Babbling Brooklyn

Sailor jokes? Who do you think we arrrrrrrrrrre?

Reno was such a welcome surprise in the finale. Showed how much she cared about them in a way that was somehow consistent with her cold demeanor.

Close-up crop of the painting showing an eye that appears to show a detailed reflection.

I can’t get over how this eye seems to show an entire world reflected, even though it’s just a couple brushstrokes.

Photo of an impressionist oil on board painting of Gabriele Münter from the shoulders-up, wearing a hat. The didactic label reads: “Gabriele Münter painted this self-portrait around age thirty-two, using loose, energetic brushstrokes and leaving areas of board exposed. The work demonstrates the close affinities between her drawing and painting practices, particularly through her signature use of the black line to define form. She later stated, "Anyone who looks closely at my paintings will find the draughtswomen in them. Despite all the color, there is a fixed structure characteristic of drawing. I nearly always brush draw my pictures in black on cardboard or canvas before using color." Her use of chiaroscuro, or pronounced contrasts between light and dark, divides the face and neck down the middle, intensifying her penetrating gaze. Münter's determination and resilience helped her persist as an artist at a time when many official doors were closed to women-including enrollment in public art academies in Germany-despite the promises of a new century.”

“Self-Portrait” by Gabriele Münter, at @guggenheim.bsky.social.

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Why is this a Krispy Kreme sign?

Folks we’ve got a comedian here thinking that rabbits wear pants

This has definitely happened to me.

Close-up photo of a cluster of Nerds Gummy Clusters, showing tiny red and blue globules that almost look like molecules.

Nerds Gummy Clusters, looking like molecules

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And yet it really is crazy weather we’ve been having

revenge is a quiche best served cold

Photo of two tall rectangular paintings depicting a city scene. A small urban park is at the center surrounded by a sidewalk, with Parisian buildings in the background. The didactic label reads: “This urban scene painted by the Post-Impressionist artist Édouard Vuillard usually hangs in the adjacent Thannhauser Gallery, which presents works in the Guggenheim's collection dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bove has relocated the pair of paintings to the rotunda, while one of her own works temporarily occupies its customary position in the collection gallery. Vuillard is best known for his intimate, atmospheric depictions of domestic interiors and daily life. These two elongated panels portray the view from the artist's apartment overlooking the Place Vintimille, a typical Parisian square. The everyday subject matter is destabilized through Vuillard's use of intense color harmonies and reductive, flattened space. While the composition presents the park as a continuous element, its unity is disrupted by an apparent shift in time and weather, as warm sunlight is subsumed by a more muted, overcast atmosphere. Bove has often taken the specific colors used in her "collage sculptures" from historical paintings, including works by Vuillard.”

“Place Vintimille” by Edouard Vuillard, on display at @guggenheim.bsky.social

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JFK (editing for length): Just ask what you can do for your country

Photo of a large line-drawing smiling face with 3 eyes on a bright pink square background, hung on a brick wall.

“Untitled” by Keith Haring, at the Brant Foundation.

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Biome sounds like the name an AI would give its organic body.

Bigly (adv.)
An infinitesimal amount.

Why is chicken the only animal people order using fractions?

Don’t tell @jcsalterego.bsky.social

But what does the Death Star have to do with it?

Same question for baba ganeeewwwsh

Were there any other US Presidents who didn’t (after the aerial bomb was invented in 1911)? Or more broadly were there any others who didn’t engage in foreign wars? I’m curious.

Photo of a stairwell with stark white walls, simple wooden handrails, and sharp triangular angles. A triangle-shaped white light can be seen.

Stairwell at @guggenheim.bsky.social.

I like how the sharp angles contrast with the famously round building.

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I bet some of you find this hormuzing

The solution was there all along:

“And then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground come a bubblin crude.”

Photo of a Keith Haring illustration depicting a stick figure holding a ruler-shaped object while riding on a dolphin-like animal in the water. A UFO appears to be emitting red beams that are surrounding the rectangular object. And don’t worry it’s no easier to understand even if you can see it.

“Untitled” by Keith Haring, on display at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center.

Take heed before your next dolphin ride.

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Pronouncing hot take like hot sake

Listen, I don’t understand where you’re coming from, but I can’t stay silent on the topic.

Looks great! And if that person calls for the 127th time I think they’ll get the message. ; )

Photo of the inside of the Guggenheim. 5 circular levels, delineated by solid white bands, spiral, dotted with artwork and numerous guests.

Carol Bove exhibit at @guggenheim.bsky.social

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Photo of a black wall with a diamond cutout revealing a wall with graffiti behind it. The didactic label reads: “Glimpsed through a diamond-shaped opening in the wall, artist Joan Mir's expressive black lines resolve into a fluid choreography, animated at points by his signature palette of primary colors. The gestural strokes traverse an expansive ceramic tile mural permanently installed within the building itself, loosely spelling out the name "Alice." Created by Miró in collaboration with the renowned ceramicist Josep Lorens Artigas between 1965 and 1967, the mural was commissioned in 1963 following a proposal by Harry F. Guggenheim, then president of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, to establish a memorial to his late wife, Alicia Patterson Guggenheim. For decades it has been concealed behind a wall while the surrounding space is used for the museum's exhibition program. By carving an aperture into the building, Bove reveals the presence of the artwork while absorbing it into the logic of her overarching installation. The cut diamond aligns with the silver disks positioned above, anchoring a vertical line that subtly reframes the Guggenheim's distinctive architecture and draws attention to the layered histories embedded within it. Bove considers the mural's revelation to be a collaboration of sorts with Mird, one of many artists from preceding generations whom she describes as having contributed to her creative thinking.”

“Alicia” by Joan Miró & Josep Llorens Artigas, at @guggenheim.bsky.social

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I don’t understand how she escapes criticism. It’s like people treat her as the ‘upstate senator’ as if such a thing existed.