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Thank you for telling us. I’m sure Jr is all over this.

You are lucky that whatever it is did not show up and eat you. I agree with a few others, strong possibility it is a dragon’s nest

Transportation chief offers advice to increasingly angry Americans: ‘Let’s maybe go back to an era where we didn’t wear our pajamas to the airport?’ | Fortune

“Sometimes you just have to ask people: ‘Hey, let’s maybe go back to an era where we didn’t wear our pajamas to the airport?’”

Love it too

Vilhelm Hammershøi (Danish, 1864–1916). Interior, Sunlight on the Floor (oil on canvas).

watercolor painting of my singer sewing machine

I did a watercolor painting of my singer sewing machine that I love more than potato salad

Who designed the dummy?

Met Museum photo of an ancient Egyptian board game known as Hounds and Jackals. Met description: “The board rests on four bulls' legs; one is completely restored and another only partially. There is a drawer with a bolt to store the playing pieces: five pins with hounds' heads and five with jackals' heads. The board is shaped like an axe-blade, and there are 58 holes in the upper surface with an incised palm tree topped by a shen sign in the center” Carved from ivory and ebony. Dimensions of board: H. 6.8 cm W. 10.1 cm D. 15.6 cm Jackal pins: H. 7 cm to 8.5 cm
Hound pins: H. 6 cm to 6.8 cm It was found in 1910 in the tomb of an official named Reniseneb at Thebes, dated Dynasty 12, c. 1814–1805 BC. Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon reconstructed the game as follows in their publication of the find (Five Years of Explorations at Thebes, A Record of Work Done 1907-1911, London, Oxford, New York, 1912, p. 58): "Presuming the 'Shen' sign ... to be the goal, we find on either side twenty-nine holes, or including the goal, thirty aside. Among these holes, on either side, two are marked ..nefer, 'good'; and four others are linked together by curved lines. Assuming that the holes marked 'good' incur a gain, it would appear that the others, connected by lines, incur a loss. Now the moves themselves could easily have been denoted by the chance cast of knuckle-bones or dice....and if so we have before us a simple, but exciting, game of chance."

Anyone for a board game?

This ancient Egyptian game of ‘Hounds and Jackals’ is almost 4,000 years old!

Also known as the ‘Game of 58 holes’, it’s thought it was played in a similar way to ‘Snakes and Ladders’.

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#Archaeology

This head-and-shoulders portrait depicts a young woman with light peach skin and rosy blush with clised eyes and small coral lips. A translucent, pale-blue veil patterned with tiny flower sprigs drapes over hair and face, its central seam tracing the bridge of her nose before fanning into layered folds that tie in a neat bow under the chin. Glossy ringlets of warm brown curl at her temples and beneath the gauze; where fabric crosses, skin and hair shift to cooler blue. A narrow glimpse of a striped garment peeks at the neck. There is no background so precise ink lines and smooth watercolor washes model light, softness, and texture. American artist Emily Eastman is known through a small group of New Hampshire watercolors showing fashionably coiffed young women. Records place her in Loudon where she married physician Daniel Baker in 1824 and, like many women of her generation, likely practiced watercolor and drawing in domestic and female-academy settings where such “accomplishments” were encouraged. Around 1825, near the date of this portrait, Eastman would have been about 21. Her method blends careful graphite underdrawing with luminous washes like the veil’s arabesques and the sitter’s Grecian curls which echo the neat logic of fashion ideals circulating in ladies’ magazines of the era. Although little is documented of her life, Eastman’s work has drawn sustained institutional attention: “Woman in Veil” has been featured in public programs and the exhibition Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands (2010). Related examples in other collections (including the Terra Foundation) affirm the significance of her bust-length portraits to the study of early American image-making by women. By centering taste, adornment, and self-presentation outside academic studios, Eastman widens the canon of American portraiture and folk art, offering a clear view of how young women shaped visual culture through print-informed, skillful watercolor practice.

“Woman in Veil” attributed to Emily Eastman (American) - Watercolor and ink on paper / c. 1825 - American Folk Art Museum (New York) #WomenInArt #WomenArtists #WomanArtist #EmilyEastman #Eastman #AmericanFolkArtMuseum #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #AFAM #AmericanArt #WomensArt #WatercolorArt

Forbes: “Jr’s not a doctor, statements posted here reflect his personal opinions and those of assorted quacks and crackpots”. Ought to add that language

Michelle: Like drunken crazy man at last family reunion who became abusive when the women refused to hug him. Except he was not president and the guys rounded him up, made him sit by himself.

To those who asked, the artist is Frank Dickson. His early work is very collectable and work like this should be selling for around £1500. The hammer went down at £32. Great result for the buyer, not so good for the vendor.

They don’t heat anything. Friends have them, say you just stay cool to cold, never warm.

Thank you for the correction.

Too late. His words have probably encouraged others.

A cast-iron horse weathervane with a sheet-iron tail, c 1880, likely from Rochester Iron Works, 26 1/4" x 36" x 8", with a mellow orange paint surface, ex-Steve Miller, sold for $15,360 (e $1500/2500) at @bonhams.bsky.social www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/augu... #antiques #horse #folkart #art

"It is a tremendous honour to have won this prestigious award and hugely gratifying for the Ashmolean team and our many supporters who helped bring this remarkable painting into a public collection." - Xa Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum

Gustaf Cederström (Swedish, 1845–1933)
Title: "Inside a Bakery", 1885.
Medium: Oil on Canvas.
Size: 100 × 132.5 cm.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Don’t mess with them. Silly cyclist in DC kept trying to go around huge one on trail, used bike as weapon. Dude, find another way. It was large, chased many. NPS finally moved it I think. Makes me wonder why humans can’t give way once in a while

Hanne Swane (Danish,1926-1986): Self-portrait, oil on canvas, signed H. Sw. and Hanne Swane and dated 1976 on the back. 44.5 x 40 cm
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Icy morning in Dublin.

That’s in $$. There are other units of measure, comes up a bit light

Two light-coloured dogs on a white dog bed in the sun.

Good morning from Rembrandt and Raphael.
#dogsofbluesky #dogs #sighthounds #skyhounds #italiangreyhound #whippet #blueskydogs #iggy #iggysofbluesky #notawhippet #greyhounds

I don‘t give a sh*t what China does. It does not allow its people to practice any religion and sends agents here to spy on its citizens studying at American universities. For starters. I‘s not a free country. That is under-reported.

Get the cat off your knee. Shift to other knee

Look at those eyes. Could not have done such a thing

We shall repair this. Nonviolently, with luck, God’s grace, and time. Not just sitting on hands here. Apologies, many were swayed by awful promises last election, won’t get into that here but we’ll fix, become beacon again, all that. Ok?

Shows his true colors. That is threatening behavior. Next step up is battery

Agree. Unless the WH press corps is going to ask hard questions—and stand by reporters who do this—it should abandon Trump. Leave him to second-rate press who toss softball questions and grovel at his feet. Good reporters shouldn’t tolerate abuse, public entitled to be informed

- ‘Brownstone’ Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 1958-1960.
- ‘Hunger’s Wall’ Pastel. 1968.
#HarveyDinnerstein (1928-2022).