Kimberly Alexander

More of #EdwardSteichen's fashion photography for Vogue Magazine. He was especially adept at capturing the essence of his subject via stylish footwear of the 1920s & 1930s. Here fresh & fabulous 1930s sandals appear so contemporary. For more: silkdamask.blogspot.com/2014/07/edwa...

You cannot hide the soul.

#FootcandyFriday Archive: Edward Steichen created iconic fashion photography for #Vogue Paris Here, a 1920s classic 'barrette' shoe with revived French or Louis heel. Romantic skirt floats at the knee. Lovely. Read on: www.silkdamask.org/search/label... @vogueparis.bsky.social

#SummerVibe afternoons are perfect for reading. #ChildeHassam #isleofshoals

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

Promotional image for the exhibition "Colour Shape Pattern" at Christchurch Mansion. The left side features a solid blue background with bold white text reading: "COLOUR SHAPE PATTERN, 24 MAY 25 – 22 FEB 26, An exhibition celebrating painting, print, and sculpture. CHRISTCHURCH MANSION, IPSWICH." The right half of the image shows a vivid, floral-inspired pattern in hot pink, orange, blue, and beige on a black background. Below, an orange strip contains logos for Colchester + Ipswich Museums, Ipswich Borough Council, Arts Council England, Art Fund, and Kerseys Solicitors

Looking for your next creative fix? Wolsey Art Gallery has just what you need.

✨ Colour Shape Pattern is open through winter. Don’t miss it: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern

12 Women Old Masters to Know Here are 12 women Old Masters benefitting from a tide of rediscovery

12 Women Old Masters to Know
by Karen Chernick
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To learn more about premodern #womenartists, visit:

A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque
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Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago
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Happy summer Monday 🌞🌞🌞
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

About to say goodbye to #SHEAR2025 and Providence, so here is another bank note for you. It features a portrait of Samuel Slater and a vignette of mills by the Pawtucket Falls on the Blackstone River. Slater Bank, North Providence, RI, $10, July 1, 1862.🗃️

Canal Dreamers | Jessica M. Lepler | University of North Carolina Press In the 1820s, there was a little-known quest to unite the world by building a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As new Spanish American natio...

The proofs are turned in and the website is up!🎉 📖
"Canal Dreamers" is now available for pre-order with delivery in August (just in time for classes 😉). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! 🗃️
@uncpress.bsky.social #history

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To Woolwich to the Rope-yard; and there looked over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great survey of seeing the working and experiments of the strength and the charge in the dressing of every sort.

Constitutional crisis is here

This week’s Neville Chamberlain Award Goes to Sian Beilock. Who’s She? Let me tell you

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Hello Seacoast New Hampshire #fiberfolk Join the UNH #FlaxFiles at the Newmarket Historical Society’s Stone School Museum for a #flax processing #demo & try your hand at #braking & #scutching flax. Let’s talk about #sustainability & #circulardesign #saynotofastfashion

Smithsonian Pushing Back on Plans to Relocate Space Shuttle The Smithsonian Institution is fighting efforts by Texas lawmakers to relocate the retired space shuttle Discovery from northern Virginia to Houston.

I know in the grand scheme of things this is small potatoes, but it's is important and should be getting more coverage.

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Hopkins Press book display. Lots of books.

Good morning #SHEAR2025! WE’VE GOT BOOKS.

Opinion | Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much.

"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power."
Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

So enjoyed working with you !

Up very early, and got a-top of my house, seeing the design of my work, and like it very well, and it comes into my head to have my dining-room wainscoated, which will be very pretty.

This was the order of events:

1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s extortion by paying a bribe.

2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that.

3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump.

4. Proving Trump’s bribe worked.

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
― Charles Bowden

The experience has definitely helped me bring new depth and perspective to my writing 😊

Excited to share my article ‘Combing History: Flax & Linen in New Hampshire’ [Tiny Studio #27] The issue created @fiberygoodness.bsky.social
is thoughtful, engaging & beautifully designed
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A man sits quietly in the filtered light of a veranda, cradling a cat in his arms—an image rendered with restraint and tenderness in this large-scale watercolor by Lars Lerin. At Home exemplifies Lerin’s ability to draw intimacy from stillness. His layered washes and softened contours evoke not only the warmth of light on a wooden interior, but the deeper, emotional texture of solitude shared. One of Sweden’s most esteemed contemporary artists, Lerin is widely celebrated for his mastery of watercolor and his meditative, often autobiographical depictions of Northern domesticity and landscape. A prolific author and television figure, his reputation is grounded in the quiet integrity of works like this—where silence, affection, and time itself seem to settle visibly onto paper.

And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm

The Forgotten Mother of the Contraceptive Pill As reproductive rights continue to be under siege, we remember Katharine Dexter McCormick, a key figure in expanding access to birth control pills in the U.S. At one point in the late 1940s or early '...

Katharine McCormick funded the research that led to the first birth control pill. Her investments were guided by a long-term vision of societal advancement, not just immediate results. She empowered generations of women to take charge of their futures. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

A book cover featuring the face and bust portion of Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun's self-portrait in a straw hat, with title and author text in yellow.

New book announcement!

Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun
by Jordana Pomeroy
Getty Publications 2025

This book presents the dramatic life story of #ElisabethVigéeLeBrun, one of the greatest portrait painters of all time.

#newbooksaboutwomenartists #womenartists #artherstory