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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art)

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Artist, art historian, art/metaphor philosopher, loves animals, comics, progressive politics, physics too. https://www.drgreatart.ch/

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 34m

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Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago artist in many realms, has died at 66

Tony Fitzpatrick, a boundlessly creative man whose talents enriched the worlds of visual arts, theater, film, radio, literature and random conversations, and who mentored and influenced a generation o...

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 49m

I am hearbroken, especially for his family. Tony Fitzpatrick has died. Bless his soul. He is a great artist — one of Chicago’s greatest —poet, actor and wonderful guy. I was proud to call him friend. More soon about him.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 9h

Was Orange Assolini being blackmailed? Thus the “suicide”?

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 1d

Pathetic orange weasel.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is indeed unhinged and dangerous.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 2d

Message for Greg Abbott: “Stop invading other states and clean up your own damn mess.”

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 3d

Portland and Chicago are ICEGestapo ravaged, nothing else.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you Canada.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 6d

I did the "Dr Great Art:Metaphors of Othering" performance-lecture, Thursday, 25 September 2025, Trotte Pfyn TG, as a guest of artists Alex Meszmer/ Reto Müller and Chantal Romani. It was very enjoyable. Thanks to them and the audience.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Constitutional Democracy.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 7d

History. The 2025 Heritage foundation is gaving Trump follow Htler’s playbook line-for-line.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 7d

Trump’s all-out fascist attack on Chicago has escalated.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 9d

Lying, demented idiot fascist traitor.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 11d

Real Medicine

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 11d

Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden is demanding Gavin Newsom be ARRESTED for saying Stephen Miller is a fascist.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.
STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.
VAN ORDEN IS A TRAITOR.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 12d

Assolini‘s fascist intimidation. Armed I.C.E. Gestapo in full tactical gear / weapons patrolling Chicago’s downtown streets and on the river. He wants to incite violence then pull the final Hitler suspension of the Constitution trick.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 13d

Cornelia and I had a great studio visit and brunch with our Chicago friends Super chef and entrepreneur Paul Kahan and Yoga/political master Mary Klonowski, as well as Res and Renata Frehner.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 14d

Call it as it is.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 18d

Go WOZ, beste Schweizer Zeitung!

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 19d

Russian media.

Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 20d

Metaphern der Anderen / Metaphors of Othering
Performance-Vortrag/Lecture in German
Critiquing Art History in relationship to each epoch/period’s inclusivity or lack thereof, and the metaphors involved in that.
Donnerstag, 25. September 2025, Trotte Pfyn
Einlass 19 Uhr, Beginn 19.30 Uhr

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 20d

Pres. George Washington, a truly great human, sworn in “TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,” NOT ignore and destroy it as the fake, wannabe-dictator now TRUMP.
(From HBO ‘John Adams’ mini-series)
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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 21d

Relevant even more so now. Shown only once in 1998 on SNL.

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Mark Staff Brandl (aka Dr Great Art) @markstaffbrandl.bsky.social · 22d

So, where is the National Melissa Hortman Day?
Or National Parkland Victims day
Or Sandy Hook Remembrance Day
Or Virginia Tech Day
Or Uvalde Day
Or Pulse nightclub day
Or …or …or …or
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