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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · Feb 10

Crowds and fireworks at Broad and Spruce, Philadelphia

#GoBirds🦅

Aerial shot of post-Super Bowl crowds in Center City, Philadelphia, near the intersection of Broad and Spruce Streets

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 2h

To mark the centenary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth, curator Michelle White selects five essential books that capture the artist’s humour, experimentation and influence.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/07/a...

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 3h

Ralph Goings (American, born 1928 – died 2016, Corning, California)
Coffee and Donut, 2005
Oil on canvas
16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
OK Harris, New York; Private collection, New York
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 4h

Love the cover!

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Lamont A. Turner @lamontaturner.bsky.social · 20h

Upon returning home from the swamps today, I found the 1932 edition of "Creeps By Night" that I'd ordered had arrived.😁 #Halloweenreading

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 11h

You did your homework as few do! As a fan of the composer and the artists, I'm looking forward to hearing this soon.

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you. I don't expect to read anything about this album that has this level of detail.

Separately, it also reminds me that it may be awhile before we hear Tetzlaff live in the U.S., a huge loss.

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Jari Kallio @jarikallio.bsky.social · 12h

Album review: a pristine pocket-sized reimagination of Adès’s The Tempest from Tetzlaff and Gerstein

”Rarely does one become so mesmerized, obsessed even by a documented musical performance than listening to this piece of treasure elaborately caught on microphones.”
#adventuresinmusic

Album review: a pristine pocket-sized reimagination of Adès’s The Tempest from Christian Tetzlaff and Kirill Gerstein

Alongside their resounding stage success, the three operas of Thomas Adès have also proven themselves as perennial sources of concertante adaptations. Regarding The Tempest (2003-04), its first con…

jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com

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De Selby @deselbysgold.bsky.social · 21h

Wiped out already & it's only Tuesday. But this is soothing my broken mind in its own inimitable way...

#NowPlaying
Sun Ra and the Myth Science Arkestra: Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy (1963)

CD jewel case of 1992 Evidence Music reissue of El Saturn LPs 408 (Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy) and 404 (Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow)

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 13h

Yes:

A decade ago I reconnected with a college friend on Facebook, which led to my helping with the startup he founded.

Then about 5 years ago, when Twitter was not a cesspool, a friend sent a "Remember me?" message, and now he and his wife are among my closest friends.

Good things can happen.

Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 13h

A friend tonight recalled a pal's chance meeting with Angela Merkel in Berlin.

It was late, he was picking up some cat food—and so was she. When they went to pay, the cashier said, ”Chancellor, what are you doing here—without a bodyguard?”

“If I needed a bodyguard, I wouldn't be doing my job.”

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 21h

My wife has swapped out our old bath mat, which we've had for the whole quarter century we've lived together, and it's made me really sad. I'm not good with change

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23h

I, too, would like my obituary to call me Smoked Fish Czar (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). Z"l.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 23h

Photographic evidence of my appearance with the San Gabriel Valley Symphony, playing the music of Kiki's Delivery Service!! It was so so fun to get to share a stage with so many incredible musicians. HUGE congrats to everyone who made this concert possible!

a white person with chin-length hair and glasses and a bright red accordion onstage with some orchestra musicians

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 1d

Charles Butler (British beekeeper, 1571-1647)

"Illustration concerning the arrangement of hives" from The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1623)

(via @pdimagearchive.bsky.social)

Black-and-white illustration from 1623 by Charles Butler, showing 56 small beehives arranged in a grid, with Roman numerals in a row across the top. Starting at left: IV, III, II, I, then a break, I, II, III, IV. Separating the two halves is a vertical row of letters: D, C, B, A (center), B, C, D. Four additional letters at the center of each side indicate directions: S (top), W (right), N (bottom), and E (left)

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 1d

Can't make it tonight, but glad this is on radar for the future!

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 1d

Philly! this is happening TONIGHT at the venerable Pen & Pencil Club! i’m so stoked to chat with these brilliant poets & hear them read. sliding scale tickets available online til 6 or at the door til 7.

🐎 we ride at 7:30! coordinated universal time, not punk time/poetry time!

alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · Aug 27

philly is the center of the known universe & i missed hosting a reading series, so here we are 🥁

very excited to share the first event for the TRACK CHANGES series ft. special visitor @niina.bsky.social + local fave @olgamikolaivna.bsky.social on Oct. 7!

🎟️ tickets & info: bit.ly/45RFbxM

Flyer for Track Changes reading, listening, and conversation series on Oct 7 ft. Niina Pollari and Olga Mikolaivna at the Pen & Pencil Club in Philly

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 1d

Anna Magnani

Leslie Gill, 1941

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Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · 1d

José Mauro Pontes

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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating thread, which at first seems to be nothing more than a day at the airport from an employee's point of view, but ends up being a bit more than that

Nome @nome.bsky.social · 1d

A life update: this wound up paying off. I'm still applying to several jobs that are hopefully careers, but I've got my survival needs covered by a job at the airport that I'm apparently pretty good at.

And instead of being in an office alone, which was driving me mad, I see 20k people a day.

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Aug 12

There is a line around this building to get to the line entrance to wait to get into this job fair.

At the airport. For airport jobs.

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Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social · 1d

John Cage, Where There Is Where There - Urban Landscape, No. 27

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 1d

Giuseppe De Nigris (Italian, 1832–1903)
"The Hand of the Tief", 1864.
Oil on Canvas, 160 × 106 cm.
Art Collection of the Province of Naples, Italy.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 2d

The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 2d

La Femme et le Moineau
A tapestry by Le Corbusier, from 1957
(moineau = sparrow)

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Mars was the Roman god of war.
That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.'

Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices.
That’s why we have Marshall’s.

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