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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 14/09/2026

🥁 Frances Carroll & Her Coquettes "Snake Charmer" (1939) The pioneering all-female swing band Coquettes, features a solo by drummer Viola Smith, known for her massive drum setup and aggressive, theatrical swing style. #MusicSky #SwingMusic #BigBand #WomenInMusic

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Frances Carroll & Her Coquettes Featuring Drummer Viola Smith

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 14/09/2026

🎨 Evelyn De Morgan "Queen Eleanor and the Fair Rosamund" (circa 1901–1902) De Morgan uses Pre-Raphaelite symbolism to contrast the two figures. While Queen Eleanor is accompanied by imagery like bats & monkeys to signify jealousy, Rosamund is surrounded by white roses & cherubs representing purity.

A Pre-Raphaelite oil painting by Evelyn De Morgan depicting Queen Eleanor standing over her husband's mistress, Fair Rosamund. Eleanor wears an intricate purple and gold patterned gown and holds a red glass flask, tracing a thin red thread that guides her through a maze visible through the doorway. Dark, shadowy figures of monkeys and bats float in the air behind her. Rosamund sits on a wooden bench dressed in a rich red dress, looking up anxiously while surrounded by small, winged cherubs.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 14/09/2026

🎨 Hanno Karlhuber "The Hermit's Friend" (1987) This piece belongs to Karlhuber's Energy of Space series. The Austrian painter utilizes oil tempera on wood to simulate a textured, alien terrain where a glowing celestial body hangs above the floating rocks of an asteroid belt. #art

An oil tempera painting by Hanno Karlhuber titled "The Hermit's Friend," depicting a vast asteroid belt floating in the deep blackness of outer space. Dozens of dark, jagged rocky asteroids drift across the canvas under a dark blue cosmic sky. A vibrant orange and yellow sun breaks from behind a massive rock formation near the center, casting a fierce red and orange rim light across the rough, textured surfaces of the surrounding stones.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026

🎨 Cab Calloway & The Nicholas Brothers "Jumpin' Jive" (1943) Cab Calloway was a legendary American jazz bandleader known for his energetic scat singing. This clip from Stormy Weather captures an explosive performance that captures the big band showmanship that he made him such an icon.

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Cab Calloway & The Nicholas Brothers - Jumpin Jive

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026

🎨 Edward Mason Eggleston "Isle of Dreamy Melodies" (1925) Eggleston was an American illustrator celebrated for his romanticized commercial portraits. This oil work, published by Brown & Bigelow as a calendar print, evokes a moonlit Hawaiian paradise that captures the era's fascination with escapism.

Edward Mason Eggleston "Isle of Dreamy Melodies" (1925)

An oil painting features a woman with red hair sitting on a grassy shoreline at night under a full moon, playing a banjo ukulele. She looks upward with a gentle smile, dressed in a traditional grass skirt, orange floral leis around her neck and wrists, and a flower in her hair. Warm moonlight illuminates her face and legs, casting a bright reflection on the dark water behind her, while dark, silhouetted palm trees frame the scene.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026

🎨 Paul Corfield "Ocean View" (2018) is a contemporary British painter known for his highly stylized, geometric landscapes. This oil piece builds a soft, blended glaze over rolling hillsides framing a vast sea, creating an idealized dreamscape of absolute stillness and order. #art #contemporaryart

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026

🎨 Paul Evans "Meadow and Moon" utilizes a complex mixed-media technique, blending watercolor, acrylic, & ink to paint contemporary British landscapes. This work highlights his signature attention to light, framing a wild meadow beneath the intense, glowing silhouette of a low-hanging night moon.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026

🎨 Christopher Nevinson "The Wave" (1917) Nevinson was a leading British figure in Vorticism and Futurism. The churning energy of a crashing ocean wave is transformed into a sleek, sensuous image.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 10/09/2026

🎨 Craig Everett "Nearly Home" (2024) Yorkshire artist Craig Everett brings an urban, graphic-design background to his contemporary landscapes. This work captures a nostalgic view of streets at dusk, balancing the textured brickwork with the warm glow of streetlights guiding the way. #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 09/09/2026

🎨 Hanno Karlhuber "In the Red of the Night" (1985) This work belongs to Karlhuber's Energy of Space series. The Austrian painter uses oil tempera on wood to simulate a textured, alien terrain, where a large star hangs directly above the undulating ridges of a cooling planet. #art #artsky

n oil tempera painting by Hanno Karlhuber depicting the surreal, glowing surface of a distant planet under a massive sun. The landscape is filled with rows of rounded, stone-like formations that fade toward the horizon under a dark blue sky. The foreground structures are illuminated with a deep crimson and fiery red underglow, contrasting with the brilliant yellow celestial body radiating light from the top center of the canvas.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 09/09/2026

🎷🎵 Louis Prima "Night Train" (1957) Originally a slow, sultry blues instrumental by Jimmy Forrest, Louis Prima and his backing band transformed this tune into jump blues classic. His version features blistering saxophone lines and a swing rhythm. #MusicSky #JumpBlues #SwingMusic

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Louis Prima - Night Train ('57).avi

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 09/09/2026

🎨 Paul Klee "Herbstblumen Stilleben" (1925) Klee painted this watercolor & oil still life while teaching at the Bauhaus. It reflects his theory of color relationships & geometric abstraction, transforming a vase of autumn flowers into an intricate patchwork of overlapping tones. #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 08/09/2026

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky "Moonlight in Naples" (1878) Aivazovsky painted this during his later career, returning to a favorite Italian setting that had brought him early fame. He relied on memory to construct the silhouettes of towering pines, and Mount Vesuvius puffing steam in the distance. #art #artsky

An oil painting by Ivan Aivazovsky depicting a serene, moonlit view of the Bay of Naples at night. A luminous full moon breaks through soft clouds, casting a bright silver reflection across the calm sea water where several ships are anchored. In the left foreground, two tall, dark stone pine trees stand prominently on a hill next to a small stone structure. In the background across the bay, the silhouetted volcanic peak of Mount Vesuvius rises softly under the moonlit night sky.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 08/09/2026

🎸 The Music Machine "Trouble" (1966) Sean Bonniwell’s crew laid down the blueprint for proto-punk with an aggressively dark, all-black aesthetic. This track hits hard with intense fuzz guitar lines and raw, snarling angst. #MusicSky #GarageRock #ProtoPunk

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The Music Machine - Trouble

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 08/09/2026

🎨 Dan McCarthy "Yellow Moon on the Rise" (2011) Dan McCarthy is a contemporary American artist based in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. To achieve the clean, velvety color separations of this print, he sketched his landscape with pen and ink before exposing individual films onto silk screen meshes.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 08/09/2026

🎨 Gilbert Spencer "Laundry Drying" (c. 1920) Overshadowed by his brother Stanley, Gilbert Spencer was a key twentieth-century landscape painter who taught at the Royal College of Art. He trained at the Slade School, focusing his work on the quiet rhythms of daily rural life. #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 08/09/2026

🎨 Lisa Benson "Lunar Light" (2019) This striking piece is a handmade reduction linocut built from eight distinct layers of ink rolled from a single block. Somerset artist Lisa Benson carved the complex plate to capture the dramatic way silver moonlight fractures through heavy night clouds. #art

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bobo tucci @no-flashlight.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve been listening to Sonic Youth for like two decades so sometimes I am inured to how good Daydream Nation is, but jfc it really is a perfect album. Just nonstop hits

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The Sprawl

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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌟 Mike will be in the Big Star Quintet lineup for this free show in Nashville. Hope you can check it out. ✨FREE NASHVILLE SHOW ALERT✨The Big Star Quintet play Nashville THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10 as part of the Neuhoff District River Steps Concert Series! @millsish.bsky.social

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 07/09/2026

🎨 Nicholas Roerich "Shadow of the Teacher" (1932) Roerich painted this Symbolist landscape using intense crimson and deep blue tempera. The work belongs to his Banners of the East series, capturing a spiritual presence within the stylized geography of the Himalayas #art #artsky #painting

A Symbolist landscape painting by Nicholas Roerich depicting a dramatic Himalayan mountain pass. On the left, massive rocky cliffs rendered in deep brown and glowing crimson textures rise steeply toward the sky. In the upper background, sharp, snow-covered mountain peaks catch bright sunlight against a dark blue sky. A pathway painted in vibrant yellow and gold tones sweeps down across the lower right foreground, contrasting with the dark hills behind it.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 07/09/2026

🗃⚠️✝️ The term Christian Nationalism isn't a modern badge of honor. It was explicitly pioneered in the 1940s by fascist demagogue Gerald L.K. Smith, emerging directly from clerico-fascism and pro-Nazi propaganda. #ChristianNationalism #Project2025 #History

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Armed and Anointed: Christian Nationalism in America - The Bohemian Star

Christian Nationalism’s history reveals a toxic fusion of white supremacy and authoritarianism, from Puritan roots and the KKK to modern extremist groups.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 07/09/2026

🎨 Romare Bearden "Circe" (1977) This collage is part of Bearden's Black Odyssey series, which reframes Homer's epic poem through the lens of African American culture. He depicts the mythical sorceress as a powerful conjure woman, using layered paper & foil to explore themes of ancestry, and survival

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 07/09/2026

🎨 Edvard Munch "The Wave" (1921)This piece showcases Munch's late Expressionist style through fluid brushstrokes. The sweeping lines of the terrain create a rhythmic movement across the canvas, using a muted palette to turn a shoreline view into a deep emotional state. #art #artsky

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 06/09/2026

🎵 📡 MASTER TRANSMISSION Bohemian Star presents our first single, "Bang it Out!"—a dark rock anthem targeting the police state & corporate greed. Available on Streaming 9/11. Available to Stream/Download on Bandcamp NOW: bohemianstar.bandcamp.com/track/bang-i... #Music #MusicSky #IndieMusic #VOTE

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Bang it Out Reel: (No More)

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Cut yourself loose. Get a little fresh air.

distressed vintage photo of an airborne carousel horse, having being thrown free of the carousel.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 04/09/2026

🎨 Diego Rivera "The Embrace" (1923) Rivera painted this as part of his mural cycle at the Secretariat of Public Education in Mexico City. The composition depicts his early style, focusing on regional themes of unity & sculptural forms that became foundational to the Mexican Muralism movement. #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 04/09/2026

🎨 József Marszewski "Nocturnal Landscape with Windmills" (1864) Marszewski was a 19th-century Polish artist who traveled widely across Europe to paint atmospheric nocturnes. This piece showcases his focus on the interplay between the bright moon & the heavy silhouettes of rural structures. #art

József Marszewski "Nocturnal Landscape with Windmills" (1864)

An oil painting depicting a dramatic moonlit landscape at night. A bright full moon breaks through a heavy, dark cloud layer, casting a brilliant silver reflection onto the calm surface of a wide river below. On the right bank, two large wooden post windmills stand as towering dark silhouettes on a grassy hill. Near the base of the main windmill, a small group of figures stands quietly in the darkness, entirely illuminated by the cool, diffused light of the moon.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 03/09/2026

🎨 Giovanni Grubacs "Piazza San Marco by Moonlight, Venice" (by 1919) Giovanni Grubacs specialized in vedute, a highly detailed genre of city landscape painting. His composition focuses on the contrast between the glowing moon and the intricate gothic architecture of the Doge's Palace. #art

Giovanni Grubacs "Piazza San Marco by Moonlight, Venice" (by 1919)
An oil landscape painting of Venice under a full moon at night. On the left stands the dark, ornate gothic facade of the Doge's Palace, with warm light glowing from a single large arched upper window. Two towering stone pillars, the Columns of San Marco and San Todaro, rise from the open stone square. Silhouetted figures stroll across the patterned pavement, while sailing ships rest on the water in the background beneath a deep teal sky filled with soft clouds.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 03/09/2026

🎨 August Malmström "Dancing Fairies" (1866)August Malmström was a Swedish painter known for historical works and folklore illustrations. In this romantic landscape, he transforms morning mist above a body of water into a swirling ribbon of ethereal, dancing figures beneath a low-hanging moon. #art

August Malmström "Dancing Fairies" (1866)
An oil painting depicting a mystical, moonlit landscape filled with a swirling ribbon of light. On the left side of the canvas, a low-hanging full moon casts a soft, hazy glow over a quiet body of water surrounded by dark trees and marsh reeds. Emerging from the water and curving through the air is a luminous, semi-transparent cloud of mist shaped into numerous tiny, ethereal fairies dancing hand-in-hand.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 03/09/2026

"The Ladies Of" is probably my favorite regional rock band, right now. James Hall is just as intense as he ever was. We are the WuWu, The heretic clerics, Preaching universal love, In the streets of America.

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The Ladies Of - We Are the Wu Wu

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 02/09/2026

🎨 J.🎨 József Rippl-Rónai "Sour Cherry Tree in Blossom" (1909) Rippl-Rónai introduced a French Les Nabis influence to Hungarian art. This piece showcases his corn period, using short, thick dabs of paint to form the textured canvas where dense pink and white blossoms overwhelm the scene. #art

József Rippl-Rónai "Sour Cherry Tree in Blossom"
An oil landscape painting executed in a post-impressionist style with dense, tactile brushstrokes. In the center, a woman wearing a long, flowing purple gown leans her back against the trunk of a large sour cherry tree. The upper portion of the canvas is filled with an expansive canopy of heavy white and light pink blossoms. Warm, dappled light breaks through the orchard foliage, illuminating the green grass below and a simple building structure visible in the background.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 02/09/2026

🎨 Margaret Preston "Mosman Bridge" (1927) This hand-colored woodcut reflects Preston's goal of building an Australian national aesthetic. She printed the black template from a single block, coloring the landscape with gouache. Her asymmetrical design is inspired by patterns from native flora. #art

Margaret Preston's hand-colored modernist woodcut print depicting a view of Mosman Bridge framed by native Australian flora. Thick black outlines define a large tree on the right and leafy green branches arching across the top. In the lower foreground, spiky fan palms flank a winding path leading to a blue body of water spanned by a dark latticed bridge. Across the water, rolling green hills are dotted with stylized green trees and structures featuring distinct terracotta-red roofs.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 01/09/2026

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky "The Galata Tower by Moonlight" (1845) He was renowned for his ability to recreate images from memory. He painted this dramatic landscape of Istanbul without using a live reference, relying instead on his recollections of his travels through the Ottoman empire. #art #painting

An oil painting depicting a panoramic, moonlit view of Istanbul and the Galata Tower. A brilliant, low-hanging full moon casts a glowing golden reflection across the wide waters of the Bosphorus Strait. On the left, the stone spire of the Galata Tower rises above dark city silhouettes and distant mosque minarets. In the foreground, multiple figures in traditional clothing stand on a grassy hilltop next to tall cypress trees and a building, looking out over the illuminated harbor under a vast, dark night sky.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 01/09/2026

This is a wonderful example of Open Impressionism. The bold, unblended oil strokes and the luminous light make this slow-moving creek look. Love the rich palette and the sense of movement in the stillness.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 01/09/2026

🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw, a self-taught artist from Leeds, left his job as a railway clerk to focus on night scenes. James McNeill Whistler famously noted that he considered himself the inventor of nocturnes until he encountered Grimshaw’s moonlit compositions. #art #artsky

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 31/08/2026

🎨 American painter N.C. Wyeth's (1933), "The Doryman (Evening) Port Clyde, Maine," shared by Edward. As a giant of the Brandywine School, Wyeth brings a powerful, narrative realism to the rugged coast. He captures a sense of atmospheric perspective, washing the sea in a warm twilight glow. #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 31/08/2026

🎨 British artist Jacqueline Osborn’s intimate 2014 oil on canvas, "Table in the Corner," shared by Frances Avery. Her structured composition and soft handling of interior tones create a magnificent, peaceful setting.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 31/08/2026

🎨 Dutch Modernist Leo Gestel’s Mediterranean landscape, "Mallorca, Terreno" (1914). He fractures a hillside village into a pulsing rhythm of warm peach facades, orange rooftops, and cool, interlocking greens. #art #painting #blueskyart #artsky #artist

A vibrant early 20th-century Cubist landscape painting by Leo Gestel titled "Mallorca, Terreno" (1914). The composition portrays a clustered hillside village rendered in flattened, interlocking geometric shapes and simplified planes. The dominant structure on the left is a tall, sun-drenched peach-yellow building with three tall rectangular windows, crowned by a warm orange-terracotta roof.

Sinuous, curved green forms representing Mediterranean foliage and trees are interspersed between the angular walls. On the right foreground stands a stark white house with a soft turquoise-green doorway. The entire village curves upward under a deep blue and violet ridge, bathed in a bright, harmonious play of light and subtle shadow gradients that capture the essence of a coastal environment.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 30/08/2026

🎨 Zdzisław Beksiński’s untitled masterpiece "AA78" (1978). Painted in oil on fiberboard during his "Fantastic Period," he constructs a rich, melancholic monument, balancing deep textures with a horizon of twilight color. #art #painting #blueskyart #artsky #artist #surrealism

A monumental, atmospheric dystopian surrealist painting by Zdzisław Beksiński titled "AA78" (1978). The composition centers on the massive, crumbling stone facade of a Gothic cathedral or archway structure. The architecture appears organic and skeletal, draped in heavy, creeping vines of a deep, saturated blood-red hue that bunch into a large column in the center. The open stone archways frame a luminous view of a clear, pale turquoise sky where a soft white moon hangs low near a dark doorway opening out to a distant sea shore.

The upper left corner of the canvas features a swirling, hazy atmosphere of deep mustard-yellow clouds packed with thousands of tiny, glittering golden stars and constellations, creating an intense, dreamlike contrast with the somber, dark brown tones of the decaying stone building below.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 30/08/2026

🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe’s legendary early masterpiece, "Blue and Green Music" (1919-21), shared by Women's Art. Painted in oil on canvas, this spectacular work highlights O'Keeffe's fascination with Synesthesia—the blending of different senses. #art #georgiaokeeffe #modernism #americanart

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 30/08/2026

An elegant, atmospheric piece by artist Je Shen, shared by pmamtraveller. Shen’s distinctive style relies on subtle color shifts and structured compositions to explore a deep sense of stillness. #art #painting #blueskyart #artsky #artist #contemporaryart #fineart

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 28/08/2026

🎵 Dropping some hard bop for our #TGIF moment. A live performance of "Moanin'" by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. The call-and-response structure and deep, swinging pocket provide the perfect grounding rhythm to close out the workweek. Have a great weekend! 🥁🎷 #music

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Moanin' - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Live

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 28/08/2026

🎨 California artist Dmitry’s stunning watercolor "Lake Ontario Painting," shared by Art My Old Friend. A magnificent, peaceful sanctuary of tone that stands as a reminder that geography outlasts executive orders. 🌊🗺️ #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 28/08/2026

🎨 British artist Reginald Brill’s mid-1950s work depicting an orange seller at Sudbury, Suffolk, shared by Richard. Brill's distinct style uses strong, grounded lines to capture a fleeting moment of street commerce, preserving the social heritage of post-war England. #art

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 28/08/2026

🎨 Vincent van Gogh’s Arles masterpiece, "Vase with Five Sunflowers" (1888). This oil on canvas was meant to decorate Paul Gauguin's bedroom during his visit to Arles. Tragically, this painting was destroyed during an air raid in Japan during WWII, #art #painting #artist

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 28/08/2026

🎨 Friday's exhibit: Belgian Symbolist Jean Delville’s, "The Treasures of Satan" (1895). He conjures a tangled, fiery river of sleeping figures, weaving raw eroticism & spiritual entrapment into an image of molten flame. #art #painting #blueskyart #artsky #artist

A monumental, dramatic Symbolist oil painting by Jean Delville titled "The Treasures of Satan" (1895). The composition is engulfed in a saturated, glowing monochromatic palette of fiery orange, amber, and molten gold, suggesting a deep subterranean furnace. Spanning diagonally across the canvas is a massive, dense, and erotic tangle of intertwined, sleeping nude human figures drifting in a collective, trancelike slumber.

Soaring above them on the left is the figure of Satan, rendered with a stylized, muscular physique and a crown of wild, electric red hair. He possesses large, sweeping, wing-like shapes made of red coral and long tentacles that curve across the blazing landscape. The background features a surreal landscape of jagged rock formations, creating an overwhelming atmosphere of mythic temptation and esoteric mystery.

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 27/08/2026

🎵 Putting some rhythm into this Thursday. The legendary 1984 concert film performance of "Crosseyed and Painless" by Talking Heads. As today's media cycle spins faster & wilder, their brilliant anxiety-fueled anthem about searching for truth feels entirely modern. 🥁🔥#music

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Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless - LIVE from Hollywood's Pantages Theater - HQ

YouTube video by Victor Basaldua

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The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com · 27/08/2026

The clever arrangement of polka-dot patterns across the silhouettes highlights Kusama's ability to make forms completely pop. It serves as a beautiful, graphic reminder of how her visionary themes transition across fine art, commercial design, and pop culture. #art #blueskyart #artsky #artist

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