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Fai_Ryy
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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The Bright Sessions
The Bowery Presents
Game of Thrones Daily
taylor price
ellievsbear
occasionally subtle
roma★
Cosimo Galluzzi
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bliss lane
Phantogram Three
Claire Keane
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
The Stonewall Inn
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@phantomreason
I dedicate the present retablos to the Virgin of the Solitude for saving our lives, when we were struck by a lightning, and the deck got on fire, and we were under the threat of shipwreck. We implored to save our lives, and, since we were saved, we now dedicate this retablo.
Capitan Medina August 22, 1928, Veracruz
I didn’t know they sounded like this, I always just assumed they would sound like one of those ultra blownout mysterious-guy hardcore bands.
Black leaders are being challenged by a new wave of progressives of color. They're not happy.
Jamaal Bowman, a DSA-backed middle school principal, last month defeated longtime Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the powerful 16-term chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who drew support from powerful members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). Engel complained that intra-party primary challenges were a "very dangerous thing for party unity" even though he won the seat in a primary in 1988.
Some of the challenges have targeted longtime Black leaders, who have complained that the progressive insurgency risks undermining the work of longtime Black lawmakers amid Black Lives Matter protests around the country.
Last week, Black Lives Matter organizer Cori Bush, who was backed by the Justice Democrats, defeated longtime Rep. Lacy Clay, D-Mo., for a seat Clay's family has held for more than 50 years. Bill Clay, the incumbent congressman's father, served in the House for 16 terms and was one of the founding members of the CBC, which adamantly supported Clay's re-election.
Bush, who unsuccessfully challenged Clay in 2018, was outraised by the 10-term incumbent, but outside spending from Justice Democrats and other progressive groups helped level the playing field in the race.
Clay complained about "outside money from sources associated with Bernie Sanders," who had endorsed Bush, after the defeat, even though Bush raised nearly $200,000 less than her opponent. [...]
Clay dismissed Bush's "empty rhetoric" and argued that a young progressive could not fill his role in the House.
"There is no substitute in life for substance," he said. "Substance is so relevant to people. That's why there's been a Clay there for the last 52 years."
Critics pointed out that both Clay and Cleaver helped Republicans approve a gerrymander in 2011 that secured a legislative majority for the GOP while drawing safe districts for the two Black lawmakers. Bush, who gained prominence for her role in the 2014 Ferguson protests after the police killing of Michael Brown, also criticized Clay over his absence during the demonstrations. [...]
Assemblymember Walter Mosley, a Black incumbent in a Brooklyn district that has experienced rapid development and considerable gentrification, was defeated by DSA-backed activist Phara Souffrant Forrest, a Black woman, after being criticized for accepting money from real estate developers. Mosley blamed his loss on "outside forces, coupled with the exorbitant number of people who are first time and ideologically-driven voters."
Another Black lawmaker, Assemblymember Tremaine Wright, lost an open Senate primary to math teacher Jabari Brisport, who is also Black, for a seat held by longtime Black legislative leader Velmanette Montgomery since 1985.
Laurie Cumbo, the majority leader of the New York City Council, who had endorsed both Mosley and Wright, blamed the "gentrification movement" for the upset defeats.
Cumbo, who herself staved off a primary challenge from Brisport in 2017, falsely claimed that the DSA-backed candidates received "over 75 percent" of campaign contributions from out of state and "mostly Seattle." Less than 1% of solicited contributions to Forrest and Wright were from Seattle, although Crain's New York recently reported that DSA-backed candidates in New York have received significant help from out-of-state finance, tech and nonprofit leaders. [...]
Cumbo claimed that "this new movement" was using "Black candidates as a trojan horse" to advance the "white agenda."
Cumbo, who opposes defunding the New York Police Department, feuded with Brisport after he marched with 200 protesters to her home to demand the City Council slash police funding. She told Kings County Politics that the DSA was using "individuals like Jabari to run for office to carry their agenda until our neighborhoods become majority white." Though "defunding the police" does not poll particularly well overall, surveys suggest it is far more popular among Black voters than white voters.
Brisport also questioned Cumbo's opposition to gentrification, citing her contributions from the real estate lobby.
"The gentrifiers are the real estate lobbyists, the developers, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) that helped Cumbo get elected in 2013," he told BK Reader.
Cumbo has faced similar criticism for years, though she has repeatedly denied that she was in the pocket of REBNY, which has been accused of predatory development policies and reportedly spent more than $200,000 to help Cumbo win her 2013 race.
Stephane Salvi, Démocratie 2020
The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy.
Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the C.S.A., offered a political manifesto for the slaveholders’ new republic. Training his sights on the eight upper-South states that were still refusing to secede, he offered a blunt assessment of the difference between the old Union and the new. The original American Union “rested upon the assumption of the equality of the races,” he explained. But “our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas: its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery is his natural … condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based on this great … truth.” A statue of Alexander Stephens now stands in the U.S. Capitol; it is one of a group that includes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, targeted for removal.
Paolo Pedrizzetti – Milan, May 14, 1977
“Remember this image, it will become exemplary of our century.” – Umberto Eco
This photo was taken by Paolo Pedrizzetti in Milan during the riots. The image became synonymous with The Years of Lead, and spoke of the culmination of years of struggle between neo-fascists and the radical left to control the political future of the Italian Republic.
Mark Rothko, The Harvard Murals, 1962-1963
Panel One Panel Two Panel Three Panel Four Panel Five The modern installation shots Panel Five at Harvard in 1968 Mark Rothko in front of “Panel Two” and “Panel Three” inside Holyoke Center in 1963
The following is edited from ART NEWS:
Harvard university commissioned Rothko to create a series of murals in the 1960s. Unfortunately, the canvases were displayed in a room with floor-to-ceiling windows, and the steady exposure to bright sunlight caused the works’ vibrant colors to fade over time. Eventually, they were removed to storage and largely forgotten.
The university was mindful of the art historical value of the works, and, in 2013 applied for and received an AXA ART Conservation Research Grant. AXA provides research support for conservation projects, and helped Harvard with technical analysis and the development of a brand new methodology for conserving the Rothko murals.
Thanks to the grant funding, Harvard was able to conduct innovative research and technical analysis, inventing a light-based conservation and treatment methodology for Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals that utilizes custom-made software, as well as a system employing a camera and a projector.
Unlike traditional restoration methods, which involve physically altering the original work, the Harvard project did not work with paints or pigments to readjust the work’s hue or tone. Instead, a light-based method of noninvasive restoration tailored specifically to the Rothkos’ needs was specially created.
Recent photos of each mural were analyzed and compared to 1960s-era images depicting the original, unfaded color. Next, a “compensation image" was calibrated and sent to a digital projector that overlaid colored light that illuminated the paintings and restored their intended appearance, pixel by pixel
A group of art historians, conservation scientists, conservators, and scientists at Harvard, the MIT Media Lab, and the University of Basel, Switzerland, teamed up to complete the restoration and its accompanying research. The five Rothko murals will soon be ready to go back on display as part of an exhibition that will reveal the pioneering computer-based techniques used to restore the paintings’ formerly rich colors.
Visitors will be treated to a time capsule view of the illuminated canvases, now bearing their original colors. The projectors will also be turned off at least once each day, providing the opportunity to study the unadulterated canvases and to truly grasp the nature of the groundbreaking restoration.
The five Harvard Murals will be returned to their original home in the penthouse dining room of Harvard University’s Holyoke Center, in the same configuration they were first installed, fifty years ago, in 1964. A sixth Rothko completed for the project but never exhibited will also be on display, as well as related drawings and studies for a total of 38 works by the artist.
More here
Rare mostly unseen sixth panel here
Studies and alternate scans here
Chosen Site, 1940, Paul Klee
Seminal punk label Dischord has gifted us with their entire catalog for free on Bandcamp. That includes albums from Fugazi, Minor Threat, Da
Free to stream but that's not nothing.
Tales of Genji VI, 1998, Helen Frankenthaler
Medium: woodcut,paper
https://www.wikiart.org/en/helen-frankenthaler/tales-of-genji-vi-1998
On this day, 2 May 1967, a group of Black Panthers armed with rifles and shotguns marched into the California State Capitol protesting against a gun control bill which was targeting them. To fight police violence and harassment against African-Americans, the Panthers used radios to listen to police calls, then members would attend scenes of arrest with law books and openly carrying shotguns – which was legal – and advise arrestees of their constitutional rights. To stop this self defence against the police, authorities brought in the Mulford Bill – dubbed the “Panther Bill” by the media – to ban the open carrying of loaded firearms in public. The National Rifle Association supported Republican governor Ronald Reagan in signing the legislation. To learn more about the Panthers, check out these books written by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/black-panthers https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1415796105272202/?type=3
Sir Richard Bishop — Oneiric Formulary (Drag City)
Oneiric Formulary by Sir Richard Bishop
It’s strange to encounter an album that is so deeply weird and disjointed, and yet feels polished and made with the utmost craft. The result is otherworldly, and plays like a soundtrack to a moody and impressionistic film. Bishop is known for his work with the guitar, often in veins inspired by the world’s non-western traditions (exemplified on past albums like Intermezzo and Tangiers Sessions). Echoes of these forays into mixing of harmonically complex scales with American Primitive/Guitar Soli sensibilities appear here. However, they don’t occupy the totality of the album, which ventures further afield into his at times droney, disquieting and atonal compositions. Where Bishop takes it into non-guitar territory, the use of each instrument/sound is a match for his skill with six strings. The journey between spacey soundscapes and folk-form sketches takes you out of the familiar and brings you back again in a new context.
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Woman with Parrot, 1941, Fernand Léger
Medium: mixedtechnique,paper
Workers, 1922, David Burliuk
Medium: oil,canvas
https://www.wikiart.org/en/david-burliuk/workers-1922
The Residents - Easter Woman
Happt Easter
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon's strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers.
kinda surprised that nobody’s pointed out that this strategy revolves around treating smalls, a black guy who speaks like a blue collar worker, as alien to amazon’s liberal white collar consumer base, and the class and race politics there
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