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mgregorywriter.bsky.social
@mgregorywriter.bsky.social
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Arts journalist/art critic
Member AICA-USA
Awards @ NY Press Club, Press Club LI, NYPA. Regular contributor to Newsday. Bylines Observer OurTownNYC TheChief WomanAroundTown LIPulse
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mgregorywriter.bsky.social @mgregorywriter.bsky.social · Mar 28
That's what they say, left
My response, right
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apollo-magazine.com Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 16h
‘Be it a pale morning glow, the blush of a setting sun or the period of blue light that colours the atmosphere before dark, the light in Ancher’s paintings commands attention.’ Lucy Waterson on the luminous art of Anna Ancher
How Anna Ancher saw the light in Denmark
The first exhibition in the UK of the Danish painter’s work offers a glimpse into life in her rural community, writes Lucy Waterson
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November 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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mdstamper.bsky.social Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 6d
“The Round Pond” by Esther Borough Johnson (British) - Oil on canvas / 1934 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery (England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #EstherBoroughJohnson #WomenArtists #ModernBritishArt #art #ArtText #BritishArt #DogArt #1930sArt #WolverhamptonArtGallery #blueskyArt #WomensArt #BritishArtist
Painted in 1934, this scene of Kensington Gardens captures interwar urban leisure as distinctly feminine, sociable, and modern. Two women settle on the close-cropped grass beside London’s Round Pond, their pale dresses and hats catching the milky summer light. The nearer figure, in a softly patterned gown with a red sash and bow, turns toward us with a composed, knowing half-smile. Behind her, a friend lounges in a bright blue dress and brimmed hat playing with a small white and black terrier who stands upright to beg for food at the edge of a white picnic cloth. A pink teapot, cups, and sliced fruit sit carefully arranged in the foreground. Beyond, the still pond, toy sailing boats, strolling figures, and dense green trees complete a shimmering, open-air London park scene. The women’s relaxed postures, fashionable dress, and companionable dog suggest autonomy and pleasure in public space, while the tea service and play of boats tie domestic ritual to cosmopolitan outdoors. Johnson’s light, broken brushwork and high-keyed palette emphasize movement and reflected light rather than strict detail, aligning her with contemporaries who translated Impressionist-inflected color into British park and garden subjects. The painting invites us into a gentle spectacle of everyday joy at a moment when such calm was historically fragile. Esther Borough Johnson, a British painter trained at Birmingham School of Art, Chelsea Art School, and Hubert von Herkomer’s school at Bushey, built her career with portraits, genre scenes, and floral studies that foregrounded women, children, and cultivated landscapes. A regular exhibitor at major London societies, she negotiated a male-dominated art world while working in close dialogue with her husband, Ernest Borough Johnson, yet maintained a distinct sensibility rooted in observational intimacy and luminous color. Her style was attentive to place, affectionate towards sitters, and quietly highlighted women’s everyday lives and leisure.
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Hate it when hair hurts! 😂
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d
A cartoon by Roz Chast, from 2022. #NewYorkerCartoons
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“Yoko always says [that] the job of the artist is not to destroy but to change the value of things. The amount of potential in that is incredible to me."

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Yoko Ono Retrospective Invites Audience to Join in the Creative Process - Galerie Magazine
"Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind" makes its only U.S. stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where over 200 works are on display
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November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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"Culture change is not an abstract policy conversation. It lives in everyday practice"

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engagedroadmap.bsky.social Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social · 7d
@louisehopper.bsky.social spoke at our ENGAGED session at #NORFest2025 in the @ria.ie @norfireland.bsky.social She brought the focus back to people. Culture change is not an abstract policy conversation. It lives in everyday practice
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Louise Hopper spoke at our ENGAGED Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap session at #NORFest2025 in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). She brought the focus back to people. Culture change is not an abstract policy conversation. It lives in everyday practice, how we work with each other, how we share knowledge, and how we make decisions that have real impact on real lives. Louise reminded the room that open research is not just infrastructure or compliance. It is trust, care, and responsibility. If we want systematic change, we have to look at how we relate to our colleagues, partners, and communities. That is where change takes root. #openresearch #publicengagement
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Got 10 minutes? Get a new perspective, via the wonderful Lee Krasner

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10-Minute Challenge: ‘The Seasons’ by Lee Krasner (Gift Article)
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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“Don’t be worried about rejection. I say that now."
- Joan Mitchell

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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“I wasn’t the least bit interested in feminist art, and I still am not...We were feminist before the feminists came along.”
- Sonia Getchoff

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November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Matsuo Bashō

From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon beholders.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Anna Ancher, At Noon, 1914 Danish painter #WomensArt
Painting of an open doorway looking outwards from the interior, on the floor inside and out are wooden clogs, two pairs, one adult sized and one pair to fit a small child
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Tish Murtha (1956-2013), social documentary photographer who documented marginalised communities under Thatcher in NE England #womensart
Image care of and property of Ella Murtha
Monochrome photograph of a young white girl jumping on the bonnet of an abandoned car near a brick wall covered in graffiti
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Imogen Cunningham
Hands

(she was fascinated by them)

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November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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rabihalameddine.bsky.social Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 14d
Esther Kjerner
Still Life with Lily of the Valley, 1949
Oil on board
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Eva Hesse, Ringaround Arosie, 1965
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137024
Fractional and promised gift of Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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All excellent. The Fonz 🌟
mlobelart.bsky.social Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 15d
A gaggle of costumed trick-or-treaters; anyone who lived through that era remembers these costumes with their stiff masks (held on by an impossibly thin rubber band that always broke) and cheap plastic overgarments #Halloween
B&W photo of children trick or treating in the 1970s
October 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Steve Hanks
"Halloween," 1993
Watercolor
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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🏆 first place !!!
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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salleymavor.bsky.social Salley Mavor @salleymavor.bsky.social · 15d
Happy Halloween! This original illustration for my book, You and Me: Poems of Friendship, is one of dozens of works included in my exhibition at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA. The show, To Every Season, is on view through Dec. 31, 2025.
October 31, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Boo!
From Leonora Carrington
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Perspective: Susie Barstow (1836-1923)
by Gussie Fauntleroy for Western Art & Architecture
westernartandarchitecture.com/december-202...
Perspective: Susie Barstow [1836-1923] - Western Art & Architecture
“I will overcome every barrier to success,” Susie Barstow wrote in her journal in 1856, “and soon, with the sun rising above every Earthly conflict, make myself a name and position that will influence...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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There's a beautifully illustrated book about the artist from @lhartbooks.bsky.social -

Susie M. Barstow: Redefining the Hudson River School
by Nancy Siegel
www.lundhumphries.com/products/sus...

And for a shorter read, see the author's Art Herstory blog post -

artherstory.net/susie-m-bars...
Susie M. Barstow
Why do we not know more of Susie Barstow? A prolific artist, Susie M. Barstow (1836-1923) was committed to expressing the majesty she found in the national landscape. She captured on canvas and paper ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Imagining Mary Cassatt: Behind the Curtain of The Cassatt Sisters by Lisa Groen booksbywomen.org/imagining-ma...
Imagining Mary Cassatt: Behind the Curtain of The Cassatt Sisters - Women Writers, Women's Books
by Lisa Groen When writing a novel about a historical figure like Mary Cassatt, a member of the larger Impressionist collective, it can be difficult to decide who to include as main characters of her ...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM