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seven-year-old: “who’s voice is that”
me: “Bob Dylan”
7yo: “is that yr friend”
me: “no a singer”
7yo: “not a very good singer”
A painting of a fluffy white cat and a puglike dog sitting on an elaborately patterned rug, both gazing out at us
Timeline cleanse: "Best of Friends" by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, 19th-century artist who specialized in portrayals of animals
10.09.2025 23:40 — 👍 150 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 1The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Across spaces of their individual paintings, Isabella Coymans offers Stephanus Geraerdts a token of her love, and he waits to receive it. Just a brilliant marriage portrait by Frans Hals, 1650.
26.08.2025 18:13 — 👍 94 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 2
A small glass figurine of a dog, crafted in deep blue with white stripes and yellow decorative details around its legs, ears, and tail.
A bit late, but apparently, it's #InternationalDogDay - We all know: A life without #dogs is possible but pointless!
A tiny yet marvellous #Celtic figurine of a #dog (height 1.6 cm) made of blue glass and decorated with yellow and white threads. The unique figurine...🧵1/2
🏺 #archaeology
Look up in Parma's cathedral and glimpse a drama: Mary, borne aloft by host of angels, while her son drops down from empyrean to meet her. Amazing illusion by Antonio da Correggio, whose day is today.
07.08.2025 11:38 — 👍 114 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
Spider and frog hikizuri by plumvs on Flickr. Early to mid-20th century, Japan.
01.08.2025 22:14 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Jeanne Hallee green silk & chiffon gown from ca. 1912, Whitaker.
A beruffed hare dances with two women. Figures carved on a polished limestone pillar in the Library at Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. ©National Trust Images/Michael Caldwell
John Nash, The Cornfield, 1918, Tate.
A delicate corn-field dress for Lammas, for running through the edgelands, through the yarrow & the poppies under a baleful dog-star bright in the ebbing sky. For slow witchcraft & trembling hare wisdom & the settling of old accounts, a heavy purse cast in a clear, cold brook.
01.08.2025 07:54 — 👍 108 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 1
A set of 'kai-awase'. Painted shells are used to play a game very similar to 'concentration'.
Chrysanthemums painted on the gilded interior of a shell.
A gorgeous set of 'kai-awase', these shells painted with seasonal flowers.
'Kai-awase' shells stored away. Here the paired shells are reunited so you cannot see the beautiful paintings within.
🐚SHELL GAME🎴
To while away those rainy afternoons...a game of 'kai-awase' (貝合わせ).
Traditional or seasonal scenes are painted in elaborate detail on the inside of shells. The aim of the game is to find pairs amongst the shells (each half related in some way).
#貝合わせ #京都 #Kyoto #kaiawase #Japan
Display of irises by Mondo Murakami.
Winter floral arrangement of narcissus and berries by Mondo Murakami.
Exotic floral arrangement by Mondo Murakami.
Early summer floral arrangement by Mondo Murakami.
🌸🌼IKEBANA🤏💐
Today I want to delve into the world of ikebana and show off some of our friend Murakami Mondo's (村上主水) extraordinary work.
I recommend following Murakami-san's Instagram for an almost daily dose of floral beauty.
➡️https://instagram.com/mondo100kyoto/?hl=en
#ikebana #生花
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
Feel better 💐
15.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.
Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social
Cheating at cards. Another great scene of suspicion and duplicity (with some fine feathered hats) by Georges de la Tour, born OTD in 1593.
13.03.2025 19:58 — 👍 69 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 1
The Gleaners, 1857.
28.02.2025 15:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here’s an opportunity to help some kids and get some cookies 🍪
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sixk34....
Wonderfully disorderly classroom imagined by comic genius Jan Steen, d. OTD 1679. Full of witty details, and naughty children.
03.02.2025 23:02 — 👍 91 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 2
The Hill of Tara, showing ancient earthworks, from the air.
Thread: Saturday is Imbolc, which celebrates the first day of Spring in Ireland. It is an ancient Gaelic-Celtic feast & is also marked as St Bridget’s Day, its Christian re-incarnation. In schools children make Bridget’s crosses to celebrate it. (pictured: Hill of Tara)
30.01.2025 15:13 — 👍 422 🔁 74 💬 12 📌 11
A stylized collagelike representation of a figure, seen from behind - a representation of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. - arms outspreadd, between two groups of silhouetted figures at left and right. A hilly landscape is in the background, with the sun and some clouds in the sky above
Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968
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People might bring up Vincent van Gogh as an example of a painter who did great work in spite of, or because of, his suffering. I like to think that van Gogh would have been even more prolific and even greater if he wasn't so restricted by the things tormenting him. I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had. —David Lynch
I don't think it was pain that made him so great, I think painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
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RIP David Lynch
Elton John Reveals He Lost Vision From Eye Infection: "It's a good thing music is sounds." -Moe Birk, Professional Interviewee
Elton John Reveals He Lost Vision From Eye Infection
theonion.com/elton-john-r...
Setting a compass to earth The Ancient of Days, 1794, by William Blake. Today was his day.
29.11.2024 02:47 — 👍 47 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
This story knocked the wind out of me and i hope esquire paid this man.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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