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Marguerite Alexandre
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"One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." - Edith Wharton

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Marguerite Alexandre @margueritealex.bsky.social · Dec 26
In which I hang out with my Aged Parents who used to look like Joan Baez and Johnny Cash, we eat latkes for Chrismukkah, and we take in the new bio-pic about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown. Dad has faith in the Deep State, and Anne Applebaum sings the praises of the optimists.
Yuletide Sixties Songs
I saw the new bio-pic film about Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown, in the theater yesterday, which was Christmas Day (and also the first day of Hanukkah).
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‘We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.’ ~ Ursula K. Le Guin. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Moonlight in the Forest,
Joséphine Bowes.
Moonlight, cloudy night sky, silhouettes of trees, painting.
September 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The "Royal Peacock" wallpaper, which features the design seen in the image, was designed by Catherine Martin for Mokum by James Dunlop Textiles.
The image displays a vibrant, detailed pattern featuring a peacock amidst lush floral elements, likely a design for wallpaper or fabric. The artwork is characterized by a soft, painterly style with visible brushstrokes, giving it a somewhat vintage or hand-painted feel.
September 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The Rainbow (1892), by Nikolay Dubovskoy
September 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Dancing Sessile Oak with no name, or a name only known to other dancing oaks - Caronia, Sicily

Photo: Saro Sciuto
An oak tree that appears to be dancing
September 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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laneutrina.bsky.social
The Indian Church (1929)
by Emily Carr
July 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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canadianpaintings.bsky.social
Tossed by the Wind
Emily Carr
1939
August 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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mjlinde.bsky.social
#forestFriday
#ArtChallengesAug

Emily Carr
Canadian Artist
August 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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#forestFriday
##ArtChallengesAug

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Emily Carr
Canadiens Artist, 1871- 1945
A painting of thin, wispy, colorful trees, blowing in the wind, with shades of greens and blues.
August 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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charlespiroth.bsky.social
Andrew Wyeth, Walking Stick
August 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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laneutrina.bsky.social
A boat on the Sumida River (in Tokyo) in Moonlight (1910-20)
by Arai Yoshimune
August 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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mmcarthur.bsky.social
There’s no emergency here.

Chicago Jazz Festival x
Esperanza Spalding!
August 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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🎨: @smnta___
August 29, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Goodnight.
🖼️ Gennady Spirin
An illustration from "Simeon's Gift," a book by Julie Andrews Edwards and Emma Walton Hamilton, illustrated by Gennady Spirin. The central figure is a young man, Simeon, lying on the ground, holding a lute, and looking upwards towards the night sky and a full moon. In the upper left, small, winged cherubic figures appear to be floating or flying, emanating from the area near a tree.
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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🎨: Hacchi.stainedglass
August 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.
August 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Something lovely for your timeline!

Beautiful blue glass beads from the late Bronze Age.

Ploughed up by a farmer in Denmark in 1885, analysis shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia, pointing to long-distance trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago.

📷 National Museum of Denmark

#Archaeology
Forty-four annular turquoise blue glass beads strung on modern thread. Found when a farmer ploughed up a cremation urn at Kongehøj in Denmark in 1885. The urn broke and was found to contain burnt bones, the 44 blue glass beads and two gold spiral rings. Research shows the beads were made in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), indicating far-reaching trade in luxury goods some 3,000 years ago
June 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Cosby Creek at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The water was running high with all the crazy rainstorms! (Photo by me)
June 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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あやめの衣 (Kimono with Iris Pattern) by 岡田三郎助 / Saburōsuke Okada (Japanese) - Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas / 1927 - Pola Museum of Art (Hakone, Japan) #WomenInArt #art #JapaneseArt #日本絵画 #ポーラ美術館 #岡田三郎助 #PolaMuseumofArt #着物 #OkadaSaburōsuke #OkadaSaburosuke #womensart #OilPainting #JapanesesArtist
The defining feature of Japanese artist Saburōsuke Okada's (岡田三郎助) style is, above all, his graceful and elegant female figures, which integrate influences from his European and Japanese training in which he gradually established his own style based on delicate brushstrokes and elegant colors. "Kimono with Iris Pattern" (aka "Iris Robe") is a perfect embodiment of Okada's refined decorativeness and the detailed, soft skin tone characteristic of how he depicts women, as seen in works such as 紫の調 (Portrait of a Certain Woman) from 1907 and 萩 (Bush Clover) from 1908. The main feature of this work is the beautiful kimono robe, in which a white iris pattern stands out against the light indigo background that resembles water in a pond, and the vermilion stripes that beautifully harmonize with them. The young Japanese woman wearing the robes is painted in oil paint, with her back visible, against a golden-yellow background in the style of a lacquer dye. Traditional Japanese aesthetics and techniques are clearly visible in this "Western-style" oil painting, reflecting Okada's tireless research. At the age of six, Okada moved to Tokyo and stayed in the residence of Nabeshima Naohiro (鍋島直大), the former lord of the Saga domain. There, he saw the oil paintings of his fellow Saga native, Hyakutake Kaneyuki (百武兼行), and developed an interest in Western painting. After studying at the private school of Soyama Sachihiko (曽山幸彦), he entered the Tenshin Dojo, taught by Kuroda Seiki (黒田清輝) and Kume Keiichiro (久米桂一郎), who had returned from France. In 1896, he participated in the founding of the Hakuba-kai, and was appointed assistant professor in the newly established Western painting department at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校). The following year, he traveled to France as the first student studying Western painting funded by the Ministry of Education, studying under Kuroda's teacher, Raphaël Collin.
June 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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🎨: SOFTlab, "Spectral Grove"
June 7, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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It’s truthfully hard to fathom a more perfect pairing than that of rainfall and reading.
June 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Don't know who created this image but it has lost none of its relevance since Dec. 31.
Famous scene from North by Northwest with crop duster chasing Cary Grant but crop duster has been altered to read "2025."
May 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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theguardian.com
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
Is this river alive? Robert Macfarlane on the lives, deaths and rights of our rivers
As pollution levels hit record highs and fresh water becomes ‘the new oil’, is it time to radically reimagine our relationship to the natural world?
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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newscientist.com
Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an excellent job of it
An elegant account of how one ancient language went global
Hunting the origin of 40 per cent of the languages spoken today is a huge feat, but Laura Spinney's new book makes an excellent job of it
www.newscientist.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Surface Veil III by Robert Ryman, 1971 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137515
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Panza Collection, 1991 © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
April 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Bulb pot https://collections.artsmia.org/art/111025/
square container with tapered sides; three large and six small holes in top; sides have landscape design with two figures in foreground next to trees; mountains and church in distance at R
April 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM