Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #museums Happy Sunday, Blueskiis In 1487 a young boy went to the local fish market to study the textures, colors, and scales of the creepiest sea life he could find. Then he painted "The Torment of Saint Anthony." Can you name this prodigy?

🗃️ #Photography #Museums

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

I haven't been this impressed with a candidate in a l-o-n-g time. If @jamestalarico.bsky.social is the future of the Democratic Party, we are in VERY good shape.

ME: I provide more factually correct information to you, Google AI, than you do to me. What gives? GOOGLE AI: LLMs are trained on the internet. As more AI-generated content flooding the web gets re-scraped into Google's training loops, the overall quality of its data pool degrades. (Doom loop?)

Messi's persistence pays off, 2-0 Argentina

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Museums #FathersDay Happy Father's Day, Blueskis Berthe Morisot, the first woman Impressionist, captured her husband and their daughter in the garden, having fun with what appears to be a toy village in their garden. Love the "female gaze" and the diaphanous brushstrokes 🥰

#Art #Weaving #ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 So gorgeous in its simplicity. Everything about this relies on natural fibers, natural dyes, and a beautiful community effort.

"André," is a collaborative kinetic sculpture created by artists Amora Doris & Jules Bonnot. It functions as a hand-cranked mutoscope, driving a series of 100 ink illustrations that create a delightful animated scene. IG: @amoradorisplasticienne

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Museums Happy Sunday, Blueskis In Virgil's "Aeneid" the king's son sparks a war by shooting a sacred stag. 🦌 This painting captures the final moment of tranquility before the arrow flies—shattering the peace, causing nature to suffer, and destroying the temple. More in the ALT —

After the tarp went up to try and stop the “Berlin Wall” moment, Cliff Owen of the AP got the iconic 📸 shot. 🇺🇸

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Museums Happy Sunday, Blueskis Found in Corot’s studio after he died, "The Woman with a Pearl" (1868-70) commands attention. With arms crossed and a direct, poised gaze, she channels Leonardo's Mona Lisa. Is this a masterful pastiche or something entirely original?

On Bluesky? All of us

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Museums Happy Sunday, Blueskis How did this wonderful chessman end up on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, hidden away and buried? The King is hunched forward, sword on his knee and eyes wide open as he listens—to what? “The King” from the Lewis Chessmen c.1150-75

This looks like what Bezos did to the Washpost newsroom

This is what happens when a toddler takes over the white house

"There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost" ― Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote (image: Hasui Kawase)

Check out this beautiful tribute created by the BBC that took place on Monday 30 March 2026, using 950 drones, and was broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 April at 8pm — the same time and date the Titanic set sail from Belfast in 1912.

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #MuseumSky #ArtStories Happy Sunday, Blueskis Each one of these art history stories can be read in under 60 seconds—perfect for your morning coffee. (Is the boy in this fresco Cicero?)

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Art A sculpture in two parts—wings of brass that glitter with decorated gold, and a deep-blue kernel of ash wood. One brings light to the piece, the other offers solidity and strength. It's hard not to see a reflection of marriage. Alison Wilding “Nature: Blue and Gold” (1984)

New York streets belong to New Yorkers, and Soccer Streets are for the kids. We’re turning the block outside your school into a car-free playground and World Cup celebration. Now until June 26, you’ll find Soccer Streets in front of 50 public schools across all five boroughs. Let’s play!

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #nocturnes #paintings #museums Happy Sunday, Blueskis NEW: From the shimmering moonlight of Turner to the voyeuristic windows of Hopper, see why night scenes are the ultimate canvas for capturing mood, mystery, and moments of candid honesty….

May nature adorn your world with beauty. 🎨 OG Millie & Floratorium, NYC "Rooftop Flower Crown" www.streetartutopia.com

Just a remarkable public space, the New York Public Library main reading room #hatm

#Ghostbusters #HATM My college roommate, Patty Gold Dworkin, played the role of "Girl at Party" in Ghostbusters...

An #odd shape for a Little Free Library, from the archives, for the #BlueskyArtShow #Photography #VancouverWashington #LittleFreeLibraries

🇺🇸🇺🇦Washington. 20,000 teddy bears. Each representing a Ukrainian child abducted by Russia. Our message is loud and clear: BRING KIDS BACK.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #ArtSky #Museums #Prado Goya’s “Colossus” (1808) is a masterpiece of dread. A giant looms over a world in panic, embodying the terror of war. Is he protecting or destroying the people? It’s an enigma that continues to haunt us today. More in the ALT

These guys were cool in the 70’s Now, they are cool in THEIR 70’s

What you can't see in the pictures of pedestrian streets: the QUIET. Hundreds of people out, and all you hear are birds singing, the click of a bike mechanism, and the murmer of conversation. 📷 Ave Mont-Royal, Montréal

Drop your crime fighting Catholics While he may not be the most observant Catholic, Bond's roots are deeply Catholic. As shown in the film Skyfall, his ancestors were recusants who sheltered priests during the Reformation and even had a chapel on their property.

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

In France, legislation came into effect recently for all car parks that have over 80 spaces to be covered with solar panels. Estimated to add around 11GW of renewable energy capacity to the national grid. Why not do likewise in Scotland? Braehead, Silverburn, Glasgow Fort etc.

The four humans who have traveled the furthest from Earth. (Via NASA.)

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Artemis Will the Artemis moon missions inspire great art? Fifty years ago, the Apollo missions led to a surge in creativity. Read more...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Many Catholics call today “Spy Wednesday,” the day when Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus for thirty pieces of silver. While artists typically focus on the infamous kiss, Giotto captures the moment when the two former friends lock eyes. Giotto “The Arrest of Christ” (1304) and detail

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #NoKings In this Old Master painting, King Belshazzar is enjoying a grand feast and drinking from stolen sacred artifacts when, suddenly, God’s hand appears and writes a prophecy on the wall foretelling his downfall. Rembrandt, “Belshazzar’s Feast” (1635-38)

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

new cover of the economist

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Museums A young girl visiting the National Gallery of Art looked at this sculpture and said, ”It looks like a bowl of spaghetti." "I just love that," said grounds manager Brett McNish.“We light the spark, we don’t fill the bucket." Christopher Wool, “Untitled” (2017)

I’ve made this joke before but I sincerely hope there is an economics Ph.D. candidate writing up what we can learn from suddenly unregulated markets producing “football champion Indiana” and “Sweet 16 Nebraska”

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #Museums Painted in 1939, René Magritte’s "The Black Flag" feels chillingly prescient. Pilotless aircraft hover like sinister mechanical birds, evoking a sense of unseen menace. Typical of Magritte, there’s also a random flying window. More in the ALT

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Kandinsky proved that abstract art is far more than mere decoration. Look closely at Black Lines. Produced over a century ago, its frantic energy captures the same geopolitical anxiety I’m feeling today. Do you feel it, too? Wassily Kandinsky "Black Lines" (1913) • More in the ALT