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Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

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art collector (Hoggard Wagner collection) and software engineer with very left-of-center politics; partner of @jamesarthurwagner

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Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

It’s a good time to wear my T-shirt from the artist Dread Scott shop.kayrock.org/products/gui...

On the front of the T-shirt, there is a white graphic design featuring a stylized guillotine blade shape and bold white text that reads:

“GUILLOTINES
WHEN PROPERLY USED
SAVE LIVES”

October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

In NYC

Sign with a drawing of a stars and stripes umbrella with the words “I can’t stand the Reign” below.

October 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

Late 19th century statue of Joan of Arc in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

This is a nighttime photograph of a bronze equestrian statue. The statue depicts a figure riding a horse while holding a large, tattered flag upright in one hand. The horse is viewed from behind, and the figure sits upright on the saddle. The sky is overcast with dark clouds, and artificial lighting illuminates the statue, highlighting its metallic surface. Trees are visible on both sides of the image.

May 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

Join me and @jamesarthurwagner.bsky.social at 601Artspace tomorrow! Magda Sawon of Postmasters helped organize a presentation of Ukrainian artists from their exhibition at the Venice Biennale. 601artspace.org

installation view from an art exhibition of Ukrainian artists titled “Repeat after Me II” at the Polish Pavilion, 2024 Venice Biennale. A large video screen dominates the background, displaying a close-up of a woman speaking against a blurred, leafy green background.

May 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

I had a great visit to the ISCP open studios today. Here are a few highlights, but I have more photos on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/blogg...

April 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

from @edwardluce.bsky.social on the feckless Democrats on.ft.com/4gwT6g3

Where in the constitution does it say that the unelected richest man in America gets to decide which programmes live or die, who to hire and fire, and what contracts to revoke? An alert opposition would ask: “Who elected Elon Musk?” It seems an act of will not to make that a rallying cry. When life gives you a Bond villain, make Bond-villain lemonade.

February 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

No hunting in Chelsea! Spotted on a derelict townhouse.

A window covered with metal security bars or grating that appears weathered and rusty. A bright yellow "POSTED" sign is prominently displayed on the bars, warning that it is private property and prohibiting hunting, fishing, trapping, or trespassing of any kind. The sign indicates that violators will be prosecuted and has blank spaces for name and address information.

January 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

Brilliant Spanish opera singer couple: Montserrat Caballé and Bernabé Martí, early 60s #opera

A photograph of opera singers Montserrat Caballé and Bernabé Martí. She is wearing a coat with a large fur collar, and looking at the camera with a slight smile, but her eyes are smiling. He is wearing a suit and looking at her. They appear to be in the lobby of a concert hall or opera house, with a single drink glass on the table between them.

November 18, 2024 at 2:27 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

I wore this shirt to vote today

A dark blue short-sleeved t-shirt that looks like a vintage t-shirt (but isn't) with "AMERICA IS AN IDEA" on the front, with dark red and yellow stripes on the sleeves.

October 30, 2024 at 6:37 PM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

Oof. I’m going to take a social media break now that an author I’ve read called me a white bitch.

September 23, 2024 at 3:51 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

West 28th Street

2 signs in windows. The first says “art pawn - new and used art” and the second is a QR code linking to an Instagram account.

July 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

$6 billion per year and the NYPD leaves unused barriers in front of a bus stop for days.

Police barriers along a sidewalk at a bus stop.

July 2, 2024 at 4:12 PM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

Jeff who?

a shiny round blue balloon sites on a sidewalk in the rain

April 3, 2024 at 1:40 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

A man in a red jacket with a backpack facing away from the camera. At his feet is a large toy sheep.

March 13, 2024 at 12:42 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

I was served this ad today on Instagram. Someone’s algorithm isn’t very smart.

An advertisement for investing with Bill Ackman. He is holding his wife horizontally in his arms on a beach.

February 1, 2024 at 3:20 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

I wish

January 24, 2024 at 4:09 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

We're listening to today in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagr...

The cover of the CD Box for Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha

January 16, 2024 at 2:01 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

We listened to one of our favorite Philip Glass works today
philipglass.com/recordings/h...

The cover of Philip Glass's Hydrogen Jukebox album, a collaboration with Allen Ginsberg.

December 18, 2023 at 1:28 AM

Barry Hoggard

@bhoggard.bsky.social

Does anyone know where we can get a Hanns Eisler statue like this? We've never forgotten it from a Heiner Goebbels performance of Eislermaterial in 1998. www.ensemble-modern.com/en/projects/...