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More late season zinnias. Basically, we had our 2nd spring thanks to monsoon season. Now, it's our second, milder, summer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCoQ8ej4a2Y

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/10/11/these-attacks-have-to-stop-an-open-letter-from-the-national-museum-directors-council

If you're in San Francisco:

https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/tamara-de-lempicka

Russian forces have destroyed several ancient Ukrainian burial mounds in Zaporizhshia, in the southeastern part of Ukraine, according to a September 04 report by the Conflict Observatory, which uses satellite imagery to track damage to cultural heritage. The burial mounds are called kurgans and are located in an area known as the Wild Fields, which contains thousands of these archaeological sites, measuring up to 65 feet in height. [The Art Newspaper]

https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2024/10/09/messy-art-trend-new-york-galleries

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/monet-bord-de-mer-stolen-nazis-returned/index.html

Finished Hecate: She's Back!
8x10, oil.
I failed to paint her last year, so it's nice she's reemerging this year.
#CoSoArtist #CoSoArt #HecateForHalloween

Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices: China.

Global trade records reviewed by the Associated Press show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States earlier this year.

Thousands of copies of Donald Trump’s “God Bless the USA” Bible were printed in a country that the former president has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices: China.

Global trade records reviewed by the Associated Press show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States earlier this year.

But of course....typical.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-10-09/trump-has-long-blasted-chinas-trade-practices-his-god-bless-the-usa-bibles-were-printed-there

Discovered last night that our SamsungTV Plus channel network, that comes free with the TV, has a classical performance channel!

It's wonderful, as the only way I can otherwise listen to classical is on my Sony walkman or my internet radio/clock. Last night they showed a ballet!

https://www.latimes.com/travel/story/2024-10-09/most-fascinating-museums-los-angeles-todd-lerew

The Role of New York’s Lauded Looted Art Unit Is Challenged in Court

https://archive.ph/EFcw3

Arts District, Decades in the Making, in Ruins After Helene

https://archive.ph/jnx2v

The Brooklyn has rearranged its collection:

https://archive.ph/70g5R

#CoSoArt

https://archive.ph/SOmas

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/art/article/the-mona-lisa-of-the-middle-east-that-inspired-the-picture-of-dorian-grey-ns92lqskj