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Shabana Mir
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Associate professor 🧿 Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Evanston * In the belly of the beast
Views are always mine only
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Free Kashmir 🍁
Imagine siding with a genocidal settler power against the occupied people's indigenous resistance.
November 27, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Robert Tavener (British | 1920 - 2004). Ditching Beacon and Barn (Linocut).
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Georges de La Tour (French, 1593–1652). The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame (oil on canvas).
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Moonlight (oil on canvas).
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (Finnish, 1840–1905). Moonlight (1885, oil on canvas).
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Gaza is entering winter with almost no structures left to withstand storms. Via Translating Falasteen.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Concert Hall (Coppel SA 1) (1929, linocut printed in colours).
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The New Cable British Modern Mid 20th Century Vorticist European Vorticism Woman (1931, linocut on tissue thin paper).
This image (like her sports images) demonstrates "her masterful ability to portray velocity and the human figure in motion" (Artsy).
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Indian Dance (1951, linocut).
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Air Sea Rescue Launch (1943, oil on canvas).
Her claim and modernist style were rejected. "The War Artists’ scheme, however, required ‘artistic records’ ordinary people could relate to, and her modernist style ... was rejected."(-Art UK).
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Boat Yard (1943, oil on canvas). She wanted to be an Official War Artist, arguing that the machinery of modern warfare could ‘only be convincingly expressed by strong, constructive, dramatic treatment and striking pattern and action, not by mere wishy-washy “reporting”’.
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Hull Shop (1943, oil on canvas).
Andrews created these boat building paintings while working for a company which built high-speed launch craft for air sea rescue missions...
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Sybil Andrews (British, 1898–1992). Modernist vorticist work is fascinating.

Jesus bears the Cross (Station II) (1946, colour linocut).
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Robert E. Wells (British, b. 1956). Beach, Cornwall (oil on canvas).
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Daniel Kabiljo (Yugoslav, 1894-1944). Motifs from Sarajevo’s Old Turkish Market (Baščaršija). A Sephardic Bosnian Jewish artist, he died in a Croatian fascist concentration camp.
November 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Gerhard Nordström (Swedish | 1925 - 2019). From the waterlily ponds - Giverny (oil on canvas).
November 25, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Tim Wilmot (British). Road to old Sodbury. Winter (watercolour).
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Gülsün Karamustafa (Turkish, b. 1946). Window (1980, mixed media on paper).
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Zionists made a strategic decision to deploy white women. Sheryl Sandberg, Bari Weiss, Sarah Hurwitz, Melanie Phillips - they keep trying out different faces and styles.
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
J.P. Rooney (Irish, b. 1947). By the Emerald Sea (oil on board).
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Vanessa Cooper (British, b. 1965). Camellias and Rose Hips (oil on board).
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sleeping boy (son) (1951, oil/board).
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Viktor Efimovich Popkov (Russian | 1932 - 1974). Winter Sunset (oil on canvas).
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Mohamed Kabbani (Egyptian | 1926 - 1995). Untitled (1991, oil on canvas).
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Chen Li (Chinese, b. 1975). Excursion (2009, oil on canvas).
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM