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naylandblake

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Artist, Auntie, Bear, BIPOC, Educator, Enby, Fat, Femme. Aspiring cranky crone.They/Them. Archive/shambles/home at www.naylandblake.net I love it when you make things.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · Oct 17

Teach it - Promote it - Create it - you are responsible for the continuation of the culture you love. Keep it alive through your actions.

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Me when they play my jam

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 8h

SCANDAL!!!

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 11h

Lots of looks there that would look amazing on you.

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 11h

They are like gods that walk among us.

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 12h

A review of the show from ArteFuse with a video walkthrough as well. @creaturefeature.bsky.social supplied some of the toys that adorn the walls.

From Bunnies to Bondage: Nayland Blake’s Unruly Archive Returns at Mathew Marks Gallery, NYC (Article & Video) - ArteFuse

Nayland Blake’s exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery is a time capsule of queer identity, desire, and vulnerability, unfolding across two Chelsea spaces. The artist’s signature mix of sculpture, instal...

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 12h

Candyman fashion .com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 14h

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 16h

I've missed my chance to see the hair museum:

Hair museum filled with century-old mementos closes its doors, scattering contents around the nation

Century-old wreaths made from human hair fill the walls of Leila’s Hair Museum, and glass cases overflow with necklaces and watch bands made from the locks of the dead.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 16h

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online | Open Culture

The Aberdeen Bestiary, One of the Great Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts, Now Digitized in High Resolution & Made Available Online

For thousands of years, ordinary people all over the world not only worked side-by-side with domestic animals on a daily basis, they also observed the wild fauna around them to learn how to navigate a...

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 17h

Sculptor, 90, unveils latest public art in Chicago's Lincoln Park share.google/yYhYi52nU7hu...

90-year-old sculptor unveils latest work at new public space in Lincoln Park

Ruth Migdal opens the door to her Gold Coast apartment with a smile. She sports bright blue eyeshadow and gold hoop earrings. Inside, large abstract canvases line the walls. She and her husband, an…

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 18h

In my dream

In my dream the books stack inside each other.

In my dream

In my dream the books stack inside each other.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

Check my post from yesterday. If you can find this cricket you are welcome to vore him up.

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

Day two of cricketfest has begun.

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 1d

Comics strips of the world, unite! The Daily Worker's longest-running comic strip, "Little Lefty" (created by staff cartoonist Maurice del Bourgo under the pen name Del), first appeared on October 8, 1934. Here are the first two strips—the second with cameos by popular comics characters of the day.

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Gumby Screens @gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 1d

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NYC Removes World’s Fairs Mosaics, a Slice of Queens Art History

The in-ground artworks in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, which referenced Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, had suffered from weather-related deterioration, officials said.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

In my dream

In my dream the end is coming and before we leave I am going through my books to find some blank sketchbooks . Rain begins. The intersections empty.

In my dream

In my dream the end is coming and before we leave I am going through my books to find some blank sketchbooks . Rain begins. The intersections empty.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

Me when they play my jam

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

@ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social One of my favorite of my own pieces. I'm so glad I got to put it up in the SFMoMA

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

A cover band called The Residonts

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

Jamel Shabazz's photographs, a love letter to Prospect Park

Jamel Shabazz's photographs are a love letter to Prospect Park

In a new book, ‘Prospect Park: Photographs of a Brooklyn Oasis, 1980 to 2025’, Jamel Shabazz discovers a warmer side of human nature

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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 2d

October 22nd in Berlin at KM28, Manufaktur für Aktuelle Musik performs my arrangement of "Rrose Selavy" by Juan Hidalgo along with other work by me. I'll be there playing the bowed hacksaw blade on snare drum. www.km28.de

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KM28 Karl-Marx-Straße 28, Berlin

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

This actually worked for me today. Thanks Pill Reminder Fairy!

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

Dear Cricket who has decided to take up residence in the drop ceiling of my office: If I could have sex with you I would. Please stop asking me.

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

Bread and Puppet Theater remains essential.

Bread and Puppet Theater is still working to 'make the revolution irresistible'

The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics and bread in a sharply polarized moment.

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