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Artist, Auntie, Bear, BIPOC, Educator, Enby, Fat, Femme. Aspiring cranky crone.They/Them. Archive/shambles/home at www.naylandblake.net I love it when you make things.
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Teach it - Promote it - Create it - you are responsible for the continuation of the culture you love. Keep it alive through your actions.
I never knew that John Rechy was a canon DC character.
Shouldn't it be Batman Night?

Anyway, happy Batman Day.
September 19, 2026 at 7:45 PM
In my dream

In my dream there is a dinner and a giant mallet with a surface like rhinoceros hide. She swings it overhead without a sound.
In my dream
In my dream there is a dinner and a giant mallet with a surface like rhinoceros hide. She swings it overhead without a sound.
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September 19, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Hedorah is trans for real.
September 18, 2026 at 9:54 PM
That's a misprint: this is the photo originally meant to go with that headline:
September 18, 2026 at 6:03 PM
In my dream

In my dream we are joking when she puts her hand under my shirt.
In my dream
In my dream we are joking when she puts her hand under my shirt.
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September 18, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Re-Air: Arthur Jafa’s Radical Theory of Readymade Art share.google/mlRbQgs29Shw...
Re-Air: Arthur Jafa's Radical Theory of Readymade Art | Artnet News
This week, we return to Ben Davis’s interview with the esteemed artist.
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September 18, 2026 at 3:15 AM
One of the most impactful artists of the era.
Peter Max, Trippy Artist of Counterculture Era and Beyond, Dies at 88 (Gift Article)
With work that breathed the spirit of the 1960s, he became fabulously wealthy from licensing his paintings and posters in all their euphoric Day-Glo glory.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:59 PM
New Piece
New Piece
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September 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Never saw this before but now it's my favorite Oldenburg.
September 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM
The soothing soundtrack of my fascinated youth.
Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this
September 17, 2026 at 12:35 PM
In my dream

In my dream a writer is delighted by the way that we have mounted one of my father's poems on a thin wooden board with a handle attached so that one can hold it like a paddle or fan, or hang it from the back of a pew. She waves it around while another academic says that she and he are…
In my dream
In my dream a writer is delighted by the way that we have mounted one of my father's poems on a thin wooden board with a handle attached so that one can hold it like a paddle or fan, or hang it from the back of a pew. She waves it around while another academic says that she and he are both "horseflies".
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September 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
In my dream

In my dream J and I are resuming life as a couple, even though we've never been connected sexually. We will still be rolling around together on the pile of pillows in that makes up our living room
In my dream
In my dream J and I are resuming life as a couple, even though we've never been connected sexually. We will still be rolling around together on the pile of pillows in that makes up our living room
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September 16, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Staff at Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and American Folk Art Museum Authorize Strike share.google/FMuwqy1tVUKw...
Staff at Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and American Folk Art Museum Authorize Strike
“Staff should be able to afford to live in the city they work in,” said one of the workers organized with UAW Local 2110.
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September 15, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Today in being a queer elder: what a way to find out that evidently there is some fucker named Ed Sheeran.
September 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
The Legacy of Colonialism Haunts Hew Locke's Era-Defying Flotilla
The Legacy of Colonialism Haunts Hew Locke's Era-Defying Flotilla
How people, capital, cargo, and ideas traverse the globe has long been central to Hew Locke's work, including his suspended flotilla.
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September 15, 2026 at 8:48 PM
A simple truth about me is that I really like being around the office. I like the coming and going, and getting tasks accomplished by dropping in and chatting with people, rather than via email.
September 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I have encyclopedic knowledge of something, but I can't remember what.
September 15, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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A collection of PopeL's works on paper at the Drawing Center typifies his frantic and sometimes opaque renderings of thought.
Pope.L Invites Us to Think Through the American Dream
A collection of his works on paper at the Drawing Center typifies his frantic and sometimes opaque renderings of thought.
hyperallergic.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Counterpublic opening weekend features a host of events:
Counterpublic art show returns to St. Louis streets, parks, museums and beyond
Counterpublic 2026 includes public art by 50 artists spread across sites including the International Institute, the National Building Arts Center and the St. Louis riverfront.
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September 15, 2026 at 12:09 PM
In my dream

In my dream I slide the case back on the computer and make a circuit of the garden. The air is damp and we argue.
In my dream
In my dream I slide the case back on the computer and make a circuit of the garden. The air is damp and we argue.
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September 15, 2026 at 11:54 AM
When your gallery has multiple outlets around the world, it becomes easier to convince collectors that your artists are "world class". The biggest obstacle that dealers face is customer uncertainty.
September 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
In my dream

In my dream three different groups of kids are ushered out of the elevator and into my studio.
In my dream
In my dream three different groups of kids are ushered out of the elevator and into my studio.
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September 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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It's all one fight, the right to autonomy is the right to be trans, to be Muslim, to wear a cross necklace, to play sports, to refuse genital inspections, to terminate a pregnancy, to be able to afford prenatal care. One fight, one future where we all make it, or nobody does.
September 13, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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LaToya M. Hobbs, US printmaker of Black Women of Print is one of the many hugely talented iinterviewees in the latest womensart book🧡
'Reframing Women Printmakers' 🎁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/refr...
September 13, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Exhibition | New exhibition explores art through collaboration
YouTube video by SABC News
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September 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM