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alma-and-hilma.bsky.social
Art history blog with a feminist, international perspective at almahilma.wordpress.com Transitioning content from Twitter and Insta.
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Seeing RED: Alma’s exploration of energy Alma W. Thomas, Red Azaleas Singing and Dancing Rock and Roll Music (1976). triptych, acrylic on canvas. Looking at Alma W. Thomas' huge triptych at SAAM, I'm reminded of all the adversity she faced. Against all challenges she experienced as a Black woman…

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Please read this urgent, accurate assessment by an expert in totalitarian regimes and how they impose their dogma.

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So apt

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Honoring Ukraine and abhorring the depravity of today’s Oval Office debacle

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Excellent questions to pose to a multilateral organization whose exhibitions I have enjoyed @hyperallergic.com @cmonstah.bsky.social #oasgallerydc

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We cancelled our @washingtonpost.com subscription after the grossly ill-founded decision not to issue a prez endorsement when the rule of law was at stake and editorial censorship of political cartoons reproving Bezos’ kissing the ring

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Enjoyed Sonia Turk Delaunay and Mainie Jellett’s works @guggenheim Orphism /Simultaneism exhibition! See it before it closes in early March! Jellett, Composition (c. 1932) & Delaunay, The Bal Bullier (1913) respectively

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As Sen. @jeffyarbro.bsky.social says — 25% of health care spending in Tennessee comes from MEDICAID, which all 8 @TNGOP Reps just voted to slash to cut taxes for rich people (and add trillions to the debt) But hey - at least @RepTimBurchett got to talk to Trump 🫤 — that’s one costly head-pat

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As a Fed working to help Veterans get their disability claims resolved, my colleagues and I are beaten down. We survived Fork, made it thru 1st round of probationary employee layoffs, & @afgelocal17.bsky.social #federalemployees @cmonstah.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social

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Yes. The emails are coming tonight

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I find inspiration in this painting. Talk amongst yourselves à la that SNL Linda Richmond sketch. Slay your demons! @uffizigalleries.bsky.social #womenartists #artemisia @womensartbluesky.bsky.social

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Indeed an abhorrent era when Trump lackeys act not in the public interest, but participate in public corruption

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Drawn to Rothko When Rothko wrote that he wanted his work to confront its viewer, even to overwhelm them, and to include all passion, emotion, violence, everything, maybe this is what he meant. What does seeing a favorite Rothko inspire in you?

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Woohooo!

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Why don’t unions have standing?!?!? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

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Self-dealing by a de facto public official: Elon’s not cutting his companies contracts to save the Fisc, he’s espousing leadership firings at the agencies that investigate his companies’ actions (aka violations), etc. so much in this article that I had to stop reading—for the moment.

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So true.

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Thank you! A federal judge blocked U.S. DOGE employees from altering any records of payments at the Treasury Department while she weighs a request by public interest groups for a broader injunction against their activity. Thank you, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly’s! 🙏

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It has been a terrible few weeks for those of us in Federal Govt.

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When we don’t learn from history, we comply in advance…. @hyperallergic.com @forfreedoms #humanrights #civilrights

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"Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo" walks the viewer through 20th century art beginning in the 1920s. Read our review here: almahilma.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/c... Miki Hayakawa, From my window (1935); HIsako Hibi, Autumn (1967).

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RIP Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, artist and curator of Native American art. I fell in love with The Red Mean (1992) @smithartmuseum, was overjoyed @whitneymuseum retrospective in 2023, and relished the breadth of work, from sculptures and installations to paintings and prints, that she curated @ngadc

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