I have a piece about the dark history of musical preference research in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.

I should not have to know this much about any man from Maine

'Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.' ✍️ Rūmī (Dshalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī) 🎨 Persian Garden miniature (The Persian Prince Humay...) #BookWormSat #PersianLit

17th-century marble floor located in Rome in the Cornaro Chapel of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. www.chiesasantamariavittoriaroma.it

A Short video about Samantha and our recent recording and Concert featuring Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

always so much cool stuff coming from @uminnpress.bsky.social (including Antoine Volodine's Living in Fire, translated by me!)

@causticcovercritic.bsky.social I think this explains your book buying habits, my friend. 😉

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Robert Delaunay, French (1885-1941), Endless Rhythm, 1934, oil on canvas, 161.9 x 130.2 cm, Tate, London, England

Just listened to those last few bars of the Heifetz/Reiner Chicago Symphony Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, and JFC!, the virtuosity is blinding. How a mere human could do that, I just don't know. Still so much WOW! so many decades later.

So, I'm looking to introduce my teen nephew to Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto (they love T's ballet music and I want to help them explore more). I grew up on the Heifitz/Reiner recording, listened to it over and over as a child, but thought maybe I should branch out, listen to something newer. (1/2?)

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

Woman in a pearl necklace, sitting in a loge in front of a mirror. Both beautiful & disorienting painting by Mary Cassatt, whose birthday was today.

First teaser has dropped! David in sparking voice 😍

@weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social Hey, you! Happy birthday! Hope it's filled with thrills and chills and all the good things and the year ahead brings both you and your cat renewed health and great joy. 🎂😻🥂

GenAI, an allegory.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I keep boggling at this. The Westminster bubble does something to people’s minds. Was this really why you joined the Labour movement? Was this what moved you, when you were young, and you heard the word “equality”? Do you see what has happened, in that last sentence?

If you've got it, flaunt it. Dürer was never a man for false modesty and this portrait is testament to how lovely he was.

The Cat Symphony (1868) by Moritz von Schwind

Some more pics from PAULA REGO: STORY LINE, which closes on Saturday. Well worth catching if you can get to the Victoria Miro in #London - the exhibition is free! #Art #ArtSky

"“And there are echoes between Hong Kong, where I grew up, and San Francisco. They’re cities on the water, and the water is looking outward — to the horizon. I know that fate has brought me to the right place.” Love this terrific article about the exciting Elim Chan. SFO is so lucky to have her!

You may have noticed I disappeared from social media after my launch of @beyondxandy.bsky.social I was violently attacked by a transphobe who recognized me and have been in the hospital and resting If you'd like to help me with my medical bills, please consider donating here: gofund.me/9328f91f2

For sale: one plow, bones, dead something

Morning. Snipe in rain, Ohara Koson.

So, I'm curious and would like some feedback. Lately, I've noticed that I rarely see the people I *really* care about on my Mutuals feed. Even when I know they're posting in my general time zone, I'm not muted or blocked, and we're still as friendly as ever, they're just not showing up. (1/?)

Reading a book that argues we all have a moral duty to use AI in order to 'humanise' it, which feels a bit like saying we all have a duty to offer our blood to vampires to endow them with as much life force as possible

Living his best life 🎉🎈 TT: finn_e_bear

These are haunting and quite beautiful. Completely new artist for me and I can't wait to learn more about him.

Your time will come. 🗃️🎓

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

My response to that idiotic Guardian novel list:

Unbelievably sad that the glorious Felicity Lott has passed. There have been many great sopranos, but few had the radiant intelligence of this extraordinary musical legend.

@loveinner.bsky.social If I was a box set buyer, I'd definitely get this #NewRelease.

‘Under the overhanging yews, The dark owls sit in solemn state, Like stranger gods; by twos and twos Their red eyes gleam. They meditate.’ ~ Charles Baudelaire. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Carl Strathmann

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

Bertha Lum Wind Sprite ,1920

Learning about Lebanese artist Huguette Caland for the first time today and falling out over the gorgeousness of these paintings.

Friday Finnish!! Rise and Shine!! Tove Marika Jansson 1914-2001 Swedish-speakingFinnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Paris. She drew illustrations and postcards.

This is one of the loveliest creatures I've ever seen. Like a fairy.

Another "six" because this is fun! Johann Sebastian, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, Johann Christoph Friederich, Johann Christian, P. D. Q 😆

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec, Carménère

🧵On May 16, 1944, Roma and Sinti imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp rebelled against their Nazi captors and held them off for four months, into August. Romani Resistance Day commemorates this revolt and the suffering of Romani and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust/Samudaripen.

Les six genres

#AlbertKaroyan #Armenia Albert Karoyan (b. 1954) DEEP AUTUMN, 2019 Acrylic

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🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Japan #Contemporary Mayuka Yamamoto (b. 1964) BAT BOY, 2012 Oil on canvas