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Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, c. 1845
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Dadd_-_The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
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openculture.bsky.social
Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959)
Kermit the Frog Learns to Love Jazz Through “Visual Thinking” (1959)
Jim Henson launched his first televised puppet program, Sam and Friends, when he was a freshman at the University of Maryland. The show ran for six years on NBC affiliate WRC-TV in Washington, DC.
www.openculture.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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hyperallergic.com
As we scramble through toppled monuments or ruminate on those never built, art historian Cat Dawson’s new book questions the fundamental utility of monuments — who are they for, and what work do they actually do?
Monuments Were Never Meant to Last Forever
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.
hyperallergic.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Morning Bluesky.
Houses at night. Cartoon by Fougasse
December 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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alana-m-vincent.net
This one hurts.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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afreeparticle.com
Fascinating look into #iTeachChem in ASL

🧪🍎 #DisabledInSTEM
July 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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metsky.bsky.social
Turkey Vessel, 7th–10th century
Class: Ceramics-Containers
Culture: Veracruz
Medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/317619
Turkey Vessel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
One of the great examples of a just how phallic a tintinnabulum can get! Not only is the charioteer a phallus, but the chariot is itself a phallus with two heads and an extra phallus of its own for good measure.

Thought to date to the C1st CE

#PhallusThursday
🏺ClassicsBluesky
Description from Invaluable Auction House: “The elaborate ornament boasts a phalliform horse with two front bodies bearing hooved equine legs, shaggy manes, and phallic heads as well as a lengthy singular phallus beneath the spherical testes that comprise the latter half of the 'animal.' The 'rider' also exhibits a phalliform body with one perforated hand raised as if wielding a whip and the other lowered as if grasping the reins of his galloping steed.”
December 7, 2023 at 7:45 AM
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drannaclark.bsky.social
The Ancient of Days: Frontispiece to Europe a Prophecy, 1794, colour relief etching with added hand-colouring by William Blake, English poet, artist & visionary; born #OTD 1757.
British Museum
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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philiphoare.bsky.social
Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 AM
ladlecarver.bsky.social
Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, c. 1845
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Dadd_-_The_Fairy_Feller%27s_Master-Stroke_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
November 28, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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trahias.bsky.social
Self-portrait at the Easel
by Lotte Laserstein, 1938
Oil painting
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 28, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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trahias.bsky.social
Scandalized Mask, 1883 by James Ensor (Belgium, 1860 - 1949).
Oil on canvas | 135 × 112 cm.
Location: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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artinsociety.bsky.social
19th century wooden “walking” doll with a wheel of eight legs ~ when costumed, the doll’s long dress would cover most of the leg mechanism, allowing the doll to “walk” when moving, while appearing to have only two legs at any one time www.theriaults.com/events/listi...
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Small boy in totally A+ green outfit, at the Spanish court in the 1560s. By Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.
November 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
2/2 Studies of a few less serious heads by Hogarth from back in 1733.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.
November 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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snarkhunt.bsky.social
Thanks to a reddit comment (www.reddit.com/r/etymology/...) by SagebrushandSeafoam I learned about 'A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue' (dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/s...) which shows that the term "snark" already was used in 1585.
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700) About this entry: First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX). This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions. Quotation dates: 1584-1585 Snark, n. ※ [? Cf. Jam. snark (1882, Ayr.), mod. Eng. snark (once, 1901) to grumble, fret, later Sc. dial. and mod. Eng. snark, snork to snore.] ※ A pejorative term the precise sense of which is unclear. —a1585 Polwart Flyt. 782 (T). Sillie snark, lene raik, rak ane aik with the hinging https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/snark
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
ladlecarver.bsky.social
"Inside the Norman Rockwell Museum — and the distortions of his art"
November 14, 2025
By Amelia Mason, @shmabelia.bsky.social

www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...
Inside the Norman Rockwell Museum — and the distortions of his art
The artist produced some of the most enduring images of the 20th century. A recent dustup over the use of his paintings by the Department of Homeland Security reveals that his work is still a potent s...
www.wbur.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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dissentum.bsky.social
If it annoys them to see people reading a book in public we're doing something right.

New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
ladlecarver.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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mzparks.bsky.social
Honoring Sukumar Ray, Bengali poet, playwright, and author best known for his #childrensbooks. his writings have a status similar to the nonsense of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. #kidlit
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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atomicanalyst.bsky.social
Here’s something really graphic for Halloween:
At top, a black and white chart labeled "Normal Distribution," showing a curved line that starts low at the left, curves up and peaks in the middle, and returns to the same low position on the right. At bottom, a black and white chart labeled "Paranormal Distribution," showing the curved line transformed into a typical ghost (a floating white sheet draped over an upright body) with two dark dots for eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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simonguy.bsky.social
The boy(14) had made a paper-mache facehugger for halloween. Here it us partly primed, ready for painting. He's done such an amazing job.
A photo of a boy with a home-made facehugger on his head. A photo of a boy with a home-made facehugger on his head.
October 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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spindlypete.bsky.social
check out this absolutely terrifying ancient babylonian lullaby
12:01 ÷73 + r/AskAnthropology •• What is the oldest lullaby or nursery rhyme that... 11 upvotes • 1 comment As far as the earliest we know of, it's another Babylonian tablet, about 4000 years old and most often known as Little Baby in the Dark House. We don't have the music for it, but again, the BBC article has a good go at describing some commonalities of the music that tends to accompany lullabies, so that might inspire you. The rough translation for that Babylonian lullaby, by the way, is: Little Baby in the dark house You have seen the sun rise Why are you crying? Why are you screaming? You have disturbed the house god. 'Who has disturbed me?' says the house god. 'It is the baby who has disturbed you! 'Who scared me?' says the house god. 'The baby has disturbed you, the baby has scared you, making noises like a drunkard who cannot sit still on his stool. He has disturbed your sleep! 'Call the baby now, says the house god. • 4 Reply A & Vote & Join the conversation
October 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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colinsmith.bsky.social
'Ausstellung Englische Graphik': a poster advertising the exhibition of English graphic art at the Kunstsalon Wolfsberg in Zurich, 1923, as designed by Edward Wadsworth, who put to wonderful use one of his 1918 depictions of Dazzle Ships in Liverpool Docks.
October 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM