Remember Wall-E?
Food in a cup?
This is it, basically.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-17/baby-food-pouches-healthy-nutrition-parenting

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vatican-unveils-restored-apollo-belvedere-roman-marble-masterpiece-2024-10-15/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/apollo-belvedere-restoration-2553509

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/10/15/church-found-painting-confirmed-from-botticellis-studio

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/home-insurance-climate-change-housing-market

INSANITY
Afghanistan’s Taliban governing body has pledged to gradually enforce a law banning the media from publishing images of all "living things," reports Alarabiya News . A spokesman for the country’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice said the law will be implemented in increments across the country, along with a campaign to convince the public that taking images of living things is a violation of Islamic law, according to the AFP.

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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