Gregory McCormick
@mcco12.bsky.social
Montrealer living in rural Ontario and working in Toronto.
M looks like a criminal
December 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
M looks like a criminal
Was up late reading this looking out at the snowy street - perfect December evening | Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Was up late reading this looking out at the snowy street - perfect December evening | Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Today I learned that Bach had been more or less completely forgotten (and out of style) after his death and it was only after 80 years when Felix Mendelssohn performed St Matthew's Passion in 1829 that he became appreciated (and fashionable) again. Thanks, Felix!
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Today I learned that Bach had been more or less completely forgotten (and out of style) after his death and it was only after 80 years when Felix Mendelssohn performed St Matthew's Passion in 1829 that he became appreciated (and fashionable) again. Thanks, Felix!
The sun gilds / Without literature
(Fernando Pessoa)
(Fernando Pessoa)
December 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
The sun gilds / Without literature
(Fernando Pessoa)
(Fernando Pessoa)
Original movie poster for 1988 Kieslowski film A Short Film About Killing
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Original movie poster for 1988 Kieslowski film A Short Film About Killing
Our Christmas tree went up just as we are about to leave for a family visit
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Our Christmas tree went up just as we are about to leave for a family visit
Doggie antics in the snow
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Doggie antics in the snow
An exhibition (w/forthcoming print book by ACI) on the painter William Raphael is striking and beautiful. Raphael is widely acknowledged as one of Montreal's first Jewish painters - his work had a massive influence on urban Canadian painting for generations. www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/wi...
December 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An exhibition (w/forthcoming print book by ACI) on the painter William Raphael is striking and beautiful. Raphael is widely acknowledged as one of Montreal's first Jewish painters - his work had a massive influence on urban Canadian painting for generations. www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/wi...
TIL that Evita Perón underwent a prefrontal lobotomy shortly before her death in 1952 (under direct orders from her husband Juan Perón). The procedure was performed to relieve her excruciating pain but evidence suggests it was also intended to modify her "willful" behaviour.
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
TIL that Evita Perón underwent a prefrontal lobotomy shortly before her death in 1952 (under direct orders from her husband Juan Perón). The procedure was performed to relieve her excruciating pain but evidence suggests it was also intended to modify her "willful" behaviour.
Loving the bold graphics on the cover of the redesigned Canadian passport
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Loving the bold graphics on the cover of the redesigned Canadian passport
Che Guevara's alias: behind thick-rimmed glasses and a forged Uruguayan passport, the world's most wanted revolutionary crossed into Bolivia undetected. 1966. #uruguay #bolivia #cheguevara #alias #coldwar #latinamerica
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Che Guevara's alias: behind thick-rimmed glasses and a forged Uruguayan passport, the world's most wanted revolutionary crossed into Bolivia undetected. 1966. #uruguay #bolivia #cheguevara #alias #coldwar #latinamerica
Strandgade 30, Copenhagen | Former home of painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. He lived on the above ground floor and painted the interior of this building for many years in dozens of his paintings.
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Strandgade 30, Copenhagen | Former home of painter Vilhelm Hammershøi. He lived on the above ground floor and painted the interior of this building for many years in dozens of his paintings.
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior: Strandgade 30, 1901 | This is Hammershøi family apartment at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen where he lived for much of his adult life and which he painted over and over.
November 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior: Strandgade 30, 1901 | This is Hammershøi family apartment at Strandgade 30 in Copenhagen where he lived for much of his adult life and which he painted over and over.
This morning in the sunshine
November 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This morning in the sunshine
James Wilson Morrice (Canadian 1865-1924), The Pond, West Indies, 1920
October 31, 2025 at 4:51 PM
James Wilson Morrice (Canadian 1865-1924), The Pond, West Indies, 1920
"We need maximalist, forward-charging art that can compete with, not simply provide refuge from, the attention-scrambling modern forces that might otherwise drive us into a dark age." - Spencer Kornhaber #art #atlanticmonthly
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"We need maximalist, forward-charging art that can compete with, not simply provide refuge from, the attention-scrambling modern forces that might otherwise drive us into a dark age." - Spencer Kornhaber #art #atlanticmonthly
Sunlit fall morning on the water
October 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Sunlit fall morning on the water
Georgia O’Keeffe, Nude Series VIII, 1917
October 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Georgia O’Keeffe, Nude Series VIII, 1917
Sunday morning tunes = Sunday at the Village Vanguard by Bill Evans Trio
October 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sunday morning tunes = Sunday at the Village Vanguard by Bill Evans Trio
TIL that Day of the Dead isn't celebrated in every part of Mexico and there was never a big DoD celebration in Mexico City until the 2015 James Bond film Spectre was shot there. The parade organized for the movie shoot - as well as the movie itself - was so popular, it started an annual tradition.
October 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
TIL that Day of the Dead isn't celebrated in every part of Mexico and there was never a big DoD celebration in Mexico City until the 2015 James Bond film Spectre was shot there. The parade organized for the movie shoot - as well as the movie itself - was so popular, it started an annual tradition.
lol sent by a friend
October 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
lol sent by a friend
I'm in Toronto at least once a week and this almost always means that new books are sitting on my desk (or my holds shelf) and days like today is like WOW I've got a great job! John Banville, Martín Kohan and Zora Neale Hurston what a week of reading I have ahead of me! #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm in Toronto at least once a week and this almost always means that new books are sitting on my desk (or my holds shelf) and days like today is like WOW I've got a great job! John Banville, Martín Kohan and Zora Neale Hurston what a week of reading I have ahead of me! #booksky