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"Art and morals are...one. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and moral is the discovery of reality." Iris Murdoch Landscape, 10"x8", oil on canvas with wood

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Catherine Murphy Makes the Ordinary Inexplicable hyperallergic.com/997780/cathe...

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"Let's do it even if it's unpopular, even if it's impractical, even if its daunting, even if it's "impossible," because when the necessary thing is impossible, constraining ourselves only what is possible is not only immoral—it's impractical. It's *unrealistic*" www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...

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Vincent Van Gogh  Le Semeur au soleil couchant 1888  Oil on canvas, 73.5x90cm #vangogh

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Congratulations to Susan Bee on her new vibrant show at AIR gallery.

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Noah Davis’s Black American Arcadia hyperallergic.com/995216/noah-...

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The Dance of the Swans is the best thing you’ll see today

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Red Square, acrylic on yupo, 20” x 24”. Painted in 2017, but tragically, ever more relevant now.

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Merlin James and the thinking of painting twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/03/merl...

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The gender pay gap exists in art as elsewhere. Using a sample of 1.9 million auction transactions from 1970 to 2016 for 69,189 individual artists, researchers found that work by female artists sells for 42% less than work by males. Poster by the Guerrilla Girls

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Hillside mid-March, oil on canvas, 10”x8”

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Suzanne Duchamp, French Dadaist painter, younger sister of Marcel. One of many women artists who were rendered invisible in culture, while fathers, brothers or male partners as artists were more likely to be celebrated. #WomensHistoryMonth

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Jacob Lawrence, In every home people who had not gone North met and tried to decide if they should go North or not, 1940-41 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134635

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Drinking Alone, flashe and glitter on panel, 14” x 18”. #currentmood. 😔

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Hedy Lamarr, Austria born Hollywood actress, who also pioneered the technology that would later form the basis for today's WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems #WomensArt

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Alfred Wallis, Saling Ship and Orchard, 1933

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Latest article --> Barbara Friedman’s exquisite grotesquery twocoatsofpaint.com/2025/03/barb...

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"Not Married," c. 1965, a piece by influential ceramic artist and bohemian icon Beatrice Wood, who was born on this day in 1893, was a central participant in the NY Dada movement, lived until the ripe old age of 105, and reportedly inspired the character of Rose in James Cameron's film Titanic

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This book shouldn't be banned 😂

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Gertrude Abercrombie’s American Surrealism hyperallergic.com/991689/gertr...

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Ophelia, flashe on panel, 16” x 20”

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what would you do differently if you were actively trying to cause more plane crashes? www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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“Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website” www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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This is absolutely insane. Musk’s DOGE crew just straight up *took* $80 million from an NYC bank account!

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