2026-10-25 20:06:13

christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

Welcome to #checkin for Sunday, October 25, 2026!

2026-10-25 20:11:38

Kenny Chaffin

kennyc@diaspora.glasswings.com

Art Matters!!

2026-10-25 20:14:29

Kenny Chaffin

kennyc@diaspora.glasswings.com

Many favorites, but this being Picasso's birthday I posted this in another thread:

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2026-10-25 20:29:55

Jodi

jodi@diaspora.glasswings.com

My grandma!

2026-10-25 20:59:53

Joyce Donahue

joyce_donahue@diaspora.glasswings.com

I have become a big fan of Leonora Carrington's surrealistic art. The Confinement

2026-10-25 21:00:05

Karl Auerbach

karlauerbach@diaspora.glasswings.com

My grandmother was like that as well.

2026-10-25 21:00:22

Mark Wollschlager

mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com

I kind of like art in general, but here are a couple of favorites: Kandinsky, Ikki Matsumoto , Escher, Braque , Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso, Joseph Cornell, Calder, Brâncuși

2026-10-25 21:03:45

Joyce Donahue

joyce_donahue@diaspora.glasswings.com

Another favorite is Tamara de Lempicka. Young Girl in Green

2026-10-25 22:41:11

Jay Bryant

jbryant@diaspora.glasswings.com

I like a lot of art. One of my oldest friends is an art teacher (and artist, of course). We were college roommates. He put up his original art all over the room. I put poems in between. We arranged carpet samples on the tile floor to keep the place warm and to make a pattern we liked. We accidentally won the dorm's room decorating contest. We hadn't entered (hadn't heard about it), but our neighbors entered us.

Some favorite movements include impressionism, expressionism, art deco, and surrealism. If I have to name a favorite artist, it's probably Monet.

I have original art, made by artist friends, on almost every wall of my abode. I have three prints (two of which are signed by the artists, one of whom was a student of mine) and one framed puzzle that my aunt gave me. Everything else is original. I have quite a collection of original sculpture, too.

I really do love art.

Photography can be art, too. Here's one of my favorite photographic artists, a surrealist: https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2013/04/the-garden-of-my-mind-elena-vizerskaya.html

2026-10-25 22:46:18

DeanC

deanc@diaspora.glasswings.com

I have some original art by friends. I have made special pilgramage to see Turner, also Van Gogh, Wyeth. Mostly I just like a whole lot. I enjoy the works of the artists of De Stijl. Stood in line in early January or some such, freezing cold for a couple of hours, when most or all of the Vermeers were on tour in DC somewhere.

2026-10-26 00:17:30

Muse

muse@diaspora.glasswings.com

I of course love van Gogh. I love many many artists. Here are a few you may or may not know.

Paul Signac did amazing stuff!

Signac

As did Théo van Rysselberghe.

I'm also into illustrators like Fleur Cowles

Cowles

2026-10-26 00:44:27

Karl Auerbach

karlauerbach@diaspora.glasswings.com

My favorite painting -- I try to visit it when I go to DC (It hands in the US National Gallery.)

In the Dining Room - 1886 Berthe Morisot

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2026-10-26 00:45:34

Rod Mesa

roddio@diaspora.glasswings.com

Saw this painting at the MOCASD satellite downtown. Stunning show. Odd Nerdrum Sleeping Twins, Odd Nerdrum, 1987

Saw this one at SFMOMA. Knocked me out. Reading, Gerhard Richter, 1994 enter image description here

2026-10-26 01:36:27

DeanC

deanc@diaspora.glasswings.com

I have blogged about my visits to an Escher exhibit decades ago.

2026-10-26 11:23:36

Joseph Teller

joseph_teller@diaspora.glasswings.com

Checking In. I haven't been to a museum in many years... and our independent galleries spent so much time moving around to various storefronts for a decade I have no idea where they are or if they have closed up. The art Scene here in Cambridge is not what it once was, hasn't been for a long time. A lot of the artists left the city as it got too expensive in general.

2026-10-26 13:46:19

Cass

cass_m@diaspora.glasswings.com

I have favourite styles more than artists. I love bold colors and Indigenous styles. While on Raro we went to the cultural museum. There's at for sale there and we might get some on our next visit.

2026-10-26 16:29:55

Carsten Raddatz

carstenraddatz_fca@nerdica.net

Modern art it is. I can cry my eyes out, or at least spend a very long time in front of Dan Flavin, Yves Klein, Mark Rothko, Cy Twombly, or Bill Viola. That encompasses quite a range, I know.

Conceptual art that shows the upper left 4 pixels of an electronic screen in 90x60cm each or larger because that is select reality that speaks. (When given freedom in high school art class that was all I did, with a much lower degree of actual artistry tho.)

Rothko's soft vision thrills, the large mostly monochromatic canvases move me a ton, since the colours do shift all the time from my own nervous system doing whatever. Stuart will know. Seen some in NYC MoMa, Tate Modern, and our own National Gallery. I can get enough of that at some point, however I can outlast most people staring while feeling out at sea.

An Yves Klein painted canvas, large, in a deep blue. People visiting the same museum and standing in the same room are reflected in the protective layer of acrylic glass in front of it.

2026-10-26 17:29:47

Rod Mesa

roddio@diaspora.glasswings.com

Saw a terrific Rothko show at the Legion of Honor in SF a while back. My brain still reverberates from that.

2026-10-26 18:05:20

Mark Wollschlager

mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com

If you are ever in DC, The Phillips Collection has a really spectacular assemblage of art. The y even have The Rothko Room

2026-10-26 18:13:59

stefani@fr.readthefinemanual.net

I seem to recall there is at least one artist right here.

2026-10-26 18:52:07

Rod Mesa

roddio@diaspora.glasswings.com

Like everything he's done before, Richter's recent colorfield work is nuts.

2026-10-26 19:56:46

Karl Auerbach

karlauerbach@diaspora.glasswings.com

@Carsten Raddatz - I was trapped on a train in the London tube under the Tate during a big wind storm that caused things to shut down.

It was rush hour so the train was packed - really squeezed with no room to move. My ex is claustrophobic so she was going crazy. I, on the other hand, was squished up against .... well, let's just say that I had an enjoyable time exchanging smiles with the person with whom I was being used in an experiment in cold fusion.

2026-10-26 23:04:02

Karl Auerbach

karlauerbach@diaspora.glasswings.com

By-the-way, we have this poster hanging in our main stairwell at home...

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2026-10-26 23:18:08

Muse

muse@diaspora.glasswings.com

Ah! @Karl Auerbach that looks like it is inspired by Harry Beck's work! You can learn about his work on the https://youtu.be/cTLCfl01zuE
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2026-10-26 23:27:26

Karl Auerbach

karlauerbach@diaspora.glasswings.com

@Muse - I got the poster at the London Underground museum. That museum (the London Underground one) is definitely worth a visit, but then again the Tate is also worthwhile.

(I haven't been to London in several years; I had not realized that the tube now extends to some of my old stomping/work grounds - Slough, Taplow, Maidenhead.)

2026-10-27 09:24:39

Lisa Stranger

strangerthanfiction@diaspora.glasswings.com

I'm a late bloomer w/r/t art. Not sure why it is starting to make sense now when it didn't before.

2026-10-27 09:32:32

Muse

muse@diaspora.glasswings.com

@Lisa Stranger I've been a late bloomer for a lot of things. But that's okay! It means I keep on finding cool new things at every age!

2026-10-27 14:09:32

Carsten Raddatz

carstenraddatz_fca@nerdica.net

For lovers of train map things, you can generate your own, for real, with this github thing github.com/rstockm/Metroviz

2026-10-27 14:41:08

((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))

geekosaurus@diaspora.glasswings.com

2026-10-27 14:42:42

((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))

geekosaurus@diaspora.glasswings.com

BTW this process of "upload-the-image, share it to nowhere, grab the link, use that instead, label it twice" is for the birds.

Is Diaspora* development well and truly dead? @Andrew Pam

2026-10-27 14:45:10

Andrew Pam

xanni@diaspora.glasswings.com

Yeah, it's not a great user experience. I believe some work is still being done on Diaspora, but by a small team and progress is slow.

2026-10-27 15:31:22

((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))

geekosaurus@diaspora.glasswings.com

I'll have to wander around to their github and see if this is an active issue

2026-10-27 15:37:48

Mark Wollschlager

mark_wollschlager@diaspora.glasswings.com

It's bad enough that the ^^^ controls disappear most of the time so that linking, embedding, and quotes are sort of DIY.

2026-10-28 14:36:13

Alexander Goeres 𒀯

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

i sometimes really like old art. like this one here, the group of princesses by schadow , found in the alte nationalgalerie in berlin:

preußische Kronprinzessin und spätere Königin Luise und ihre jüngere Schwester Friederike, 1795

figurengruppe der beiden preussischen prinzessinnen luise und friederike von johann gottfried schadow. weiße marmorfiguren auf grauem mit weißen appliken versehenem podest vor einer rötlich-braunen nische. eingangshalle der alten nationalgaleri

2026-10-28 20:39:05

Karl Auerbach

karlauerbach@diaspora.glasswings.com

I am rather fond of sculpture - as part of a "mixed media workshop" - several days of administration approved chaos - I discovered that if you pound or rub various sculptures, particularly the metal ones, that they can make fun sounds, Particularly the "cubi" one. (2rd URL)

The UCLA sculpture garden had small one of a really pretty woman - naked of course - that I remember fondly.

But my faves are "Zenobia in Chains" (first URL) and "The Prophet" (3rd URL)

https://www.huntington.org/collections/mus-48658

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubi

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pablo_Gargallo_The_prophet_1933.jpg