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May 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), considered to be one of the leading South American modernist painters #womensart
May 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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"Could these arduous hand- and stencil-colored techniques be done once on a master and then duplicated?"

No, most color films and processes just couldn't capture the full spectrum and the one that could was an almighty pain. Applied color was added print-by-print.
May 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Sunbeams shining on my surface as the #GreatLakes thank @gretchenwhitmer.bsky.social for her work in bringing the invasive Asian carp to Trump’s attention 🌊🌊
May 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Animator/director Bob Clampett, born on May 8, 1913 #botd
May 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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President Woodrow Wilson issues a presidential proclamation that officially establishes the first national Mother’s Day holiday on May 9, 1914.
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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One day, passing by the Curzon Cinema in Soho, I saw some of the truest words ever laid bare for public consumption…
May 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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May 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom
Scientists have created a broadly effective antivenom using the blood of a Wisconsin man who has spent years exposing himself to deadly snakebites from black mambas, taipans, cobras and many others.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Candice Bergen "playfully" strangling her childhood nemesis Charlie McCarthy in 1966 while Edgar Bergen looks on

CB was BOTD in 1946
May 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Mark Twain was gullible, emotionally immature, and prone to shoveling money into scams, Graeme Wood writes. Ron Chernow’s new biography of the writer reveals a man whose life was far less funny than his work.
The Not at All Funny Life of Mark Twain
Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.
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May 9, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Elephant Jazz trio, 1930s, German postcard
May 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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If you can’t find your moment of zen, build it 🪷

#phonephotography #naturephotography #photography #meditation #witchsky
May 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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New York (Woman Leaning on Storefront Window) | Vivian Maier
#StreetPhotography
May 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Exploring our sexual shadow is part of our journey to self-love. We need to learn to embrace our desires, pleasures, preferences and kinks that we deem dirty or too much, while we treat our fears, shame, insecurities, and unhealed wounds gently.

Photo by Frantisek Drtikol (1920s)

#eroticart #nude
May 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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My painting PACIFIC NORTHWEST
May 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Laura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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FRANKS FILM REVIEW: THE WEDDING BANQUET
⭐⭐⭐⭐ /5

"The Wedding Banquet" offers audiences a moving exploration of love in all its complexities. Masterfully blending humor and emotion, it delivers a heartfelt narrative filled with unexpected moments.

www.stonewallnews.net/articles/a-m...
A Modern Classic Revisited: The Wedding Banquet
www.stonewallnews.net
April 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Thunderbolts* is unapologetically formulaic. And yet, Florence Pugh is terrific; the action is coherent; and the character dynamics strike the right balance of earnest sincerity and glib humor.
'Thunderbolts*' is an unwieldy jumble, and also the best Marvel film in a while
Thunderbolts* is unapologetically formulaic. And yet, Florence Pugh is terrific; the action is coherent; and the character dynamics strike the right balance of earnest sincerity and glib humor.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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May 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Chicago is on to something.
May 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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In honor of #pynchoninpublic day (aka Thomas Pynchon's 88th birthday), here's a photo of the late lamented Either / Or Bookstore in Hermosa Beach, where I bought my copies of The Crying of Lot 49, V., & Gravity's Rainbow as a teenager back in the '80s.
May 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Graham Parsons, professor of philosophy at West Point, announces his resignation in the face of new policies "eliminating courses, modifying syllabuses and censoring arguments to comport with the ideological tastes of the Trump administration."
Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM