Kristin M. Jones
@kristinmjones.bsky.social
Freelance arts writer with bylines in WSJ, Film Comment, Frieze, other pubs. Editor, singer, artist. New Yorker and Bostonian. Views my own.
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Gwen John’s ‘Cat’ (c. 1904–1908), Tate Collection
(The cat’s name was Edgar Quinet.)
(The cat’s name was Edgar Quinet.)
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Gwen John’s ‘Cat’ (c. 1904–1908), Tate Collection
(The cat’s name was Edgar Quinet.)
(The cat’s name was Edgar Quinet.)
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Twig with Two Pears, n.d., by #DorotheaStormKreps (Dutch, 1734-72). Held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, www.boijmans.nl/en/collectio... #hernaturalhistory #artherstory #womenartists #WorldPearDay
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Twig with Two Pears, n.d., by #DorotheaStormKreps (Dutch, 1734-72). Held by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, www.boijmans.nl/en/collectio... #hernaturalhistory #artherstory #womenartists #WorldPearDay
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My favorite holiday movie.
Coyote and Badger: Extended Video - California Wildlife Camera - Pathways for Wildlife and POST
YouTube video by Peninsula Open Space Trust - POST
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December 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
My favorite holiday movie.
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gotta say the fact that a waymo will pick up and drive away while someone is actively trying to get a cat out from under the car seems like a major safety hazard
"Footage obtained by The New York Times of the moment a Waymo car ran over Kit Kat, a beloved San Francisco bodega cat, raises new questions about the company’s safeguards."
Waymo's robots lack situational awareness to an alarming and prob unacceptable extent.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Waymo's robots lack situational awareness to an alarming and prob unacceptable extent.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
gotta say the fact that a waymo will pick up and drive away while someone is actively trying to get a cat out from under the car seems like a major safety hazard
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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Went looking for artworks of people sleeping - for reasons - and am now obsessed with this Jacques Lipchitz sculpture of American modernist painter Marsden Hartley asleep. Hartley died the following year, age 66 whitney.org/collection/w...
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Went looking for artworks of people sleeping - for reasons - and am now obsessed with this Jacques Lipchitz sculpture of American modernist painter Marsden Hartley asleep. Hartley died the following year, age 66 whitney.org/collection/w...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
Opinion | The Virus That Took My Father Could Become a Greater Threat
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December 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...
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That perfect silver cup from Simon Luttichuys. Today is for him & his brother Isaack.
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
That perfect silver cup from Simon Luttichuys. Today is for him & his brother Isaack.
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Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.
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SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
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November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
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NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
NEW: Earlier this month, I spent the day with the Luhmanns — a family rooted in theologically conservative Christianity.
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
In the morning, the homeschooled teenage sons tracked ICE.
In the afternoon, the mother aided an immigrant mother whose partner was deported. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
The Professors Who Stayed Close With Epstein
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November 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
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OMG! In 1970 Hiler + Dorsky "collaborated on... an industrial film commissioned by NJ’s Sussex County Area Reference Library, whose local branch Dorsky and Hiler frequented first as patrons, then eventually as projectionists and programmers for the library’s 16mm screenings" - ft Tony Conrad :)
Library (1970) by Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler
YouTube video by For All People
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November 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
OMG! In 1970 Hiler + Dorsky "collaborated on... an industrial film commissioned by NJ’s Sussex County Area Reference Library, whose local branch Dorsky and Hiler frequented first as patrons, then eventually as projectionists and programmers for the library’s 16mm screenings" - ft Tony Conrad :)
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A worm-ridden skull from collection of the Met Museum, etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after sketch by Leonardo da Vinci www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
November 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A worm-ridden skull from collection of the Met Museum, etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after sketch by Leonardo da Vinci www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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❤️ “An overt reference to New York City's skyline, the ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set represents the 1930s fascination with all things modern and urban."
“Manhattan” Cocktail, designed by Norman Bel Geddes, 1934–35; produced c. 1939-41 (The Art Institute of Chicago)
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
❤️ “An overt reference to New York City's skyline, the ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set represents the 1930s fascination with all things modern and urban."
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One of the most unusual Italian still lifes I've come across, by Paolo Antonio Barbieri (the brother of Guercino): Still Life with Mirrors, Objects, Fruit and Vegetables, first half of the 17th century, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 107.5 cm (Private collection) #earlymodern #17thc
November 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
One of the most unusual Italian still lifes I've come across, by Paolo Antonio Barbieri (the brother of Guercino): Still Life with Mirrors, Objects, Fruit and Vegetables, first half of the 17th century, oil on canvas, 80.5 x 107.5 cm (Private collection) #earlymodern #17thc
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With so much seeming wrong with the world I think you all need to see something undeniably good, so here's @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social with Grover from Sesame Street💗
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
With so much seeming wrong with the world I think you all need to see something undeniably good, so here's @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social with Grover from Sesame Street💗
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Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Pair of charmingly grumpy owls out on skates for winter fun. Have even brought along a snack! By Adriaen van de Venne, who died (alas!) on this day 1662.
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Just 200 more signatures needed to hit their goal, so I'm going to keep reposting this until enough of you click the link and sign the petition. It's for a good cause!
🚨HISTORIC PRESERVATION ALERT🚨: A concerted effort is underway by art historians & preservationists to save historic Wilbur J. Cohen building & its priceless New Deal artworks, threatened for sale by Trump administration. Please read, sign linked petition & repost! www.change.org/p/save-the-w...
Sign the Petition
Save the Wilbur J. Cohen Building — the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal”
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November 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Just 200 more signatures needed to hit their goal, so I'm going to keep reposting this until enough of you click the link and sign the petition. It's for a good cause!
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Stunning portrait of a woman in a plumed blue hat from 1740 by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697. Totally love this one.
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Stunning portrait of a woman in a plumed blue hat from 1740 by William Hogarth, who was born on this day in 1697. Totally love this one.
