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Amy Sherald takes canceled Smithsonian show to Baltimore Museum of Art – The Washington Post share.google/cH4efVgyNQGY…— AceTheGreat (@dryoungsr.bsky.social) September 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
*One* good thing, to start the morning… Per the Washington Post:
… “Presenting American Sublime at the BMA is a celebration of our creative community and a joyful reunion with those shaped by Amy’s extraordinary power to connect,” Asma Naeem, the museum’s director, said in a press release. “We’re thrilled to share her transformational work with our visitors.”
“American Sublime,” which explores Black American life with large-scale portraits that include acclaimed depictions of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, will open at the BMA on Nov. 2 and remain on view through April 5, 2026…
Sherald, who attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, spent much of her career in Baltimore, and her work had previously been acquired by the BMA, where she once served as a board member.
In recent years, the museum has made headlines for bold efforts to diversify its programming and collection. In 2020, Sherald and fellow artist Adam Pendleton resigned from the board amid a controversy over the museum’s plan to sell three major artworks to fund such efforts. (The sale was called off just before auction.)…
According to the museum’s press release, “Free BMA Member tickets available starting October 1.
Tickets go on sale for the general public on October 8.”
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And, for something completely different… if you want a quick recap for your normie friends, who haven’t yet grasped the whole ‘Bobby Jr is a murderous eugenicist’:
On The Road – BigJimSlade – Alps 2025 – Milan, Saas-Fee, Chamonix and Courmayeur, part 4
schrodingers_cat
We are here because Biden is too old, was a record run by late night comedians including Colbert for all the 4 years of the Biden presidency. Colbert can go fuck himself. FWIW those ageist jokes were quite unfunny.
piratedan
Have to say I’m grateful that Colbert (and his peers) are able to break down the most insane crap from the GOP and put it into pithy, easily digestible pieces for the public. Our esteemed mainstream news really hasn’t managed to do that in such a way that it sticks.
DJT really does have an eye for self-preservation and killing the jesters is an excellent of curtailing any flow to the low info normies.
JPL
Jobs number 22000. Let’s hope the new guy didn’t fudge the number because the number sucks.
Deputinize America
ROFLMAO
cnn.com/2025/09/05/business/elon-musk-tesla-new-pay-package
When this shitshow collapses, I hope that the morons in long positions suffer and start offing themselves.
EireIAm
FTFNYT for this headline:
How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart
And fuck the fucking felon in the white house for … everything.
JPL
Junes jobs were revised down. The market will probably rise because of the possibility of the Fed cutting rates.
Baud
@JPL:
August will probably be revised down too, if there’s any integrity left.
Deputinize America
@schrodingers_cat:
The gerontocracy IS a problem.
Tony Jay
It’s pretty much what you’d expect from expanding the glowering racism of 1979’s Disco Sucks into a governing policy.
Baud
@Deputinize America:
Apparently, American voters think black women are a bigger problem.
Deputinize America
@EireIAm:
Those writers need to head somewhere that is not extraditable. This morning, if not sooner.
schrodingers_cat
@Deputinize America: Curiously the gerontocracy does not include a senator in his eighties with a history of heart disease.
p.a.
File under “Reagan as Cali governor”, per CNN: “… senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.”
Teresa
Excellent for her! Art is the sunshine to the desolate dreariness of the insatiable greed of capitalism.
suzanne
@piratedan:
Yes this. We talk a lot here about not having a liberal media, but we do have some strongly liberal voices out there, and FFOTUS is gunning for them. People like Colbert probably have/had more influence than the FTFNYT.
piratedan
@schrodingers_cat: I just want say that I do agree that the both sides have to be made fun of to provide balance trope did NOT do any favors for Dem chances, overall I have to hope that the idea of fairness where each side faces ridicule for whatever can be used would show that the attacks are less partisan and therefore have more weight.
Then I tell myself that this is America and these are people and apparently few are even that aware of what the guardrails (such as they are) that keep us with a semi-plausible polite society.
Deputinize America
@schrodingers_cat: Right?
Deputinize America
@Baud: But they have a lot of black friends – just ask them!
JPL
@Baud: Who would have thought by reelecting the same guy that lost more jobs than created when he was in office before would lose jobs.
I’m dumbfounded.
Shalimar
@p.a.: So it turns out we can respond to a mass shooting by limiting access to firearms. Good to learn all those hundreds of times we couldn’t were lies.
lowtechcyclist
@p.a.:
I’m filing that under “what the hell does one thing have to do with the other?!”
oldgold
Unemployment up to 4.3% – only 22000 jobs added.
Spanky
@lowtechcyclist: Self defense against hate crimes.
Professor Bigfoot
@Shalimar:
The first step in eliminationism is demonization; but disarming comes not much later.
If you want to ethnically cleanse people, the first thing you do is take away their ability to shoot back.
p.a.
@lowtechcyclist: Reagan/Cal passed the most stringent gun control laws in the US after Black Panther Party members started legally arming themselves.
Professor Bigfoot
@Spanky: This exactly.
If you want to do ethnic cleansing, it’s helpful to remove the ability of those to be cleansed to defend themselves.
Like the slavers who were their ideological ancestors, they HATE it when their lessers shoot back.
lowtechcyclist
@p.a.:
I’m aware of that bit of history, I was already old enough to pay attention at the time.
I guess I’m just not seeing any transgender analog to the Black Panthers, not as they really existed, let alone as they existed in white people’s minds.
Professor Bigfoot
@p.a.: If they can figure a way to write it, they’d make it a law that no one but white men can own guns; and anyone else caught with a gun is a threat that can be eliminated using immediate deadly force (see that supposed Venezuelan “drug boat.”)
As things stand now it seems very much like only white men are entitled to armed self defense— to “stand their ground.
Everyone else will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
lowtechcyclist
@Professor Bigfoot:
That does seem to be where we are, unfortunately.
mappy!
@EireIAm: The first question might be how long has the FTFNYT been sitting on this, and second, why publish it now? On a Friday. In retrospect, Biden vindicated again. A little late, halfheartedly. FTFNYT.
“Well, I wake up in the morning, fold my hands and pray for rain, I got a head full of ideas that are drivin’ me insane…”
Meanwhile, two weeks later, two weeks after the previous two weeks, the great Russian gas station looses more pumps, the lines grow longer. The Ukrainian peace initiative continues.
We need some drones to deal with FTFNYT and the rest of the mainstream media. Colbert included (smile).
EireIAm
@Deputinize America: Doug J is not aspirational!
He”s inspirational, but this is not the type of headlines you should be aiming for!
Gin & Tonic
I’ve posted a couple of times about a dude in nearby (to me) eastern Connecticut who has a bunch of strongly-expressed anti-Trump signs on his house or property, just down the street from a middle school. To their credit, town officials say the 1st Amendment means they can’t do a thing. So now a local reporter apparently spoke to the dude, who says “I am using every inch of slack that the U.S. Constitution provides me, and I have no reason to deviate from that.”
PaulWartenberg
My brother took me to the Baltimore Museum of Art years ago on a visit. It’s great. Everyone should go.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Loquacious Scribble, PhD
@PaulWartenberg: Baltimore has a lot more world class museums than most people think. Walters, BMA, Visionary Art, Aquarium, not to mention a lot of great history museum B&O Railroad, Baltimore Museum of Industry and even a solid museum of Dentistry. And I think they will pick up more slack as DC museums become more MAGA-fied. It’s a short commuter train ride from DC even on Saturdays.
And if you time a visit to the Sherald exhibit right you can also pop down to the Walters Art Museum for a special exhibit called Paws on Parchment about the images of cats in medieval manuscripts. It opens tomorrow.
[Why yes, I am a museum professional from Baltimore, why do you ask]
Soprano2
@Professor Bigfoot: If they could figure out a way to make it so only white people could get welfare, those programs would get a lot more generous.
lowtechcyclist
@PaulWartenberg:
Growing up in northern Virginia, with all the museums of DC right there, Baltimore was barely on my radar. Living in Maryland has changed that somewhat, but I’ll confess that until this news about Amy Sherald moving her exhibit there, I’d barely heard of the Baltimore Museum of Art. I think I may visit there in January.
YY_Sima Qian
@EireIAm: & I thought Trump ordering the assassination of IRGC general Suleimani while the latter was in Baghdad took the cake for recklessness in foreign policy & military action. I guess my imagination has been insufficiently wild.
Imagine if it was NK doing this to SK or Japan (which NK has done in the past), or the PRC to Taiwan or the Philippines…
I really don’t want to hear anyone from the “Blob” talking about “rules based international order” ever again.
Elizabelle
@Loquacious Scribble, PhD: Marking my calendar for [Cat!] Paws on Parchment, through February 22.
Anne Laurie beat me to posting about the Sherald exhibit — was planning to do so this morning, and suggest it would make a great activity for a DC/DMV area jackals meetup. I would prefer after the holidays. Sherald show runs through April 5; that’s a lot of possibilities.
And it’s an easy train trip from NYC and Philadelphia area, for Empire and Keystone State jackals. Delaware too!
lowtechcyclist
@Loquacious Scribble, PhD:
That’s a must-see, and my wife will want to go, too!
The link gives the exhibit dates as August 6 through February 22. Are those dates no longer correct?
dnfree
@schrodingers_cat: We are here because long-standing rumors and anonymous reports about Biden’s condition became undeniable during the debate with Trump. Sure, some of the rumors and accusations were exaggerated or unfair, but his condition during the debate solidified them as actual concerns. Therefore, we wound up with a situation that Kamala Harris, as hard as she tried, was unable to overcome.
We can’t know what might have happened if Biden had said “one and done” and opened the party up for a primary back in 2023. You appear to think that Biden could have won in November 2024 if he had stayed in the race. I do not, even though of course I would have voted for him. I honestly thought Harris would win, given the alternative, but here we are.
mayim
@lowtechcyclist:
The BMA and the Walters are both excellent. When I lived in the Philadelphia area and my brother was in northern Virginia, the Baltimore area museums were often a meeting place during parental visits to one of us.
Slightly north of there, the museums in the Brandywine Valley are great as well: Winterthur, Longwood Gardens, Harley, even the Delaware Museum of Art. Lots of DuPont money.
Captain C
@YY_Sima Qian:
FTFY
Interesting Name Goes Here
@dnfree: So we’re here because the voters are idiots.
Loquacious Scribble, PhD
@lowtechcyclist: They are correct. I am incorrect. It is already opened.
lowtechcyclist
@Elizabelle:
That would be a great meetup opportunity! And I agree that after the holidays would be best.
lowtechcyclist
@Loquacious Scribble, PhD:
Thanks!
lowtechcyclist
@YY_Sima Qian:
When you’re a star, you can grab other nations by the p***y.
At least, that seems to be Trump’s attitude. And he’s got a point – apparently they let him/us do it.
Elizabelle
@lowtechcyclist: Yay. We will bring it up again, and work on it. Baltimore is an easyish trip from a lot of cities, and great destination for an overnight. Charm City.
And now with Paws in manuscripts too!
Looks like Baltimore Museum of Art is usually free; cannot tell if they will charge for tickets to this blockbuster exhibition. (That’s what the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts does — museum entry is free, but they do charge for entry into the major shows, like current Frida Kahlo, or Rodin or what have you.)
ETA: we could even do more than one meetup, on a few different weekends. For me, definitely before February 22, to catch the medieval cats too.
YY_Sima Qian
@YY_Sima Qian: If such reckless ventures littered the Trump 45 term, imagine what kind of shenanigans are happening now in the Trump 47 term, not yet exposed.
Loquacious Scribble, PhD
@mayim: I grew up about an hour from there and went regularly to visit those museums Just some notes:
1. It’s Hagley Museum
2. There is also the Brandywine Museum itself (but you gotta like the Wyeths)
3. There is also a great used bookstore in the area Baldwins Book Barn.
4. Nearby Kennett Square is the Mushroom Capital of the world. We used to visit a cheesy Mushroom Museum there. I thought it was gone, but I have heard they just moved it.
YY_Sima Qian
@Captain C:
@lowtechcyclist:
In case people have forgotten: Trump 45’s DOD launched a disinformation campaign in the Philippines against COVID-19 vaccines developed by the PRC that were being made available to Global South countries, inflaming skepticism & paranoia against all vaccines in the process, even though the US was hoarding the mRNA vaccines for itself at the time, & the admittedly less effective PRC vaccines was the only option available for countries outside of the West (& far better than the alternative of no vaccines). This was done in the name of “Great Power Competition”.
rikyrah
I gotta do a side eye on this. Since when do Americans not want to work at A BATTERY PLANT?
HMMMMM…..
Hundreds arrested in immigration raid at Hyundai plant site in Georgia
The Department of Homeland Secuirty said agents had a judicial search warrant, alleging unlawful employment practices.
Eduardo Cuevas
Ansley Franco
Joseph Schwartzburt
USA TODAY
Federal agents on Sept. 4 arrested hundreds of people at a sprawling battery plant construction site in Georgia in one of the Trump administration’s largest immigration raids.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced agents from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency, as well as Georgia State Patrol took part in the operation at Hyundai’s battery plant in Bryan County, southwest of Savannah. Agents apprehended about 450 people suspected of being in the country illegally, ATF said in an X post.
DHS said in an email that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations executed a judicial search warrant for an ongoing criminal investigation for alleged unlawful employment practices and other federal crimes.
usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/04/hundreds-arrested-in-immigration-raid-at-georgia-hyundai-p…
YY_Sima Qian
Wow, it seems the Kochs’ brand of “genteel isolationism” is gaining advantage in the Trump 47 administration. I’ve been seeing signs that some of the most vociferous self-styled China Hawks in DC (such as Elbridge Colby) have been preparing the ground to abandon Taiwan, much as they have been vocal about abandoning Ukraine:
“Genteel isolationism” is a misnomer because there is nothing “isolationist” about the US trying to dominate the Americas. See US activities in Latin America during its “isolationist” phase during the inter-World War years.
While it’s good that the über-China Hawks do not seem to be quite as bent on a hot war w/ the PRC (& the sooner the better), there this nothing just about the world divided into exclusive spheres of influence for great powers. & Latin American countries are no more likely to accept becoming the US’ exclusive sphere of influence than E/SE Asian countries are to being in the PRC’s exclusive sphere of influence, CEE countries to being in Russia’s exclusive sphere of influence, & S. Asian countries to being in India’s exclusive sphere of influence. & none of the great powers (the US & the PRC included) are so powerful that they can compel compliance, as long as these countries in the purported exclusive sphere of influence are determined to resist domination, & are willing to play the great powers off against each other. That portends chaos, instability & proxy wars.
Elizabelle
@mayim: I love the Brandywine Valley museums. And Longwood Gardens, lit up for Christmas.
Makes me happy to be in or near Joe Biden’s state.
tam1MI
We are here because a bunch of feckless, weak elected Dems went into a blind-eyed panic because of one debate. You may want to defend those Profiles in Cowardice, but those particular Dems will never get one cent of my money or my vote ever again. I vote for leaders, not cowards.
YY_Sima Qian
Trump channeling high school drama:
Seems clear that Trump so wanted to walk w/ Xi, Putin & Modi, so wanted to attend the parade in Beijing, & so wants to hold similarly extravagant parades in DC.
strange visitor (from another planet)
@tam1MI: unprepared for the firehose of bullshit, obama completely faceplanted in his first debate with romney.
imagine if democrats had fled from him the way they did biden.
biden WAS bad that first debate- the count of mostly crisco was WORSE, but nobody CARED bc whenever they asked a democrat about it, instead of saying, “yes, but” and PIVOTING to ATTACK the ENEMY, our guys, all of our media-savvy guys ran for the fucking hills.
how are people, normies, mundanes- are they supposed to think a political party that won’t even FIGHT TO DEFEND ITS LEADERS will fight for THEM
like, i don’t give a shit how old the president is. there’s a mechanism if he fucking dies in office. IMO, big part of the problem in the eyes of too many was the SOLUTION that mechanism PROVIDED.
UncleEbeneezer
And all the loudest FreePalestine social media accounts and Progressive blogs that signal-boosted it, are just pretending it never happened…
dnfree
@tam1MI: I saw the debate real-time. The debate confirmed the swirling rumors, unfortunately. Remember, Biden ASKED for the early debate.
Every time someone blames our situation on feckless and cowardly Democrats, I have been answering to say that an alternative explanation is a feckless Biden and his family ignoring the facts until it was too late. Can’t blame everyone else for that.
Paul in KY
@EireIAm: I feel so sorry for the innocent N. Koreans murdered by this team of doofuses. Have to grow up/live in N. Korea to begin with and then murdered by us.
Shouldn’t there have been contingencies (beyond kill em) for if civilians happened upon them?!?
We should give their relatives cash payments for their deaths, IMO.
Paul in KY
@Professor Bigfoot: We’re on our way towards ‘Lists of Proscription’. Lord God!!!
Paul in KY
@Gin & Tonic: God bless him!
Paul in KY
@YY_Sima Qian: You need to expand your imagination, it appears. I am so so embarrassed for my nation.
Paul in KY
@Interesting Name Goes Here: Yes. Also racist and sexist scumbags too.
Paul in KY
@YY_Sima Qian: Boy, that’s a sobering and terrifying thought.
Paul in KY
@rikyrah: Gee, wonder whose electric car operation might benefit from this wrench being thrown into the Hyundai company works?
Paul in KY
@tam1MI: It was one terrible, awful, oh-my-fucking-God, debate.