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Victoria Ward

@hotspurstudio.bsky.social
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I live in a log cabin in the Boreal Forest. By choice. Over 40 exhibitions Canada/UK, professional art worker for 30+ years.🇨🇦 Working with communities throughout Ontario. I paint and waste time online.

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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Go ahead, visit Scotland in autumn. @eleanormorton.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/jTSiu...
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tourguide welcomes you to autumn in Scotland #craigthetourguide
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is totally amazing. She's great. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
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Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature | CBC News
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded Thursday to Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson for her "bold and inventive oeuvre."
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone I thought I knew blocked me today. Maybe they thought I was being disingenuous when I asked if they could explain something about Epstein files etc. I haven't followed that story. It was an a honest question. They told me I should go read about it & blocked me. I blocked them? Right? Wrong?
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hands down the most depressing article you could possibly read. Kushner's entire life has been funded by daddies. He has tons of influence, no ethics, no morals & thinks the rest of us can suck it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Jared Kushner’s Dollar Diplomacy
Jared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yikes. The AI posts that people are obviously & proudly using did it for me. It's like a platform for bots not humans. Plus the constant "we are working to make the arts thrive" bs by highly paid admins & consultants is just insulting.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spending this fall deleting some social media accounts, first up Linked In. I spent years on there looking for work, never got any, then tried to get traction about our exhibitions. Nope. Then all the arts accounts began touting the greatness of #AI. Hard pass.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Swoon. @theresthistory.bsky.social Tom Holland knows I exist. Sort of. Well, it's enough for me.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Art is a different kind of "search engine", it does not proceed by indexing but by inquiring." Pope Leo XIV
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The art world is pushing back as fiercely as the tech world against @Pontifex 's defense of artists in the age of #AI. I find this really disturbing. It makes me think we've completely lost the plot in the art world. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wish Sweden and the rest of Europe who seem to embrace us Canadians with genuine love would knock it off with the prizes for Carney. We do not need any provocation to what is already a really horrible trades situation.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Listening to this I am reminded that my passion for history is really a passion for patterns. Aesthetic, cosmic, ecological, political... patterns that play out in poetic journeys, sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic. @theresthistory.bsky.social youtu.be/KDxnZYBDldk?...
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Why the French Revolution Turned Violent, With Simon Schama
YouTube video by The Rest Is History
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thinking on it, the scariest aspect of this movie which would not have been noticed by the audiences at the time was how normalized people treat water shortages, extreme heat, nothing working properly, people killing themselves...
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
'As our planet plunges into its sixth mass extinction, #biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate.' news.mongabay.com/2020/10/with...
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With a drastic decline in tropical fruit, Gabon’s rainforest mega-gardeners go hungry
The rainforest of Lopé National Park in central Gabon is one of the last safe havens for the endangered forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis). But in a new study in Science, researchers warn that eleph...
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This movie is really freaky - weather patterns go nuts, ice at the poles melt... 1961 🥺 @tcmtv.bsky.social www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
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The 1961 film that was eerily prescient
Released in 1961, the cult British sci-fi film The Day the Earth Caught Fire offers a stark warning that resonates with a heating planet today, writes Gregory Wakeman.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Total must. Don't care if it's good or not. youtu.be/SzopCeFAWF0?...
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ELSINORE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only In Theaters November
YouTube video by Focus Features
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honest question: why does anyone care who Geddy Lee votes for? He's allowed to vote for anyone he likes and endorse them too. Isn't there some Venn diagram about democracy, free speech etc. where this all works?
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The biggest users of #AI are one person start ups usually a hobby that is using it for admin instead of hiring someone. They pay about $20 a month for it. (Patrick Boyle) Will this fund a trillion dollar investment?
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The average CEO of every major company uses #AI for about an hour and half a week" Patrick Boyle And yet the industry is being supported by the biggest investment in history.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just took a long look at the research Mitacs funds, who they are (just provinces & feds) and all the AI stuff they promote. I think more people should take a look before writing all this off as "Carney helping his buddies" or "pushing AI over human resources"
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He collects to return the work to the public domain. ♥️ www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
artnews.com
Thomas Kaplan’s 18th Rembrandt is St John on Patmos
The owner of the Leiden Collection is revealed to have bought the painting for $18 million at auction at Sotheby’s in December 2025.
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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 29/09/2026
The worse climate change gets the less insurable everything is going to be. By the end of the century I doubt any property insurance will be available unless it's nationalized.
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Aviva boss warns more homes will be uninsurable due to flood risk
Aviva boss Amanda Blanc said England was "for sure" building homes that might be uninsurable at some point in the future.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely. Her mental illness (probably bi-polar) & poverty allowed Duchamp to walk away with it. But so much of the Dada work in that era was shared btw men & women. It has been art intellectualism that ignores loads of great art.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is always amazing to me that current contemporary art culture that derides landscape work and ignores artists like George Bellows or Munch continues to fall all over this dude. His impact has made the public hate us. www.artnews.com/feature/marc...
artnews.com
What Made Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades So Revolutionary?
When does something become a work of art? For Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), anything—indeed, everything—could be art if an artist deemed it so.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I hope that woman suing Cornell university bankrupts every single person involved including the university. She obviously can't get justice so hopefully financial revenge wins the day.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Note to Canadian voters who want Carney to fix everything.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"terror is a manifestation of virtue" series on the French Revolution totally 🤯. open.spotify.com/episode/59DM...
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708. The Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2)
The Rest Is History · Episode
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I am not sure I am in love with all this scare mongering however I do agree with Rae & others that in fact our world is working on a completely different axis now. But for me it's billionaires vs. everyone else & the US gov't loves the billionaires. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUBT...
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Why Canada's former UN ambassador says Trump has crossed the line | Power & Politics
YouTube video by CBC News
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@tcmtv.bsky.social celebrating the absolute genius of Chuck Jones reminds me of how outraged I was when he did not get a ten minute atanding ovation when he got his honourary #Oscar.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It was weird. You have to be such a policy wonk to answer with specifics.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sleeping Beauty had a troubled home life. @eleanormorton.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/cFp6_...
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Bed Rotting Nearly Killed Me 🌹 ✨️ 🛌
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This closes on Wednesday. I have to say that I found it difficult because the questions are geared toward people who have a pretty sophisticated understanding of Canadian policies surrounding regulation and standards. I do not. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...
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Have your say on advancing AI transparency in Canada
From: Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Artists might as well give up in this climate. No one seems to care anymore.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Boycotting #EdSheeran seems to be becoming a cult.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I don't need to stalk rich people but thanks.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Woops, our bad, sorry but we need to get back to our diamond crusted private jet that is taking us to our private zoo full of endangered species we plan to eat later says every AI billionaire.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very, very true.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to think about which segment of our society right now has an investment in promoting AI and who also think democracy is overrated and most non-billionaires are just cud chewing dolts who’d prefer for a great big strongman to govern them.
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kawarthaNOW @kawarthanow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
33rd annual #Apsley Autumn Studio Tour returns to #NorthKawartha this weekend. During the free self-guided tour, visitors can meet 27 juried local and visiting artists at nine studio locations, explore their creative spaces, and see demonstrations. kawarthanow.com/2026/08/29/3...
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33rd annual Apsley Autumn Studio Tour returns to North Kawartha on September 19 and 20 | kawarthaNOW
By Megan Gallant. During the free self-guided tour, visitors can meet 27 juried local and visiting artists at nine studio locations, explore their creative spaces, and see demonstrations.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes! Perfect strangers telling other perfect strangers how they should feel and think. If people just took a moment to think about it, it's beyond absurd.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's very troubling that so many people in our society believe they can tell other people how to think. I grew up in a much more open minded time where no one would think of telling you how you should feel or think.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yep. And all this pause stuff & #AI is going to kill us stuff is because of their out of control debt. Debt that now all of us will be effected by & no one in the US admin will know how to deal with the fall out.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
These companies just keep getting worse. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
artnews.com
AI Companies Are Destroying Books by the Millions. What Will It Mean for Art?
Tech companies are destroying millions of books after scanning them to feed their Large Language Models. What will this mean for artistic practice?
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Absolutely. I forget about blocking. Need to add it to my repertoire LOL
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not sure which I hate more, being insulted or lectured at. This place is the worst for lecturing. Imagine being so confident in yourself you spend your time lecturing a complete stranger.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thinking of leaving this platform because I am really sick of scolds on here. Twitter is nicer - and that is saying something.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
No, I don't understand.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My friend's dying daughter wanted to see #EdSheeran before she passed. He wrote to Ed who not only gave them free tix to his show but also had them come back stage, hang out all evening & he sang her favourite song on his guitar just to her. What a horrible person.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Not sure what this is about exactly. The article didn't really enlighten me. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Over 1,000 protesters demonstrate against Carney's investment summit in Toronto | CBC News
More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Monday to protest against an investment summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sitting in dentist office watching @theresthistory.bsky.social on phone. Roman slaughter & the vague sound of drilling....
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Victoria Ward @hotspurstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Oh Chrissie how I love thee... ca.news.yahoo.com/pretenders-r...
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‘Pretenders’ Review: Chrissie Hynde Doesn’t Enjoy Telling Her Story, But You Might Enjoy Watching It
Toronto Film Festival: Hynde comes across as both wildly frank and thoroughly cautious as she talks about her life and career
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