Mark M. Weston
@markmweston.bsky.social
The author of "The Art of Wellbeing." Devoted to the healing powers of nature and arts.
From @sorkinsays’ latest DealBook newsletter:
David Gura
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David Gura
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January 21, 2026 at 1:02 PM
From @sorkinsays’ latest DealBook newsletter:
David Gura
davidgura
David Gura
davidgura
Tristram Hillier
'Notley Abbey, Thame.' (1955) A number of Tristram Hillier's tempera pictures have photography's visual trademarks, its distinctive tonality and visual confusions, its blurs and glares, the way it gives every detail a uniform level of attention, its casual compositions.
January 21, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Tristram Hillier
Egon Schiele
Holy Family (Heilige Familie) 1913
Gouache and pencil on parchment-like paper
[Private collection]
Alice Marianne
@_Emmet_Emmet
Holy Family (Heilige Familie) 1913
Gouache and pencil on parchment-like paper
[Private collection]
Alice Marianne
@_Emmet_Emmet
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Egon Schiele
Holy Family (Heilige Familie) 1913
Gouache and pencil on parchment-like paper
[Private collection]
Alice Marianne
@_Emmet_Emmet
Holy Family (Heilige Familie) 1913
Gouache and pencil on parchment-like paper
[Private collection]
Alice Marianne
@_Emmet_Emmet
Go, Colin!
The folks at Kirkus (@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social) reviewed the audiobook edition of Nations Apart, with its "much-needed insights into our current world and the way we relate to each other." A thumbs up for narrator Ari Filakos: www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read...
NATIONS APART by Colin Woodard Read by Ari Fliakos | Audiobook Review | AudioFile Magazine
AudioFile Audiobook Review: Ari Fliakos' skillful narration reflects the tone of this audiobook: serious, intentional, and thought provoking. The national discourse about who bes
www.audiofilemagazine.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Go, Colin!
Symmetry much?
art connects what we think is separate
by Stefan Lorant, 1937
FO7Z
f7oz
art connects what we think is separate
by Stefan Lorant, 1937
FO7Z
f7oz
January 21, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Symmetry much?
art connects what we think is separate
by Stefan Lorant, 1937
FO7Z
f7oz
art connects what we think is separate
by Stefan Lorant, 1937
FO7Z
f7oz
This is (should be) a HUGE scandal. Is any MSM media outlet willing to delve into this?
"In France, Trump sent his goons to intimidate the judge that was presiding over the prosecution of pro-Russian politician Marine Le Pen.
Kim Bradbury
bradbury_kim
"In France, Trump sent his goons to intimidate the judge that was presiding over the prosecution of pro-Russian politician Marine Le Pen.
Kim Bradbury
bradbury_kim
January 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM
This is (should be) a HUGE scandal. Is any MSM media outlet willing to delve into this?
"In France, Trump sent his goons to intimidate the judge that was presiding over the prosecution of pro-Russian politician Marine Le Pen.
Kim Bradbury
bradbury_kim
"In France, Trump sent his goons to intimidate the judge that was presiding over the prosecution of pro-Russian politician Marine Le Pen.
Kim Bradbury
bradbury_kim
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion
Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say. But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Vincent van Gogh - “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Winter” (1884)
(via nordicsublime)
(via nordicsublime)
January 21, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Vincent van Gogh - “The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Winter” (1884)
(via nordicsublime)
(via nordicsublime)
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
'The Gramophone.' (1923) In the 1920s Henry Lamb echoed Walter Sickert: pared-down interiors, blunt forms, and a restricted palette of greys, ochres, and greens. Mood over polish, paint as atmosphere, not so much as display.
January 20, 2026 at 9:10 PM
'The Gramophone.' (1923) In the 1920s Henry Lamb echoed Walter Sickert: pared-down interiors, blunt forms, and a restricted palette of greys, ochres, and greens. Mood over polish, paint as atmosphere, not so much as display.
Austin Spare
Austin Spare's 'Newspaper seller,' from 1938 is typical of his portraits in its unsettling intensity. He was arguably one of the most gifted draughtsmen in British 20th art and today, perhaps one of the least well-known.
January 21, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Austin Spare
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
January 21, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
For any other public official, this would be criminal www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:18 AM
For any other public official, this would be criminal www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
Read @crampell.bsky.social's latest Receipts now. bit.ly/4jWowzF
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Trump Is Making China Great Again
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
bit.ly
January 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
Read @crampell.bsky.social's latest Receipts now. bit.ly/4jWowzF
Read @crampell.bsky.social's latest Receipts now. bit.ly/4jWowzF
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
Parviz Tanavoli
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
January 18, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Parviz Tanavoli
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks was a teacher of enormous influence at the Slade School, and one of the great defenders against the rapid rise of modernism in the 20thC. This work (c1930) shows the artist Philip Wilson Steer (seated grey hair) at home in Chelsea at an afternoon tea party.
January 18, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Henry Tonks
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'Brocade and Fruit.' (c1960) Patrick Hennessy was one of the most commercially successful artists in Ireland in the mid-20thC; there is no doubting his technical skill though critics often wrote his aesthetic sense was limited and he relied on realist flourishes just for effect.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
'Brocade and Fruit.' (c1960) Patrick Hennessy was one of the most commercially successful artists in Ireland in the mid-20thC; there is no doubting his technical skill though critics often wrote his aesthetic sense was limited and he relied on realist flourishes just for effect.
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
'The greatest portraitist of this or any other time,' Walter Sickert once called Wyndham Lewis. It's quite an accolade; he was certainly one of the best painters of his generation. This picture of John MacLeod was one in a series of portraits of poets from 1938.
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
'The greatest portraitist of this or any other time,' Walter Sickert once called Wyndham Lewis. It's quite an accolade; he was certainly one of the best painters of his generation. This picture of John MacLeod was one in a series of portraits of poets from 1938.
Augustus John
It wasn't until the mid 1920s that Augustus John began painting flowers as an alternative to portraiture; this Begonia (1928) would have been grown in the garden at Fryern Court, John's home on the edge of the New Forest.
January 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Augustus John
Rob Rowland
British artist Rob Rowland specialises in railway paintings ~ here, I’m enjoying the night-time atmosphere and lighting effects he achieves in this nostalgic image of a misty, wet Drury Hill, Nottingham in the early 60s
January 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Rob Rowland
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Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
January 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Klimt
'Portrait of a Lady in Black.'
Gustav Klimt was an early adopter of using photography to help compose a painting, this is the case with this portrait from around 1894 of Marie Breunig, the wife of the owner of a Viennese bakery.
Gustav Klimt was an early adopter of using photography to help compose a painting, this is the case with this portrait from around 1894 of Marie Breunig, the wife of the owner of a Viennese bakery.
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Klimt
Reposted by Mark M. Weston
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 4:35 AM
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.