The Orange Press
@woid.bsky.social
My name is Paul Werner and my paintings have footnotes.
Publisher, The Orange Press. Founded 1973.
Editor, WOID. A Journal of Visual Language. Founded 1999.
Pronouns: Dr., PhD.
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Publisher, The Orange Press. Founded 1973.
Editor, WOID. A Journal of Visual Language. Founded 1999.
Pronouns: Dr., PhD.
https://theorangepress.substack.com
You gotta hate the cost of admissions at the Museum of Modern Art; unlike the Met, you gotta love the professionalism.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You gotta hate the cost of admissions at the Museum of Modern Art; unlike the Met, you gotta love the professionalism.
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I think he meant it in a good way...
November 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I think he meant it in a good way...
November 12, 1918: A Fateful Day for Philosophy.
On this day the Red Guards attempted to hoist their flag over the Parliament Building in Vienna. A firefight broke out. Karl Popper, who was among the participants, decided to change his career objectives.
On this day the Red Guards attempted to hoist their flag over the Parliament Building in Vienna. A firefight broke out. Karl Popper, who was among the participants, decided to change his career objectives.
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
November 12, 1918: A Fateful Day for Philosophy.
On this day the Red Guards attempted to hoist their flag over the Parliament Building in Vienna. A firefight broke out. Karl Popper, who was among the participants, decided to change his career objectives.
On this day the Red Guards attempted to hoist their flag over the Parliament Building in Vienna. A firefight broke out. Karl Popper, who was among the participants, decided to change his career objectives.
"MASP [Museu de Arte de São Paulo] has opened up a second building next to the original building designed by Lina Bo Bardi. Was Lina Bo Bardi related to Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known as Donatello? One would like to think so..."
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Pedestrian
Why I won't be visiting the São Paulo Biennial
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October 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"MASP [Museu de Arte de São Paulo] has opened up a second building next to the original building designed by Lina Bo Bardi. Was Lina Bo Bardi related to Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, known as Donatello? One would like to think so..."
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New! Improved!
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October 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
New! Improved!
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“The death camps had their doctors; the Zionists have their psychologists. There’s a prodigious number of those, churning out papers and projects and experiments. As with Nazi doctors, you need to look closely to see what they’re up to.”
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The School for Hatred
Stirring it up at Columbia
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October 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“The death camps had their doctors; the Zionists have their psychologists. There’s a prodigious number of those, churning out papers and projects and experiments. As with Nazi doctors, you need to look closely to see what they’re up to.”
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It's La Forza del Destino, Baby.
September 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's La Forza del Destino, Baby.
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What does political assassination achieve? More importantly: what is it meant to achieve? Austrian Socialism may have an answer. (That and social housing.)
What does political assassination achieve? More importantly: what is it meant to achieve? Austrian Socialism may have an answer. (That and social housing.)
September 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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What does political assassination achieve? More importantly: what is it meant to achieve? Austrian Socialism may have an answer. (That and social housing.)
What does political assassination achieve? More importantly: what is it meant to achieve? Austrian Socialism may have an answer. (That and social housing.)
September 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
September 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This year, Tisha b’Av falls on National Watermelon Day. Live with it.
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It's all about you.
A Jewish Day of Mourning
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August 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This year, Tisha b’Av falls on National Watermelon Day. Live with it.
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Today along the rows of melons
I’m picking fruit under a thousand suns
On such a day I pick my crop at ease
ICEmen melt among the wilting leaves
Today along the rows of melons
I’m picking fruit under a thousand suns
On such a day I pick my crop at ease
ICEmen melt among the wilting leaves
July 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Today along the rows of melons
I’m picking fruit under a thousand suns
On such a day I pick my crop at ease
ICEmen melt among the wilting leaves
Today along the rows of melons
I’m picking fruit under a thousand suns
On such a day I pick my crop at ease
ICEmen melt among the wilting leaves
“[The Socialist Movement] is the natural outcome of [America’s] development. […] You will see that Socialism has sprung up in that country without the aid of foreigners, & was merely caused by the concentration of capital & the changed relations between the workmen & their employers." Karl Marx.
July 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“[The Socialist Movement] is the natural outcome of [America’s] development. […] You will see that Socialism has sprung up in that country without the aid of foreigners, & was merely caused by the concentration of capital & the changed relations between the workmen & their employers." Karl Marx.
Review: A very small exhibition devoted to the Dreyfus Affair--and art.
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An avenging fire
Artists of the Dreyfus Affair
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July 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Review: A very small exhibition devoted to the Dreyfus Affair--and art.
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Socialism
What the melons teach us
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July 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Sorry I couldn't be of help. Somebody else want to pitch in? Mutual Aid: it ain't just an academic topic.
June 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Sorry I couldn't be of help. Somebody else want to pitch in? Mutual Aid: it ain't just an academic topic.
Taylor Middleton is affiliated with Elliman real-estate brokers in NYC. I wonder if they're slipping flyers under doors in South Queens, telling terrified owners that the socialist are coming & to sell before it's too late. It's called blockbusting.
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Mamdani upset rattles NYC real estate market
YouTube video by Fox News Clips
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June 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Taylor Middleton is affiliated with Elliman real-estate brokers in NYC. I wonder if they're slipping flyers under doors in South Queens, telling terrified owners that the socialist are coming & to sell before it's too late. It's called blockbusting.
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In Midtown, where one of Andrew Cuomo's staffers is holding a parking spot for him in front of the polling site he's soon expected to vote at.
Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.
Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In Midtown, where one of Andrew Cuomo's staffers is holding a parking spot for him in front of the polling site he's soon expected to vote at.
Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.
Cuomo is registered to vote a few blocks from here, but still driving over.
"I will write songs against you,
enemies of my people; I will pelt you
with the winged seeds of the dandelion;
I will marshal against you
the fireflies of the dusk."
Charles Reznikoff.
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enemies of my people; I will pelt you
with the winged seeds of the dandelion;
I will marshal against you
the fireflies of the dusk."
Charles Reznikoff.
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Reaching out to Tehran
Make books, not war
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June 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"I will write songs against you,
enemies of my people; I will pelt you
with the winged seeds of the dandelion;
I will marshal against you
the fireflies of the dusk."
Charles Reznikoff.
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enemies of my people; I will pelt you
with the winged seeds of the dandelion;
I will marshal against you
the fireflies of the dusk."
Charles Reznikoff.
theorangepress.substack.com/p/reaching-o...