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"Imagine describing a dog to someone who's never seen one before and then asking them to draw it. They might get some things right, you know, but there is no way they would get everything right, you know? The devil is in the details." - Backrooms (2026)

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When I was a museum guard at the Guggenheim in New York in 2015-16 a visitor got furious with me because they were convinced that the painting was at the Guggenheim.

It's sad to see publications resort to ad server services because you have a perfectly nice article bordered by "one weird trick..." or some other scam. I'm looking at an Artforum article from 1988 and am being told to click to download a known browser hijacker.

Mr El Sayed do you denounce the Dark Brotherhood from Skyrim. And if so, did you still accept quests from them

My working as a museum guard is penance for being the guy who went to museums and showed off by identifying the artists out loud without looking at the tags when I was 18-23 years old.

Hearing about a small number of layoffs at the MetroWest Daily News and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. They're both part of USA Today Co., i.e., Gannett. What is anyone else hearing?

Spending a little time relaxing and looking into mortgage backed securities and the impending debt wall because it seems less complicated than figuring out all the ballot questions in Mass. this year.

People local to me, take note! The Worcester Art Museum is free on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day.

Last-minute azalea bloom.

I hope Joan Jett got paid for that Sunday Night Football theme song.

🎶 My country tis this wee lib-er-ty bib-ber-ty of thee I sing 🎶

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Check out how similar these two maquettes are: the one from the artnet story is Pope Clement XII by Pietro Bracci from the 18th C. The other is Pope Innocent X by Alessandro Algardi ca. 1640 at the Worcester Art Museum share.google/NAEfcJwy0sti...

Big L for Worcester. As someone who is not generally library-oriented, I am amazed at all the WPL team under his leadership has done to raise the profile of this institution.

As a resident of another city whose paper of record was acquired by USA Today: Boo!

Is there some kind of AI photo picker tool that news sites are using? There is a local news source that has had similarly inexplicable and occasional disastrous photo choices.

"These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence." –@michaeldweiss.bsky.social

It was only tonight that I realized Senator Tammy Duckworth did not write the book "Grit"

Looks like they're doing some work on the Worcester Auditorium. Any news on that place recently?

Holy moly, it sure is fall all of a sudden

If any artists out there are stuck for titles of abstract or postmodern work. Maybe even even work backwards from the titles. Or create a drawing a day for a month challenge with these.

I appreciate Winston's homage to Eli, throwing the ball to absolutely no one, but Eli mixed some TD drives in there.

20-year-old me would be disappointed, but 20-year-old me was kind of a douche.

It took me nearly a half-century before I realized people in British TV shows were saying "ma'am" and not "mum"

I feel like Electric Feel by MGMT is weird commercial break music for an NFC football game.

"My 11-year tenure at WBJ has been a wild one, marked by so many fantastic stories from talented reporters. Yet, when I reflect on my time here, I remember one thing above all else: the people," writes WBJ Editor Brad Kane. buff.ly/tvG3hBO

Four paintings by Renoir taken from a museum in France. Two were then abandoned by the thieves on the museum grounds. www.bbc.com/news/live/cm...

A thread devoted to Jacob Lawrence, one of most acclaimed American painters of the 20th century, born #OnThisDay in 1917. Fitting that today is Labor Day since work & labor were among his most enduring themes. First up: Home Chores, 1945, painted soon after he returned from military service in WWII

The best Veronica out there, made by a student who took my saints and relics class. Silkscreen, not made by human hands. I really like most of the books in my office, but few of them are this satisfying. Let’s hear it for college students.

Get his ass