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Manic pixie dream matron. Abolish ICE.

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Ryan "oh that's a new pain in my knee" Ruppe @ryanruppe.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Plus I absolutely love an artist manifesto like this, especially "Rule 7 The only rule is work. IF YOU WORK IT WILL LEAD TO SOMETHING. IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO DO ALL OF THE WORK ALL OF THE TIME WHO EVENTUALLY CATCH ON TO THINGS.
IMMACULATE HEART COLLEGE ART DEPARTMENT RULES
Rule 1
FIND A PLACE YOU TRUST AND THE TRY TRUSTING IT FOR A WHILE
Rule 2
GENERAL DUTIES OF A STUDENT:
PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR TEACHER.
PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS.
Rule 3
GENERAL DUTIES OF A TEACHER:
PULL EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR STUDENTS.
Rule 4
CONSIDER EVERYTHING AN EXPERIMENT.
Rule 5
BE SELF DISCIPLINED. THIS MEANS FINDING SOMEONE WISE OR SMART AND CHOOSING TO FOLLOW THEM.
TO BE DISCIPLINED IS TO FOLLOW IN A GOOD WAY.
TO BE SELF DISCIPLINED IS TO FOLLOW IN A BETTER WAY.
Rule 6
NOTHING IS A MISTAKE. THERE'S NO WIN AND NO FAIL. THERES ONLY MAKE.
Rule 7 The only rule is work.
IF YOU WORK IT WILL LEAD TO SOMETHING
IT'S THE PEOPLE WHO DO ALL OF THE WORK ALL OF THE TIME WHO EVENTUALLY CATCH ON TO THINGS.
Rule 8
DON'T TRY TO CREATE AND ANALYSE AT THE SAME TIME. THEY RE DIFFERENT PROCESSES.
Rule 9
BE HAPPY WHENEVER YOU CAN MANAGE IT.
ENJOY YOURSELF. IT'S LIGHTER THAN YOU THINK.
Rule 10
"WERE BREAKING ALLOF THE RULES. EVEN
OUR OWN RULES AND HOW DO WE DO THAT?
BY LEAVING PLENTY OF ROOM FOR X QUANTITIES." JOHN CAGE 

HELPFUL HINTS: ALWAYS BE AROUND. COME OR GO TO EVERY-THING. ALWAYS GO TO CLASSES. READ ANYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. LOOK AT MOVIES CAREFULLY OFTEN.
SAVE EVERYTHING IT MIGHT COME IN HANDY LATER
THERE SHOULD BE NEW RULES NEXT WEEK.
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Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hyperallergic EIC @hakimbishara.bsky.social snagged a very rare interview with the First Lady of NYC Rama Duwaji. In it she says, “Everything is political: what we choose to show, what we choose to omit, the stories we highlight and the ones we leave in the margins.”
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In the Studio With Rama Duwaji
Surrounded by her drawings and ceramics, we discussed her evolving art practice and new life as NYC first lady.
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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Going through my attic found this great hand printed Bridget Riley shirt, bought from Pollocks Brixton High Road December 1976. Original photo by the great Ida Kar
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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 07/03/2026
In 1908, Picasso held a banquet attended by the leading lights of the Parisian avant-garde to celebrate the ‘primitive’ genius of Henri Rousseau. This month, a landmark exhibition travelling from Philadelphia to Paris shows that he is indeed a painter to be admired, writes Susan Moore.
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Was Henri Rousseau a sophisticate all along?
The self-taught painter had a trememdous sense of self-belief, despite being ridiculed in his lifetime. A landmark exhibition confirms him as a singularly modern artist
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Don't know much about Friedensreich Hundertwasser but was taken by this little book of his art, and especially this art and commentary on cars.
Crusade of the crossroaders 

The best way to kill the cars is
to let them disappear
at the crossings
you make a cross
which becomes a crossroad
which becomes a round about
the traffic circle is a trap
the cars drive into the spiral
get smaller and smaller
and vanish in one pointelectric green art with a face composed of fields taffy'd into a map of small lots and below in a different perspective a red fence hemming in vegetation
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Moment of energetic entertainment from #SuperbOwl courtesy, of course, of Hieronymus Bosch. Go owls!
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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Olivetti Typewriter ad from 1954 - design by Giovanni Pintori. Olivetti ads are top notch mid-century design. Starting a 🧵 here. #wardsmorguefile
Ad featuring an Olivetti typewriter with colorful curves for various letters above it.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
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Haiti's Winter Olympics team shines a positive light even as IOC removes patriot from uniforms
Haiti is making a statement at the Milan Cortina Winter Games with two athletes proudly representing the nation.
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Taharqa @juliusraymills.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Toussaint Louverture (2006) Edouard Duval-Carrié.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 06/02/2026
#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...
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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism
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A Major Survey in Paris Chronicles Leonora Carrington's Esoteric Surrealism
The Musée du Luxembourg chronicles British-Mexican artist Leonora Carrington's remarkable, eight-decade career.
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
If you watch nothing else today, this week.
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Me at Age 12: I drew a frog with three different shades of green!!! Michelangelo at Age 12:
The Torment of Saint Anthony, or The Temptation of Saint Anthony (c. 1487–88), a painting attributed to Michelangelo. A bearded St. Anthony in black garb is accosted mid-air by a swarm of demons, which look like grotesque winged chimeras. Some are mostly fish-bodied with elephant-like trunks. Others are are more humanoid in form, but have horns, claws, green or red skin, and an overall Boschian appearance. This painting is an oil and tempera adaptation of an earlier engraving by Martin Schongauer. Historical records indicate that Michelangelo produced such a copy. Although there is physical evidence indicating that this specific painting is the copy Michelangelo himself made, such as characteristic cross hatching, not all experts agree.
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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Just gorgeous. I went through almost the whole thing frame by frame. Highly recommend the experience
A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh A human figure mostly obscured by film grain and damage that spreads across the image like a bruise across flesh
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
At the very heart of the conflict raging in the United States is a conflict about human nature, a deep moral and philosophical conflict. I believe the isolationists will lose in the long run because they are not only out of step with the majority but they are out of step with reality....
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When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance
Today marks one full year for this newsletter, and here's the 77th post (I thought once a week was going to be a lot, but there's so much going on I wrote almost 1.5 times a week over the past year). ...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/02/2026
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. One month in, and it feels like I've already sewn a year's worth of news. But it helps me make sense of it all, so I think I can manage 11 more.
My daily news diary for January, including:
An IU Trident
A price tag
An empty vaccine syringe 
Three X logos
A bag of money
A peace protest sign
A shattered ice cube
Rama Duwaji's pointy black boot
A Venezuelan flag
A memorial candle for Renee Good
An outline of Greenland
A taco
The Federal Reserve building
A Golden Globe
An oil tanker
A steak
A champagne bottle
An Iranian flag
A graduation cap
A trans pride heart
A cell phone with text thread
Macron's sunglasses
A thermometer and tear gas
Liam Ramos's fuzzy hat 
Alex Pretti's hat and sunglasses 
Bovino's coat 
A Ring doorbell 
A snow shovel 
An airplane
A wind turbine
A stack of file boxes 
A protester holding an ICE OUT sign
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...
Bridget the cat infiltrates the 'Abbey Road' cover shoot and becomes THE definitive fifth Beatle.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"In response to criticisms she's heard about the hat being 'performative,' Mashaal, the shop owner, said the thousands of dollars that have gone toward supporting their community speaks for itself."
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Owl Mother ✨🫧🍂 @mamadada.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Art for today, from the MFA in Boston. Remedios Varo’s Tailor for Ladies, 1957. Spectacular to experience in person, and see the way the ghostly figures to either side of the client on the couch are scratched into the surface. Varo used moon-activated crystals to etch detail into her work.
A surreal oil painting, framed in a glossy dark stained wood frame. Its palette is primarily golds, olives, and earthy browns. A model in a boat-like cloak, hovers upon a tiny wheel in the center of a strange showroom, the tailor behind her in the dead center of the image. Two other models are entering the room on the right, each in surreal, cloaked costume, while a customer sits on a couch to the left, inspecting the goods. Two ghostly versions of her sit to either side of her, engraved into the paint, also observing.
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday. archive.ph/GFWzW
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/01/2026
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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ProgGrrl @proggrrl.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Tom Morello live in Minneapolis
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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
An altered scene from the Tintin book, Cigars of the Pharaoh, with a row of hooded figures sitting along a table, with the logos of Trump's Board of Peace. A speech bubble from the central figure, saying in French: 'Brothers, I declare the inaugural meeting of the new Board of Peace open. We must alas remain masked, certain among us still being wanted for war crimes.'
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 17/01/2026
❝ Parker cut the trunk of the diseased tree into “wood cookies” or cross-sectional slices. He carved grooves directly into the discs to create playable records. He then built a Victrola or record player that is specifically designed to play the wooden records. → www.yankodesign.com/2026/01/17/a...
a record title 'Funeral For a Tree' made out of wood from that treea custom-built Victrola-style turnatable made out of wood, made to play wooden records
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Owl Mother ✨🫧🍂 @mamadada.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The other day I heard an interview on The Fabulous 413 / NEPM with an actor and the director from Easthampton's Heartbeat theater about their production of Proof, and decided to catch a matinee today at City Space. So glad I did — was a great play and a lovely escape from current reality.
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Owl Mother ✨🫧🍂 @mamadada.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
It took me way too long today to find the privacy page on Target's website that tells you how to delete your personal information and your account. If you're looking to do this, I'll save you some time. Here's the link: www.target.com/guest-privac...
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Your Privacy Choices : Target
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Donald Shaw @donnydonny.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Pittsfield’s Lenco Industries is selling ICE Bearcat armored vehicles
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/01/2026
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]
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Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 13/01/2026
I've been writing for years about the Art of Science. Are you ready for the next step? 🧪🐡🎨
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The Art of Pseudoscience
It might be incorrect, but it's still intriguing
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...
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Sesame Street: Making Crayons
YouTube video by Sesame Street
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Owl Mother ✨🫧🍂 @mamadada.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Took a little visit to MASS MoCA to escape, well everything, and thought I’d share this Louise Bourgeois piece, Pass, 1988-89.
An organic, textural marble cube, carved into anthropomorphic yet mysterious shapes. About a chest-high object, on a worn wooden floor in a crisply white painted corner space, in an old industrial build turned museum.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 12/01/2026
Hey guess what movie is set this year
A sextet of various black and white scenes from Metropolis (1927), emphasizing the art deco design motifs.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
David J of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets, "The Day That David Bowie Died" www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF4B...
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The Day That David Bowie Died
YouTube video by David J - Topic
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Owl Mother ✨🫧🍂 @mamadada.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Missing David Bowie today.
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David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Video) [4K]
YouTube video by David Bowie
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Shell sculptures by James Valkus from a 1971 Graphis magazine feature on his work
Three Black and white photos of human sized heads made from shells each a strange and slightly demonic looking creature
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
'Hall of the Golden Hue at Hiraizumi' - Kawase Hasui, 1957. This was Hasui's final work before his death later the same year. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga
A lone priest is walking through the snow towards a temple building. The path is lined with snow-laden trees and snow is falling.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
'Black Cat at Night' - Koho, ca. 1930s (detail). #Caturday #shinhanga #JapaneseArt
A black cat with yellow eyes sits under a bush with large leaves.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/10/2025
For too long, the Italian artist Isabella Ducrot looked to others to tell her who she was. “I think life, for women, begins at 60,” she said. “Because then we begin to be free.”
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An Artist Flowering in Her Nineties
Isabella Ducrot, a painter in Rome, didn’t really pick up a brush until her fifties. Four decades later, galleries and museums throughout Europe are celebrating her work.
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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
jackdaw study A rare garden visit from this shy corvid
digital painting of a jackdaw in the sun
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Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Well this is bloody exciting. Long out of print, Leonora Carrington wrote this, her first novel – “an omen, an incantation, an adventure story” – at the end of World War Two. It has now been beautifully rebound by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social and it will fly free on July 22.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 29/05/2025
Kurt Schwitters: a multi-media innovator. How a derelict mill in Bury, Lancashire became a temporary and uncomfortable refuge for Schwitters, a world famous German artist fleeing the Nazis @hindleylancs.bsky.social @northwestbylines.co.uk
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Kurt Schwitters: a multi-media innovator.
How a derelict mill in Bury, Lancashire became a temporary and uncomfortable refuge for Schwitters, a world famous German artist fleeing the Nazis
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Caspar David Friedrich
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Five people—three researchers and two test subjects—have just seen a color no human has ever seen before.
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Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Pussy Riot came to NYC to tell us “ We see the rise of authoritarianism here and we want go call people to not be silent. We want ppl to remember not to give up”.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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染谷香理 | Kaori Someya @someyakaori.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Wishing you a beautiful Sakura season! この作品は、2025年12月6日から2026年2月15日まで、郷さくら美術館で開催される二人展で展示予定です。 This work will be on view as part of our duo exhibition at the Sato Sakura Museum in Tokyo from December 6, 2025, to February 15, 2026.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Also captivating are Imogen Cunningham's many, many portraits of Asawa (this one's from c. 1957)
Photo of sculptor Ruth Asawa, seen through one of her abstract, biomorphic hanging wire sculptures
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