Celebrate Pride Month with this lovely collection of picture books depicting LGBTQ+ families from BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

Good news - and useful information from rigorous analysis. It may not change behaviour for most, but (1) immunocompromised / clinically vulnerable people need to know covid levels, and therefore when it is more / less safe; (2) fewer new long covid cases at the moment is generally a good thing.

Hard to beat Antony Maitland's stark, beautiful cover for John Gordon's The Giant Under the Snow. Great book too #Kidsbooksfriday #KidLitUK #KidLit

In a detail which will surprise no one, the first of the "patriots" to plead guilty to offences connected to the rioting in Southampton on Tuesday night has a criminal record as long as your arm, including.... possessing a knife.

Persepolis (2000), autobiographical graphic novel by Iranian cartoonist, illustrator, author and film director Marjane Satrapi #WomensArt ❤️

meme via Mark Keeping

@lmsacasas.bsky.social is describing something really fundamental here that has been missing from a lot of the AI criticism I’ve seen of late.

Deep night in Kyiv. Explosions woke me up. The city was under missile attack. Reading about drones heading to Kyiv. Hard to fall asleep again.

Polish artist NeSpoon from Warsaw, known for her street art featuring traditional lace pattern imagery #WomensArt

Paula Rego (1935-2022) Looking Out, 1997. Pastel on paper.

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

From my da #Spéirghorm

Might not put the electric blanket on tonight

Goodnight. Sleep well. 🖼️ Yuri Vasnetsov

I do apologise. It was Cardinal Newman

Niki De Saint Phalle, Untitled (Nana, Fountain Figure), 1999 #womensart #summer

Kitty Shepherd, UK ceramic slipware artist who exhibits her work in the UK and Europe #womensart #heatwave #HappyWeekend !

Portraits of Sir Thomas Gresham and Anne Fernely by the Dutch (of course) painter Anthonis Mor van Dashorst, c. 1560 - c. 1565. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonis... Just wait till you see the details. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collectio...

In Vinnytsia, Ukraine, a female stork was widowed when her mate died. She is incubating her eggs & unable to feed herself; local residents have started feeding her: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

#pleinair #painting #art #clevedon #watercolour #watercoloronpaper

Loved the PAULA REGO exhibition at the Victoria Milo today. A huge collection of her drawings on display, many of which were new to me. #Art #ArtSky #PaulaRego #London

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 i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Wild God. Painted, mouthblown stained glass. 2025. This panel was inspired by Exmoor, its deep, dark woods, the bolving of its stags, the call of its owls, the dank of its mossy banks and the thrilling fear of what lies just out of the corner of your eye in a landscape that breathes old magic.

Too wet for gardening today, but I picked these yesterday and painted them this morning

I feel it's always good to keep in mind that Claire Keegan — whose book Foster is on the Leaving Cert syllabus — failed English in the Leaving Cert.

Big demo assembling, Exhibition Road, London #standuptoracism

Our democracy is literally being sold out from under us. Crypto billionaires putting their man in power to make a killing. It should be front page, headline news every day until the criminal investigation is underway. And Farage is banned from public office. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-cameo-...

One of the smartest bird families, known for copying sounds and voices they hear. Original post

Writer friends in Bristol - this is a terrific event and features the always wonderful @mimithebo.bsky.social and @nikeshshukla.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...

the fractious shifts of light & cloud. time cow parsley emerges. metallic tang to air & threat of thunder. verges wave jack-by-the-hedge in prowling wind. all day sky bruises & heals.

Spotted on Tumblr…

Middle Pleistocene hominin interactions like

basically a flawless thread on - he's too polite to say it in quite those terms but I'm not - hating the Met Gala for being "rich people showing off" or whatever is fundamentally uninteresting, and also misses the point

Gail Brodholt, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt #Saturday #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Slightly diminish a book: Lord of the Ringlets

Meanwhile, in Kyiv, chestnuts are starting to bloom. I once mentioned that chestnuts are one of Kyiv’s symbols.

Banksy (Robin Gunningham, 51) : Blind Patriotism, 2026 New London Statue. In the early hours, the heart of London’s historical establishment was hijacked by the world's most elusive street artist. A massive, subversive new sculpture appeared on an empty stone plinth in Waterloo Place. More info 👇

This is really damning. The whole report was so shocking to anyone who knows anything about the asylum system.

A wonderful gothic thriller set in early 20th century Suffolk. The fens are an atmospheric backdrop (and important part of the story as is the local folklore). Obsession, religion, class and gender are all explored as we discover the truth behind the tragedy in the opening chapter. #gothic 💙📚

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India #WomensArt

Such an entertaining read - Jonanthan Coe, The Proof of My Innocence. My favourite is still The House of Sleep

Another great book by @nnedi.bsky.social I didn't want the story to end. #booksbsky #books

Who wants to sit and draw in a bookshop with me?

#art #artist #drawing #mixedmedia #figurativeart

Tulips, 1936 by Ida O'Keeffe, US painter and younger sister of Georgia #WomensArt

New Review - a fascinating story that is definitely not quite what it seems - I highly recommend The Sword Garden by @thecallya.bsky.social out now with thanks to @wtpress.bsky.social www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2026/4/...

'Bacchanalian Scene.' (1862) In July the Royal Academy is holding the first major retrospective of the Victorian artist Richard Dadd in over fifty years; the show will bring together around 100 oil paintings, watercolours and drawings.

'Bristol Night II' by contemporary UK painter Cath Read #WomensArt