"Ah, the martyrs of the zodiac." ♓️ the-line-up.com/final-girl-z...

Texas - In Demand Alan Rickman ❤️ youtu.be/X4-gNN8WRHo?...

So did I. 💔

Color Out of Space (2019) #nowrewatching #Lovecraft

James is keeping me company at the desk this week.

Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly open.spotify.com/track/4Wr14A...

Peter Hujar’s Day (2025) dmovies.org/2025/07/06/p...

German Expressionist Gabriele Münter in a photo taken by her sister on their visit to Texas in 1900 #WomensArt (Via New York Times)

Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), German Expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century #WomensArt

#TurnerandConstable are trending with the opening of a huge show at Tate Britain and the painters' 250th birthdays. For a compulsively readable dual biography of the fascinating artists, check out Nicola Moorby's Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape. #arthistory #biography

Julian Talamantez Brolaski - What to Say Upon Being Asked to Be Friends www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55570/...

Rabagast Studio floats timber sauna atop lake in rural Norway www.dezeen.com/2025/12/23/f...

Aesthetic harmony, some balm for the soul.

The Sphinx and the Pyramids of #Giza, photographed by Maxime du Camp in 1849. The chest area of the Sphinx had only recently been uncovered, previously the statue was covered with sand up to the shoulders.

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc?...

Silent Matter: Edward Lear's "Hagar and Silsilis, Egypt," 1856. Bequeathed to the Wadsworth Atheneum by Edward Gorey. Initially drawn to this watercolor because it reminded me of Seghers—later to learn of its provenance and Gorey's search for "silent matter" in all art.

Now rewatching Anatomy of a Fall (2023) youtu.be/FUXawkH-ONM?...

Again I reply to the triple winds running chromatic fifths of derision outside my window: Play louder. You will not succeed. From: William Carlos Williams - January poets.org/poem/january-3

One critic, writing in 1911 (the date of this work) commented, George Clausen 'gives us out of very simple elements the most perfect nocturnes, these mark a new and definite advance in his power in taking complete hold of a subject and making it his own.'

Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better (Live at Siyan 2020) youtu.be/CUd7AskOavA?...

Somebody quoted the first line of Ideal's Monotonie at work today, so this was the first earworm of 2026. Happy New Year! youtu.be/MRrreEyMx0c?...

Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - New Year's Resolution youtube.com/watch?v=GUuA...

Growing up with Dinner for One: Me and my friends all remember the year we finally got the meaning of the final scene. 😉

My much beloved companion through the year has arrived.

"Why are you so afraid of yourself… of changing things? Try to detach yourself from yourself and try to see your own viewpoint from the outside, objectively. You are afraid of losing your balance. But change need not unbalance you; life’s not a static object." www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/23/l...

US artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) turned her car into a mobile art studio so she could paint out in the New Mexico wilderness #WomensArt

Now watching today's surely very bonkers Murot-Tatort. www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort...

Frida Kahlo's family home in Mexico City opens as Museo Casa Kahlo www.dezeen.com/2025/11/16/f...

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. Haruki Murakami, IQ84

I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl and let it fall. The urgent fireworks fling themselves against the night, flowers of desire, love’s fervency. Out of the space around me, standing here, I shape your absent body against mine. You touch me as the giving air. Carol Ann Duffy, New Year

If anyone asked me what makes me truly happy, I would say: numbers. Snow and ice and numbers. Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

Rewatched Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997) yesterday night. It's fascinating how perfectly Julia Ormond can express Smilla's absolute loneliness, the harshness she wears like an armour around her high sensitivity, her being like an alien in the world.

No washing between the years, as the Wilde Jagd may get caught in the linen on the line. Painting: Peter Nicolai Arbo, Åsgårdsreien (1872), source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La...

' #Winter night' by Canadian born printmaker and artist Carol Collette #WomensArt ❄️

Chekhov's Seagull in tonight's Christmas #Tatort 🤍

Keane with Rufus Wainwright - Try Again youtu.be/-kT61lOxBSU?...

Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep Through Feb 8, 2026 MoMA, New York www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

Yule Tide, Wardie Bay

Rufus Wainwright - What Are You Doing New Year's Eve open.spotify.com/track/7wiG7y...

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating. Happy Thursday to all those who are not. And I hope this day passes bearably and swiftly for anyone struggling today. Dragon with Christmas Gift, Edward Gorey.

My favourite Christmas present.

On the way home under a bright blue sky on an icy cold day, listening to Bach's wonderful Weihnachtsoratorium. open.spotify.com/track/5pkwNK...

Spending Christmas night in what used to be my childhood room while outside a storm is howling, listening to Martha Wainwright's beautiful version of Stormy Weather. open.spotify.com/track/58YEkU...

'Silent Night' by contemporary UK printmaker Hester Cox #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

Scotland, 2023 by contemporary painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt

The loveliest thing. 🥰 youtu.be/MvKRSqjLB0c?...