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The beauty of painted murals

 "Symbiosis" by artist Dan McCarthy. 

Flower landscape with sunflowers - Desfossé & Karth - c.1890 - via Deutsches Tapetenmuseum

Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Halina Dyrschka, 2019)

Jackson Pollock admitted that he started making that kind of paintings after seeing Janet Sobel’s work. She was a self-taught female artist and he was a trained male artist who was friends with an influential art critic, so he was remembered as the one who invented “all-over” drip paintings.

Arthur Ferrier, 1928

Art Nouveau

Armen Susan Ordjanian, Self-Portrait (1981); Janelle Monae, “Django Jane” (2018); Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019).

WONDERFUL MOSSY LOOKING BOY

On September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed. Pinochet converted the national football stadium into a detention facility like Guantanamo Bay. Chile’s economy was turned into a plantation for the 1%, as inequality and poverty skyrocketed under the imposed Milton Friedman-style economic model. Over 40,000 Chileans became victims of Pinochet’s terror. In response, the Nixon administration committed more money, more training, more torture equipment. The world didn’t begin on September 11th, 2001. Rather, for the first time in modern history, Americans were visited by the same violence the US has imposed since its creation. In Chile, the US murdered tens of thousands and impoverished millions. This wasn’t America’s first foray in international terrorism, nor would it be the last. The United States security state is a terrorist and a plague on the people of the world.

Red Lights : Vatican France-based photographer Aishy shares shots of The Basilica di San Pietro, in the heart of the Vatican, under a new glance, a new light. Wow.

Four women chug bottles of illegal liquor, circa 1925.

Summer Fields by Maya Beano

Sunburst Window Stained glass art by Dave Griffin