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Kate Lusheck

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Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things

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TFW you realize in the longue duree historians will view the fall of the Soviet and US empires as basically taking place simultaneously

21.01.2026 03:33 β€” πŸ‘ 635    πŸ” 135    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 13
Pottery drinking cup shaped like an animal’s head. The vessel is glossy black, featuring a rounded snout, raised eyes, and a handle. A red-digured banquet scene encircles the lower part. The cup is photographed against a plain light background

Pottery drinking cup shaped like an animal’s head. The vessel is glossy black, featuring a rounded snout, raised eyes, and a handle. A red-digured banquet scene encircles the lower part. The cup is photographed against a plain light background

Weekend timeline cleanse!

A #Greek rhyton in the shape of a #dog's head. πŸ•πŸΆ

Vessels such as this were used in drinking parties. Since they didn't have a base, their contents had to be consumed before the vessel could be put down

Dating ca. 475 BC.

πŸ“· Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia 🏺

17.01.2026 08:16 β€” πŸ‘ 542    πŸ” 164    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 12

Early modern women writing in books! An online resource.

#earlymodern #Renaissance πŸ—ƒ

12.01.2026 07:17 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you!!

06.01.2026 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested in being added. Thanks for these great lists!

06.01.2026 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Nice!!

05.01.2026 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please do David Hockney and little Boodge!

05.01.2026 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œBe kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. β€œAt a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

β€œBe kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. β€œAt a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

05.01.2026 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 18316    πŸ” 7152    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 74
Tom Lehrer - I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
YouTube video by Fredde21 Tom Lehrer - I Wanna Go Back to Dixie

Tom Lehrer remains among the most insightful commentators on contemporary politics, which is saying something since he hasn't engaged in political commentary since 1972.

Hope he's enjoying his 97th (!) birthday.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAwh...

09.04.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 272    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 6

Do not fuck with pasta in January

02.01.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

31.12.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2576    πŸ” 770    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 23

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS

THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

30.12.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 908    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 48
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Totally agree about NIN, Green Day Dookie, and Hole Live Through This. Another good (but not perfect) one…

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DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin!
DORIAN: Can I hide it?
DEVIL: Well, yes, butβ€”
DORIAN: And there are no other consequences?
DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul!
DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

02.07.2023 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3108    πŸ” 599    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 10

Good riddance.

27.12.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's an insult you'll never forget?

23.12.2025 01:43 β€” πŸ‘ 720    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 499    πŸ“Œ 2500
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Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this πŸ™ www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

26.12.2025 16:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4907    πŸ” 1441    πŸ’¬ 141    πŸ“Œ 200
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This city shaped a classic Christmas carol. Now Russia has destroyed it. Meet the history and politics of a world-famous Christmas song that started as Kyiv’s political message to the world a century ago. It sends the same message today.

The haunting Carol of the Bells song may be best known to Western audiences from the Christmas film Home Alone.

But it started as Kyiv's political message to the world a century ago β€” one that still resonates today.

26.12.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Overheard in Paris: Tu parles francais comme un homme des cavernes.

26.12.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0
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t’s obvious the artist had never seen a real dragon

06.12.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 526    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6
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James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!' "The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

19.12.2025 04:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1757    πŸ” 523    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 92
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a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people ALT: a man in a hat is dancing in a crowd of people

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!

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Time person of the year cover for 2025

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

12.12.2025 04:00 β€” πŸ‘ 24083    πŸ” 4399    πŸ’¬ 880    πŸ“Œ 672

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

10.12.2025 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5079    πŸ” 834    πŸ’¬ 186    πŸ“Œ 70

What fun. The seven minutes you didn’t know you needed.

08.12.2025 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prime Minister of Poland. πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±

06.12.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 14309    πŸ” 3359    πŸ’¬ 506    πŸ“Œ 190

The best feature of the house bar none. It was like throwing away your dirty laundry but getting it back clean somehow.

04.12.2025 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million A long-lost painting by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens has sold for $2.7 million at an auction Sunday.

Having imagined what this painting would look like for years (based on the engraving), it is so amazing to see it come to light. Marvelous work, and given crazy art world prices for some works recently (Klimt), what a relative deal.

apnews.com/article/fran...

01.12.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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