Pink Sunsets and Crappy News
The planet isn’t fucked, we are. The planet will continue to exist long after we have made ourselves extinct.
— Victoria Woodhull (@vwoodhull938) August 9, 2021
It's not hard at all to find upsetting news...
READ: The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2021 Edition
1. Osage Nation and Sale of Ancient Cave Art — In a society where everything is for sale for the highest bid, we got used to seeing prized cultural assets being moved carelessly to private hands. But a new bottom was reached when a historic Missouri cave containing Native American art from over 1,000 years ago was auctioned off to an unnamed buyer for $2.2 million in September. What’s also unsettling is that the cave was sold by a three-generation family whose members originally purchased the 43-acre property from private ownership in 1953 and used it mainly for hunting. In the words of the Osage Nation, which was outbid in the auction, this sale was “truly heartbreaking.”
At least 710 Indigenous people, mostly girls, went missing in Wyoming from 2011 to 2020 according to a January report published by the state's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force. The vast majority, 85%, were kids, while 57% were female. HERE Why are some books $50+++ ???
At least 710 Indigenous people, mostly girls, went missing in Wyoming from 2011 to 2020 according to a January report published by the state's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force. The vast majority, 85%, were kids, while 57% were female. HERE
The Paranormal in American Art
Featuring artists from James McNeill Whistler and Kerry James Marshall to artist/mediums who made images with spirits during séances, this catalog covers more than two hundred years of the supernatural in American art. Here we find works that explore haunting, UFO sightings, and a broad range of experiential responses to other worldly contact.
outside my window: Greenfield Massachusetts 1/3/2022 |
Slightly enhanced, sunset over Mount Mansfield Vermont January 3, 2022, thank you Danny Pessa pic.twitter.com/30Psomb9B5— Tim Kelley (@SurfSkiWeather) January 3, 2022
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