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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 22h

Have you started thinking about Christmas gifts yet? Why? Oh... No reason, no reason... Just gonna leave these here *leaves images right here* 😉 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums 💙🩷 #HottiesinArt uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse... bookshop.org/p/books/muse...

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This wax "ecorché" ("flayed figure") from 1760 was used for anatomy lectures in the Royal Art Academy in Glasgow. It was based on models and illustrations from their medical school neighbours 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This one's in the Hunterian in Glasgow 😁

A photo of a small wax figure showing red musculature as if they have had their skin flayed off. It's displayed with a mirror behind so you can see the back and bum too

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's a lot of unlacing to do when Stephen realises he forgot to put his trousers on... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Stephen" 1996, by John Wood, exhibited this summer at Gallery Celine, Glasgow 😁

A black and white photo of a figure in a black leather jacket, black leather boots, and white boxers, bends at the waist to tie their left boot

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Has anyone curated a collection of jockstraps in art? Maybe we'll be the first 🤔 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Untitled", 1963, by John Gardiner Crawford, from the Robert Gordon University 😁

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Alongside the AIDS memorial quilt, Tramway in Glasgow has a fascinating exhibition of the media, healthcare material, and letters to the quilt organisers, around the outbreak of AIDS in Scotland 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The exhibition is on til 4th October, free and you don't need to book 👍

The front cover of Gay Scotland, from July 1963, with the headline "AIDS in Scotland", and a photo of two figures with their arms round each other's waists

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Us the day after the Hotties in Art Book Launch at Gower Street (London) Waterstones 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Duncan Grant's "Reclining Figure (Paul Roche)", 1952 😁 Check out Jack's next book events and where to buy Museum Bums and Hotties in Art 💙🩷 here: linktr.ee/jackshoulder

A painting of a figure reclining on a bed, lying on their side with the arm behind them and their knees bent

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fancy a signed copy of Hotties in Art and/or Museum Bums? Get yourselves down to @gaystheword.bsky.social asap! 😁 💙🩷 👍🏛️🍑

Jack and Mark posing with signed copies of Museum Bums and Hotties in Art at Gay's The Word

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The ‘Museum Bums’ book was a little delight - the ideal present for the lover of all things callipygian - and this latest book looks equally fab. 🍑

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY, HOTTIES IN ART!! 💙🩷 To celebrate, here's a crossover Hotty in Art Museum Bum 👍🏛️🍑💙🩷 James Bidgood's "Pan from Behind", from Pink Narcissus, late 1960s, recently exhibited at CLAMP art gallery in New York 😁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...

A photo of a model dressed as Pan, playing panpipes while sat on a tree branch. The lighting has lots of soft orange and pink and purple and green

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nigel never expected to find himself in a throuple, but sharing the rent and groceries three ways was a revelation! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Le Ruban Dénoué: Hommage à Reynaldo Hahn", 1963, Paul Cadmus, from Columbus Museum of Art 😁

A painting showing a figure sat on a chair, with a pale sprite with wings floating above them and kissing their mouth while draping blue and red fabric over them. The bottom half of the painting is a lascivious horned figure sat on the steps below the seated figure, and reaching out for them, with hooved legs spread wide, and draped in sexy red fabric

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the only position that stops them from crying means your back is absolutely killing 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Mother and Child", c1956, Benno Schotz, from the Hunterian in Glasgow 😁

A sculpture of a figure holding a child in their arms, with the child's arms wrapped round their neck

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our initial Museum Bums Book 3rd Birthday Giveaway Competition Winner lives outside the UK, so our new competition winner is... 🏆🎉🥂🎁Congratulations @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social!🎁🥂🎉🏆 Please send your address in a DM and we'll send you a signed copy of Hotties in Art, and of Museum Bums 🥳

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🏆🎉🥂🎁Congratulations @garruhth.bsky.social ! 🎁🥂🎉🏆 You are our Museum Bums Book 3rd Birthday Giveaway Competition Winner! Please send us your address in a DM and we'll send you a signed copy of brand new Hotties in Art, and a signed copy of Museum Bums 🥳

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The runners in Glasgow enjoy a mid-thigh short 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums We're having a little weekend in #Glasgow for @jackshoulder.bsky.social 's "Hotties in Art" book tour (order now, out next week!) 💙🩷 Hector and Andromache (crop), 1774, Gavin Hamilton, The Hunterian, Glasgow

A crop of a painting showing two roman soldiers, one embracing the other. The one with their back to the viewer is wearing very tight, mid-thigh shorts

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's your last day to enter our book giveaway competition! Get those entries in now!! 👍🏛️🍑 + 💙🩷

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Highlighting your best asset 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Roman copy of a greek torso of Aphrodite, c.100 ACE from The Burrell Collection 😁

A stone statue of a figure, with two spotlights on the statue's bum

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hotties, @proud-geek.co.uk AND the best bum in comics? Check this out from Museum Bums' co-curator @jackshoulder.bsky.social .

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📣Don't forget, our book giveaway competition, including a signed copy of brand new Hotties in Art 🩷💙 closes tomorrow! Have you entered yet? Have you entered for a second time on our Instagram yet?? 😁 📣

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When you open the curtains expecting a sunny morning, then remember we're over halfway through September already 😳 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Tadeusz Kantor's 'I Hold the Painting in Which I Am Painted as I Hold a Painting', 1987, from the 2026 Venice Biennale Thanks @spacedlaw.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A mixed media artwork of a painting of a body with arms stretched to either side of the rectangular black canvas. Where the paint ends at the wrists, 3D sculpture hands grip the frame of the painting. Below the painted bum at the bottom edge of the frame are a lined up pair of trousers with sculpted feet at the bottom

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Honey, I don't think this is a balcony!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Palace of the Vienna Bank (Palac Videnske Banknovi Jednoty) built between 1906 and 1908, sculpted by Frank Metzner Thanks @caroline-venezia.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A photo of two verdigris'd bronze sculptures on a rooftop. They're both standing on Tiptoe with their bodies facing away from the facade of the building but their heads turned to look down over their shoulders, as if they've just realised how high up they are

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Museum Bums' co-author and co-curator @jackshoulder.bsky.social has been exploring Hot Geeks for @proud-geek.co.uk to help celebrate his new book Hotties In Art! You can find Hotties wherever you buy books, including the fabulous Proud Geek Bookshop.

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Don't Throw Bouquets At Me", by Jeff Miller, on display recently as part of "New York City: A Culture of Queer", exhibition at Prince Street Project Space 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A sculpture of a figure stood with hands on hips, with one foot up on a disembodied head, and a thrown bouquet behind them

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy Museum Bums' 3rd Book Birthday, everyone! 📣🚨 GIVEAWAY KLAXON 🚨📣 You can win signed copies of Museum Bums and Hotties in Art 👍🏛️🍑 + 💙🩷!! Follow, like, and comment on this post tagging a friend, to enter. Closes 18/9. Announcement 19/9 (UK only!)

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Goh Mishima was an artist thriving in the growing queer subcultures in post-WW2 Tokyo. He published "Sabu" (named after his favourite gay barman 🥰) from his apartment from c1970-1988 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums His artworks are now part of the permanent collection at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York 😁

An ink illustration showing a figure laid on the floor with one leg flat and the other bent with the knee in the air. The figure's arms are flexed above their head showing off armpit. The only colour on the artwork is the figure's red underwear and their tattoo covering their left chest, shoulder and upper arm

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you're not sure what's in your dog's mouth, but you know you won't enjoy finding out 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is a 15th century stone carving of a demon consuming a naked figure on St Michael's Church, Laxton, in Nottinghamshire, UK 😁 Thanks @planet_anus for sharing

A photo of a stone carving showing a demon with their mouth open wide and inside is a view of the bottom half of a figure holding their bumcheeks

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, Ody, we know boats are supposed to go forwards, but *someone* steered us into the shallows... 👀 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Odyssey - Departure from the Land of the Cyclops, c1859, by Friedrich Peller the Elder, from the Neues Museum Weimar, Germany. Thanks @antonio_explores for sharing 😁

A painting of Odysseus stood on his ship pointing forwards, while his crew all try and push and haul it backwards ready to set sail

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tschabalala Self's "Lady in Blue" is unveiled on the Fourth Plinth. Tschabalala says "She is not an idol to venerate or a historic figure to commemorate, She is an everyday person ... She is striding forward into our collective future with ambition, purpose and optimism." 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

An illustration of "Lady in Blue", a statue striding forward wearing a bright blue fancy dress with matching heels and a black necklace, with her hair up in a bun

A photo of the same statue from the front, in place on the fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Harry Holland was the 2nd leader of the Labour Party in New Zealand, and died unexpectedly while attending the funeral of the Maori King Te Rata Mahuta in 1933. His monument in Wellington Cemetery reads "He devoted his life to free the world from unhappiness, tyranny and oppression" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A cemetery monument depicting a nude figure stood, looking up, with smaller figures below them looking up at them

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Their secret handshake was 35 minutes in, and they were still only halfway through Act One 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Moscow Nudes, 1966, Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, from the Sir Francis Cook Gallery 😁

A painting showing two figures dancing together touching outstretched hands, and hips, with one touching their other hand to the other figure's shoulder. In the background is a hazy cityscape (presumably Moscow)

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

When the PT tells you to hold that stretch but you've got places to be 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Papillon, 1892, by Menga Schjelderup-Ebbe, from @nasjonalmuseet.bsky.social, Oslo Thanks Imogen for sharing 😁

A sculpture of a figure with butterfly wings sat in a very intimidating sideways split, with both hands on the ground in front of them

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The pole-dancing classes were going .... fine .... The tutor kept telling Ange she just had to "let go"... 🤷‍♂️ 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "The Perfume Bearer", 1923, by Victor Brecheret, at the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Spain Thanks @eloisarodrigues.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A bronze sculpture of a figure holding up a jar, but it looks like the top of a pole-dancing pole, especially with the circular base

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Thinking it was a person in distress, Vancouver police and firefighters broke into Access Gallery to assist this sculpture of a worker unboxing an artwork, called "The Preparator", 2024, by Allysa Pierre 🤣 www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/03/a... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A sculpture showing a reinforced plywood box, with the lid open and the bum and legs of a gallery worker sticking out of the top

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Another artwork ripe for Museum Bums' "Untitled Artwork Naming Service". We've decided this one is called "Who set the alarm for 6.15 and why was it me??" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Untitled", 1971, by David Pettigrew, from Robert Gordon University

A painting of a figure curled up on top of a bed

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ok, "Shock" and "Awe" are looking great, I don't know how long it took to do my hair because I wasn't there, and nobody knows I've got a great ass too. Time for a cup of ambition! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Jean-Frédéric Schall's "Morgentoilet", nd (18th century), from the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁

A painting of a figure getting dressed in a very opulent room, in front of a huge mirror. Their hair is already perfectly coiffured into a huge do

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When you're trying to sell your fancy red shoes on Vinted and just need a quick snap 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Big Batty Gal", by Elizabeth Prentis, as celebrated in @theguardian.com 's "The Cheek of It" article in 2021, about Skip Gallery's bum-focussed exhibition 😁

A painting showing a figure wearing only high-heeled red shoes, bending down to hold their phone between their feet, and holding their other arm above their head to balance

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today's power pose: arms up, feet shoulder-width apart, and repeat after us: "We can survive Wednesday! We *can* survive Wednesday!!" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Walking Male Torso, 1927, by Dora Gordine, from the Dorich House Museum, London 😁

A mottled green sculpture of a figure stood with legs shoulder width apart, and arms up

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ok, me, we've got this. It's only the short week after a Bank Holiday Monday, it can't be that bad!! 🤨 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Toilette, 1914, Pierre Bonnard, @tate.bsky.social , thanks for sharing, @mandapen.bsky.social 😁

A painting showing a figure stood in front of a mirror looking at themself

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Samson slaying a Philistine" by Giambologna was commissioned by a Medici in 1562, then gifted to the Duke of Lerna, then gifted to King Charles I of England, then gifted to 1st Duke of Buckingham, then to Hovingham Hall, Yorkshire, and then in 1954 it was acquired by the V&A 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A statue of two figures, one standing with a club raised and the other crouching but wrestling with the first one's legs

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It's the kind of Sunday where spending a bit of time with the Farnese Antinous is the best way to do it 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Farnese Antinous, c130 CE, from the Naples Archaeological Museum 😁

A black and white photo of a marble statue of the handsome young god boyfriend of Emperor Hadrian

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Is she wearing the...? The pink hot pants with black and white fringing? Yes she is. 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Standing Female Figure, by Roger Hilton, 1973, from the Ingram Collection of Modern Art 😁

A pastel sketch of a figure wearing pink hot pants with black and white fringing

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fingers through leg-hair, that dress that's barely there, that rainbow stuck in my hair, that's wiiiiiiitchcraaaaaaaaaaft 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Witchcraft, 1962-63, Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, from the Sir Francis Cook Gallery and @artukdotorg.bsky.social 😁

A painting of a witch casting a rainbow in a barely-there dress and with a skull

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There's a light over at the Frankenstein place 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, part of the BFI Archive We'd like to stop doing sad memorial posts and get back to silly bum puns now please 🥺

A transsexual Transylvanian sat on a chair with their legs kicked out in front of them,

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why'd you come in here lookin' like that In your cowboy boots and your painted-on jeans 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums “Rodeo Partners Gene Hubert and Rick Ferreira”, 1991, Blake Little, From the exhibition “Photographs From the Gay Rodeo” at the Autry Museum

A black and white photo showing two rodeo cowboys with their arms round each other's shoulder and waist, wearing jeans and leather chaps

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When it's been a hell of a week, but somehow it's still only Tuesday?!? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Maquette of a sculpture by George Young, 1987, from the People's History Museum in Manchester 😁

A model of a sculpture laying flat on their front with arms and legs outstretched and face down

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

We would have called this one "The Reluctant Dog" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Untitled", 1972, Ken Donaldson, Robert Gordon University 😁

A painting of a figure walking off the right side of the frame, holding a stick or taut cord in their hand, which is tied to something (perhaps a sleep dog) off the left side of the frame

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cracking artworks, Gromit! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Rodin's "The Snog", and a painting inspired by Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" from the museum heist set in "Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers", in the exhibition now at Young V&A (Bethnal Green, London) 😁

An Aardman-esque model of Rodin's "The Kiss" statue, and a similar reimagining of a Picasso painting in a model film set of a museum gallery

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ok, who's got a copy of the Women's Weekly? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Victoria Wood Songbook, cover illustration by Beryl Cook, 1984, from the Pride and Joy exhibition at @theboxplymouth.bsky.social earlier this year 😁

The cover of the Victoria Wood songbook with an illustration of a Beryl Cook figure sat at a grand piano wearing only a corset

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

By Week Two of rehearsals there was a side group chat with everyone but Terri in 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Actors in a Dressing Room, 1980, Jiri Borsky, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery @artukdotorg.bsky.social 😁

A painting of a scene in a small room, a brightly lit figure stands looking at themself in the mirror; four other darker figures are very pointedly ignoring them.

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And this is Kenny, and his emotional support chair 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Untitled, 1971, by Lily N Watts, Robert Gordon University

A studio painting of a figure standing holding onto the back of a chair

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