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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

bus in San Francisco today, apparently conscious of the papal drama

a sf MUNI bus with an ad that says “agents are human too” big red wrap white text

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

listened to this and took the afternoon off to finally see it. the formal language from 2500 years ago is astonishing and the "Linen Book of Zagreb" may be one of the most historic things I've seen - a text cut up and stained because it was used to wrap an Egyptian mummy.

Etruscan bronze statues at the "Etruscans" exhibit, Legion of Honor SF https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/etruscans-heart-ancient-italy

ceramic vessels displayed in "Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy" exhibit, there's a water pitcher shaped like a horse and another pitcher with four long tubes leading to the mouth of the pitcher, with markings.

small Etruscan bronze vase (meant to hold perfume?), but it's inscribed with what translates to "for the tomb" meaning it should only be used to be buried with

back side of an Etruscan mirror carved with greek figures (holding knives?) from "Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italy" exhibit.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

seeing Harry Potter discourse brings to mind the Shatner Star Trek convention SNL skit

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the supermarket photo feels multi-layered

a person in a supermarket eating grapes (a behavior that gets you reprimanded at the supermarket) has a sly expression. There’s produce behind them as well as toys for sale (the nightmare of consumerism)

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

excellent story and on-brand for Philly that its most beloved painting is so visceral. (for whatever reason prefer seeing it when they hang it at PAFA)

a woman making a very dramatic hand gesture to hide her face from the bloody scene of Eakins "Gross Clinic"

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

incredibly another prominent art critic was doing the similar research as you and happened upon the same obscure Holzer three days after your blog post

boomer Jerry saltz sharing a Holzer quote that was published on Greg dot org 3 days ago - threads social network owned by Meta

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

thanks for the "120 Minutes" flashbacks. perhaps time to start a Spotify playlist of music with album covers inspired by "The Lightning Field"

"Section 25 – From The Hip" - a New Order adjacent group - illustrated album cover showing some highlands with painted poles that relate to designer Peter Saville's color letter codes.

"Third Plane" 1977 album cover by Miles Davis alumni super group Hancock/Carter/Williams (album is jazz standards so not as interesting as what Hancock was doing at the time) - photo seems to show a single pole in "Lightning Field" but there's no other visible poles, which makes it either edited or not the actual lightning field.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

add to this they had a tasteful grille and now it’s this weird oversized plastic mess that I guess appeals to tech bros

the aesthetic tragedy of the contemporary BMW grille, plastic and large

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

looking for before and after on street view, seems it took nearly a year from 2013-4

Screengrab of Google Maps showing Sherman statue covered up in 2013 during a re-gild

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“The Insider” (1999) holds up as both as surveillance drama and scathing critique of corporate journalism. Hopefully Wired doesn’t fold like Wallace and Hewitt. (better Michael Mann film than “Heat” imo)

screen grab of Insider with Crowe and Pacino inside a car

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Andy Warhol? illustrator of those great jazz albums?!

Andy Warhol jazz album cover illustration - on sea green/blue a woman laying down, shoes visible. Kenny Burrell

screen grab of Jim Downey on Conan, iconic joke where he acted like he'd never heard of Epstein's crimes

Andy Warhol jazz album cover illustration - a man holding a saxophone wearing a floral shirt. Johnny Griffin blue note, really good record.

Andy Warhol jazz album cover illustration - blue and red stripes that are piano keys, with hands playing them. typography "progressive piano"

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

TIL! it does show up in apple music, also notice he's been using this since 2017

a search for "Four Tet' in apple music interface

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Vaillancourt Fountain this morning - all that is left is the pool and presumably some of the plumbing. According to the renderings, this will someday be a mound of grass

color photo of the spot the Vaillancourt Fountain used to occupy, an empty pit. Ferry building in the background

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

did they upholster the sectional based on the warhol or pick the warhol based on the sectional

Warhol flowers don’t know if it’s a silkscreen or litho or what and a sectional that matches

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

seems to be one of those dumb things many people feel the need to weigh in on

Pete Souza espousing morality in art on Threads, the social network owned by Meta

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

saw this on FB marketplace, price seems almost too good to be true

FB marketplace screengrab of the fog city diner neon sign for sale

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

thank you maestro! 🙏 Saw some of MTTs best, but no matter where you live, whether you love classical or not, make the effort go see a symphony performed live! 📷 Jack Robinson 1969

Black and white portrait of Michael Tilson Thomas making hand gestures

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

unwisely searched eBay for "reel to reel jazz" after seeing this and the first return is Miles Bitches Brew for $178 with all the original packaging

reel to reel tape of Miles Davis Bitches Brew, grey metal

eBay listing for Bitches Brew, reel to reel tape, screen grab

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

reading the coverage, Oliver Wainwright asked Govan about the carbon footprint of so much concrete and Govan said it could last … 500 years?! Also this little detail about the debt, guess it’s never going to free admission

screen grab that says LACMA has 617M in debt

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

the next generation will come across photos of the idiosyncratic, inconvenient, not-beautiful sculpture and wonder why we replaced it with a rendering, slouching towards Blandistan

Black and white photo of vaillancourt fountain, a brutalist sculpture with textured surface tentacles framing the ferry building in the background

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

imagine having nostalgia for a Safeway

a handmade sign that reads “Safeway used to be sexy “ - presumably this refers to the marina Safeway being known as a singles meeting spot in the 70s, but now those people are wretched NIMBYs

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

San Francisco angle in Bouie's story: Wong Kim Ark was returning to SF in 1895 aboard SS Coptic, denied entry and kept for 5 months off the coast of SF, was freed on bail while the case progressed to scotus. Edison made a short film of the ship in SF bay:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6y...

black and white passport photo of Wong Kim Ark, chinese american, with close cropped hair and wearing traditional chinese shirt.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

along with relying on undocumented labor, useful context is this farmer and most of his neighbors get government subsides

USDA subsidies for zip code 54154, https://farm.ewg.org/

subsidies for O'harrow's Family Farm LLC, showing 1.9M in payments (1.1M in 2020) source https://farm.ewg.org/

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

interesting piece of bay area art on FB marketplace - artist is Agnès Varda's uncle Yanco, who was a fixture in Sausalito mubi.com/en/films/unc...

screen grab of FB marketplace showing listing for found wood art piece

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

took this photo (in the style of @christopherlhall.bsky.social) and realized its the spot where someone decided to reverse down hill, ended up on the stairs and killed a man. sf.streetsblog.org/2026/03/06/m...

a green pickup truck parked on a steep hill near a green building (green tortoise hostel) Kearney at Broadway, San Francisco

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Ugo would probably not approve of this crop

Ugo Mulas photo of CY Twombly pink sofa in Roma, but the photo has been cropped to fit in a 2x6 feet vinyl banner template, on sale today only at CVS dot com slash photo.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

current AI slop era began with colorized photos (using photoshop, by hand). the public was too lazy to look at b/w and use one second of imagination. now AI provides all the imagination.

a screengrab of Threads app. An anonymous poster has posted a photo of Mark Rothko standing in front of a painting, but it’s a color photo. the daily Rothko account points out it’s colorized. One credit lists his daughter as photographer, but could be his wife ?

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

went to the Philadelphia museum of art web store to buy a Duchamp book and was instantly charmed by this Gee’s Bend loveseat, whole collection is excellent store.philamuseum.org/home-office/...

a loveseat covered in a printed fabric that is a a gee’s bend quilt by Magdalene Wilson. cocker spaniel sits on the seat

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

california atheist when these stories scroll by

Still from raiders of the lost ark where Indy jones tells Marion not to look at the destructive super natural force of the opened Ark.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

essential documents of American life - Kanopy (in this case LA Public) has an excellent selection. "Aspen" (1991!) is really accessible place to start watching

screen grab of Kanopy streaming library of Frederick Wiseman films

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

happened to be on market for the giant rally yesterday- really strong energy

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

amazing work RIP! (“Ed Ruscha with Books” (1970))

artist Ed Ruscha in a patterned shirt, with a stack of his artist books on his head.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

“Yet today he is largely forgotten” - how does this get past fact check? 2 second search reveals the opposite

google (AI) results for which museum has Barnett Newman paintings on display

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

downtown SF, they put it in the "we were obliged to screen it" room with 40 seats. shout out to the masochists who booked front row.

seat map for Metreon SF screening of Melania doc

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

seems like you can still see city hall from that spot! (on certain days)

street view from 42nd street north showing a distant city hall

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I recognize the irrational gaze of a grown man who brings his dog to cafes, meetings with his accountant etc

“It’s normal to bring your dog everywhere “

my cocker spaniel getting espresso with my wife and I

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

wild to look up a set list for a show I attended 36 years ago and it was the encore

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

art exhibit poster seen in grocery store in Sausalito, California- IYKYK youtu.be/YQqxWrBHWxM?...

Poster with the word ‘varda’ hand written large and a wood cut print in red and pink

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

me, a Philly native, reading a positive review of the new Calder space on the parkway...

the Philadelphia flyers mascot gritty, an orange creature, making peace signs

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

wow these are so good, this one of the music critic Alex Ross, the large format comes through, the way he's shifted the focal plane to be the hands / face

black and white portrait of a man seated

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Heidi decided she wanted to type notes to people and of course we acquired this one (and a matching red one)

Olivetti valentine typewriter in white on a white desk

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

what were they thinking when they would coat books with thin plastic to give a glossy look (and inevitably peel off)? (Duane Michals: Warhol, Joseph Cornell, Duchamp)

Small Duane Michaels photo book with a glossy cover that is peeling

Duane Michals photo book spread showing portrait of Andy Warhol black and white photo

Duane Michals photo book spread showing portrait of joseph Cornell black and white photo

Duane Michals photo book spread showing portrait of Duchamp black and white photo

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

here’s changing the reading font on kobo, seems like it’s 2 seconds for the menu to pop up?

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