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@woid.bsky.social
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My name is Paul Werner and my paintings have footnotes. Publisher, The Orange Press. Founded 1973. Editor, WOID. A Journal of Visual Language. Founded 1999. Pronouns: Dr., PhD. theorangepress.substack.com

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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Little Hands
Review: Frederick C. Crews. Freud. The Making of an Illusion.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An unfortunate choice of words...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mamdani gets it theorangepress.substack.com/p/mamdani-ge...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You mean the artwork that shows the punishment that awaits those who protect sexual predators?
Aelfgyva assaulted, from the Bayeux Tapestry
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Urgent Support for Students Evacuating Gaza chuffed.org/project/urge...
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Urgent Support for Students Evacuating Gaza
Dear friends, family, and community,
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Actually, there's been a fantastic body for a while that's only coming into its own. I'm referring to August Aichhorn, whose "Wayward Youth" [Verwahrloste Jugend] appeared in 1925; and his colleague, Anna Freud, whose writings are only now coming into their own.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Come to think of it, "Wagner-Jauregg Prize" would work better. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was the "brilliant" Viennese doctor who first got fame for "curing" soldiers of shell-shock by attaching electrodes to their balls;
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The best analysis of el-Sayed's victory I've read so far. Warning: a "Milégnole" is the French expression for a a voter born circa 2000... youtu.be/qmvQEJU_kJE?...
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Victoire d’Abdul El-Sayed dans le Michigan : un moment de bascule pour la gauche états-unienne ?
YouTube video by Journal l'Humanité
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
bsky.app/profile/elis... Parce que pour la droite, le seul suicide « responsable », c’est le suicide pour la Grandeur et la Nation. Les autres, ils s'en foutent.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Well gol-darn shucks. (Some MAGA-brained slop from Hillsdale, uh "College.")
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's all about the Walter Benjamins: open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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Mess in Venice #6
At the Biennale: Pirates of the Adriatic
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Mess in Venice #5
Voluntary Memories
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Carlo Ginzburg has died.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
More on the Venice Biennale: open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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Mess in Venice #4
Curating the Town
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Seen in Rome:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Cicadahood as the operating principle of the Venice Biennale: open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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Mess in Venice #3
Biennale of Redundancy Biennale
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Mess in Venice #2
Upriver from the Biennale
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
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Mess in Venice #2
Upriver from the Biennale
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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MESS IN VENICE #1
Splendors of the Biennale
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
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The Man with a Urinal
Marcel Duchamp at the Museum of Modern Art
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gorgone71.bsky.social @gorgone71.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
8.05.1945 : massacre colonial à Sétif et Guelma alors que l'Europe fête la victoire contre le nazisme, l'armée française tire sur une manifestation algérienne pacifique à Sétif ce qui provoque la colère de la population et embrase la région qui se retrouve alors dans
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Problem solved:
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Ceci n'est pas un brushstroke
Roy Lichtenstein at Gagosian
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Article denouncing capitalist exploitation can be downloaded for a mere $56.00. Uh-huh.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Raphishing
Raphael at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New listings: theorangepress.substack.com/p/bad-times-...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The problem isn’t that [Carol Bove] fails because she’s a decorator, no more than the kettle-drummer fails for playing the kettle-drum. The problem is, that she fails on her own terms, which happen, incidentally, to be the terms of an interior decorator. open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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Guggenheim 1, Visitors 0
The Guggenheim does Carol Bove
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
ACTION ALERT: Wednesday 2/25: 9:00-10:00 am Rally and hearing against buffer zone bills before New York City Council. theorangepress.substack.com/p/menin-meni...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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Winter Smarm Warning
Jason the Art Critic
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
An unfortunate choice of words: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
SCHOOL OF EPSTEIN David A. Ross at the School of Visual Arts; Philip Guston at the Musée Picaso open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Ooh. Getting doxxed by some wannabe wevowutionary. [FLUSH]
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Picking a Bonaparte
Jacques-Louis David at the Louvre
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
“The monopoly on the productions of mind-labor will only be broken along with the monopoly on the productions of manual labor.” open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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SCACNY. The Socialist Cultural Authority of the City of New York
Red Vienna and Mamdani New York
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Bad Times #2
More listings. More snide comments
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Someone help me out. What the Hell is a "Leninist commune." nypost.com/2026/01/03/u...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
And a Happier New Year!
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
“As Philippe de Montebello awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a gigantic insect.” open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Review: "Divine Egypt"
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Bad Times for Art
Gallery listings and snide comments
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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The Mamdani Effect
Art World Politics
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Badass Breuer
The Studio Museum in Harlem in its new building
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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Joyeux Baudiniversaire!!
Aujourd’hui, nous commémorons la mort exemplaire d’un politicien modèle.
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Happy Baudinsday to You! open.substack.com/pub/theorang...
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Happy Baudinsday to You!
Today we commemorate the exemplary death of a typical politician
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
You gotta hate the cost of admissions at the Museum of Modern Art; unlike the Met, you gotta love the professionalism. theorangepress.substack.com/p/when-the-l...
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The Orange Press @woid.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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