Bits of Culture

Who are we if not the people who toil in pursuit of better lives? A man and a woman pose with grim expressions in front of a giant red Chevy, bearing cleaning supplies in their hands. Vásquez is the daughter of Mexican immigrants, and this painting is an homage to our shared humanity, as well as a call for USians to remember that immigrants are the foundation of their hard-working society.

Who needs an #ArtBreak?

This painting by Criselda Vásquez has rightfully resurfaced in recent days: art as social dialogue, & all that.

"The New American Gothic" (2017, Oil on Canvas) reframes Wood's 1930 classic around the reality of work at the heart of US society. (@crisssvasquez on Instagram)

Pioneering British abstract artist Victor Pasmore

Anxious Moment, 1986
#Painting #abstractart

Albrecht Dürer, German (1471-1528), Primula, 1526, gouache on vellum, 19.3 x 16.8 cm, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

A picture by one person, for one person: Las Meninas, 1656. It doesn't get any better than this. Some paintings by me on the back wall (thank you Diego), but they are not the stars of this show! Diego Velazquez, born OTD 1599.

Harry Smith, visual artist, experimental filmmaker, bohemian, anthropologist, mystic and archivist.

Manteca (Jazz Painting) (c. 1948–49)

A lightbox projection from a 35-millimeter slide of the lost original painting. The individual strokes were synced to the notes and chords in jazz recordings.

John Coltrane Quartet, Milano, 1962, photographed by the incredible Italian photographer Roberto Polillo.

#JohnColtrane #RobertoPolillo #Photography

Harry Smith ~ Algo Bueno [Jazz Painting], circa 1948–49
#HarrySmith

A lightbox projection from a 35-millimeter slide of the lost original painting. The individual strokes were synced to the notes and chords of Thelonious Monk and jazz recordings.
(Estate of Jordan Belson)

swirling clusters of colours in a dark sky

Warlpiri artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites lived near the Tanami Desert in Australia’s Northern Territory. Her ‘Seven Sisters Dreaming’ paintings depict the stories of the ancestral sisters who can be found in the night sky in the Pleiades star cluster artsandculture.google.com/story/zoom-i...

Yashima Gakutei, (Japanese (c. 1786-1868), Crabs Near a Tide Line, 1827, woodblock print (surimono), ink and color on paper, 20.3 x 18.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA

Joan Miro ~ Women and Bird in the Night, 1944

#JoanMiro #Surrealism #ModernArt

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Pollack, 1984 © Victor Vasarely

Lacerta by Victor Vasarely, 1955 #artbots #guggenheim
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Charley Harper, The Sierra Range (commissioned by The United States Park Service, 1990)

This is propaganda and makes no sense.

Excellent science reporting here. So much fuzzy thinking about health and disease in the culture at large right now…

A “$5K baby bonus” could be a good idea so long as it’s not being floated as a replacement for the Child Tax Credit, which can be claimed annually for dependent children (not just biological children) up to age 17. Then we’d be looking at a net tax increase on working families. tinyurl.com/5hddepcw

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Karl Nierendorf, By purchase © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Lüneburg II by Lyonel Feininger, 1933 #artbots #guggenheim
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Dahlias (1883) by Claude Monet

Kagayama Hakuho (1880-? )
aka Kagayama Rinjiro aka Hakugai
Japanese painter on silk, usually with gold leaf borders

#Blue
Persian Motif on Blue

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection © 2016 Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Sil 2 by László Moholy-Nagy, 1933 #artbots #guggenheim
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Several Circles, Wassily Kandinsky 1926

Several Circles, Wassily Kandinsky 1926

Max Ernst, German (1891-1976), Untitled, c. 1960, oil on canvas, with Spritztechnik, 73 x 60 cm, private collection

[Cat Watching a Spider, by Ōide Tōkō]

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Michael Hurley ft. Kassi Valazza & Merle Law | "I Paint a Design" | Western AF YouTube video by Western AF

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Michael Hurley feat. My Bubba - O My Stars - Old Growth Sessions @Pickathon 2016 - S01E11 YouTube video by Pickathon

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Michael Hurley, Rhinefarm Session in the Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu YouTube video by Gundlach Bundschu

Honoring a life of creative unconformity – Live on in song and wit, Michael Hurley (1941-2025): youtu.be/FnxQ1uh354Q?...

Georgia O'Keeffe, Black Abstraction (1927)