“Kandinsky called on an experience of seeing Monet’s Haystack series and being enraptured by his use of color and light. His early works are reflective of Impressionism, as many of them are still representational.” www.thecollector.com/wassily-kand...

“His canvases bear witness to his ‘epic struggle for self-mastery,for the discipline and skill to communicate satisfactorily the energy of life itself’. The irony goes unparsed,at crucial junctures in his career, he is chasing life by way of the slaughterhouse.” literaryreview.co.uk/blood-on-the...

“Trump administration “are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.” newrepublic.com/post/207138/...

“Architecturally, the tower reflects Gaudí’s fusion of structure and symbolism. Its tapering vertical form draws the eye upward and reinforces a sense of ascension. In addition, textured stone surfaces and geometric openings lighten the mass of the structure.” mymodernmet.com/sagrada-fami...

“We put sensors all over them and inside them and we put them in ice water and we tested to see whether they could have survived through a variety of methods. And the answer was, there was no way they both could have survived. Only one could survive.” www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/d...

“When Munch wrote in his diary about the day that likely inspired the painting, he described a “flaming sky” that “suddenly… turned a bloody red,” and “hung like blood and sword over… the city.” “I stood there trembling with anxiety,” www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mun...

“Acedia is not reducible to a single feeling or failure but designates a whole cluster of resistances: hesitation (‘tartinge’), paralysis (‘drede to biginne’), sensory dullness (‘somnolence’), habitual neglect (‘necligence’), and affective tepidity (‘cooldnesse’ “ engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-p...

“He could be marvelous company when in the mood, washing dishes, dandling babies, bestowing perfect presents. But always there is the lover stashed in the garden shed, always that trail of blood.” theamericanscholar.org/the-minotaur...

“Children younger than three are intensely aware of the world around them—just look at any toddler, delightedly mouthing a toy or screaming at fireworks—and they seem to remember things from the recent past. Until, one day, they don’t. “ time.com/7380496/why-...

“chosen solitude can replenish us. “When we give ourselves the alone time we need, we feel rejuvenated or reconnected with ourselves,” she said, “and then we have more to give to our relationships when we rejoin the social world.” time.com/7380855/do-t...

“Cook's signature figures – ordinary working-class people, often female and ample of flesh – are instantly recognisable. And they are always having fun; in pubs and cafes, on the beach, at karaoke nights, in the bingo hall. “ www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

“So although it rests vivid as the fires of hell, the blood of martyrs, the dragon of the Apocalypse, the radiance of beauty, and the burning color of love, red has fallen from its top status in art, language, and symbolism.” hyperallergic.com/the-history-...

“Why does irrationality seem so pervasive? A popular answer points to fallacies—certain types of arguments that are deeply flawed yet oddly seductive. Because people keep falling for these reasoning traps, they end up believing all sorts of crazy stuff.” www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-stop...

“While Epicurus’s philosophy does champion pleasure, it also places different types of pleasure in a strict hierarchy.By far and away the most important type of pleasure is ataraxia, literally meaning ‘not being troubled’, but usually translated as ‘tranquility’.” philosophybreak.com/articles/epi...

“For some of these commercialised interventions – like red light therapy, contrast therapy, infrared saunas and cold plunges – the evidence is thin. To assume an intervention in animals will also apply to human longevity is exactly that – an assumption “ www.bbc.com/worklife/art...

“As “Vicky With Three Kisses,” she strategically sweet-talked and sang to German troops over the airwaves of Europe. But Agnes Bernauer didn’t mean anything she was saying” www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alli...

“While violence might be a tempting instrument , Arendt warned us that it more often than not becomes the end in itself. The reasoning behind one’s violence is rarely heard by the other side; those ideas are drowned out by the visceral force of the act committed.” engelsbergideas.com/notebook/are...

“We tend to deploy them right before we wade into something linguistically heavier: a long clause, an unfamiliar term, a syntactic maze. “It’s our brain’s way of indicating it needs a moment,” The more complex the thought, the more likely your brain is to build in a beat.” time.com/7379575/stop...

“Long overshadowed by her notorious sister-in-law Lucrezia Borgia, Isabella d’Este was among the most astute diplomats and influential cultural patrons of the Renaissance.” engelsbergideas.com/portraits/is...

“the idea that, through education and inner striving, human beings might move towards an ideal state – free to choose and choosing freedom. The modern knowledge worker chooses the simulation of work in pursuit of leisure, and forfeits both. “ engelsbergideas.com/notebook/the...

“In the court’s 6-3 majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Trump’s invocation of an emergency in order to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act was a massive overreach of Congress’s authority” newrepublic.com/post/205430/...

“Yet in the face of all this flagrant disregard of federal court directives—a mix of the malicious and the incompetent—this has been the only formal contempt finding against a public functionary or official, amounting to a somewhat limited fine.” newrepublic.com/article/2067...

“Although Beauvoir remains a controversial figure for her own unconventional personal life, her ideas about gender inequality, disability discrimination, ageism, and large-scale human suffering have never been more relevant. “ daily.jstor.org/simone-de-be...

“John D. Rockefeller, of Standard Oil fame, lived in a mansion on Euclid Avenue before relocating to New York City. The architectural styles of “Millionaires’ Row” varied. Stately homes could be Gothic or Romanesque Revival, Queen Anne or Neoclassical.” daily.jstor.org/how-americas...

“In September 1929, Doran was to be appointed director of WCTU’s newly created Non-Alcoholic Fruit Products Department. The cumbersome name obfuscated a simple goal: to promote healthy and tasty drinks made of fruit juices in lieu of the much-reviled liquor.” www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pro...

“What is now an iconic scene in every movie and documentary about the group, was the moment that changed everything. The pamphlet drop was seen by a janitor, a staunch supporter of the Nazis, who had Hans and Sophie immediately arrested by the Gestapo.” www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

“In 1874,he became part of an artist group that held their own exhibition featuring their avant-garde works. It was at this exhibition that he displayed a work titled ‘Impression, Sunrise’– a work that would lend its name to the future Impressionists.” www.thecollector.com/claude-monet...

“like the attic room the poet once shared with his brothers, where “from a skylight they could glimpse the moon and stars. Tennyson would sneak down before dawn to collect fallen apples from the rectory orchard, and especially loved wild weather.” slate.com/culture/2026...

“Claude Monet started devoting himself to the execution of several painting series. These series featured work that showed the same subject, often from the same angle, during different times of day and different seasons.” www.thecollector.com/claude-monet...

“People (usually men) have been advising other people (almost always women) to smile more for as long as anyone can remember. “Men feel that it's OK, if not entirely required, to tell women to smile, which is a really interesting assumption,” time.com/7373192/what...

“To insist on the Holocaust’s uniqueness as a shield against comparison risks turning it into an exception that cannot illuminate anything beyond itself “ lithub.com/translating-...

“It should not be controversial to acknowledge the hideous injustice done to Native Americans through colonization, and the country’s illegitimate origins make cracking down on immigrants absurd and hypocritical. “ www.currentaffairs.org/news/of-cour...

“Gaudí once said that the straight line belongs to man and the curve to God. He believed nature is governed by deep geometric principles.” mymodernmet.com/casa-batllo-...

“ a whole series of new traffic signs, few of which ever got made. Some were simply comical, such as the picture of a snail with a big grin on its face that was supposed to warn drivers to slow down. Others were so obscure that they were impossible to understand.” engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-d...

“Gibbon’s masterpiece was the first work of enlightenment history that dealt with such a thematic analysis, and, as such, can be arguably called one of the first works of grand strategy designed to teach and shape imperial officers.” engelsbergideas.com/essays/edwar...

“For Democrats to consistently win elections and prevent the continued rise of right-wing authoritarianism in the United States, ultimately they must get more Americans to consider themselves liberal, hold liberal stands on issues, prioritize liberal values “ newrepublic.com/article/2058...

“Lacey found herself in a frustrating position. Her close relationships with other women had led her to expect that in romance, but as she got closer to her fiancé, she realized he would live in a sphere separate from hers even after their union.” daily.jstor.org/the-disappoi...

“Middle-class Americans of the nineteenth century had a “sentimental devotion to the child,” Schmidt writes, so the “piety of the angelic youngster” was reflected in a wide range of Valentine’s Day cards.” daily.jstor.org/why-cupid-ru...

“She believed they lacked a genuine appreciation for literature and were primarily concerned with earning credentials. She characterized them as overly focused on happy endings and too narrow-minded to pursue writing careers.” daily.jstor.org/dorothy-park...

“ such associations have made runes into emblems for unsavoury movements on the political right, who have read into them a racially perfect past. Strata of recent uses and abuses have for many people today obscured runes’ original purpose: to write down sounds.” www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

“Vice-signalling is attention-seeking – a typical strategy of the hard and far right “to constantly violate taboos, and in this way escalate the dynamics of the whole conversation, while getting immediate media attention, usually front page”, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Today, it was a grand jury of anonymous American citizens who upheld the rule of law and determined this case should not proceed. Hopefully, this ends this politicized investigation for good.” time.com/7377620/doj-...

“As the story goes, when a priest attending his deathbed urged him, in his final moments, to renounce Satan, Voltaire quipped, “Now is not the time for making new enemies.” lithub.com/this-week-in...

“They call it the “annoyance economy.” In a report released Monday, they show how junk fees, customer service calls, excessive insurance paperwork, spam calls and texts, and more cost Americans at least $165 billion in lost time and money every year.” newrepublic.com/article/2063...

“Because it was so painful, I decided that the camera should just track away and go to an empty hallway, because of the emotional impact of it. He'd hang up, enter the frame and leave. It was the very first shot I thought of and that was the entire style of film.” www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

The bestial barking from Trump attacking every cultural issue is unbearable to any civilized human ; isolated within his own chamber of cognitive horrors, he lashes out in an uncontrollable, corrosive rage ; spewing absurd inanities; a wretched, rotting carcass desperately seeking attention.

“The pre-tribulation secret rapture is the most common eschatological view held among Evangelical protestants, especially in the United States. It is, however, not the most common view worldwide. The Roman Catholic Church, rejects the Secret Rapture teaching. “ www.thecollector.com/christian-be...

“She achieved this by reintroducing the hand and drawing into painting at a time when it was dominated by a stylized aesthetic, while utilizing different media and processes in each work “ hyperallergic.com/does-it-have...

“‘Incels’ wasn’t a word at that time but it is these guys who are lonely, who see themselves unable to make contact with women, have a repressed backlog of anger and resentment and imagine some kind of glorious transcendent transformation through violence.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

“It was an exuberant exercise in spectacle, stagecraft, choreography and camera work; you could have not understood a single word and still had a blast. It was also a sharp cultural and history lesson of Puerto Rico’s past and present” time.com/7373018/bad-...