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CristinaBellino

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Archaeology, Ancient Near East, Art, Photography

Brassaï, Paris vu de Notre-Dame, 1934,
[Dora Maar, Liberty, 1936]

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CristinaBellino @cristinabellino.bsky.social · Oct 10

Strangers on a Train
Alfred Hitchcock, 1951

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Ray Pride

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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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Albumism

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What's the first word that comes to mind when you think of this album? | Listen to the album + explore our tribute here: album.ink/RHCPbssm

December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM

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Rabih Alameddine

@rabihalameddine.bsky.social

Baalbak, mon amour!

December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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Jacopo Iacoboni

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L’ambasciata russa in italia esulta per la vendita di @LaStampa e @repubblica, riponendo auguri e speranze nei nuovi proprietari.

La Russia di Putin, dove i giornalisti vengono ammazzati, imprigionati, esiliati

Da Mosca è tutto, linea a Torino.

December 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM

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CristinaBellino

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"Escape from New York"
Andrew Englander, 2020

November 12, 2023 at 4:01 PM

CristinaBellino

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Bless This Mess - 2022
Andrew Englander

December 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM

CristinaBellino

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Night Shift - 2019
Andrew Englander

December 15, 2025 at 5:09 PM

CristinaBellino

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Streets of fire - 2019
Andrew Englander

December 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™

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Stephen Hanson (British Artist, born 1950)
"Dog Tired", 2020.
Giclée Print on Archival Paper, 27 × 28 cm.
Illustration.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

December 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™

@trahias.bsky.social

Balthus - The White Skirt , 1937

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

December 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM

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Old School Cool

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Rob Reiner & River Phoenix | Stand By Me | 1986 | 🖤

🎬Rob Reiner 1947 - 2025
🎬River Phoenix 1970 - 1993

It’s a very sad day. RIL both.

Credit to the original poster Different_Volume5627 who posted this on r/OldSchoolCool on December 15th, 2025 at 5:48 AM UTC.

December 15, 2025 at 6:21 AM

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Arthur David Spota

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Good Afternoon ❄️

Cy Twombly ~ Untitled (Winter Picture), 2004
#CyTwombly #WinterVibes #AbstractArt

December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Michael

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“Mustataustainen omakuva” (Self-Portrait, Black Background) by Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish) - Oil on canvas / 1915 - Ateneum Art Museum (Helsinki, Finland) #WomenInArt #art #artText #HeleneSchjerfbeck #Schjerfbeck #SelfPortrait #FinnishArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #AteneumArtMuseum

A bust-length view of a ghostly-pale woman emerges from a nearly solid black ground. Her face is turned slightly to one side, large gray-green eyes lifted just above ours with a searching gaze. Warm brown hair is pulled back tightly, with one loose curl. A bright pink flush sits on her cheeks and small, closed mouth, giving a sense of vulnerability and quiet resolve. She wears a pale, high-necked blouse that dissolves into thin, sketchy strokes, suggesting shoulders and torso without firm outline. At her chest hangs a round green pendant on a delicate gold chain, the color echoing the cool tones of her eyes. In the lower left, a bright red paint pot and upright brushes signal her tools and identity as an artist. Across the top, the block capitals HELENE and SCHJERFBECK are rubbed and partly erased, so that her own name hovers like a fading inscription over the dark surface.

Painted in her early 1950s, as she lived a relatively secluded life in Finland, this self-portrait marks Schjerfbeck’s shift toward a spare, modernist language. Commissioned by the Finnish Art Society for its official self-portrait collection (where she was the first and only woman artist represented), it quietly insists that a modern Finnish woman painter belongs in a lineage long dominated by men. The black background and mask-like simplification of the face may hint at illness, aging, and the passing of time, while the sharp red of the paint pot likely affirms her continuing creative force. The faint, scraped letters of her name at the top suggest both assertion and self-effacement as she writes herself into art history even as she acknowledges how easily women’s contributions can be rubbed away. In the Ateneum’s Hallonblad Collection, the painting stands as a landmark of Nordic modernism and a powerful meditation on artistic persistence, mortality, and how we choose to be seen.

December 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM

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Jaq W

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While written mathematical texts appear millennia later in Sumer, Halafian pottery reveals an earlier, intuitive form of mathematical reasoning, rooted in symmetry, repetition, and geometric organization. phys.org/news/2025-12...

December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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PortfolioCarmel

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Georgia O'Keeffe
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Black Door with Snow

December 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM

CristinaBellino

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Harold Ancart, "Untitled", 2017

December 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Jesse Locker

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Giacomo Balla, Il dubbio (Doubt), 1907/1908, 67 x 50 cm, Oil on paper (Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome). A portrait of the artist's wife Elisa Marcucci.