Speed of Life

How Democrats Can Win (and Save Democracy) in 2024 Election year is finally here. 2024 will be pivotal, but how can we do our part to ensure the Democrats win big?  Election strategists Tara McGowan, Simon Rosenberg, and Tom Bonier join David to shine a light on the role we can all play heading into campaign season. Listen at link:    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-democrats-can-win-and-save-democracy-in-2024/id1245002955?i=1000640681967 Election year is finally here. 2024 will be pivotal, but how can we do our part to ensure the Democrats win big? @taraemcg , @SimonWDC , and @tbonier join @djrothkopf to shine a light on the role we can all play heading into campaign season. https://t.co/OhNI62a1c1 pic.twitter.com/YQqgLeGWzS — Deep State Radio (@deepstateradio) January 6, 2024

Joe Biden's speech today was a high water mark of his presidency and an essential framing of the central issue in the 2024 campaign--the threat Donald Trump and the MAGA movement pose to US democracy. He pulled no punches. @POTUS did as a leader should do. Must watch or read. — David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) January 6, 2024

Biden, in Valley Forge speech, hits Trump hard as threat to democracy https://t.co/FAd7te83SU — Gregg Chadwick 🇺🇦 🟧 (@greggchadwick) January 5, 2024 FULL SPEECH: President Joe Biden delivers his most powerful speech yet in defense of American democracy and calls out Trump's threats to the nation on the eve of the 3rd anniversary of the January 6 attack. Everyone should watch the speech till the end and share it far and wide. pic.twitter.com/iffBKkSYAE — MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) January 5, 2024

From the National Gallery in London: "Delve into the strange and magical world of pastels Liotard's pastel and oil versions of 'The Lavergne Family Breakfast' have been reunited for first time in 250 years. Book to visit our free exhibition: http:// bit.ly/3gR1VIO "

‘And when I painted landscape in Asnières this summer I saw more colour in it than before.’ Vincent van Gogh to his sister Willemien van Gogh, late October 1887 Walk through the Van Gogh Museum's exhibition 'Van Gogh along The Seine'. The museum informs us that - "In the 19th century, bridges and trains made it easier to visit places outside of Paris. And yet smoking factory chimneys increasingly dominated the horizon. This exhibition reveals how artists captured these changes in their artworks."  On view at the Van Gogh Museum from 13 October until 2023 14 January 2024. Music: Composed and performed by Remko Kühne Follow Remko Kühne on Spotify: https://orcd.co/followremkokuhne More thoughts on Van Gogh at Speed of Life: Van Gogh's Cypresses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art  https://greggchadwick.blogspot.com/2023/06/van-goghs-cypresses-at-metropolitan.html?spref=tw

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2024: we are all stardust. Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Wishing everyone a happy & healthy New Year!🎇 pic.twitter.com/fjw1QaWZiN — American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) January 1, 2024

  ⁠ Happy New Year's Eve  Fireworks at Ryōgoku bridge  Utagawa Hiroshige  Woodblock Print on Paper  1858  Ashmolean Museum  New Year’s Eve Foxfires by the Enoki tree at the Shōzoku Inari Shrine in Ōji   Ōji, Shōzoku Enoki Ōmisoka no kitsunebi | 王子装束ゑの木大晦日の狐火  Series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo | Meisho Edo hyakkei | 名所江戸百景 Artist/maker Hiroshige Utagawa, I  (1797 - 1858) (designer) Associated people Eikichi Uoya  (mid-19th century) (publisher) Associated place Asia  >  Japan  (place of creation) Date 1857 (date of creation) Material and technique nishiki-e (full colour) woodblock print, with bokashi (tonal gradation) Ashmolean Museum 

Leonard Cohen lifts his hat in appreciation of all of you who ventured to my studio this year and to those who engaged with my artwork online!   Deepest thanks to my collectors, supporters, and friends who helped make 2023 memorable. Thanks to my fellow  @18thstreetarts  artists who worked tirelessly to make this happen - especially  @rebecca.youssef_studio  and  @alexandradillonartist !!!!  And deep thanks to the folks at  @18thstreetarts  who support us day in and day out. And thanks to the city of Santa Monica for your financial support for our events. Leonard has found a new home and I am more inspired than ever to create.  On to 2024! Happy New Year!  #art   #contemporaryart   #santamonica   #santamonicarts   #LosAngeles   #music

From the National Gallery in London: "Curator Bart Cornelis explains the meaning behind a hidden monster and skull in this 17th-century portrait by Frans Hals, and how they helped to identify the sitter as Isaac Massa. He's accompanied by one of our restorers, Paul Ackroyd, and Larry Keith, Head of Conservation and Keeper, who help reveal this painting's secrets. 🎨  Find out more about the artist Frans Hals: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/frans-hals 🎨 Book tickets now for 'The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Frans Hals' Open 30 September 2023 – 21 January 2024 https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-frans-hals Hals was one of the most sought-after painters of his generation. A gifted artist whose deft brushwork was unparalleled, he built his reputation on a new style of portrait – highly unusual in his time – that showed relaxed, lively sitters, often smiling, and even laughing. This exhibition, the first major retrospect...

‘Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - into something whole.' - Louise Bourgeois, born on Christmas Day in 1911. #LouiseBourgeois , Maman, Outside Tate Modern 2008 https:// bit.ly/3xN04J1

While in Milwaukee, President Biden stopped by Rashawn Spivey’s small business. Merry Christmas delivered to my friends and family in MKE

Hirayama is content with his simple life cleaning toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Unexpected encounters reveal more of his story in a deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the world around us. A Film by Wim Wenders Starring Koji Yakusho

On the #WinterSolstice , we're dreaming of the first snow ❄️ 🖼️: #ChildeHassam , "Charles River and Beacon Hill" (about 1892), oil on canvas pic.twitter.com/0gcHx9gnx1 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (@mfaboston) December 21, 2023 Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere & the first day of winter! What causes our planet’s shift in seasons? Its tilt. Today, Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is at its most-tilted away from the Sun. pic.twitter.com/cFJs2ZNGUo — American Museum of Natural History (@AMNH) December 21, 2023

In London, the Piano Nobile Gallery presents the exhibition -  R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles. This short film features interviews with Marco Livingstone, a leading specialist on Kitaj’s work; Simon Martin, Director of Pallant House Gallery; and the artist’s daughter Dominie Kitaj. R.B. Kitaj: London to Los Angeles is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in a decade. It provides a chronological overview of Kitaj's career, exploring the relationship between his art and the places he lived.  The Piano Nobile Gallery explains that "Although he travelled widely, spending seasons and sometimes whole years in California, Catalonia, Paris and New York, Kitaj made London his home from 1959 – the year he entered the Royal College of Art – until 1997. For the last decade of his life, from 1997 to 2007, he lived in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes little-known early work of the fifties, the groundbreaking ‘collagist’ work of the sixties that established his reputation, a...

Lions, giraffes, seals… Gilles Aillaud, who died in 2005, painted animals a lot, often in captivity. Asked about his choice of animals as subject matter, Gilles Aillaud replied: “because I love them”. The fragility of our relationship with living things shows the relevance of his work. Vinciane Despret, philosopher of science, shows us four paintings by the artist, in the company of Didier Ottinger, curator of the exhibition “Gilles Aillaud. Political animal » 👉 Info: https://bit.ly/CP_ExpoAillaud 👉 Ticket office: https://bit.ly/CP_Billetterie_Aillaud Gilles Aillaud with one of his paintings in 1995

The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay about his work created “a chilling effect on the critical culture,” a journalism expert said. Gift Link Below: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/arts/design/jeff-koons-brooklyn-rail-tulips-golan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G00.hR-u.zIeVAr45iyK6&smid=tw-share From the Article: A 1937 mural by Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand, titled “Essential Happiness, New Pleasures,” at Tate Liverpool in 2018. The outstretched hand with flowers reminded Romy Golan, a historian and author, of Koons’s Paris sculpture and she decided to write about the two works. Credit... Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; Photo by Paul Ellis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Delighted to share my @KFC_jp #Christmas in #Japan story with @cathaypacific inflight magazine. Ever grateful to my first #Tokyo editor Tama san who still supports me 20 years later. Arigatō. 🥰 pic.twitter.com/OzC5H32P63 — 🌾Food Sake Tokyo🍙🌻坂本ゆかり (@YukariSakamoto) December 15, 2023  

Gregg Chadwick The Golden Hour - Venezia 30" x 24" oil on linen 2023   I am excited to invite you to my studio at the Santa Monica Airport for an afternoon of art and camaraderie.   Holiday Gathering and Open Studios  Sunday, December 3, 2023 from 11 AM-3 PM Location: Studio #15, 18th Street Arts Center, 3026 Airport Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90405     Free to all. Feel free to invite friends and family. All ages are welcome! Free Parking Please register in advance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-at-the-airport-1-year-anniversary-event-tickets-742947795857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch . Art At The Airport is made possible by Art of Recovery, an initiative of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs,  https://www.santamonica.gov/programs/art-of-recovery To learn about upcoming Art At The Airport events, visit:  https://www.artattheairport.org/

From  Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma Out today! “Won’t Give Up” with @pattiegonia and Quinn Christopherson ( @BucketHatQuinn ), a song reminding us not to give up on nature or each other. Pattie Gonia, Yo-Yo Ma and Quinn Christopherson came together to write a song about not giving up on this planet and not giving up on each other. Climate justice and environmental justice are inextricably linked. How we treat this planet is how we treat each other. Produced by Grammy award-winning Producer Tyler Chester (Madison Cunningham, Blake Mills, Andrew Bird) and with performances by players violinist Paul Cartwright (Kendrick Lamar, Bright Eyes, Olivia Rodrigo) and drummer James McAllister (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheerhan, Sufjan Stevens) – the new single was created as a climate movement anthem. Follow Pattie Gonia: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pattiegonia/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@pattiegonia TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pattiegonia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pa...