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Late-stage generalist, RPCV🌍, history/art/jazz/fiets-urb/pro-sci/anti-dictator, gentler in person.
Boris Lovet-Lorski / Fonderie Andro,
“Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze. With Tamara de
Lempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24. 📷 -gw
“Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze. With Tamara de
Lempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24. 📷 -gw
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Boris Lovet-Lorski / Fonderie Andro,
“Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze. With Tamara de
Lempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24. 📷 -gw
“Venus,“ ca. 1931. Bronze. With Tamara de
Lempicka, “La belle Rafaëla,“ 1927. Oil on canvas. On view at the de Young Museum, SF, Cal., Oct. ‘24. 📷 -gw
Boom! Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Nov. ‘25 📷 -gw
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Boom! Monarch chrysalis attaches to a senescing lavender stalk in the sideyard, Nov. ‘25 📷 -gw
Cody, supercharged by Osha Newmann’s “Water Lady” at sunset, as winter solstice gains its grip. Albany, Cal., Nov. ‘25.
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
November 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Cody, supercharged by Osha Newmann’s “Water Lady” at sunset, as winter solstice gains its grip. Albany, Cal., Nov. ‘25.
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
He purposefully did not put his hand on the Bible at his 2nd Inaugural, a grandiose gesture suggesting he thinks he can make a deal with God when it’s curtain time.
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
He purposefully did not put his hand on the Bible at his 2nd Inaugural, a grandiose gesture suggesting he thinks he can make a deal with God when it’s curtain time.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Point of Infinity,” stainless steel, glass fiber, reinforced concrete, 2023, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, Cal.
📷 taken Oct. 1, 2024 at 13:13 PDT -gw
📷 taken Oct. 1, 2024 at 13:13 PDT -gw
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Point of Infinity,” stainless steel, glass fiber, reinforced concrete, 2023, Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, Cal.
📷 taken Oct. 1, 2024 at 13:13 PDT -gw
📷 taken Oct. 1, 2024 at 13:13 PDT -gw
Ghost signage for nautical instruments salesroom at 611 Post St., San Francisco, Cal., Nov. ‘24.
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Ghost signage for nautical instruments salesroom at 611 Post St., San Francisco, Cal., Nov. ‘24.
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
Walter Blakelock Wilson, “Nightscape,”
1969. Acrylic on canvas. On view at the Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver, CO, Nov. ‘22 (personal 📷).
1969. Acrylic on canvas. On view at the Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver, CO, Nov. ‘22 (personal 📷).
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Walter Blakelock Wilson, “Nightscape,”
1969. Acrylic on canvas. On view at the Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver, CO, Nov. ‘22 (personal 📷).
1969. Acrylic on canvas. On view at the Vance Kirkland Museum, Denver, CO, Nov. ‘22 (personal 📷).
Found this wonderful 1993 remembrance from Crite of his childhood opening to the Arts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum c. 1924. (photo credit in Alttext)
www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/allan-r...
www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/allan-r...
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Found this wonderful 1993 remembrance from Crite of his childhood opening to the Arts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum c. 1924. (photo credit in Alttext)
www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/allan-r...
www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/allan-r...
bring on the… transcripts
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
bring on the… transcripts
“Vàmos a luta!”
Raquel Wapichana has travelled nine hours from Roraima to be here.
(Photograph: Jonathan Watts for The Guardian)
Raquel Wapichana has travelled nine hours from Roraima to be here.
(Photograph: Jonathan Watts for The Guardian)
November 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
“Vàmos a luta!”
Raquel Wapichana has travelled nine hours from Roraima to be here.
(Photograph: Jonathan Watts for The Guardian)
Raquel Wapichana has travelled nine hours from Roraima to be here.
(Photograph: Jonathan Watts for The Guardian)
Windmolen en fiets, Provincie Utrecht, NL, May ‘18. 📷 -gw
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Windmolen en fiets, Provincie Utrecht, NL, May ‘18. 📷 -gw
Johan Dijkstra, “Naakt (Jeanne de Blécourt)/Nude (Jeanne de Blécourt),” ca. 1925. Oil on linen. On view at the exhibition “Avant-Garde in Groningen: De Ploeg, 1918–1928,“ the Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL, June 2018. 📷 -gw
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Johan Dijkstra, “Naakt (Jeanne de Blécourt)/Nude (Jeanne de Blécourt),” ca. 1925. Oil on linen. On view at the exhibition “Avant-Garde in Groningen: De Ploeg, 1918–1928,“ the Groninger Museum, Groningen, NL, June 2018. 📷 -gw
František Kupka, “Family Portrait,” 1910. National Gallery Prague.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
František Kupka, “Family Portrait,” 1910. National Gallery Prague.
If they reverse, that could speed things up a bit
November 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
If they reverse, that could speed things up a bit
Mark Rothko, “Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red),” 1954. Oil on canvas. 77 3/4 × 65 1/2in. (197.5 × 166.4 cm) Not on view, at the Whitney Museum.
whitney.org/collection/w...
whitney.org/collection/w...
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Mark Rothko, “Untitled (Blue, Yellow, Green on Red),” 1954. Oil on canvas. 77 3/4 × 65 1/2in. (197.5 × 166.4 cm) Not on view, at the Whitney Museum.
whitney.org/collection/w...
whitney.org/collection/w...
One of these states is not like the others ..
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
One of these states is not like the others ..
Strong article from Ed Kilgore in New York (via Drudge) … this was an unfathomable political move in any but these extraordinary circumstances. Newsom, acting with great speed on a political tightrope, shepherded this measure through numerous obstacles and got 2/3rds of the vote.
archive.is/3jUwI
archive.is/3jUwI
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Strong article from Ed Kilgore in New York (via Drudge) … this was an unfathomable political move in any but these extraordinary circumstances. Newsom, acting with great speed on a political tightrope, shepherded this measure through numerous obstacles and got 2/3rds of the vote.
archive.is/3jUwI
archive.is/3jUwI
Atypically for veteran politicians, she was at her best late-career, imo, in firm opposition to Trump, whipping the impeachments and as a literal field general with her life on the line January 6th, her finest hour.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Atypically for veteran politicians, she was at her best late-career, imo, in firm opposition to Trump, whipping the impeachments and as a literal field general with her life on the line January 6th, her finest hour.
1936 electoral college map, via Wiki
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 PM
1936 electoral college map, via Wiki
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Museumplein, Amsterdam, NL, Feb. ‘18,
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
November 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Museumplein, Amsterdam, NL, Feb. ‘18,
📷 -gw
📷 -gw
True, and truly excellent, but the epicenter of the earthquake took place in New York City.
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
True, and truly excellent, but the epicenter of the earthquake took place in New York City.
Keep plucking that chicken, Rup..
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Keep plucking that chicken, Rup..