#Epstein Today there is no avoiding the phrase "the dog who didn't bark." The phrase originates from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes notes out how odd a certain dog's silence is. In the end, it's key to solving the crime.

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

One of the most wonderful places I've ever visited.

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Tonight I sat 20 feet from Jimmy Webb as he played his song Wichita Lineman on solo piano to a small group, including his granddaughter. Bob Dylan calls it the greatest song ever written. If it isn't the most existential piece of music ever written, I don't know what is...

*This* is NYC, where I commuted to work for #publishers Simon & Schuster and Churchill Livingstone. 💗 For the newest cover of The New Yorker, Edel Rodriguez portrays Zohran #Mamdani, NYC’s incoming mayor, in the subway. Mamdani campaigned out and about in the city. www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Happy Halloween, Blueskiis Ready for a truly scary 👻 Old Master painting? In the center, a bald devil is feeding lies to an orange Antichrist. Accordingly, horrible things are unfolding in the background. More in the ALT 😈 Luca Signorelli, "Preaching of the Antichrist" (1500-04)

#MusicSky Last night Paul McCartney played to a crowd of nearly 45,000 at the Alamodome. He played for 3 hours, with no intermission, and sang most (if not all) of the songs in their original key. He’s 83. Maybe I’m amazed 🙏

#Urbanism Happy Sunday, Blueskiis I'm walking on the beautiful and interesting 👩‍🎓San Antonio River Walk this morning. Robert Hagman was just 27 years old when he proposed the design. Kudos to young people who come up with great urban ideas like this one and see them through. 💡

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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 If you happen to be headed to London, don’t miss Britain’s first-ever exhibition of Wayne Thiebaud’s ravishing paintings. Enjoy the colors…the desserts...the vertiginous San Francisco landscapes…now at the Courtauld Gallery thru Jan 18, 2026 Can't make it? Click here for a taste —

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Holy guacamole, this could be the weirdest story I ever worked on. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Three women with a strong hat game... • Amedeo Modigliani, "Jeanne Hébuterne with Hat" (1917) • Francis Cadell, "The Black Hat" (1914) • Annie Leibovitz, "Diane Keaton" (2011)

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...” apnews.com/article/pope...

Steve Martin and Martin Short tribute to Diane Keaton during her AFI Life Achievement Award Ceremony. RIP

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-jo...

An entirely charming Mary Blair concept painting for the 1952 Walt Disney animated short “The Little House”.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Winter is coming. The earth is turning a brownish-red. Snow-filled clouds hover over a tree. Will the tree survive the brutal cold? Klee's flat planes of violet and green give us comfort by reminding us of both autumn and spring. Paul Klee “Before the Snow” (1929) • More in ALT

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

#ArtHistory 🗃️🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis The National Gallery of Art is closed until further notice due to the U.S. gov shutdown 😢 On the plus side, in London you still have 3 weeks to see the Kiefer/VanGogh show at the Royal Academy. It's terrific. Like walking through Van Gogh’s landscapes.

Do not pay $100,000 to become a podcaster for the love of god

Great article. - scrolling without the doom - just moderate why don't you - you can check out anytime you like "Once people understand that they can build pretty much anything on top of atproto, I think things are going to get delightful and different." newsletter.sachajudd.com/archive/noth...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 It’s autumn in 19th-century Japan Three women hang gourd shavings to dry, while another woman slices a ripe calabash gourd. A traveler makes his way down the legendary Tōkaidō Road. Can you spot the napping baby? Hiroshige, “Minakuchi" (1833-36) • See ALT and wp.me/pdQwQ8-3h6

In the wake of the Kirk assassination and the volley between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, we should all learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...

#ArtHistory 🗃️🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis It’s autumn in Paris. The vantage point of this Impressionist painting suggests that Monet painted it from the middle of the Seine, in a small boat that he converted into a floating studio. Claude Monet, “Autumn on the Seine, Argenteuil” (1873) • See ALT

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis "This painting by Cézanne has an inner light and a suspension of workaday time that I find very seductive. If I were planning a getaway, I could easily imagine myself in this place." Paul Cézanne, "House and Tree L’Hermitage" (1874-75) • wp.me/pdQwQ8-e6u

TGIF, Blueskiis Everything is terrible in Washington DC but we still have pop-up Salsa dancing in Dupont Circle...

Disney: capitulating right away when the core idea of your major franchises is creative resistance.

💯 Excellent piece by @dianetucker.bsky.social "When I look at a photograph, I normally take its veracity for granted. Conversely, Magritte spent most of his professional life warning us that images can betray the truth." 🗃️ #arthistory #art #surrealism theshymuseumgoer.com/2025/07/15/m...

If you work for ABC (or Nexstar or Sinclair) and want to talk about how this decision was made or the reaction inside the company please contact me on Signal at juddlegum.47 I will maintain your anonymity

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis This 14th-century fresco may well represent the first kiss in Western art history. Giotto, "Meeting at the Golden Gate" and detail, c.1305 • wp.me/pdQwQ8-9fv

Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 #disability Happy Sunday, Blueskiis There’s a lot I admire about French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s work. But his exceptional ability to convey empathy is at the top of my list....

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 You know it's your lucky day when you walk into G.28 at the National Gallery of Art in DC and run into British historian Mary Beard enjoying the painting "Laocoön," about a man who tried in vain to warn his fellow Trojans not to accept a gift horse from the Greeks. More in the ALT

Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 This is one of the few overtly political works painted by the great American modernist Stuart Davis. It shows uniformed officers beating a protester in 1936. More in the ALT • bit.ly/41rCNfH Stuart Davis, "Artists Against War and Fascism" (1936)

LeVar Burton: literary hero! ❤️💪 magazine.1000libraries.com/levar-burton...

#Booksky #LibraryGoals Happy Sunday, Blueskiis Isn’t this rotating bookcase interesting? I want one, but I honestly don’t know where I’d put it. Feels like it requires a non-traditional interior space. (Photo: L. Furmansky)

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 Do you feel the warmth radiating from this portrayal of farmers at harvest time? Vincent considered this one of his most successful paintings. He wrote to his brother Theo, "This canvas absolutely kills all the rest." Vincent Van Gogh, “The Harvest” (1888) • More in the ALT

1. The Tigers aren't playing the Twins today. They're playing the Astros. 2. The game today isn't rained out. 3. The Tigers are playing the Royals on Saturday, & it's not a doubleheader. Other than that, excellent job google

#ArtHistory 🗃️🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis Miriam Schapiro, who is a key figure in feminist art, honors her father’s influence in "Father and Daughter” (1997). The painting shows Theodore Schapiro, an industrial designer, offering his daughter a flower—a symbol of the gift of art. bit.ly/4mHi6EB

#KidLit #Illustrations #Art #BookSky Reading this book to young children is fun. The main character is Arthur Dog, an art museum security guard 🩷 with a nose for great paintings. When a band of thieves makes off with the priceless Mona Woofa, Arthur will need to sniff them out.

🖼️ 🐡 🗃️ TGIF, Blueskiis Just what you need....

#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🐶 #Art #Dogs #DogsInArt Looking for a midweek timeline refresh? Preferably with dogs? See how the special bond between humans and dogs allowed our canine companions to steal the show in Old Master narrative paintings....

#ArtHistory 🗃️🐡 Happy Sunday, Blueskiis Sharing one of my favorites by Matisse that shows not only his paper cut-out technique but also how he turned his battle with abdominal cancer into vibrant art. Henri Matisse, "The Sorrows of the King" (1952) See more in the ALT and bit.ly/479MHGl

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#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 I saw the “Kiefer / VanGogh" show in Amsterdam and it was terrific. You can catch it in London, now thru 10/26/25. 🧵

Earlier this month, Flint, Michigan finished replacing its lead pipes to ensure clean drinking water for the community. Congratulations to the residents, activists, and public servants who made this happen. www.nrdc.org/press-releas...