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Susan Cushing
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#EastCoastKin Arts Collective member
#BlueBrew Coffeehouse Host, founder #BlueBrewBooks
Relentless arts and photography advocate. Eclectic and inveterate sharer. Retired arts administrator. Former dancer. Occasional quilter. Bookish.
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Susan Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 14h
Are you ready for #BlueBrewBooks?

Sunday during
#BlueBrew Coffee Hours:
6:30-10:30 EST

Share a book or a pile.

•A Favorite Book,
•A New Book,
•A Recommendation,
•What You’re Reading, or
•To Be Read (TBR)!

Please don’t forget to use the hashtag #BlueBrewBooks

Have fun!

#BookSky #EastCoastKin
a cup of coffee sits on a book next to a window
Alt: a cup of coffee sits on a book next to a window
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#UnJourUnePhoto
#Photonuary
#Photography

9. Une plante en hiver

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Brindilles de plantes dans un champ de neige
January 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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#FleurisTonFil
#Photography

Gerbera

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Une gerbera blanche avec un centre rose
January 10, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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Challenge photo a day #challengephotoaday #photography

10 janvier 2026

#fmspad

Out the window

Dans le train entré Venise et Pise

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Par la fenêtre du train on voit des champs verts et un seul arbre au centre .
January 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Augustina loved to go out in the snow.

#Caturday
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Ivan Kliun - Composition , 1920

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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Albert Gleizes - Paysage Cubiste II , 1914

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 10, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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Jackson Pollock - Red , Black and Silver , 1956

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
January 10, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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© Camil Tulcan.
January 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Joseph Stella (1877-1946) :
Luna Park, c.1913

Oil on composition board
44.5 × 59.7 cm | 17.5 × 23.5 in

Whitney Museum of American Art

Bio in the alt text 👇
Believing that an artist should “not confine himself to any schools or representation,” Joseph Stella engaged in parallel experiments with a lyrical, symbolic style of abstraction and a bold geometric aesthetic inspired by modern industry. After encountering the Futurist artists of his native Italy (he emigrated to New York at the age of nineteen), Stella sought to use their faceted and planar imagery to capture the technological marvels of his adopted country. He turned to an icon of American engineering: the Brooklyn Bridge. For Stella, as for many other artists in the early twentieth century, the bridge epitomized the confluence of American cultural and industrial achievement. He first depicted the structure in 1918 and returned to it throughout his career. In The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, painted in the final years of his life, Stella portrays the bridge as a modern-day altar, using crisp geometries to instill the structure with solidity and dynamism. The image’s massive upper section represents the bridge’s soaring cables and majestic Gothic arches in a jewel-toned palette that evokes the impression of light filtering through a stained-glass window. The work’s horizontal lower portion, which contains a miniature panoramic view of the bridge and the city skyline, is reminiscent of the predella format of Renaissance altarpieces. Indeed, Stella perceived the bridge as a potent spiritual symbol—it was, for him, a “shrine containing all the efforts of the new civilization, America.”
January 10, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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Catherine Deneuve, Photographer Unknown, 1970s
January 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Marilyn In Grand Central Station, 1955. Edward Feingersh.
January 10, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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Jack Nicholson II, 1981. Albert Watson.
January 10, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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Hotel du Lion d'Or, 2013. Laurent Chehere. Digital color print.
January 10, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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The Rhythm of the Sea No.4, 1969. Chen Ting-Shih (Chen Tingshi). Sugarcane board print.
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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John Anster Fitzgerald
January 10, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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Väinö Rouvinen, A Cat, colour etching, 1995

#caturday
January 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Gene Krupa caught in a Paradiddle or two (one of a series of Krupa), 1941
📸 : Gjon Mili

He collaborated with Harold Edgerton (MIT). He used flash and strobe lights in his work. He was best known for his work published in LIFE magazine including Picasso's light paintings.
January 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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Walter Gramatté (Germany) born otd in 1897 -
"The Man in the Sledge", 1920

Gramatté opened his studio in 1917. In 1920 he became part of the Expressionists' group 'Die Brücke'. Despite his weak health, he travelled extensively, visiting France, Italy and Spain.

Further info in the alt text 👇
He died in 1929 of intestinal tuberculosis. His grave monument was designed by his friend, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, classified as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. Gramatté's works were also classified as "Degenerate art" by the Nazi government in 1933 and were prohibited from being exhibited. He was the inspiration for the painter "Catell", a character in the novel 'Die Stadt hinter dem Strom' (The City Beyond the River) by Hermann Kasack.
January 10, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Dada artist Hannah Höch,
Bouquet Of Eyes, 1930 #womensart
Collage with many different images of eyes arranged like a bouquet of flowers
January 10, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Collage #1533
Topografía XIII
©️ Cristian Berga
January 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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'I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.'
- Andrew Wyeth
*****
Bruce Davidson Central Park, 1992
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Séraphine Louis, Tree of Paradise, c. 1928
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134685
Purchase
January 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Saturday morning gilded coffee greetings! xo
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„I am nothing.
I'll never be anything.
I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.“
Fernando Pessoa
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utilityclassic, photo
January 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Twister in the snow
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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Hope is eternal. Truth is justice. Flowers are warriors.

"Warriors"

#BlueSkyArtShow #Vibrant #flowers #abstractart #art #digitalart #Procreate #warriors #artsky #artyear #smArtist #artistsofbluesky #onlybeautifulthings #painting
Abstract digital painting showing vibrant green flowers with dark red middles against a red background. There are sparkles of light in the air, and rough grass beneath the flowers.
January 9, 2026 at 10:51 PM