I agree! #BookSky

A handcrafted 'Doors of Durin' diorama, inspired by The Lord of the Rings, by artist @sergiomodelismo. The scene is built inside a picture frame to create a "living painting" effect. Sculpted putty was used for the rock face and natural elements like rosemary branches for the trees. #art #lotr

Yayoi Kusam's Infinity Mirrored Rooms #womensart #JapaneseArtistsWeek

'The Albert Bridge' (1966) by Edward Bawden

I recently purchased at auction one of SR Badmin’s sketchbooks. I had to have it because I’d spotted that one of the pages contained a study for an illustration in the Ladybird book ‘Trees’. As close as I’ll probably ever come to owning original Nature series artwork 😊

We are sweltering.

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A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby—a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist—to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and we’re thrilled that it will be on display at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.

Obsessed with this 1735 illustration of hammerhead sharks from Japan

Why art and artists matter.

“My solitude is my treasure, the best thing I have..” •A.S Byatt Yehan Wang art

'Woman wiring an early IBM computer' from the 'Documenting Science' series (1938-58) by US photographer Berenice Abbott #womensart

So true. #BookSky

"I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom." ~ Simone de Beauvoir The Sunlit Interior 🎨 Carl Holsøe

Happy weekend! Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! 🐙❤️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

English artist Vanessa Bell’s book cover designs for (her sister) Virginia Woolf’s texts (1920s-30s) #womensart

"If I could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint." (Edward Hopper) (Edward Hopper, Room by the Sea, 1951)

Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921). More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fabres-book-of-insects-1921

Illustration from 'The Summer Book', 1972 by Tove Jansson #womensart

We cannot allow the Epstein files narrative to just fade away. This reading room is brilliant and what they have done here ensures that. #BelieveTheSurvivors

Strawberry plant from "A Curious Herbal Antique Botanical Illustration", 1737 by Scottish botanical illustrator/author and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell #WomensArt

Penguin Pool, London Zoo 1934 Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton buff.ly/223TxJ8

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

The Queen of #May, 1900, by Margaret Macdonald of the Glasgow School #WomensArt

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky #libraries #overduebooks

Kenichi Nakaya

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

May 24, 1978: American management consultant Marilyn Loden first coins the term "glass ceiling" to describe invisible career barriers for women.

Painting by Javier Mayoral

It's an anniversary! 38 Years in Glasgow karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2026/05/22/3... (Yes, that was me in our first #Glasgow home.)

I’m not financially qualified to give this advice but I think you should quit your job and just come read all day.

The dresses of Frida Kahlo, which have been on display in Mexico City. The artist adopted a brightly coloured folk style reflecting her promotion of indigenous arts embraced by the Mexican Renaissance movement and symbolic of a cultural identity freed by revolution #WomensArt

If you want a flavour of yer man in full flow, here's a spoiler-free interview i recorded with Simon Crump for Huddersfield LitFest last week, with 2 x readings including the demented unpunctuated opening broadside. youtu.be/6OdcLFbC1ms

'Evening Muses' by Natalia Drepina, contemporary photographer #WomensArt

Register now: the first of the RSC’s Countdown Clock webinars takes place later today. Join RSC Chsir Renate Behrens, RDA publisher James Hennelly and RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell to hear about next steps for your library. Free, but registration required: www.rdatoolkit.org/news/rsc/reg...

Excellent opportunity to learn #datawrangling techniques & skills with @cilipmdg.bsky.social's Fran Frenzel facilitating a Library @carpentries.carpentries.org 2-day workshop: Practical Skills for Working with Data: 5th & 12th June #metadata #collectionsdata #training Register: tinyurl.com/22au9z2m

📣RDA refreshers/ improvers online training course with Anne Welsh This training is suitable for those who attended LAI CMG's 2026 training or for those already familiar with the basics of RDA Thursday, 28th May from 10 am to 4 pm Tickets available on eventbrite: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rda-refres...

Isn’t this wonderful? The head of a stalk of Rye grass, presumably used as a bookmark in this twelfth-century Bodleian MS from Cirencester. Just lovely.

France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule

Strange glitch is not letting me into @juliansshowings.bsky.social (which I manage on behalf of the Friends of Julian of Norwich). I wanted to share the lovely graphic the parish made to let everyone know about their services today. Everyone welcome. #julianofnorwich

howard early strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912

For #InternationalDanceDay — pages from a 1700 dance manual depicting a revolutionary dance notation system invented at the court of Louis XIV. More pages from the manual here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dances-in-beauchamp-feuillet-notation

Because doing 20-minute paintings of muppets is saving my soul right now. Here's Animal!

Great Horned Owl mother watching over her owlet inside a Saguaro cactus nest in the Arizona desert. 📸 KRL Photo

Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794 – 1871), was a pioneering French marine biologist, described by English biologist Richard Owen as the "Mother of Aquariophily." In 1832 she was the first person to invent and create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. #CelebratingWomen