Sarah Emily Duff

2/2 Baby J riding happily on orb of the world, waving to a hermit who has come out to greet poor Saint Christopher. From the workshop of Joachim Patinir.

Same—even after buying a jersey from them, which is nice but definitely not the incredible quality they claim it is.

Pleasure!

Sorry then all the gift links have been read!

Roob-5 building in Ebisu, Tokyo.

'Concert Hall', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (1929) by Sybil Andrews

(Glenbow Museum)

Studio with door, 1972 by Lois Dodd

The agony and ecstasy of restoring a Fra Angelico masterpiece How a 15th-century altarpiece by the early Renaissance friar was painstakingly restored for a major exhibition this year

‘Each generation of conservators learns from the mistakes of its predecessors. Every intervention might, at some later point, be seen as a small act of vandalism.’

Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life

‘he set up a communications centre in a … cafe, where Vava‘u’s residents could come to dictate their messages to Neyman, as if he were the designated letter-writer… and thus reach their relatives overseas. In two weeks, he sent out 1,600 messages. (At Neyman’s request, Garmin covered the costs.)’

Some of the best neon signs are those that capture the imperfections of handwriting.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Nude, Watercolor on paper, ca. 1917

Helen Frankenthaler
Skyframe Orbit. 1964–73

Ezra Klein Just Showed Us Everything Wrong With Secularized Meditation There’s a moment in Ezra Klein’s recent interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates that’s been bugging me.

‘secular mindfulness … wants the meditation technique—extracted, medicalized, and marketed as a tool for individual optimization.

The result? A technique for individual stress management and performance optimization, completely divorced from Buddhism’s social and ethical dimensions.’

Overlooked female modernist artist Marthe Donas dazzles in Belgium Antwerp exhibition testifies to growing recognition of woman who took gender-neutral name Tour to get on

‘A decade later Donas enrolled again, determined to be an artist, after a life-changing accident. She fell off a roof while trying to catch a glimpse of King Albert I, who was visiting Antwerp’

By @jenniferrankin.bsky.social

Good Signs and Bad Signs in the Bay Area The most infamous bad signs in the Bay are the billboards entering SF. But good and bad signs are everywhere — if you know where to look.

‘The orb’s memetic heyday is a few years old at this point, but it’s still a perfectly good concept. Why not consider this turbulent orb?’

@dannymlavery.bsky.social for @coyotemedia.org

Haywain - Open

Haywain - Open

2/2 And the bubbles! Have you ever tried to paint a bubble? It's not easy! Karel Dujardin does it so well.

Photo of building that looks like a gas station that says "Soul Winning Revival Center, George and Hattie Maunder Ministers"

"Soul Winning Revival Center"

I love the juxtaposition of mid century architecture and that very American expression of a religious revival.

1977, California

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LOC
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Sarah Mullally: the former nurse who will be archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London, who has been named as first female leader of Church of England, is seen as a ‘theological liberal’

‘She came late to the ordained ministry, spending more than 35 years in the NHS, as a cancer nurse, then the youngest chief nursing officer for England at 37 … before giving up her nursing position in 2004 to serve as an assistant curate in Battersea’

Have we passed peak social media? As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away

‘Meta and OpenAI’s new platforms (AI-generated content is already rife on TikTok and YouTube) are a fitting endpoint for social media’s warped evolution from a place where people swapped updates with friends and family, to one with less and less human-to-human interaction.’

Inside the MBTA's aging signal system as it gets a $295 million upgrade If you ride the MBTA, chances are you’ve seen an alert about a signal problem delaying your train. The T is in the middle of a project to improve the signal system on the Red and Orange lines so it ca...

‘For decades all the information tracking the MBTA's trains was analog. The system used sound waves, wires and electromechanical relays, which were housed in hubs called signal rooms.

The equipment being replaced on the Red and Orange lines is approximately 50 years old, according to the MBTA.’

Finnish photographer Niko Luoma

TS08, 2022
(Found Vintage Postcard and Enamel Paint)

#Photography #ContemporaryArt

Travel poster encouraging tourists to take the bus to Burnham Beeches, a nature preserve a bit beyond the western border of London. A painting of a couple picnicking with their little dog under a tree with a massive trunk.

Frederick Pegram

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

‘His speech was intended as high Renaissance performance art, but that’s not to say it was secular, humanist or modern – rather, it was profoundly weird.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Lorde maintained her distance from organised activism… Her poetry and essays offer something else: a reflection of that work, an analysis of its tensions and a language for its losses and aspirations.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde in @lrb.co.uk

That’s right!

Yellow band

Yellow band
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Marc Chagall working on the panels for New York's Metropolitan Opera: The Triumph of Music
#MarcChagall

Chunk, a 1,200-pound bear with a broken jaw, wins Alaska's popular Fat Bear Week contest Chunk, a 1,200-pound behemoth with a broken jaw, swept the competition Tuesday in the popular Fat Bear Week contest — his first win after finishing in second place three previous years.

‘Chunk’s weight was estimated at 1,200 pounds by contest organizers. While they do not weigh individual bears during the contest because of safety concerns, Chunk and others have had their density scanned to bolster weight estimates in the past using laser technology called LIDAR.’