The Red Boathouse oil, plein aire This red boat house is a favorite. #contemporaryart #traditionalart #artsky. #boathouse #drawing #fineart #art #traditionalart #landscape #oilpainting

dagger of strife

i am done! don't know if i'm completely satisfied with the end product, but for now, everything fits. 🥹

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Blue!💙

“If you’re interested in numbers, the future is bright for Christianity.” fivebooks.com/best-books/h...

During the Reagan administration, Black women, typically single mothers, were dubbed “welfare queens” and scapegoated by the politicians who called for welfare reforms. Republicans revived the trope again during the 2025 shutdown. From Naomi Bethune: trib.al/eTBgDah

Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #1 of 5: Meric Casaubon’s “A True and Faithful Relation” (London, 1659), the legendary OG account of the Enochian magic of John Dee and Edward Kelly.

The freedom of saying whatever you want without the fear of having anyone read it

An older article of mine from 2024, for anyone interested in the philosophy of intelligence, logic, language and AI (and has an hour to spare): Compossible - The Limits Of Language & Logic compossible.blog/2024/12/13/t...

The basis of American exceptionalism.

“This idea of objective truth is impossible. There is no such thing. Memory is a construction, it’s a fiction” fivebooks.com/best-books/f...

Blue lemons. My print shop is now open for the next 72 hours with 3 limited edition prints. I only open my print shop once a year. #oilpainting #art

Katsumoto & Taka from the movie “The Last Samurai”

Amid species and habitat decline, the Ashmole Bestiary c.1210 remains profoundly relevant, underscoring our duty to study and protect the natural world. Insights courtesy of Dr Andrew Dunning. Shelfmark: Bodleian Library MS. Ashmole 1511

A.R. Chughtai portrays a lady lost in her thoughts as the wick of the lamp behind her glows silently.

Salman Toor ~ 1983 - Bar Boy - 2019 Oil on wood. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Playground II, 🎨 by Salman Toor

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani appears in an early Salman Toor painting.

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-14

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-578

Dress https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/dress

Willie Gillis in College https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/willie-gillis-in-college-1946

Second Story Sunlight - 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103493

Office in a Small City - 1953 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103521

"Philosophers of mind also think about conceptual issues. Take the question of whether we have free will. We might be able to do some relevant scientific experiments. But to answer the question we also need to understand what we mean by ‘free will’." fivebooks.com/best-books/p...

Peder Mørk Monsted, (Danese 1859-1941) Inverno a Brøndbyvester (1923) #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

The Extinguished Flame by Abdur Rahman Chughtai (Pakistani) - Watercolor on paper / 1920s - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan) #womeninart #art #watercolorart #artwork #PakistaniArtist #PakistaniArt #FukuokaAsianArtMuseum #福岡アジア美術館 #womensart #AbdurRahmanChughtai #Chughtai #Ghalib #MirzaGhalib #poetry

Jamil Naqsh

The empire of lights - 1954 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20193

Landscape with a rider (unfinished) - 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/20512

The House at Rueil

Bouquet of flowers

The garden around Manet's house

Beggar with Oysters by Édouard Manet

The Kiss IV 1902 (printed c. 1913) https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1237021

Office at Night - 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103839