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Joan Mitchell @joanmitchell.bsky.social · 13d

Sunflower III https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43577/

A leading American painter and printmaker, Joan Mitchell was a contemporary of Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell and was widely regarded as one of the supreme colorists of the abstract expressionist movement. Her lyrical abstractions are generally based on actual physcial entities, such as landscapes or studies of flowers. Commenting on Mitchell's art, E.C. Goossen wrote: "The Abstract Expressionist generation out of which she came was forever searching for abstract subject matter with transcendent implications, even though it professed to believe that art was its own message... But unlike those contemporary painters who 'discover' their subject in the process of painting, Mitchell works from an idea and builds on it." Mitchell spent the last thirty years of her life in Paris, where she died in 1992.

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Bits of Pluto @bitsofpluto.edavis.dev · 6h

A cropped image of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

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lililimonada @lililimonada.bsky.social · 12h

Corn Shocks in October Sunshine
Charles Burchfield 1954-59

Three whitish pyramids of corn stalks and cobs drying in the sun. Autumn yet is no more than a long lack of water, a dry field, oh! and the purple flowers!

Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Vol. 58, October 7, 1957
About mid-morning, as we were registering for voting, one of the ladies said to me – “Did you know that Dr. Ehinger died last night?” while we all felt his days were numbered, still it came as a shock – I was unable to control the flow of tears that came (Why are we so loath to show grief in front of people?) – A feeling of desolation came over us – and all day we were remembering all that he has meant to us through the years (from 1925 on -)

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 2h

#styft

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 6h

www.ravensfield.art/pernicious-p...

Pernicious Pigment

In her quest to find the perfect color, an artist took from a mystical place. But the place might have claimed something from her in return.

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 6h

#rumramruf

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 6h

i'm sure i saw it, but the one i remember was with patti smith

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 6h

"worship" music at halftime LOL

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 8h

constellation.crummy.com/Pey%20Shkoy%...

Pey Shkoy Benefits Humans

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · Mar 4

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

Binding Media | Stanford University Press

Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 8h

#bill_knott

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 8h

"I asked AI to render Wes Anderson's The Shining" --@coenesqued2 #AI_art

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HiPa125 @hipa125.bsky.social · 10h

Avanti West Coast #Class807 807010 ‘Together We Roll’ #Evero #EMU - Liverpool Lime Street

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Infinite Skies 🇨🇦 @space-truckin.bsky.social · 10h

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon.

Happy to finally capture this one.
From my location it was tough to get a good view.
I set my alarm for 4am and took my rig and dog out in the back of the field that is our yard just as the comet climbed above the tree line.
🔭 @astrophotography

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 9h

"Catullus's poems are believed to have survived from antiquity in a single manuscript kept in the cathedral library in Catullus's home town of Verona." (Wikipedia, "Poetry of Catullus")

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 14h

"But this whole ediﬁce hangs by a thread, and a study of how the poem has come down to us reveals many moments when the work could easily have disappeared for ever."

How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suﬀered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 9h

tough call, but you win the internet today

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 9h

judging by their sustainable efforts the future will speak mandarin

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 9h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNB...

Mean Mary on fast banjo - Iron Horse

YouTube video by Mean Mary

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 9h

you'd have a haunted expression too if you'd dreamed what he was dreaming

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graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 10h

To me there is a palpable difference in the light from August/September to October, & i'd been sublimally clued-in to that for some time without realizing that it wasn't just the range of temperatures that was altered for me. It's like a key-change in music. The same notes mean something else.

graywyvern @graywyvern.bsky.social · 11h

wonderful!

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 11h

Reupping, for the last time, this post on fragmentary Riddle 82: profadamroberts.substack.com/p/exeter-rid...

Exeter Riddle 82

A riddle of a riddle

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14h

Tamara de Lempicka,
Blue Woman with a Guitar, 1929
Polish painter who created her work in an Art Deco style #womensart

Stylised painting of a white woman in a soft blue dress holding a round stringed instrument with a long neck on her lap and holding it as if playing

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