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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 13d

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

Photo-realistic drawing of a cat snoozing on a cane-seated chair

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · 24d

"There’s a harmony to the picture, a taupe ground tinged with gold, tree trunks striped with delicate crosshatches. It’s not so much a study of nature as a delight in it, the eye snaking between branches."

My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · Sep 8

New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.

A New Yorker cover portraying a servant, known as Fay, leaning out the attic story window of an aristocratic New York mansion, smoking a cigarette, with a view of the city around her. More here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-mysterious-cover-artist-who-captured-the-decline-of-the-rich

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · Aug 13

'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.

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Amanda Joy @ajevans21.bsky.social · Aug 23

Emily Brontë, 1846

#BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë

"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear."

🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Jul 25

"Brady had an artist’s eye. He knew what light, what turn of the elbow or shift of weight, could transform a person into a vision."

My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Jul 18

Catherine of Aragon w/ her pet monkey. The most fun she ever had! Painted in 1525 by Lucas Horenbout, whose day is today.

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Jul 2

Browne homed in on people as they are: "at a standstill," unknown to themselves. To her, the role of the artist was to tease out the grotesque, what’s hidden under the surface. To see should not "invoke fear so much as interest, action."

My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · Jun 23

somewhere along the way, teaching fiction and poetry became a kind of squishy thing to do, as opposed to drilling "real skills," but for centuries reading literature was at the heart of serious education and it's a mistake to dismiss it

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you, Melissa!

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · Jun 5

“Hemphill found that transient home in his writing.”

A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙

Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Jun 3

"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame."

My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Jun 3

"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame."

My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · May 22

Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history

Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · May 23

"To be that attentive to nature, to let the world wash over you, seems a particular kind of gift. There is a tenderness to this work, an intimacy. Stay a while, they seem to urge. Go on looking."

My review of "Little Beasts" at the National Gallery of Art
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/22/n...

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · May 23

Thank you, Melissa!

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · May 22

“To stand before her tapestries is to follow one thread, then another, never losing the rhythm.”

Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of DY Begay’s retrospective!💚💜🩷

Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · May 18

"The striking pairings—of apricots and silvery greens, plums and lemon yellows—hang together like a horizon at dusk, at once familiar and unknown."

My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · May 14

“What she loved was this, here, now…that somehow, in the streets of London, on the ebb and flow of things…she survived.”
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway published #OTD 1925, a stream of consciousness novel, a day in the life of a character in a city; a response to James Joyce’s Ulysses.

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · May 18

"The striking pairings—of apricots and silvery greens, plums and lemon yellows—hang together like a horizon at dusk, at once familiar and unknown."

My review of DY Begay's retrospective at NMAI www.artforum.com/events/d-y-b...

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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · May 11

"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on."

--Simone Weil

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Apr 7

I just read Ballerina. It's spellbindingly beautiful.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · Apr 4

'The South Ledges, Appledore.' Childe Hassam spent many summers on Appledore Island, one of the remote islands that make up the Isles of Shoals located off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire; he stayed with his friend, the poet Celia Thaxter. This work was painted in 1913.

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thank you, Melissa!

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · Mar 24

“This is not the world as it is, but as it could be.”

Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of “Timeless Mucha.”🎨💜

Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Mar 23

"Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be."

My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Mar 23

"Anticipation swells in the Alphonse Mucha poster, in the liquid folds of a satin skirt, in the stirring of plans unformed. This is not the world as it is, but as it could be."

My review of "Timeless Mucha" at the Phillips Collection www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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Angelica Hankins @angelicahankins.bsky.social · Jan 12

Thank you, Melissa!

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