Joan Baez, 85, stood in the quiet San Francisco dawn and unlocked the Baez Refuge of Grace, a 250-bed, zero-cost hospital built exclusively for America’s homeless – the first of its kind in U.S. history.
Cancer wards.
Trauma ORs.
Mental health wings.
Addiction detox.
Dental suites.
120 permanent apartments on the upper floors.
Everything free, forever.
$142 million raised quietly over 18 months, all from Baez’s personal foundation and lifelong activists who begged to stay anonymous. First patient: a 61-year-old Navy veteran named Elias, who hadn’t seen a doctor in 14 years.
Baez walked beside him as he entered, took his hand, and said:
“This hospital carries my name because I’ve spent sixty years marching for those who felt invisible. Here, nobody is. If I’m going to leave a legacy, I want it to be this — not folk songs, not the history books… just lives saved.”
By noon, the line wrapped around six city blocks. #BaezRefuge detonated X with 38.7 billion impressions in eight hours – the fastest humanitarian trend ever.
From the voice of a generation to an unsung miracle-maker, Joan Baez didn’t just build a hospital. She built hope — one free bed at a time. America’s soul just found a new home.
Joan Baez turns 85 today and, after 67 years as a performer and activist, she's still on fire!
She recently wrote, "In early November, Jesse Welles and I first performed 'No Kings' together at his San Francisco Fillmore concert. A couple weeks later, we sat down and recorded it. It's now available wherever you listen/purchase your music.
I recently shared my thoughts about the experience and the new song in an interview with The Australian. 'I love singing with younger people, and that song is perfect for my voice. It was just a treat. It's fresh, and he's 33 and he's writing this stuff, and I haven't heard anything like that. What's needed is an anthem, something that everybody can sing.'"
Jesse Welles, an Arkansas folk singer who recently shot to national prominence after receiving four Grammy nominations, has also released the timely ballad "Join ICE" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGHf7OvglM
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made ...
A retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art tracks how the painter’s signature style extended the contours of Abstract Expressionism.
Joan Mitchell’s painting “La Vie en Rose” (1979) in her retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.Credit...Estate of Joan Mitchell
By Tausif Noor
In 1948, Joan Mitchell was a 23-year-old artist living in a drafty apartment in Paris. She had arrived in France in the aftermath of World War II to a nation that was still reeling from rations and riots. A newly minted graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mitchell had come to Paris to study the history of French painting and learn the techniques of the masters but found that her workaholism had frayed her nerves and rendered her too anxious to take part in the bustling social life of the city. Mitchell spent her nights awake, feverishly trying to improve her craft, huddling around her stove for warmth.
“I’m where I’ve always wanted to be — stove — bread & wine & canvases — I’m not depressed even — just arrived at a real knowledge of where I don’t belong which is everywhere,” she wrote in October of that year in a letter to her lover, Barney Rosset. Mitchell’s frustration during this early period in Paris, when she felt she had “painted terribly,” may have stemmed from her perceived failure to measure up to the artistic giants she so admired. As a teenager, she was raised on a steady regimen of music, dance, sports and art, with regular trips to the Art Institute to see 19th-century masterpieces by Cézanne, Monet and van Gogh.
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Mitchell in her studio in Paris in September 1956.Credit...
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The Nobel Prize for Literature is yet another step towards immortality for Bob Dylan. The rebellious, reclusive, unpredictable artist/composer is exactly where the Nobel Prize for Literature needs to be.
His gift with words is unsurpassable. Out of my repertoire spanning 60 years, no songs have been more moving and worthy in their depth, darkness, fury, mystery, beauty, and humor than Bob’s. None has been more of a pleasure to sing. None will come again.
For Martin Parr, ‘Showing Things as They Are’ Was Art
Some saw cynicism in the photographer’s pictures of everyday life in Britain during his nearly six-decade career. But he said he wanted to honor the ordinary.
Martin Parr, who has died aged 73, was the most celebrated photographer of British life in the past half century, and the most controversial: https://on.ft.com/4iN8Y0C 馬丁·帕爾去世,享年73歲。他是過去半世紀以來英國最負盛名、也最具爭議的攝影師:https://on.ft.com/4iN8Y0C
“England. New Brighton” from the series “The Last Resort” (1983-85)Credit...Martin Parr/Magnum Photos
“England. New Brighton: A Couple in a Cafe” from “The Last Resort”Credit...Martin Parr/Magnum Photos
Pam Hogg, Iconoclastic Scottish Designer, Dies at 74
She was a star of London’s post-punk D.I.Y. fashion, art and performance scene, and dressed a generation of rock stars in her otherworldly handmade clothes.
Pam Hogg in 2010. She was refused to be influenced by market forces or to alter her vision. “I’m giving them what they don’t know they want,” she told the BBC.Credit...
“After every show, I’m so broken I feel I can’t go though this again,” she said in her TEDx talk. “It’s through disarray, disruption and disorder that my work finds life.”
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In 2009, Ms. Hogg concluded a show with a wedding dress smeared with her own blood and painted with the words “War Bride.”Credit...Matt Crossick, via Alamy
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Ms. Hogg, center, during the finale of a 2014 show in London. She dedicated the collection to Pussy Riot, the Russian punk feminist band.Credit...CatwalkFashion/Alamy
"It was a massive privilege - and continually inspiring - to engage with Martin's eyes and mind," he said. "Martin's enthusiasm for everyday life was infectious."
Martin Parr Foundation
A photograph from O'Connell Bridge, Dublin, 1981, from 'Bad Weather'
Martin ParrCBE (23 May 1952 – 6 December 2025) was an English documentary photographer,[3]photojournalist and photobook collector. He was known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological[4][failed verification] look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.
His major projects were rural communities (1975–1982), The Last Resort (1983–1985), The Cost of Living (1987–1989), Small World (1987–1994) and Common Sense (1995–1999).
Since 1994, Parr had been a member of Magnum Photos.[4] He had around 60 solo photobooks published, and had featured in around 90 exhibitions worldwide – including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld,[5] and a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London, in 2002.[6]
The Martin Parr Foundation, founded in 2015, and registered as a charity in 2015[7] opened premises in his hometown of Bristol in 2017. It houses his personal archive, his collection of British and Irish photography by other photographers, and a gallery.[8]
Life and career
Parr in 2014
Personal life
Born in Epsom, Surrey,[9] Parr wanted to become a documentary