Bit telling that for years and years evangelical religious extremists have been allowed on university campuses with their bullhorns and horrific imagery where they harass students into physical altercations and when students complain to the university’s administration they just shrug their shoulders citing freedom of speech but when those same tuition-paying students start protesting against war and genocide they call SWAT

"I read underground papers and Newsweek

I've learned to take every view

I warned Vietnam is atrocious

I wish to God that the fighting was through

But when it comes to the arming of Isreal

There's no one more red, white, and blue"

"Mary Rug" by Anita Lane. Photo by Elena Popa [X]

The “Mary Rug”, which showed in a 2017 exhibition in St Kilda curated by [Emily] Humphries, was the last major artwork Anita produced and made public. She painted her “infinite prayer”, as Emily calls it, on a massive cut of carpet in her garden in a zoned frenzy. Emily describes how Anita stained the rug to sully it, transforming it to create a portrait of a trio of women: shimmering, bloodied, and metaphorically walked upon. Sorrow meets the archetypal. Anita was an “ephemeral” artist, says Emily. “She danced her work through the kitsch and familiar scraps of objects.”

Song of the Day

27 Apr., ‘24

Lazy Linen Abouts

Watercolor on Black Cotton Paper

2024, 8"x 10"

Blue Flax Flowers

Nothing doing, Nathanaëlle Herbelin

Song of the Day

26 Apr., ‘24

Song of the Day

25 Apr., ‘24

Song of the Day

24 Apr., ‘24

Lee (Miller) eye by Anna Ostoya

Anna Ostoya (Polish, b. 1978) ~ Lee 6 & 7, 2017, oil, gold leaf and archival print on canvas | src Bortolami gallery

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Stele of Ur-Nammu of Ur (2112-2095BC)

The solar blaze is the sun-god, Shamash, placed within the crescent of the moon-god, Nanna.

Toyin Ojih Odutola - Streets Ain't Ready

Anita Lane and Gudrun Gut photographed by Danielle de Picciotto for Oceanclub

Willie Rodger (British, 1930-2018), What Will You Have, 1997. Oil on board, 30 1/4 x 26 in.

Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (Swedish, 1884-1965), Bains [Baths], Paris 1923. Canvas laid down on board, 29.5 x 24 cm.

Song of the Day

23 Apr., ‘24

Torbjörn Zetterholm（Swedish, 1921-2007）

Väddklint 1953 woodcut 64x48 cm via more