Newcastle castle from the train this morning 🏰 In the 1840s (I think?) it was almost demolished to make way for the railway but it was saved by Newcastle society of antiquaries. Which is why the tracks are so close ⭐️

I think Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social might like to visit this place. There are also Tales from the Loop vibes.

The Iron Bridge in the "birthplace of the Industrial Revolution" (built 1779-81) #thursdaybridges

Bring back blow driers powerful enough to strip paint! Note that it's plugged into the light fitting, as lights were the big reason to have electricity installed, and everything else followed. 1915 It's great looking for construction history info and finding stuff like this

The Wainwright Building Architects: Adler & Sullivan, 1891 St Louis, Missouri

At least we don’t have to listen to wonderwall.

There’s the famous Liverpool church graffiti: What would you do if Jesus came to Liverpool? Put St John out on the wing.

New blog post: The 7 Spectral Perils of Dorothea Tanning

Female Bronze Age metalworker - starting new DNA evidence. See more direct from us here at the Museum. www.wiltshiremuseum.org.uk/news-article...

#DidYouKnow some of the earliest and most fundamental concepts of time measurement are first recorded in #Egypt? Join our upcoming course: Stars and Time in #AncientEgypt, starting on 6 August, to explore astronomical activity and timekeeping further. #Astronomy 🎫 www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Today marks 70 years since Ian Curtis was born, we have three murals of the singer-songwriter and musician on Art UK. Discover more murals of musicians 👉 artuk.org/discover/cur...

Unfortunate

El visitante tardío. Michiel Schrijver. Holandés, nacido en 1957, pintor de arquitectura surrealista.

A pox on thefe poffeffors

ARGH just. just no. no the AI is NOT showing us "how, exactly, great connoisseurs of the past like Bernard Berenson...were able to come up with their revelatory insights in the first place." Fing well not. This is AI-stanning and Berenson-stanning cloaked in critique, and therefore disingenuous. UGH

Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions invites you to look closely at over 40 of the artist’s strange and captivating works. Step beyond the frame and into Redon’s imagination at the Getty Center, now through October 18, 2026. gty.art/Redon26

At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890

A landmark day and a privilege to be present for it alongside many of the Hillsborough families, and Andy Burnham who drafted the first version of this Bill almost a decade ago now and spoke beautifully on what it will mean once it finally becomes law. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Potsdam in 1991 — by Hassan J Richter More info (and photos) at the photographer’s website: hassan-fotografie.de/vp-bei-otto-...

What a lovely photo. Genuinely moving, especially if you watched him speaking at the 20th anniversary memorial service at Anfield ❤️

My daughter's partner was picking me up after work, so when a car pulled up to the kerb, I went over and opened the door, only then noticing the elderly white lady in the driver's seat. The guy picking me up was a black guy in his 30s 😆 👀 I'm still paranoid when getting a lift to this day 👀

It will be an honour to travel down to Westminster today to watch as the Hillsborough families finally get the new law, named after their loved ones, through the House of Commons Credit to everyone involved for breaking the deadlock and getting this bill on its way to becoming law

Goldsmiths Lane, Stamford, Lincolnshire 🤩

Blackberries out already! 🫢

In Ireland, data centres used 22% of the country’s total energy in 2024 – more than all urban households combined in that same year. An incredible 80% of Dublin's electricity use can be attributed to data centres. Via the excellent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. europeancorrespondent.com/en

Anyone know what this is? We’re in #Hodonín #Roma concentration camp, #Czechia. It’s been suggested that this is a Soviet-era battery but I’m not so sure. Zoom in on the top - it has concentric circles.

The conflagration on Tintwistle Moor, seen from the northern slopes of Bleaklow. The question of whether or not awful things can be beautiful isn't a new one - it's a key register of the sublime - but today it comes with renewed intensity with the effects of human recklessness.

A friend was in Lisbon, Portugal a few weeks ago and saw this amazing butterfly. #ButterflyWeek

#ImaginaryMuseum **Artist’s Birthday** Gustav Klimt, Austrian artist, July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918 The Blind Man, 1896 Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 in Leopold Museum, Vienna Visit The Imaginary Museum danieljlieberman.com

Oh great, I just blocked someone I follow, rather than the account they were quote posting 🙄 Probably not for the first time. Well played, Mr. Magoo

There are many things I often find quite surreal about being a well-known author, but few match that slightly creepy feeling when a stranger (with the help of AI) has written your ‘biography’ and is selling it online. Never mind the AI generated photo on the cover that looks nothing like you.

Thrilled to announce that copies of The Umbrella Man and Other Stories will be available in the Sixth Floor Museum gift shop, home of the former Texas School Book Depository.

#ImaginaryMuseum Paris Bordone, Italian painter, July 15, 1500-January 19, 1571 Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages, 1520–1571 Oil on canvas, 45.9 x 62 in Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Visit The Imaginary Museum danieljlieberman.com

This is superb - so easy to navigate and super informative, with countless original photos by the legendary Harry Burton, of the objects in situ, and even the handwritten/handrawn notes for the objects, by Carter himself. Amazing to see the archive like this!

The Rainbow Room in question, by the way, was the restaurant in the Big Biba, which will mean something only to those of a certain vintage!

We'd love to hear your thoughts on the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive - we have now implemented a feedback form (click on the yellow box on the right hand side named 'Feedback') and are looking forward to learning more about your experiences of the site! tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk

Gotham

Can you read this? Paleo-Arabic is the most important material witness to the immediate context of Islam's rise. Learn to analyze these documents and how they help write history in the last course of EI's summer cycle: Intro to Paleo-Arabic (Aug. 10-14): tinyurl.com/4shnfv7j

I've had one of my windows open for so long that the Virginia Creeper has crept indoors 😶

How an Edward Hopper Painting Inspired Norman Bates’ Iconic House in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

This is a great read, about a little art detective work, based on a painting of a "Parisien Street" by artist Edward Hopper. The writer identified the street from a photo by Eugene Atget. parisianfields.com/2022/08/28/e...

On January 10, 1913, caricaturist Alfred Frueh (1880-1968) sent his fiancee Giuliette Fanciulli her own art gallery, so that she could train for the "Gallery Marathon" she would experience when she arrived in Paris. It came complete with works of art. www.aaa.si.edu/collections/...

"The demolition of Pope’s villa by its new owner, Lady Howe, which Turner regarded with “revulsion” is also likely to have fortified his wish to build something new. (Lady Howe’s fate for her act of vandalism was to be dubbed “Queen of the Goths” by Turner and his crowd)"

In one of my trashy Supernatural Italian Detective series, there's a fabulous character called "Bambinella" who has a sweet relationship with an old sergeant, and while I listened to this great ep of After Dark, feat. @k8lister.bsky.social all I was picturing was Bambinella as Princess Seraphina 🧵1/

At age 24, Lamba made a living swimming nude in the glass pool at Le Coliseum nightclub, where Andre Breton would watch her. They married 2 months after meeting & witnesses were Alberto Giacometti & Paul Éluard. Man Ray took photos. Jacqueline Lamba, Collage, dedicated to Helena Lam, (1940).

A rare surviving tennis racquet made by King Louis XV’s racquet maker has emerged at UK’s premier sports memorabilia auction house, BUDDS. Made by Antoine Henry Masson (1735-1793), the racquet was constructed of ashwood burnished in an oven with oak sawdust, then strung with sheep gut strings.

Bugger it. Sam Neill was just one of those people who always seemed like A Good Sort

Otto Wagner, Austrian architect & city planner, a founder of modern movement in European architecture; member of Sezession, known for landmark works in Vienna; born #OTD 1841. Karlsplatz | Majolikahaus | Kirche am Steinhof

RECOVERY: After finding a Nazi-looted Goudstikker painting hidden by an SS family, another breakthrough hit. Robert van der Hoek found a second Goudstikker piece, likely by Hendrick van der Burgh, in Amsterdam’s street trash. Together with John van den Heuvel, we are returning it to the heirs.

The problem with going to Twitter to ‘see what the other side think on an issue’ - a very understandable idea in theory - is that the ‘other side’ are being literally paid for how good they are at posting something that pisses you off. The journalistic argument for staying on Twitter is over.