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Here's a musical reflection on Trump's latest violation, undermining Ukraine's prospects. Again sung in their support, and adapting #bobdylan's beautiful refrain to make the point that "It Ain't Kyiv, Babe" starting wars. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦🎶💛💙 Details/lyrics: youtu.be/skM3U8xNy48

What is this obsession with Celebrity Traitors? Admittedly I’ve never watched it nor non celebrity traitors or whatever it’s called. I’m not a reality tv fan but I’m really interested in knowing its appeal. Please let me know. Probably opening myself to degree of online nasty comments!

Richard Thorn (British, b.1952) Solitude Beach, 2026 Acrylic on canvas

Rue de Paris, temps de pluie Gustave Caillebotte

Good morning Wülferhampton have a fantastic Friday you fabulous freaks

Laura Knight always comes to mind when we think of summer! 🌞 Read more in this story 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

Hi Bluesky, why does my Only Posts feed keep going down? Too many times now. Is it my end or yours?

Contemporary Scottish painter Caroline Walker, who captures everyday aspects of women's lives #WomensArt

Victor Hugo on tech bros: "Réussissez: théorie. Prospérité suppose Capacité. Gagnez à la loterie, vous voilà un habile homme. Qui triomphe est vénéré. Naissez coiffé, tout est là. Ayez de la chance, vous aurez le reste; soyez heureux, on vous croira grand." *Les Misérables* I.XII

Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

It ys a tryinge tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth every bit of myne hearte.

Consider the calmness and sense of order evoked by Swiss artist Albert Anker’s ‘Still Life with Coffee’ (1877), with its porcelain cups, sugar cubes, coffee pot and liqueurs ~ and notice the subtle shadings of whiteness that the artist uses

Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter, London, 1916 #FridayFeeling ❤️

There is nothing new in the world.

Do not run educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys meant to make a profit. Educacioun ys meant to make the future. A businesse ys ther to deliver a goode or servyce to customers. Educacioun ys ther to empower citizens. A businesse ys for private benefit. Educacioun ys for the common good.

Literature ys powerful bycause it ys a dynamic, engaginge, attention-grabbinge art forme that kan existe wythout large amountes of fundinge or huge companyes. Obviouslye it ys best for wryteres to make a livinge and for literature to sell, but it ys not *required.* Literature kan lyve undergrounde.

In 1908, Sorolla travelled to Seville to paint the gardens of Real Alcázar. The palace, one of the greatest surviving examples of Mudéjar architecture on the Iberian Peninsula, was designed in a style inspired by Moorish taste and workmanship. This is one of the garden's ponds.

One of the most iconic photographic images of the 20th century, 'Migrant Mother', 1936 by Dorothea Lange, featured the family of Florence Thompson, who allowed the photograph to be taken to aid the plight of the US working poor during the Great Depression #WomensArt

It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth every bit of myne hearte.

Banksy strikes again.

Erik Satie's "Gnossienne 1" for koto, electric bass, vibraphone & alto flute played by the ENSEMBLE DELYDIOUS youtu.be/V6c0a6Ni9iQ?...

In Stanley Spencer's 'Cottage at St Ives,' (1937) the scene has an abundance of circumstantial and realistic detail. Its quality is drawn from his intense absorption, his unerring control of space, and his ability to depict every detail before him almost without discrimination.

@duffycaramole.bsky.social Re A E Houseman … listen to this. Unbelievably poignant.

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q?...

A ‘fame is fleeting’ moment ~ from the storage room of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in 1979, disembodied heads of figures ranging from Jackie Kennedy to WG Grace to Richard Nixon, plus Elizabeth Taylor’s feet as an added bonus www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

"The Kiss", a 12,000-year-old rock painting at Pedra Furada in Brazil

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

'The Critics.' (1923) Shaped by his experience of WW1 when painting coastlines was forbidden, Harold Harvey turned from Cornish seascapes to interior scenes; in many of these works there is a strong sense of stillness, and calm.

Haukur Sigurdsson captured this photo of cross country skiers looking like musical notes.

Paris Street; Rainy Day | Gustave Caillebotte 1877, Oil on canvas

In Dali's portrait of his father (1925) the figure, in its bulk and its weight, embodies the idea of authority. It is not easily budged. It was a difficult relationship and later in his career, Dali's images of the father figure would be transformed into monsters.

'Sleeping Girl.' (1927) Just like Laura Knight, Dod Procter became well known in Britain in the mid-1920s after painting a series of portraits of young women using the fall of light across the figures to give a sense of volume; a style which shows her admiration for Giotto.

Augustus John became one of the most famous portrait painters of his time. The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1878. Read 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/augustus-edwin-john-the-painter-at-home-in-societys-margins Augustus Edwin John (1878–1961) © the artist's estate / Bridgeman. 📸 Museum Wales

'Teacups.' (1921) Stanley Cursiter was one of the most important figures in Scottish art during the 20thC. As Director of the National Galleries of Scotland, he introduced modernism to the country by bringing Roger Fry's 'Manet and the Post Impressionists,' to Edinburgh in 1913.

Austrian war artist Albin Egger-Lienz’ powerful depiction of the dehumanisation of war ~ soldiers under enemy fire struggle to advance across a furrowed field, heads averted, bodies bent so low that they are almost crawling. Some already lie still (The Nameless, 1915)

Arabesque | Debussy guitar: Roxane Elfasci youtu.be/OQqEg7Yu-_E?...

Is anyone actually keeping track of what day of the week it is anymore???