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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The best little guy at the Louvre has a friend!

Two clay sculptures: one a stylized ox with a huge under jaw that sticks out really far and the other a weirdo little dachshund shaped reindeer

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Found the best little guy at the Louvre.

a clay... reindeer maybe? but it has the body of a dachshund and a very silly little face with an open mouth like a muppet.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Last spring I passed by and counted over 50 cops “guarding” this Tesla storefront from a dozen peaceful protesters.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Baroque Mode by DonCee Coulter. My favorite from the Black Creativity Juried Art exhibition currently at the MSI.

A city scene with high rises, a horse and carriage, and lots of sculptures rendered in textiles.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Thanks Art Institute, I hate it.

painting of two gray snails but there are people heads on the very long necks. The whole thing is in shades of gray and that's a no from me dawg

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Still Life Reviving by Remedios Varo. His last painting and it is a banger. Art Institute, Chicago.

a painting of a round table with a lit candle in the center. The table is levitating, and peaches, apples, and pomegranates are revolving in the air around it. The tablecloth is also revolving and twisting. The whole thing is in a room with gothic arches. totally dope.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Cracker Barrel doing some red state groveling

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Found the most Green Hills of Nashville litter possible at Radnor Lake today: Botox in a cup: Lite ice

empty plastic cup labeled "Botox in a cup. Lite ice"

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Aww, the ancestor of Kate Beaton’s Shetland Pony from Hark, a Vagrant!

A Kate Beaton comic about a fat little Shetland pony ruining a prince’s game with a cute lady. The king says “emasculating my son in front of a rival is not what I had in mind!” and the final panel just reads “you should have specified.” Kills me every time.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

You love to see it in Lincoln Park

a full color sticker of a skinless head in a suit labeled work consume conform obey

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

On Halsted near Armitage! Stop at the Leonidas Cafe while you're there; the crepes are yummy.

A lil painting of Mario hopping out of a green tube with a sword I found on a wall on Halsted.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Presented without context!

Two giant birds, one an actual terror bird with a pink tshirt reading "no" and the other a bigger bird that looks like a terror bird but isn't.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

A cool chill way to spend an evening is to restuff your bean bag chairs. No muss no fuss.

okay fine there are a million tiny Styrofoam balls piling up like snowdrifts

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Every day we stray further from God's light.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Field Museum's After the Dinosaurs exhibit coming in hot with some sick burns.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Lincoln Park knows what's up.

Chicago street sweep sign with a huge F letting people know street cleaning is happening Friday. Someone used a sharpie to turn it into a Fuck ICE sign.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Three true facts inscribed on a portojohn in Oz Park.

A portopotty with two pieces of graffiti: Abolish ICE and Trump is the new Hitler. Plus a sticker that says Hey friend you are lovely.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My new favorite Halloween decoration: Skelly Heart Eyes

A giant skeleton decoration with little pink hearts on the screens in its eyes

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Oh good my favorite show is on!

A gray striped tabby cat lying on its back inside a cat toy shaped like an old school vacuum tv

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If I were to set a horror movie in Oz park the scarecrow sculpture would be the big bad.

Terrifying scarecrow sculpture, mostly because the face looks like it's been bolted on

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

My PT's office has this model of the vestibular system that looks like a minimalist Bosch sculpture.

A 3d printed model of the human inner ear I. white; for some inexplicable reason there's a tiny little bald head attached to the bit that looks like a snail. Like I get that it's an inner ear but the whole thing remains insane.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Guess what's open again! The Caldwell Lily Pool. Get your moss on y'all

A waterfall between stacked rocks. There are trees and moss and it's all very soothing

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This Roman general has an excellent little gremlin making a face on his breastplate. It looks like the guy behind him has a Medusa face on his. Trend alert!

A marble bust of a Roman general. There's a little winged face sticking ita tongue out on his breastplate. The bust behind him appears to have a Medusa head on his breastplate.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Easily the single best interactive exhibit I have ever seen - my husband nearly threw up. No notes. At the museum in the basement of the St. Louis Arch.

three old fashioned clay jars with signs reading "the smells of cholera." You can uncork them and experience the dream.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

In 1884 Carrie Carson sewed two taxidermied chipmunks into a crazy quilt she then donated to raise money for a hospital. The nun who won it declined to keep it (can't relate). Carrie ultimately gave it to her brother as a wedding gift, and now it's at the Missouri Historical Museum in St. Louis.

A close up picture of a crazy quilt with a dozen fabrics, embroidered details, and the taxidermied skins of two chipmunks.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

These two paintings are considered to be the most avant garde among Caillebotte's works; they look like photos taken from a balcony. Chicago Art Institute's Caillebotte exhibit; well worth a visit.

A painting of a Parisian traffic circle from above. The people look like blobs, there's very little color. This is an a pre - car era, so you can see a single horse and carriage. The important thing is the shadows: it's late afternoon.

A painting of a man in a bowler hat and suit sitting on a street bench seen through the branches of a tree from a balcony above.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Kudos to whoever put this sculpture in Palmer Park!

a sculpture of a giant hand clutching the sawn off trunk of a tree; the tree is at least 20 feet tall and the hand is as tall as a person. There is also a cicada sculpture sitting on the tree.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Which cursed doll from the Grand Rapids Public Museum are you? I'm definitely the one giving side eye.

Five antique dolls of varying degrees of terrifyingness.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This lamassu is part of a recreation of an interior court in the palace of Sargon II, Assyrian king in 721 BCE. He lives at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, one of the best musuems in Chicago and free to boot!

A stone sculpture of Lamassu: head of a king, body of a bull, wings of an eagle. The statue has five legs so it looks correct from the side (shown in this picture) and head on.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"Untitled Anxious Red Drawing" by Rashid Johnson at the SMART Museum. In related news, the kids go back to school tomorrow and I start a new job!

A white canvas painted with thick, messy, red scribbles laid out in a grid pattern: 3 down, 6 across.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I discovered that “Avant Garde Book Binder” is a thing I can be when I grow up at the Art Institute’s exhibit of Mary Reynold’s work. Mary was widowed in WWI, and instead of setting down and remarrying she moved to Paris, made friends with artists and pursued her own art and training.

A book’s end papers with the imprint of ferns on a reddish, sandy background with woodblock printed insects.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

It fills me with glee that "Consort: For Men" hairspray made it into the National Air and Space Museum exhibit on threats to the climate.

A can of hairspray with a silver lid. The can has a black and white image of a man in a suit, because this hairspray is for MEN who don't truck with ozone destroying fluorocarbons.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I first read about neolithic spear throwers in Jean M Auel's The Mammoth Hunters and I still can't quite envision how they work? The Smithsonian Natural History Museum is doing God's work here with the display but ALAS.

A reindeer antler carved into a spear thrower that looks like a reindeer, of the reindeer was lying on its tummy and had a spear coming out of its butt

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A delightful self portrait of Nasta Rojc, a Croatian artist who joined the anti-fascist resistance with her life partner, Alexandrina Oslow. Weightwood 659 exhibit, The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity.

A portrait of a lady with short, dark hair dressed in a hunting jacket and skirt. She's carrying a rifle and her hair and skirt are blowing in the wind
The background is vague - gray skies, a mown hayfield, hills in the distance.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The donkey cup does not think this party is a good idea. Chicago Art Institute, ancient Greece collection.

An ancient Greek cup shaped like a donkey head. Impossible to put down because the donkey's mouth is open.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Saint Margaret, who I assume is the Patron Saint of Nosiness, at the Chicago Art Institute.

A medieval wood sculpture of a lady in a crown with thick braids looped over her ears. She has a little animal (lamb? dog?) lacking a head under one hand and a closed book in the other. She is leaning over and looking down, probably because she's listening to do e hot gossip in the pews below.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

A Kodo set used to play a game called Kumiko, in which participants are challenged to identify which incenses are burning and in what order they were lit. Kodo has been considered one of the three great art forms in Japan for the past 500 years (the others are flower arrangement and tea ceremony)

A dark wood box inlaid with lighter wood flowers and vines, containing a set of inlaid knife handles and individual little packets. Also a box of small wooden blocks with different inlaid plants, and a board with mother of pearl inlaid flowers. The set is used to store different types of incense and burn them so that participants can guess which scents were lit in which order.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One of the few remaining gliders built by Otto Lilienthal, described by Wilbur Wright as the most important person tackling the problem of flight in the 19th century. Hanging in the National Air and Space Museum.

A mannequin in a wood and canvas glider with wings shaped a bit like a bat's.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

White vest worn by Gene Kranz during the ill fated Apollo 13 mission with the Apollo 13 badge. His wife hand made his signature vests. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

White vest in a glass case; the lighting makes it look purple on one side.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

BRB gotta ask this Neanderthal on a date.

A sculpture of a Neanderthal: he has a beard, long hair in a high ponytail, brown eyes and a big nose (adapted to cold environments)

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Everybody loves puppets! From the Chicago Cultural Center puppet exhibit

A child in a winter jacket looking at puppets that are two giant, pink human hands

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Excellent guerilla art on Connecticut Ave in DC. I'm a big fan of the tiny duck carefully placed on the base.

A drawing of brick buildings placed in an elaborate, old fashioned street sign holder carved out of wood and painted brown with gilt detailing.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Bristol Ren Faire bringing the wearable art as always. Every weekend through September 1!

Two Bristol Ren Faire attendees, one dressed as a plague doctor in bird mask and hood and one in a jaunty green jerkin and full black wolf head and paws.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A Pullman train playset highlighting how Very Fancy the accommodations were. Currently living at the Pullman National Monument, which is well worth a visit.

A train car playset in a red box with a handle. There are two dolls: a man in a top hat and a woman in furs and a gown and hat. The dolls are in seats and there's a bed on the upper level. There's also a little closet door, which is closed. I hope there's something cool in it.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Art on the loose in Humboldt Park

a painting of a black and white cow facing the viewer on a blue background. an exercise in perspective maybe?

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I did not get the artist or name of this delightful piece from the MCA, but whoever it is clearly loves this albino frog.

a being with red hair that transitions into legs in high heels, a green face, no arms and somehow holding a white frog. Insane. Love it.

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KEW @keyler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Hokusai of The Great Wave game was struck by lightening at 50 and made some art about it. I like that this looks like a panel from a comic book.

A Japanese wood print in black and white of a man getting struck by lightening. It's nearly 200 years old and looks like a panel in a superhero comic book

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