Bruce Hodges

One of the great paintings of the late 20th century, "Constructing the Grand Canyon" (1990, oil on canvas) by Mark Tansey (b. 1949), on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Zoom in to see the workers pushing blocks of text into place to create the walls walkerart.org/collections/...

Curtain call for SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, the new opera by composer Courtney Bryan (center), in its final performance this afternoon by Opera Philadelphia. Among many innovations, the set included abstract paintings by Lucy Tarquino, who created them onstage, while projected on the stage back wall

Courtney Bryan's new version of SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, at Opera Philadelphia 😊

Swedish poster for THE BLACK CAT (1941) Directed by Albert S. Rogell Starring Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi #Caturday

We went and saw Anne Waldman tonight at the Anthology for the Waldman doc "Outrider," which I liked, and a Q&A that was just poets free associating, which was sort of hilarious.

French artist and Illustrator Bruno Mallart Pavane (pigment ink on Diasec and Dibond) #BrunoMallart #ContemporaryArt

Early Saturday Puts a lid on Friday’s vim Prudently hit pause #haiku #poetry

Tonight's viewing - "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" directed by Stuart Paton

Like Spirits in the Night Group of Chimbu Skeleton tribesmen gathered around the fire 📍Papua New Guinea 📷Roberto Pazzi #flickr flic.kr/p/2qoCRUN

Armando Scaramucci. Memory of fire. 2016

Mamdani bought out three theaters to show the new documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem for free this weekend. You know what, I’m sick of yall and your fancy mayor. Sick.

Alice Trumbull Mason, American artist, writer and a founding member of the American Abstract Artist group in New York City. Flying Wedges (oil on canvas, 1974) #AliceTrumbullMason #AbstractArt

Self Portrait Britta Noresten, pencil and powdered graphite, 2016 www.florenceacademyofart.edu/faculty/brit... #art #drawing

Fred Herzog Hastings, 1956

Here we go. In Eindhoven for Dutch design week!

From COUNTERTENOR, the new album by Anthony Roth Costanzo that comes out tomorrow, "In Darkness Let Me Dwell" by John Dowland And that's Dušan Balarin on lute

😱 🎃 Halloween Terror 🎃😱

Catherine Deneuve by Jerry Schatzberg, 1965.

Milwaukee Brewers master uniform lettering, 1993. This was the last design job I did via traditional methods, just as digital technology was beginning to really take hold. Hand drawn on tracing paper w/ pencil, I then inked the final art on vellum. I'll be posting more from the rebrand along the way

#StreetArt Banksy, Borodyanka, Ukraine.

winesap plums, painted by amanda almira newton, 1928

The inaugural design triennial “Beyond Materialism” has transformed the Minneapolis museum into a dreamscape of uncanny objects.

Accidental Hitchcock

As usual, the analogies write themselves.

Austrian playwright/novelist Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in #Literature for her "for her musical flow of voices & counter-voices in novels & plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés & their subjugating power." Born #OTD in 1946. #BookSky

Artists loved painting insects in their still lifes. From ants and butterflies to crickets and bees, even the tiniest living creatures found their way to the canvas. 🐝🌿🐞 👁️ https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/set/Insecten--fbabc577-b5ed-45ae-91c6-08df134a6a6b

Matchbox, 20 October

WildLand Mixed Media Collage www.ianrpearsall.co.uk/blog/terraat...

This morning, I ran into a friend who has ended up on the streets. I offered them what little help I could. It was basically just a sandwich. It was a reminder of how close any of us could be to that world and also how few services there are for people really struggling.

October 19, 1954 and it's Held Over By Popular Demand at Vintage Edmonton: http://www.vintageed... #yeg #alberta #edmonton #1950s #WizardOfOz

Pet'a Sauk' and his mother, Oklahoma, between 1900-33, Clara Falls Postcard Collection. A new acquisition of The Newberry Library in Chicago #photography

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

In case you forgot what a U.S. president beloved by the world looks like. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Live in Manchester: An Evening with President Barack Obama. The arena holds up to 23,500 people with standing room, and the event was SOLD OUT.

Chip Thomas, a retired physician on the Navajo Reservation, is well known for his large photograhpic murals. Now, he's been recognized with a MacArthur "genius" grant. n.pr/4zH1q6U

#streetart. Artiste. Ze Carion

#NoKings in my house — except me

Opening night at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, with violinist Jennifer Koh and composer/pianist Vijay Iyer. Koh began with Bach's Partita in D Minor, Iyer did a solo set of short works (1994-2024), and the two joined for his Scenes of Living and Dying, Parts I and II (2026)

"Police confirmed they had responded to a report of "criminal mischief involving a robot"" is something I never imagined would happen in real life