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Aspiring writer, obsessive reader, amateur human. Home is the beautiful city of Oxford.
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Guido Mangold, Hommage to Edward Hooper, 3rd Avenue, New York, 1985
street scene evening shops lit warmly from inside, muted colurs
January 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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Grand Avenue Theater District, St. Louis, 1944
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This is a photo of Grand Center, specifically looking south at the intersection of Grand and Delmar Boulevards in 1944. A large sign reads St Louis above a cinema, a car and tram are seen.
January 11, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Le Corbusier, Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut à Ronchamp, 1950-1955
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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For over 20 years, London School of Mosaic brought creativity and community to London.

Read about their work 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/piecing-it-together-the-work-of-london-school-of-mosaic

🧑‍🎨 Tessa Hunkin (b.1954) and London School of Mosaic © the artists. 📷 Jon Cardwell
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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Napoleon’s country house retreat, Malmaison, featuring Josephine’s free-range collection of almost impossible-to-believe exotic animals from Australia ~ black swans, dwarf emus and kangaroos (1810)
January 11, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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‘I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.’ - Colette
The grave of French writer Collette at Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise. French writer Collette with a cigarette and a suit on.
January 11, 2026 at 6:05 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#Caturday 🐱:
Richard Bawden (UK, 1936-2024)
Picking Apples, n.d.
Linocut, 40 x 34 cm
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#CatsInArt #BirdsInArt
linocut print, illustration of colorful garden with an apple tree full of ripe fruit, with a full basket of picked fruit sitting on the deck and a ladder off to the left; with a grey and white cat sitting at the foot of the tree and a songbird perched in the branches
January 11, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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Unknown photographer
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Winter Sunshine at Nether-Alderley’
Artist: SR Badmin
Finely detailed mixed-media illustration looking down on a small village or large estate surrounded by a variety of winter trees under light snow
January 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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I loved doing this interview with Jon Fosse. Available in @tolkajournal.bsky.social Issue Ten – out now!
tolkajournal.bsky.social Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 2d
'One of the best things about receiving the Nobel is that I will never receive it again.’
- Jon Fosse, interviewed by Rónán Hession in Tolka Issue Ten. You can order Issue Ten via our website. @ronanhession.bsky.social @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Is the woman the grandmother, or is she a sister, prematurely aged by looking after all these lads?
marcdavenant.bsky.social Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · Mar 21
The Lusetti Family, Luzzara, Italy in 1953 by Paul Strand. This has to be one of the best group photographs ever taken.
A family poses for the photographer outside a house. In the door is a woman looking at the camera, five men are standing or sitting in various poses around the door.
January 9, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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Still there. S. Express. Holborn.
January 9, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Claude Monet, "Basket of Apples," 1885, photo: Levy Gorvy Gallery, Hong Kong. #monet #art #impressionism #impressionist #painting #modernart #museum #artgallery
January 8, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Victor Man - Lemon and Sky - 2002
January 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange is angels and guardians with Liverpool Cathedral 🪽The first one of 2026!

We have used our own collection for this and are sharing 'Broken Angel' by Lorna Graves.
January 8, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social
#WatercolorWednesday:
Charles E. Burchfield (USA, 1893-1967)
Arctic #Owl and Winter Moon, 1960
Watercolor on paper
39 3/4 x 33 in.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, The Blount Collection
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#BirdsInArt
ethereal painting depicing a full moon lit, snow-covered conifer forest, with a single snowy owl swooping down towards a young tree with a small songbird perched in it; with artist signature and date on bottom right
January 8, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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Kitkatla Winter
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
1993
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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'Looking at the Snow.' (c1930) By the deftest of touches, Christopher Nevinson takes us right to a place and makes it real. Although we are given no clue to the actual location or who the figure is in the painting, it is immaterial.
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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'Sunny day' a painting by Greta Olga Hällfors-Sipilä (1899–1974), Finnish painter #WinterSun
Painting with a view to a window from a brightly lit interior with plants on the windowsill and snow outside
January 6, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Ikebana by Hana Narai
January 6, 2026 at 11:06 AM
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Comic actors in bird suits
arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Jun 11
#MedievalMonday / #ManuscriptMonday : bird party!
f.211r in BnF MS Français 9140: De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus, translated by Jean Corbichon, 1479-80.
Gallica BnF: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
#BirdsInArt
digital scan of an illuminated medieval manuscript page, illustrating an outdoor landscape scene full of a variety of both wild and domesticated birds
January 6, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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Albrecht Dürer, 'Eight Studies of Wild Flowers'. Watercolor, ca. 1510-1520
January 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Untei Sekine, Anemones, Japan, ca. 1830-1835
January 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM