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Literature/humor/painting/music/dance/architecture/sculpture/theater/film/photography. Sunsets/wind/rain/quiet. Misanthrope/Eeyore. US: surreal/absurd/nihilist.

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

IGNATZ: Now “Krazy,” do you look upon the future as a pessimist, or as an optimist?
KRAZY KAT: I look upon it as just mist.—“Krazy Kat,” by George Harriman, April 23, 1921

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

Once again, I wasn’t chosen for my Constructivist sculpture. I wonder why? Alas. Maybe I should advertise more.

[Artsy @artsy]

The 20 awardees each receive an $800,000 stipend, distributed over five years. https://t.co/E6YgxDJLvu

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

I’ve seen enough of Krasner’s work over the years (Pollack’s too, of course) to think that this ought to be worthwhile.

[The Metropolitan Museum of Art @metmuseum]

"Autumn Rhythm" is on the move! 🚗

Opening October 4 at The Met, "Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous" is the first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than 20 years. Featuring over 120 works including "Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950," it is the first exhibition to look at the full arc of their careers together.

💡 Learn more and plan your visit → https://t.co/3sHUAvPjWe

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

Guilty.

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

I would never recommend today’s Harvard to a prospective undergrad. It’s outrageously expensive and intolerant of differing views. My grandsons both graduated from state schools, got an excellent education in engineering, had no debt, and found good jobs.

[Carole Hooven @hoovlet]

Recently Steven Crowder (@scrowder) and Prof Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School held a debate (now with over 300K views) about free speech on campus. My name came up and I felt it warranted a response. Here's the context (also provided in the video link below, which should start at the right place):

1:12 Crowder: You'll say she resigned. She said she was forced out.
Kennedy: She was not ousted by Harvard University.
Crowder: So, she's a liar.
Kennedy: No, she's not a liar.
Crowder: We're just not believing the women?
Kennedy: She may be mistaken.

Kennedy is a co-president of Harvard's council on academic freedom (@cafharvard), which was formed partly in response to my case. I don't know if Kennedy meant to suggest that he believes that I have not accurately described my case, but that's how it comes across IMHO. I have tried to be careful about how I describe what happened, since I was not fired or "forced" out, as in the tweet I re-posted below.

Crowder raised my case sympathetically, as an example of Harvard’s intolerance of controversial views. I agree with him: it was appropriate to bring up my case in this context, whether Harvard “ousted” me or not. It is one of several clear examples of Harvard’s intolerance of views deemed "harmful," sometimes by administrators themselves, but more often by others who claimed to be harmed, with administrators capitulating. In my view, such intolerance can include being fired, but also circumstances that make it nearly impossible to do one's job: inability to teach one's usual course; one's department chair saying that the best course of action would be to leave; or department chairs sending an email to hundreds of people that names the "perpetrator" and indicates that she is responsible for the impact of her words. I could go on.

Apparently there have been some improvements, but they do not include a reckoning with past mistakes. It seems to me that Harvard still has a long way to go when it comes to free speech on campus.

Here's the Youtube vid of the debate "Free Speech is Dead on Campus":
https://t.co/dOd7aiILP7

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Mr Big diagnosis is in. I’ll let you Google it as that’s what I did.

Not great but also we have some options if next tests go ok and an operation is needed we’ll try it.

It’s nice finally knowing what is wrong with him. Spirits are still good 🤞🤞🤞

[Makel @Makel_art]

🎨Les Limites de l'Intellect
Paul Klee - 1927

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

Interesting. Part of me doesn’t trust either group. Still, we seem to be currently governed by very rich Oligarchs and their less rich (but still rich), incompetent puppets (Trump, et al.). Meanwhile, the professional bureaucrats quietly try to keep things from falling apart.

[Bo Winegard @EPoe187]

"Smart people have greater epistemic competence because they are capable of producing and manipulating more complicated representations and because they are somewhat more likely to reflect critically upon their own cognitions."

https://t.co/Z6jNb9Kqa1

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

In September alone, russia killed 10 children in Ukraine.

For some, these tragedies have become just another part of the daily news. But we must never get used to it. We cannot stay silent. Our children are dying. The next victim could be a child in any city, in any home.

Remember their names. They are not “statistics” — they are entire worlds cut short:

🌹 Sviatoslav Hapon, 11. Killed on September 5 in his own home in Chuhuiv.

🌹 Tymofii, 2. Killed alongside his mother, Natalia, in a strike on Kyiv region on September 19.

🌹 Artem, 3. Killed by a russian drone attack in Mykolaiv region on September 21.

🌹 Emilia Ivanenko, 3. Laid to rest in Zhytomyr region on September 22.

🌹 Danya, 14. Killed instantly when a drone struck his apartment in Kyiv on September 25.

🌹 Oleksandr Tsiatska, 13. Died in hospital on September 27 from severe injuries sustained in an attack in Kharkiv region. His mother was killed that day as well.

🌹 Kateryna Budko, 16. An 11th-grade student, killed by a russian guided bomb in Sumy on September 27.

🌹 Ruslan Bereshchuk, 15. Killed in a strike on Synelnykove on September 28.

🌹 Oleksandr Hubenko, 17. Killed alongside Ruslan on September 28.

🌹 Illia, 14. Killed under the rubble of a building in Vyshhorod on September 30.

Ten worlds that russia wiped out.

World, these are your “peace initiatives.” Our children are not the price of compromises with an aggressor.

Do not forgive. Do not forget. Say their names out loud, so the whole world hears them.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

Young people are actually getting dumber. We actually did lose the capacity to impart basic skills upon which functional citizenship depends. The decay actually is showing up at highly selective colleges.

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

Perfect instance of virtue signaling.

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

Nikole Hannah-Jones:

“People have mischaracterized the piece as me saying I regret that we did it. I don’t.”

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

Holistic. That’ll do it.

[Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur_in]

"Creative UK said it is not terminating its EDI Advisory Group, but instead ‘proposing to combine the EDIAG with our Diversity Leaders Forum to ensure one refreshed, integrated and holistic EDI network’".

Without Arts Professional and Hyperallergic, the art world wouldn’t be nearly as funny. Thank you for service.

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

The Beauty of the Ugly, by Lana B. Good read. https://t.co/4EtAVSlLn8

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

@davidrieff There seems to me to be a suicidal recklessness in Russia under Putin that is very different from the suicidal fecklessness of Trump, et al.

[davidrieff @davidrieff]

https://t.co/Ms8Rp0p460

[𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐚 𝐊𝐨𝐦𝐬𝐚 🇪🇺🇵🇱🇺🇦 @Tweet4AnnaNAFO]

Russia planned to kill @Kasparov63 and @iponomarev in the U.S.

Putin’s hit list does not stop at the border.

US soil is not off-limits.

[Orpheus @OrpheusL]

Welcome October!

[Makel @Makel_art]

🎨Le Matin après le Déluge
J.M. William Turner - 1843

[rfbogardus @rfbogardus]

@daniel_dsj2110 But, incompetents, like me, are welcomed into positions of great responsibility.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Methinks they are on the wrong side

How can this be ?