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Charles Mahoney, Outhouses, 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1114031

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Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 20 Richard Tennant Cooper - 'Chloroform', 1912.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 19 Henry Darger, pages from 'The Story of the Vivian Girls...'

Mannikin in the Snow https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12131

SWG opinion poll in Italy. Would you support the creation of a European Army? Yes - 57% (+11 compared to 2019) No - 30% (-11 compared to 2019) Don't know - 13%

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 18 Wangechi Mutu - Riding Death in my Sleep, 2002

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 17 Alphonse Mucha - The Abyss, 1898

Nice to see @lizpelly.bsky.social make it into this week's @privateeyenews.bsky.social - they don't often cover 'pop' music news, so this is pretty damn impressive! (Cc @peretsky.bsky.social)

MMM from 1997. mmmberlin.bandcamp.com/album/donna

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 16 John Atkinson Grimshaw -Evening Glow, c1884

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

Bannon's Nazi salute was too much for the French far-right but not for Meloni. She will speak at CPAC via video link.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 15 Francis Bacon - Self Portrait, 1971

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 14 Wassily Kandinsky - Black Relationship, 1924

Bernie Wrightson

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 13 Arnold Böcklin - Isle of the Dead, 1883

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 12 Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights, 1490-1510

I've open sourced Modular Play for #playdate. Purchase from itch.io to support future development: github.com/orllewin/mod...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 11 Ithell Colquhoun - Attributes of the Moon, 1947

The Great Day of His Wrath (ca. 1853), by John Martin, who met his maker #onthisday in 1854. More on his life and art in Max Adams' essay “John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion” — buff.ly/3bKnbbR

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 10 Arthur Heming - Postmen of the Wilderness, 1921

"Iannis Xenakis came to Indiana University in the fall of 1967 with the mission to install a computer system for making digital music without having to know how to read or write in musical notation." Indiana University’s Lost Experimental Music Project:

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 9 Salvo (Salvatore Mangione) - Il Mattino, 1994

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 8 Léon Spilliaert - Young Woman on a Stool, 1909

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 7 Peter Doig - Pelican Island, 2016

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 6 John Singer Sargent - Staircase in Capri, 1878

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 5 Chris Foss - Emperor's Palace (for Jodorowky's Dune), 1975

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 4 Francisco Goya - Witches' Flight, 1797-98

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 3 Bob Thomas - St Matthew's Description of the End of the World, 1964

Today at the beach a dog pissed on me. (Not this one)

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 2 Félix Vallotton - La mare, 1909

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings. #blueskyart #art #painting Day 1 Michael Borremans - Disaster, 2015

Prehistoric #baby feeding vessels: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösensorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe. Photo: Wien Museum 🏺 #archaeology

Italy is one of only 3 EU countries not to sign this letter of support for the ICC (along with Hungary & Czech Rep.). Meloni's government is currently embroiled in a dispute with the court after releasing a wanted Libyan warlord. Foreign Minister Tajani even said the ICC "should be investigated."

NEW: There's now a third person who has come forward saying they were targeted on WhatsApp with spyware made by Paragon. And just like the two others, he has been critical of the current Italian government, led by far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/n...

Val d'Aosta. Man Fishing https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/val-d-aosta-man-fishing

If only the UK had hired Mexican and Canadian negotiators during the Brexit talks, we would now have full access to the single market from outside the EU, free movement, but only for British people, & one sausage a day guaranteed by Brussels to every soul living on these islands.

"She created a space where the mind could dance, reflect and recall." #soundart #electroacoustic #masterpiece

Carnival Evening https://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-rousseau/carnival-evening-1886

Good piece on the Med diet and gastronationalism www.politico.eu/article/medi...