@andypatton52.bsky.social
I am interested in art (historical and contemporary), archeology, literature and Rome.
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Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal
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Venezuela launches wave of repression after US seizure of Nicolás Maduro
Armed militias patrol the streets and journalists arrested as government crackdown on dissent widens
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January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal
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Reasonable to ask whether Americans just got played by Cubans and Venezuelans who will now stay in power in Caracas and who understood that after 24 or so hours of gringo euphoria this will be a disaster for the US.
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The Dog That Didn't Bark in the Maduro Op
Cuban intelligence runs Venezuela's security apparatus. Where was it when the U.S. snatched the Venezuelan strongman?
macspaunday.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Reasonable to ask whether Americans just got played by Cubans and Venezuelans who will now stay in power in Caracas and who understood that after 24 or so hours of gringo euphoria this will be a disaster for the US.
macspaunday.substack.com/p/the-dog-th...
macspaunday.substack.com/p/the-dog-th...
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Two policemen remember January 6. One was defending the Capitol, the other attacking it. Both were transformed by the experience, and by the photos and video taken that day
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened
January 6, five years later
www.theatlantic.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Two policemen remember January 6. One was defending the Capitol, the other attacking it. Both were transformed by the experience, and by the photos and video taken that day
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Never forget.
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Never forget.
And here's a decade-old review of Bishop by John Yau. Like Yau, I too came across Bishop through John Ashbery's review: "the stripping down is obviously a decision of the heart, not the head.”
James Bishop’s Incommodious Beauty
I have been waiting to see a large selection of James Bishop’s paintings since the mid-1970s, ever since reading John Ashbery’s appraisal in a secondhand copy of Art News Annual 1966.
hyperallergic.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
And here's a decade-old review of Bishop by John Yau. Like Yau, I too came across Bishop through John Ashbery's review: "the stripping down is obviously a decision of the heart, not the head.”
I've loved James Bishop's paintings for a long time. This is "State", from 1972. It's 6 feet square.
January 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I've loved James Bishop's paintings for a long time. This is "State", from 1972. It's 6 feet square.
This is "On Site Review #47: stand still and fix something."
on site review
what happens when we stop rushing and just stand still and look? Architecture, landscape, art and design all slow down, and take note of things that need attention and repair.
www.onsitereview.ca
January 4, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This is "On Site Review #47: stand still and fix something."
This exhibition looks very interesting visually, gorgeous. But as it's in the USA, I won't be seeing it. It's at Yale, so if you're near New Haven...
What Hew Locke Carries
With his haunting exhibition, Passages, the Guyanese-British artist reminds us that when we survive, so do our ghosts and our wounds.
hyperallergic.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
This exhibition looks very interesting visually, gorgeous. But as it's in the USA, I won't be seeing it. It's at Yale, so if you're near New Haven...
It was a good Christmas for Tilley.
January 3, 2026 at 1:34 PM
It was a good Christmas for Tilley.
In the House of Augustus on the Palatine in Rome, several years ago.
January 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
In the House of Augustus on the Palatine in Rome, several years ago.
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#FrescoFriday - The magnificent Garden Fresco from the triclinium of Livia's villa at Prima Porta. This Second-Style fresco depicts a variety of plants, fruits, flowers, and birds rendered in a naturalistic way. It is one of the most stunning frescoes from the Roman world!
January 2, 2026 at 2:18 PM
#FrescoFriday - The magnificent Garden Fresco from the triclinium of Livia's villa at Prima Porta. This Second-Style fresco depicts a variety of plants, fruits, flowers, and birds rendered in a naturalistic way. It is one of the most stunning frescoes from the Roman world!
It looks as though I was wrong about the lack of coverage of the uprising in Iran. Lots of coverage now on the TV and press.
January 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
It looks as though I was wrong about the lack of coverage of the uprising in Iran. Lots of coverage now on the TV and press.
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Watching this. Protests have happened before, but there are tipping points sometimes, and vicious theocracies CAN fall.
🇮🇷 Mass protests in Iran have turned deadly, with fatalities reported in several provinces amid intense clashes with security forces, the most serious unrest in the past three years. Inflation near 40%, currency collapse, and harsh repression fuel the crisis.
January 1, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Watching this. Protests have happened before, but there are tipping points sometimes, and vicious theocracies CAN fall.
I thought this was lovely. Thanks to David Ho, wherever you are.
December 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I thought this was lovely. Thanks to David Ho, wherever you are.
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You need to read this story.
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
You need to read this story.
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Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
Deep breath
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
Ok I'm going to try and stay calm
But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France)
(1/?)
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.
