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Showcasing artworks by artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the Looks Like Home To Me exhibit runs until Dec. 7 at Central Library’s Getty Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.

A beautiful show. Don't miss it!

www.lapl.org/events/exhib... photo: TL #artoftheday
An art gallery with shiny tan tile floors and vintage overhead lighting. A variety of textile art and paintings exhibited.
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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“Playing music is the one thing that puts me squarely in the present moment; it’s as Zen as I’ll ever be." - Kathy Valentine, bassist of the Go-Go's.

This is an incredible book about a band you THINK you know.

#girlsrock #booksky #womenauthors
The cover of the book ALL I EVER WANTED by Kathy Valentine. She has a punk haircut and dark eye makeup. The book sits on a guitar.
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Absorbing each piece of art.
Reading every caption.
Interconnection fills us.
We are all one.

Art from:
Queer Lens: A History of Photography and $3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives (photo: TL)

#GettyCenter #artoftheday #queerart
September 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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1,000,000 flowers.
100,000 square feet.
100-year-old establishment.
Here...10 dollars goes a long way.
#losangelesflowermarket #orchid
#ilovela
Many bright pink orchids. Bouquets of unusual pink flowers.
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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“We communicate exclusively through handwritten letters. No texts. No emails. Sometimes we include silly games in our letters. Here’s one of them.”

- Two old college friends who met in 1986 and now live on opposite coasts

#artoftheday #letterwriting
A piece of typing paper with a handmade spinner attached. There are a variety of questions the spinner can land on.
September 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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How do you cross the flood?
You cross calmly--one step at a time,
feeling for stones."
- from "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns"

(Paper mural by Swoon on New Orleans fence, 2012. Photo: TL) #artoftheday #buddhism #streetart
A gray fence in New Orleans. Two girls are created of tan and black paper. They have their hands on their mouths. A little boy is on the back of one of the girls. The background of the mural is blue and pink paper.
September 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I stepped into my garden today.
To cry for my city.
To cry for my world.
And I saw this...
resting in warm pebbles.

#artoftheday #succulent
Colorful small pebbles. A succulent leaf is dead and drying up. At the tip, a lush green little succulent sprouts. (photo: Tiny Lantern)
June 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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a) Watercolor painting?

b) Or the dried bracts that enclose an Agapanthus flower?

answer in ALT - #artoftheday
Two agapanthus bracts that resemble a watercolor painting--with colors of purple, red, yellow, and orange.
June 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"Within these shadows,
I find you.
Let's listen to the music
together." - Anon

#artoftheday (6/11/22 Descanso Gardens exhibit)
(Video: Tiny Lantern)
April 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Art begets art.

'Take Five' from Dave Brubeck's 1959 album influenced the post punk band The Stranglers to write 'Golden Brown' in 1982 which then influenced sax player Lawrence Mason to create 'The Take Vibe' in 2020. Listen in link:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iITx...
#artoftheday #musicsky
A black and white photo of The Dave Brubeck Quartet. And two black and white photos of the band The Stranglers. "Central to the song’s peculiar allure was its triple-metre waltz rhythm. The beats are grouped in threes, with Greenfield’s harpsichord adding an extra beat to complete a movement of 13 beats. In terms of time signature, this translates to three bars of 3/4 followed by one of 4/4. The waltz rhythm is said to be directly inspired by Paul Desmond’s influential jazz classic ‘Take Five’ from Dave Brubeck’s legendary 1959 album Time Out. The resemblance is indeed uncanny." - Jordan Potter, FAR OUT magazine
April 16, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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And what do you
make of her?
This woman
born from paper
and wasp nests?

Sculptor: Valerie Hammond
(photo: Tiny Lantern)
#artoftheday #nature
A sculpture of a nude woman constructed of wasp nests stands in the center of a gallery. In the background, a large mounted photograph of a woman sitting at at table in the woods. Table and woman are completely overgrown by nature. Artists of photographs are Vera Lehndorff and Holger Trulzsch.
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Spider silk binds.
Lichen camouflages.
Soft dandelion florets comfort.
Human’s front porch shelters.
All coming together
in her masterpiece.

#artoftheday #hummingbird
April 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Invite someone you haven't seen in a while--or would like to get to know better--on a WALK & TALK. What happens next? Well...you walk. And you talk. No phones allowed.

#nature #bloomscrolling #walking
Two pairs of feet stand together outside. One pair of feet wears tennis shoes. The other wears black work boots. The shoes stand on dry leaves, broken twigs, and fallen pink camellia blooms. This photo was snapped while on a stroll through the woods.
March 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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"I love America more than any country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

- James Baldwin

photo: Tiny Lantern
#writesky #writingcommunity
Stark black and white photograph of the Statue of Liberty. Angle up.
March 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Artists are all around you.
Open your heart to see the story
that everyone has inside them.

"True love will find you in the end
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you're looking can it find you
'Cause true love is searching too..."
- Daniel Johnston #musicsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUbE...
A black and white photograph of a young Daniel Johnston working the day-shift at McDonald's in Austin, Texas. 1984. He wears a McDonald's uniform and leans slightly to the side while staring directly into the camera. The restaurant is empty. Photo credit of the musician is unknown.
March 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Where is this:

a) Lisbon
b) Cotswolds
c) Tuscany
d) none of the above

(answer in ALT/photo: Tiny Lantern)
#wanderlust #travel
Answer: Heart of Los Angeles, California Historic brick chimneys rise up over clay roof tiles. Greenery and blue sky surround them.
March 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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“When I was in college
a post-punk band I loved
was playing a show in town.
Not a single sorority sister
would come with me.
I was terrified to go by myself.
But I did.
This is a journal entry about that night.
(p.s. I dropped out of the sorority
the next day.)” - Anon
#writesky #writingcommunity
A maroon hardcover journal with an image of a woman lounging by red flowers. Pages of the journal are yellowed with age. An excerpt of the journal says: "I went to the concert alone. I danced alone. I sang the words alone. And I had the time of my life. Alone." (The concert was The Violent Femmes in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 1985.)
March 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Somewhere in New Mexico

a storm is coming
loud thunder trembles my child
"it will pass,” I say

Words: Anon/Photo: Tiny Lantern
#haiku #poetry
Massive gray and black thunderclouds fill most of the photo. At the bottom is a brilliant slice of orange from the setting sun.
March 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Melissa Meier’s “Moss” is based on an Amazon warrior but “the difference in Meier’s armor is that it is not modeled on male battle attire but on a transfiguration into nature, becoming one with it.” - ALT for exhibit details
Photo: Tiny Lantern #artoftheday

www.descansogardens.org/wp-content/u...
Living moss, air plants, and other greenery make up a headdress and body armor draped on an ebony female mannequin. This piece is part of an exhibit at the Sturt Haaga Gallery within the grounds of Descanso Gardens in La Canada. The exhibit is called "Daphne's Wardrobe: Metamorphosis Into Nature." This particular piece is created by Melissa Meier and the exhibit wall states: "The difference in Meier's armor is that it is not modeled on male battle attire but on a transfiguration into nature, becoming one with it." When Tiny Lantern visited this exhibit, a worker was gently spraying the piece with a fine mist of water. This exhibit runs until June 1, 2025.
March 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Any other adults addicted to their kid's Spirograph? #artoftheday
A Spirograph circle created of blue and olive green pen. An eye in the center of the shape.
March 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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If you were a Vroman’s Bookstore employee, what would you pick to review?

“Certain lines have been running loops in my head since I read them, and if that doesn’t tell you everything you need to know, I don’t know what does.” — employee Scott reviews CRUSH by Richard Aiken #booksky #poetry
A bookstore shelf with several books. Each book has an employee review posted beneath it. CRUSH, a collection of poems, by Richard Siken is in the center of the photo. A handwritten review of CRUSH by Richard Siken. This review is written by Vroman's Bookstore employee Scott.
March 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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In pagan times
a dried fava bean or coin
was hidden in a King Cake.
Not a plastic baby.
The recipient was
treated like a King.
And then...
sacrificed for the harvest.
#mardigras

Photo: “Non-Edible Baby”
by Mike Smith of New Orleans, Louisiana
(more in ALT)
#artoftheday
A tiny plastic baby, with arms spread wide, lies in the center of a blood-red rose. This photograph is by Mike Smith who is an artist, photographer, and Mardi Gras float designer born and bred in South Louisiana. "The enchanting presence of the baby, cradled on a bed of a single rose, speaks to the sacred solitude and comfort of the womb," says Smith. "Surrounded by black, darkness adds the timeless sense of the unknown. The plastic sheen of the baby signifies the reification of light. The rose, blood and life, imbued within the geometry of time, calls forth the immortal nature of the soul."
March 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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“I write my son letters while he’s away at college. Sometimes I incorporate colored pencil drawings around the postage stamp to humor him…and to give the mail carrier a tiny surprise in her long day.” - a mom #artoftheday
A white envelope with a United States postage stamp in the right corner. The postage stamp image is a body of water with a beautiful sunset of lavender, fuchsia, pink, deep blue and orange. A field of green is below the water. A colored pencil drawing extends the sunset, water and field all the way across the envelope with the same shades as the stamp. It gives the effect that the stamp and colored pencil are all one cohesive piece of art.
March 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Don't spend money today.
Go outside instead.
Greedily consume nature.
Gobble up free art around you.
Acquire, grab, and seize
the riches of a conversation
with a stranger.

Mural: Javier Barriga
Photo: Jessica Stewart
Location: Country of Georgia

#24HourEconomicBlackout
#artoftheday
Street art mural of a mother holding her young child. The mural is on an eleven story building in the country of Georgia. The mother wears a delicate cream-colored dress. Child and mother have eyes partially closed with a look of content and peace.
February 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Do you have a library card?

If so make sure to go to the library...

...check out The Library Book...

and learn the history of the library.

(THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean)

#booksky
Book cover of THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean. The author of THE ORCHID THIEF. Book cover is red with gold lettering.
February 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM