Josh Andrews

One of my fave guys to visit at the Chicago Art Institute

Entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Matisse’s Jazz: Rhythms in Color” exhibit.

Henri Matisse’s painting Still Life with Geranium (1906). Oil on canvas. In 1905 art critic Louis Vauxcelles disparagingly referred to Matisse and his contemporaries as fauves (French for "wild beasts"). The term stuck and became the name for Fauvism, a relatively short-lived art movement known for shockingly bold color, rapid brushwork, and abstraction of forms. Matisse was Fauvism's unofficial leader. In this still life he loosely defined the potted flower, decorative vase, root vegetables, and small figural sculptures with minimal, simple lines and thickly applied dabs and strokes of paint.

Entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibit Korean National Treasures.

Flute 피리 1956 Ink and color on paper After Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, the artist couple Park Rehyun and Kim Kichang-like many artists—strove to shed Japanese influences, especially their training in nihonga Japanese painting. Instead, they sought new directions for hangukhwa (Korean painting). Park explored new styles by dividing forms into geometric planes: The overlapping branches in Flute give the tree a sense of volume, the boy's calligraphic lines and simplified coloring create a jarringly flat surface.

Cool new exhibits at the Art Institute.

You just described Off Track Betting.

Chicago wind gauge

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social

www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

A page from a 19th century book of swatch samples. The pages are a mosaic of colorful textiles samples.

New favorite artwork in the collection:
Sample book of swatches, 19th c.
Mulhouse, France
www.artic.edu/artworks/229...

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves The hours of videos provide fascinating, or perhaps horrifying, insight into the thinking of someone inside DOGE.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

Get your war on

My daughter’s friend said to her, “Look, I don’t want to be the bad news bear, but—“

“You mean the bearer of bad news?” she asked.

“Isn’t it the bad news bear? The bear that delivers bad news?”

“Why would a bear deliver bad news?”

And that was kind of it.

Trump Files Missing in Epstein Release Highlight Justice Dept.’s Missteps

Missteps is a helluva way to describe a massive deliberate illegal coverup

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

Edward Kemeys (American, 1843–1907) American Bronze Founding Company (American, founded 1886) Chicago, Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal), A bronze lion, deep green and muscular, looks out in the distance from its pedestal in front of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Lion (One of a Pair, South Pedestal), by Edward Kemeys (American, 1843–1907)
American Bronze Founding Company (American, founded 1886)
Chicago
1893

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/656

Did yall see the finish to the 2026 LA Marathon?

I saw $5.99 in Hollywood by a freeway entrance yesterday.

Denis is your go-to spirit animal. Alex T. is a demon who will wreck you in a good way. And Emma will trick you into working harder than you expect.

Ayatollah Greg Bovino

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

"shut up and play the hits"

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Check out this recent @nature.com paper reporting a field experiment on X. It shows X's algorithm boosts conservative content and downranks traditional media—shifting users’ views on key issues. Switching to chronological doesn’t reverse the effect. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Roaming the galleries before the doors open is magical, but I always kind of feel like I'm about to get arrested.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630–1673) Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635–1681), Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, A work made of oil on panel.

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, by Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630–1673)
Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635–1681)
1658

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/66042

Invalidating ID cards based on gender is literally a key plot point in The Handmaid’s Tale. This is horrifying.

Kat Abughazaleh: "We need to, first off abolish and prosecute ICE and DHS and we return DHS' responsibilities to Departments of Justice, State, of Treasury, of Transportation. All of these responsibilities that were taken from those departments... We need to repeal the Patriot Act."

Wait til you hear about Quad City style pizza

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Right! we have been rethinking how useful that field is and what we can do with it on the front end. More to come!