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What kind of man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into a frustrated fury about everything—and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue. - Philip Guston
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idonthaveacoolname 🇨🇦 @idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social · 18d
Kent Monkman does more than critique Western art history. By mastering its forms and reworking their visual rules through Indigenous ways of knowing, his paintings reclaim history at the level of representation. #arthistory #art @mbamtl.bsky.social

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Reprogramming the Canon: Kent Monkman and the Sovereign Grammar of Vision
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#BlueskyArtShow #Sunshine #FebruArty2026 #Feline #Caturday

Cats love sunshine!

#EastCoastKin #Soft #CatsOfBluesky #CalicoCat
A long-haired calico cat is laying in the sunshine that is streaming in from the window behind her. The light is backlighting her soft fur and whiskers. She has a sleepy/pensive expression and is lying on a cardboard box.
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Agreed. Many of us have gotten complacent when it comes to rights and freedoms in our home communities. We all need to look inward and cultivate compassion for ourselves so we can build empathy for others and create a better world. #art

www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Ai Weiwei says West lacks moral authority to criticise Beijing on rights
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident whose activist art has made him Beijing's best-known critic, said on Thursday the West should examine its own human rights record before condemning China, as the Briti...
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
lol epic trolling by Fanjoy who is proposing that the leader of the Opposition is required to hold a Top Secret clearance.

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Petition e-7148 - Petitions
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February 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Interstellar' (2025) -- Doha Subway Station Interior, Doha, Qatar

It's Friday in the Middle East & Asia...!! Let's #Scape ✨ & #UrbanGaze ✨

#Photography #Architecture
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
illuminated & glossy marble interiors of a subway station in downtown Qatar
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Dreams of the Orient' (2025) -- the Oppressive Heat Made Daily Life Something of a Fever Dream, My Memories of it Shimmer, Like Light Off of Water, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia

#HumansOfBlueSky ✨ #UrbanGaze ✨ #Scape ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
Young men fish for their dinner in the sweltering afternoon heat on the placid banks of the Straight of Malacca. The afternoon heat fuels constant cumulonimbus formation into gigantic storm clouds on the horizon
February 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Pinnacle of Light' (2025) -- a Barren Snowy Campground on the Outskirts of Town Provides Solace & Beauty In the Midst of a Forest, Thomas Point Beach, Brunswick, ME

#Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Sunlight ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
an image of impressively straight trunks of pine trees stretching as far as the eye can see, in the distance the sun peeks through the clouds casting long shadows that radiate outwards
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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alinagrafik.bsky.social
#RockinTuesday #ThickTrunkTuesday

An oak tree growing from a pile of rocks in the hills of San Luis Obispo.

#EastCoastKin #Hiking #ClassicMono #WestCoastKin #OakTree
A large oak tree with several trunks and many branches is growing from a pile of rocks along the ridge of a hill. The Johnson Ranch Trail passes by this tree in the hills of San Luis Obispo, California. Black and white image emphasizes all the textures of the rocks, grasses, and tangled branches of the oak tree.
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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warburginstitute.bsky.social
Conspiracies opens at the Warburg next week!

An exhibition of work by four contemporary artists exploring how conspiracy has shapeshifted across cultural and political history.

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#LondonExhibition #ContemporaryArt #Conspiracy
Image: Sam Keogh, The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden Cartoon, mixed media installation with performance, 2024, credit: Kerlin Gallery
February 3, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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johnme23.bsky.social
Walled in: Bisti badlands, NW New Mexico

#RockInTuesday #EastCoastKin #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #classicmono #badlands #erosion #geology #NewMexico #hiking #wilderness #rockformation
A line of imposing rock parapets appears to block any further advancement in that direction. The wall is made of light-toned, apparently resilient stone that is underlain by softer, dark-toned sediments. A single flat boulder rests at lower left, with a few other smaller rocks scattered about. The sky shows only a couple of wispy clouds.
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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lrb.co.uk
‘Like the Pollock drip, the Newman zip was a statement of “hereness” which, repeated many times, undercut its own declaration; these autographic signs became trademarks, which both artists hated.’

Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman.

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Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism
Newman railed against the machinations of art critics despite being expert at them. There is ‘no such thing as art “...
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February 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Canada's 3 levels of Govts: some are shared responsibilities #CIVICS

Federal Responsibilities
◀️national defence
◀️foreign affairs/international trade
◀️shipping/railways/air travel
◀️fisheries
◀️employment insurance
◀️banking
◀️Federal taxes
◀️post office
◀️CRTC
◀️criminal law
◀️Federal penitentiaries
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December 5, 2024 at 2:48 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Now unofficially known of as Al the Drinking Dragon thanks to @sophiecarr.bsky.social 😀

Local tradition holds that Hvítserkur is the petrified remains of a troll that tried to destroy the nearby monastery at Þingeyrar and was turned to stone by the rising sun - wikipedia

#Iceland #panorama #iphone
an iPhone panorama of Al the drinking dragon at Hvitserkur Iceland Al the drinking dragon at Hvitserkur
February 3, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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gandkev.bsky.social
This is a photo from @withoutmoney Suzi? For some reason her account bern deleted…anyhow an amazing photographer~photo Artist…..
February 2, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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skinskintainan.bsky.social
夜の福安宮 89

#art #photo #photography #temple #nightphotography #culture #Tainan #EastCoastKin #lanterns #ceiling #LightAndShadow #paintings
©️skinskin
February 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Clear Blue Sky, White Anvil' (2025) -- Malaysia Always Had Such Beautiful Cloud Formations, They Made You Think... and Wonder, Tanjung Tokon Public Beach, Penang, Malaysia

#BlueSkyArtShow #Cloud ✨ #Stunday ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
a young thundercloud anvil grows quickly into a giant in the blinding heat of the sun and the humid tropics, taken from under the shady branches of a large leafed tree
January 31, 2026 at 2:03 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Agreed. Many of us have gotten complacent when it comes to rights and freedoms in our home communities. We all need to look inward and cultivate compassion for ourselves so we can build empathy for others and create a better world. #art

www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Ai Weiwei says West lacks moral authority to criticise Beijing on rights
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident whose activist art has made him Beijing's best-known critic, said on Thursday the West should examine its own human rights record before condemning China, as the Briti...
www.reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Shot in black and white, the wide-angle lens exaggerates Old Montreal’s geometry: a building tilts inwards, converging train tracks pull the eye forward. Leading lines stretch perspective, collapsing past and present into one cinematic corridor. #eastcoastkin #photography #Montreal
a view down an alleyway in old Montreal a view of the trAintracks and old mill in the port area of Montreal The indoor of a mall in Montreal in front of a reflecting pool.
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Kent Monkman does more than critique Western art history. By mastering its forms and reworking their visual rules through Indigenous ways of knowing, his paintings reclaim history at the level of representation. #arthistory #art @mbamtl.bsky.social

www.idonthaveacoolname.com/grammar-of-v...
Reprogramming the Canon: Kent Monkman and the Sovereign Grammar of Vision
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January 28, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
Ancient Greek silver stater (coin) with an octopus on the reverse side. 🐙

Minted in Eretria, Euboea, Greece, 500-480 BC.

Photo: British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#Archaeology
#ReliefWednesday
A British Museum photo showing the reverse side of a silver stater coin from the ancient city of Eretria on the island of Euboea, Central Greece. The coin is roundish in shape, and in the centre there is a relief image of an octopus within a recessed square. The octopus has a bulbous head with a small round eye on either side. Beneath the head, eight arms curve gracefully, symmetrically arranged with four arms on each side, curling into a tight spiral at the tip. Diameter: 26 millimetres. Weight: 8.670 grammes. Dated circa 500-480 BC.
January 28, 2026 at 6:21 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
I have long admired Burtynsky's work and after returning from the Monkman exhibition in Montreal, I see it more clearly now: how both use the scale and structure of history painting to compel ethical reflection, asking viewers not just to see but to reckon with their place in the worlds they depict.
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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davidnice.bsky.social
Powerfully done. Why is it that so few performing artists raise their voices in this way? Huge kudos.
brucespringsteen.net Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 17d
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:49 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Shot in black and white, the wide-angle lens exaggerates Old Montreal’s geometry: a building tilts inwards, converging train tracks pull the eye forward. Leading lines stretch perspective, collapsing past and present into one cinematic corridor. #eastcoastkin #photography #Montreal
a view down an alleyway in old Montreal a view of the trAintracks and old mill in the port area of Montreal The indoor of a mall in Montreal in front of a reflecting pool.
January 28, 2026 at 1:25 PM
idonthaveacoolname.bsky.social
Kent Monkman does more than critique Western art history. By mastering its forms and reworking their visual rules through Indigenous ways of knowing, his paintings reclaim history at the level of representation. #arthistory #art @mbamtl.bsky.social

www.idonthaveacoolname.com/grammar-of-v...
Reprogramming the Canon: Kent Monkman and the Sovereign Grammar of Vision
www.idonthaveacoolname.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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jaycee-visionlogic.bsky.social
'Snowy Banks, Frozen River' (2026) -- Brunswick Bike Path, Brunswick, ME

It's Finally Friday, Let's #Scape ✨ #ForestFriday ✨ #BWFri ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Cold ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
Standing on a ledge of shrubs looking East along the frozen banks of the Androscoggin River to the Merry Meeting Park & Ormsby Preserve in the distance
January 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM