Gideon Saint. Scrapbook of Drawings and Prints British ca. 1760 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 752

🐚 Conchologia iconica, or, Illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals London: Reeve, Brothers, 1843-1878. [Source]

‘You also can’t help wonder, while gazing at Münter’s photographs, what if she had remained in America and become a photographer? The art world, including the Guggenheim itself and its grounding in Kandinsky’s circle, might look very different today.’

‘“I began to perceive that my real interest was light,” Ms. Fish said during an interview with the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 1988. “The reason for painting glass was to totally focus on light, and the glass held the light.”‘

166 years ago, on the 2nd of January 1860, Urbain Le Verrier announced the discovery of the planet 'Vulcan' at the Académie des Sciences in Paris. He was awarded the Legion d'honneur. The existence of the planet was disproved after 1915 thanks to Einstein's theory of relativity. #otd #history 🗃️

Several Circles by Vasily Kandinsky, 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137491

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1945.

‘The way that the orange lizards could consistently beat the blue ones was akin to rock always beating scissors. The blue lizards beat the yellow ones like scissors beats paper. And, just as paper beats rock, the yellow lizards could win out against the orange males.’

‘"Bears are experts in fitting into the smallest of openings under houses and decks, and once they're in, they make themselves at home”’

Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.

Here’s to 2026

Clarification https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483174

Georges Braque, (French, 1882-1963) “Les Oiseaux” 1961.

‘In the past five years alone, South Africans installed solar panels representing more than seven gigawatts, or about a tenth of the total installed capacity of 55 gigawatts. Most is privately owned. Now, unable to beat solar, Eskom is joining solar.’

‘When she started her career in the 1880s, she won recognition as a painter of conservative, academically-sanctioned scenes…, and it wasn’t until she was in her 40s that she did an about-face, purging her human figures of descriptive detail and experimenting with lyrical blurs of color.’

somehow and somewhere

Plastique, no. 3 1938

Still Life at Trevi, 1982 by William Bailey

‘At 9 p.m. that evening, our ship would become a time machine. … …we will need to go back in time 20 hours over the next few days. We’ll accomplish that by moving ahead four hours and back by 24 hours, though not necessarily in that order, and definitely not all at once.’

‘It’s also no surprise that New England seafood supply chains have recently been targeted… Unlike electronics or other items with barcodes, fresh seafood is hard to identify and needs to be sold and consumed quickly. “People are just going to eat it, so it’s going to go away”’

'Penguins listening to the Gramophone during the summer, 1908 - 1909'

Either Robert Louis Stevenson or his donkey Modestine, depending on whoever one would identify as the main protagonist as Travels with a Donkey.

Hey, guess what you can buy now? #clarissa2025 allgrimprints.shop/products/i-f...

The Best of Neon 2025: Superb Umlaut.

Poplar trees with evening sky Albert Steiner, 1920s

Bauhaus balconies in Dessau, Walter Gropius photo László Moholy-Nagy, 1927

‘The universe has no centre. What Pynchon has mapped is a world that is continuous and connected, where borders, however securitised, are porous. Drop a pin on the map, anywhere on the map, and that’s your point of origin, from which everything flows.’

‘Access to safe drinking water for everyone is one of the basic human rights, but in the long run, a sustainable water supply that does not depend on plastic bottles is needed.’

‘Between 1985 and 2018 wave heights in the Southern Ocean increased by 30 centimetres… Wave energy is increasing as well, ticking up around 8% since the 1980s, with the rate of change accelerating markedly since the turn of the century’

Three humpback whales near our ship in Paradise Bay, Antarctica. One of them spouts a rainbow.

Piero Della Francesca's Baptism of Christ in the National Gallery #NationalGallery #London #ItalianRenaissance #Art

Flemish School, 'The temptation' (circa 1650)

‘“You don’t get to choose what you write about,” she said. The truth of the statement shivered through me; I’ve been thinking about it for months now, less as a commentary on the writing life than a brutal fact of how it feels to live in history.’ By Vinson Cunningham:

Shores of Normandy (beach of Trouville - Deauville) Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

Georgia O’Keeffe : Starlight Night, 1917 Watercolor and graphite on paper Smithsonian American Art Museums

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #British #19thCentury John Robert Harris FLYING BAT VIDE POCHE, 1874 Sterling silver

‘The experience of taking apart such an intricate artwork removed some of its mystery… But it also offered curators a new and richer understanding of the artist’s genius… “It allows us to have a more intimate relationship with the artwork… Because we get that much closer to the artist.”’

‘an educated woman of the 16th century would have believed in the existence of unicorns in the same way that she believed in the existence of giraffes; exotic, far away, surprising, true.’

forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night

Haywain - Closed

Watercolor Paint Kit with Brushes, 1982. Andy Warhol.

Hilda Rix Nicholas pursued a successful & varied art career in London, France & Morocco before returning to paint in Australia. She lost her husband, mother & sister during WW1. Here, the intriguing Les Fleurs Dédaignées ■ The Summer House

‘“The musical lineage differs from that of overseas”… “Abroad, rock plays in ordinary households, but in Japan in the 60s or 70s such a thing was unthinkable.” … Japanese music is instead rooted in gentle forms … – meaning that punk was always going to burn even brighter in Japan.’

‘the Italian ship sank with a cargo of leather shoes and these were washed up the River Ogmore and ended up embedded in the river banks "and every now and again they are released".’

‘Urbex is an ever-changing game, one that looks different for every new generation coming into it. … the … community isn’t only reacting to a changing digital landscape, but a fast-changing physical world, where the number of buildings that are left abandoned in the first place, is rising steeply.’

mood

Riona Buthelo #art #christmas

It's time! Behold the Christmas hedgehog! From Verdun, Bibl. mun., ms. 0107, f. 008. Our thanks as always to @etreharne.bsky.social who found her.

CH BEATA I by László Moholy-Nagy, 1939 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137399