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Wednesday, 15 April 2026
quote [ When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill was forced to close her Parisian gallery and go into hiding during the Occupation of France, she had already helped build the careers of artists like Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Diego Rivera, as well as female including painter Suzanne Valadon, African-American sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Émilie Charmy, known for her portraits. ]
Your gallerist still makes euros from your art
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Friday, 3 April 2026
quote [ The various incarnations of the phenomenon are told through a series of portraits, where young protagonists interpret characters that exist only in virtual worlds, allowing them to explore new identities for fun, but also to better understand themselves and their own personalities. ]
A nice contemporary photo project merging virtual and real life in a sensible way.
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Saturday, 28 March 2026
quote [ the extant 'soul' or 'ghost' has become incorporated with the architecture of the hostile environment itself, such that the identity and qualities of the monstrous feminine can neither be disentangled nor fully distinguished from the setting. ]
Though I'm not at all into horror stuff, this deduction from Jenn Frank (via another post on Xenotilt) is great reading. Many spoilers.
Thumb: The Haunting (1963)
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Thursday, 26 March 2026
quote [ The British street artist?s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out Ukrainian village to London and downtown Manhattan ? and uncovered much more than a name. ]
I'm Banksy under cover at night, I step out in sight,
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Wednesday, 21 January 2026
quote [ A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest. ]
I eat art for breakfast
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Thursday, 15 January 2026
quote [ Empress Chung was created as a collaborative work between South Korean (AKOM) and North Korean (SEK Studios) animators as a way to help unite the animation industry between the two nations during a time of increased collaboration and cooling of tensions in the early 2000s. While critically successful it failed in the box office.
Due to its poor box office results and rising tensions between North Korea and South Korea over North Korea's nuclear missile tests, Empress Chung was never released on home media and became a lost film. ] Love running across stuff like this.
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Friday, 28 November 2025
quote [ A lightweight, privacy-focused Linux distribution built to revive aging hardware. - R1Xhard-35789/Lindows-AU-OS ]
So I haven't tested it.
Assume it will need a re-build or more. But a Ubuntu custom install working towards 98SE vibes to revive Grandma's PC.
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Wednesday, 26 November 2025
quote [ In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private curiosity cabinets to its later use in documenting increasingly public collections, Thea Applebaum Licht charts the course of this alluring aesthetic tradition. ]
In the gallery of dreams, painting dreams so bright
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Sunday, 16 November 2025
quote [ BAYNE: We miss one, that's the end, that's it.
COOPER: We have our two weeks off at the end of the year for Christmas, and that's pretty much it. ] The interview has more panels than I ever read of the thing but you might like an interview with the Oglaf webcomic people. Rare NSFW occasion.
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Saturday, 18 October 2025
quote [ In 1991, anyone wishing to attend the museum inside the telephone network could do so through a fax machine, telephone or dial-up modem. ]
My phone belongs to a Museum
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