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Kazimir Malevich Morning in the Village after Snowstorm, 1912 Guggenheim Gallery Ryan Murphy New York City blizzard, February 23, 2026

Roy Lichtenstein in his Manhattan studio 📷 Thomas Hoepker, 1982

Hanging out in Andy Warhol's studio 📷 Fred W. McDarrah, 1964 left to right: Tom Wesselman, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg

Roy Lichtenstein Brushstroke 1965 Museum of Modern Art "He turned his refrigerating gaze upon a fundamental cynosure of meaning in art: the painter's brushstroke, which comprehends the world in a gesture." - Peter Schjeldahl

On Roy Lichtenstein's birthday I'm listening to Lou Harrison's Piano Concerto, played by Keith Jarrett, from 1988. The cover features Lichtenstein's painting "Artist's Studio No. 1 (Look Mickey)", from 1973. album.link/y/OLAK5uy_lQ...

Roy Lichtenstein by David Seidner, 1992 He said his art was "anti-contemplative, anti-nuance, anti-getting-away-from-the-tyranny-of-the-rectangle, anti-movement & anti-light, anti-mystery, anti-paint-quality, anti-Zen."

Roy Lichtenstein Cup of Coffee, 1972 ☕️ Need the caffeine!

Roy Lichtenstein by Nancy Lee Katz January 14, 1986 "Roy got the hand out of art, and put the brain in." - Larry Rivers

Remembering Roy Lichtenstein on his birthday 🎂 📷 Thomas Hoepker, New York, 1982 "It is an art of self-effacement. Ever bright as a button, his work scarcely touches on personal feeling, let alone real-world experience." - Peter Schjeldahl

On Dylan Thomas's birthday, this wonderful rendition of his great poem "Under Milk Wood" by Michael Sheen www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAo5...

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. - Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6...

Dylan Thomas by Weegee, early 50s "Thomas’s poetry is so narrow — just a straight conduit between birth & death, I suppose—with not much space for living along the way." - Elizabeth Bishop

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out." - Dylan Thomas 📷 Francis Reiss, 1946

On Dylan Thomas's birthday, a picture of his writing shed, at his home in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales 📷 Epics, May 1979

Eileen Agar Head of Dylan Thomas 1960 Tate Collection Agar painted this small portrait of the poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) seven years after his death from a sketch she had made more than twenty years earlier.

Remembering Dylan Thomas on his birthday 🎂 📷 Erich Auerbach, 1945 "Music and truth, the qualities of all great writers, are what convinces us to read him, to believe him." - Gillian Clarke

Lee Krasner Still Life Museum of Modern Art "Don’t think too much about optimism & pessimism; try & catch the color of life itself." - Henry James

Lee Krasner talks with Elaine de Kooning, while Jackson Pollock talks with Willem de Kooning 📷 Jack Calderwood, 1950

Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock washing & drying the dishes. 📷 Martha Holmes for Life Magazine, 1949

Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock are the Clara & Robert Schumann of painting.

A lovely portrait of Lee Krasner by Ray Eames "There was this luminance and brilliance she brought to everything. She had a brain like a laser." - John Bernard Myers

Lee Krasner by Fred Prater, c. 1940 This shot was taken at the WPA Pier, New York City, where she was working on a WPA commission

This amazing portrait: Lee Krasner by Irving Penn Springs, NY 1972 "Like Mondrian, she was a beacon of a certain kind of integrity. She had an absolute inability to compromise with anything." - Barbara Rose

Lee Krasner's studio, photographed by her close friend Ray Eames

Evelyn Hofer Lee Krasner's shoes Long Island, 1988

Lee Krasner by Ernst Haas, 1981 "Tough, diligent, and deadly serious about the history of art, Krasner might have been the most intelligent of the painters who convinced the world in the late 1940s that New York had displaced Paris as the epicenter of modern art." - Jason Farago

A great Lee Krasner portrait by Hans Namuth In her studio in the barn, Springs, New York, 1962

Remembering Lee Krasner on her birthday 🎂 📷 Tony Vaccaro, 1953 "The painting I have in mind, painting in which inner and outer are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subjects and moves into the realm of the inevitable."

Fun fact about October 27 Today we celebrate the birthdays of: Lee Krasner Lee Greenwood American lawyer Lee Carter English footballer Lee Clark +John CLEEse

My review of Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s new album of Schoenberg’s music for piano. several-instruments.blogspot.com/2026/10/cons...

My review of Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s new album of Schoenberg’s music for piano. several-instruments.blogspot.com/2026/10/cons...

Good night, Bluesky John Pfahl Sunset at Fort Niagara August 1985

Me and the regular group who like my posts

Bluesky has four kinds of users

Me and the regular group who like my posts

Highly intelligent breed of geese in Victoria

Me and the regular group who like my posts

Me and the regular group who like my posts

Me and the regular group who like my posts

Me and the regular group who like my posts

Janet Mevi for Look magazine New York in the Summertime, 1949 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAI...

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Harvey Wang Elgin Opening, 1977