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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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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 44m

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 · 17h

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

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 21h

Day two of cricketfest has begun.

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Tomb Heintjes @hogansalley.bsky.social · 22h

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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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 1d

Me when they play my jam

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

@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 · 1d

A cover band called The Residonts

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

New subway art 'A Data Love Letter to the Subway' is now on view at Fulton Transit Center share.google/CooqTUDYZddf...

This cool new subway installation turns transit data into art at Fulton Center

As this artful love letter says, "We're all part of the same story"

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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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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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 2d

In my dream

In my dream the complex is dark and sprawling and filled with sexual activity of all kinds. Most people are naked as they cruise through the aging plaster rooms stocked with cast off furniture.

In my dream

In my dream the complex is dark and sprawling and filled with sexual activity of all kinds. Most people are naked as they cruise through the aging plaster rooms stocked with cast off furniture.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 2d

It's Banned Book Week, and I'm delighted to be part of @everylibrary.bsky.social's calendar of events by chatting with @stoya.bsky.social about Fanny Hill (aka Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure), a Very Banned book. I mean, it was banned in two countries, at least five times.

EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 Calendar

Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t...

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 3d

In my dream

In my dream we are gathered to kill someone named Davos.

In my dream

In my dream we are gathered to kill someone named Davos.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much, Gunny! Glad you got to see it.

Gunny @alphagunny.bsky.social · 3d

I had a chance to visit @naylandblake.bsky.social’s retrospective, Sex in the 90s, over the weekend. Awesome show. The passage of 3+ decades for many of the pieces lends perspective. Photos of my favorite pieces from the show from Matthew Marks Gallery cause I managed to flubbed my pics. #nyc #art

A color photo of Nayland Blake’s installation, Untitled, 1992/2025. The photo shows a
steel cage with wax and Dutch-process cocoa busts of Richard Wagner impaled on the finials set in a bare white room with a concrete floor. Next to the cage is a wooden desk with a plaster and silicone mold, a hot plate, a pot with wax and cocoa mixture in it, a digital scale, silicone spatulas, a thermometer, a pencil, paper, a bag of cocoa, and some hardware.

A color still photo from Nayland Blake’s single channel video, Gorge, 1998. The photo shows a white wall with a round analog clock showing an approximate time of 12:35. In front of the wall, seated is the artist, dressed only in dark blue pants. The artist is a young bearish man with a beard, close cropped, brownish hair, tattoos on his left arm and right shoulder. standing behind him is a black man, also only wearing pants. The standing man is holding a quarter of a watermelon in his left hand, while his right hand is feeding a chunk of watermelon to the seated man. The standing man is softly muscular.

A color photo of Nayland Blake’s sculpture, One Down, 1994. The photo shows a yellow plush bunny rabbit toy with a pile of 56 loose pom-poms in the same colors. Both the bunny, rabbit, and the pile of loose pom-poms also have small pom-poms attached that are brown and pink, attached in a way that in gender’s thoughts of a virus.

A color photo of Nayland Blake’s piece, David Hockney / Los Angeles, 1988. The photo shows a green blackboard edged in aluminum, with the words: “The idea that figure painting might disappear has always seemed naive to me. The most interesting thing we see in the world is another human being.” David Hockney 1983. imprinted on it in a serif font.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 4d

In my dream

In my dream a square appears around them, one by one, like they are suspects.

In my dream

In my dream a square appears around them, one by one, like they are suspects.

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 4d

Me when they play my jam

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 4d

Photographer Gordon Parks’ religious images displayed in DC exhibition | AP News share.google/2WEk7lHjTXcr...

Photographer Gordon Parks’ religious images displayed in DC exhibition

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A new exhibition of the work of Gordon Parks, a photographer renowned for documenting African American life, turns its focus on Parks’ exploration of Black religion and spirituality...

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naylandblake @naylandblake.bsky.social · 4d

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