled (Day to Night with Beasts and Angels) 1966 See The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans Nov 14, 2025 – April 19, 2026 At the High Museum in Atlanta
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, 1922/23 “Despite all my experiences, I’m stupid enough to believe in humanity.”
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
An illustration from Christine de Pizan's “The Book of the City of Ladies,” 1405 (thank you JSTOR)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, April 28, 2025 (© Reuters/Paul Ratje) via Hyperallergic
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Victorians designed the best Christmas cards
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Kent Monkman Miss America 2012
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Shahzia Sikander Fleshy Weapons, 1997 Acrylic on Linen 8.5 X 5.5 Feet
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
W. E. B. Du Bois's “Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America” is one of the books on my Christmas list.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Chris Ofili The Great Beauty (2020–2023)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Arthur Hacker Annunciation 1892
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Goblin napping
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Today the mister and I went to see Ursula von Rydingsvar’s gloriously heroic cedar sculptures at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT. The exhibit is worth the train ride from NYC. “Ursula von Rydingsvard: states of becoming,” curated by Margarita Karasoulas, November 28, 2025–May 10, 2026
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“The Fucking-Up Ritual” by Gideon Kiefer
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Hortensia Mi Kafchin Duty to fix oneself, 2025 oil on canvas Go see Hortensia Mi Kafchin’s Paintings Made for Aliens Above at PPOW 392 Broadway October 31 – December 20, 2025
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Claude Cahun I Extend My Arms 1931 or 1932 Tate Gallery
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I’m watching Pluribus and so far, I’m team extraterrestrial. I’ve seen what our rugged American individualism has accomplished thus far and it leaves a lot to be desired.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Left: Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Comtesse de la Châtre, 1789. Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Vigée Le Brun, 2019. © Volker Hermes
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Franz Sedlacek Twilight Song, 1931 Albertina Museum Vienna, Austria
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
“For people wanting to experience God, we are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church.” —Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois Photo: AP/Erin Hooley 10/3/25
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Relieved that yesterday the CT Senate passed HB8004, a bill that adds courthouse and data protection provisions for immigrants to the Trust Act.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Knitting and watching D.W. Griffith’s The Sorrows of Satan (1926)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
“I have not mutated myself in any way. Joel and I have this conversation a lot. He literally has to stop me physically from saying something to people — to friends who’ve had work. I’m so full of fear and rage about what they’ve done.” —Frances McDormand Bruni, F. (2014, October 19) NYTimes
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The constellation Sirius depicted as a dog, from an astronomical miscellany. British Library Cotton MS Tiberius C.I., fol. 28r
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Sliman Mansour Shrinking Object, 1996 mud on plywood #palestine
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Today my son and I went to see “Predator: Badlands” which is about the limitations of individualism and how coalition building across different cultural groups is crucial for achieving collective action. We give it 3 out of 4 Kalisk head trophies
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Rae Klein Bodyguard, 2024–2025 oil on canvas 80 x 80 in 203 x 203 cm
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I left Spotify when I learned that Daniel Ek invested €600 million in an AI military drone company. I downloaded my playlists using Soundiiz and moved them to Qobuz. Super easy.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I thought one of my son’s friends made this in photoshop as a joke. It’s real?!
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Enjoying proto-slasher Thirteen Women (David Archainbaud, 1932) based on the novel by Tiffany Thayer. It’s streaming on HBO until the end of November #precode
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"I am convinced, the hope of the future lies in woman: woman honoured, woman cultured, woman free." Charlotte Despard speaking at an anti-fascist rally, Trafalgar Square, 12 June 1933 at age 94 (photograph by James Jarché, Daily Herald Archive)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I’m reading “Matisse at War.” Matisse stayed in France during WW2, not wanting to desert his country. Although his work was designated “degenerate” by the Nazis, that did not stop Hermann Göring from stealing multiple Matisse paintings from the collection of Jewish art dealer Paul Rosenberg.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“Who saw him die? I, said the Fly, with my little eye, I saw him die.” Illustration by H. L. Stephens for “Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin,” circa 1865, the book that completely traumatized me in kindergarten. Why did the sparrow do it? I had so many questions.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
“This is my out. This is what puts me on the outside.” - Chill, incarcerated quilter The Quilters, directed by Jenifer McShane, 2024 (Netflix)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Shoutout to my friends who are spooky 365 days a year Pretty Birdies, Hungry Kitties by Julia Soboleva
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Scrolls stitched by Lorina Bulwer (1838–1912) while interned within a Norfolk workhouse (Thackray Museum of Medicine) #textileart
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The American federal government has confirmed it does not plan to issue November SNAP grocery benefits, leaving families hungry in one of the richest countries in the world. Photo: 10th October 1908: The unemployed marching in Trafalgar Square, London.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Raúl de Nieves, Who Would We Be With Out Our Memories, 2017-2021 Paper, xerox copies, photographs, ribbons, feathers, plastic flowers, yarn, dirt, tape, glue, vintage postcards, beads, fabric, glitter, ink, acrylic paint, and graphite 107 x 204 x 6 inches Courtesy of Morán Morán
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Felipe Baeza’s “Finding Home in My Own Flesh” | “When I speak about the body as a landscape, it is a response to questions around belonging. There is something powerful about choosing not to belong. That's where the body is a landscape. The body is your own home—the only home that many of us have.”
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Kara Walker, Unmanned Drone, Bronze, 2023 Wish I were in LA to see the “Monuments” show at The Brick
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Fiber artists of the Bauhaus, Dessau 1927. Lena Bergner, Grete Reichardt, Lijuba Monastirsky, Otti Berger, Lis Beyer, Elisabeth Mueller, Rosa Berger, Ruth Hollos, Lisbeth Oestreiche, and Gunta Stölzl in front. Photo Lux Feininger (Colorized)
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Does someone know a doctor who will prescribe a stay in a sanatorium preferably in the Swiss Alps.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Kurt Schwitters and Theo Van Doesburg, Poster for the “Kleine Dada Soirée”, 1922/1923 Lithographic poster Image size: 11 3/4 by 11 3/4 in.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
To put out a manifesto you must want: A.B.C. Fulminate against 1.2.3. Fly into a rage and sharpen your wings to conquer and disseminate little abcs and big abcs Sign, shout, swear, organize prose into a form of absolute and irrefutable evidence, to prove your non plus ultra. —Tristan Tzara, 1918
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Be the change you want to see in the world | Heroic passerby flips off ICE during a Canal Street raid on October 21st.
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Kimberly Van Munching @herdarkmaterials.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.’s work is just so gorgeous
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