Attributed to Alonso Sánchez Coello, Isabella Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela, daughters of Philip II, King of Spain, 1569-71

This is the specific Kalven quote: people.chicagoreader.com/who/jamie-ka... - from 2016

It enrages me that the Iran fiasco had basically relegated Israel’s absolutely horrific assault on Lebanon to a sideshow which barely gets noticed. That alone should be a crisis that grips the urgent attention of the entire world and nobody even notices.

Genius and genius Charlie Parker & Miles Davis - photo William Gottlieb

Tantra Diagram for computing astronomical periods, used for meditation, India, 18th century

Maynard Dixon, "Cloud World," 1925, recently acquired by—and now on view at—the Denver Art Museum www.denverartmuseum.org/en/blog/clou...

If you want to know where the cameras feeding the surveillance state in your city are, find them here. deflock.org

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 23,1950

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

Alfred Stevens, Departing for the Promenade (Will You Go Out with Me, Fido?), 1859

every day cops make unintentionally good arguments for their own abolition

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

Vincent van Gogh, First Steps, 1890

Francois Schuiten, 1999

I think many people outside the curatorial/museum/art history world don't realize how much rich, dense information can be found on *backs* of paintings, with labels & other notations added when artworks are lent to museums, put up for auction, etc. Another unexpected thing I love about art history

any change | patreon.com/lubchansky

If you've grabbed a whistle from the bookstore this is how we got them! They were free, adorable, and arrived (in Oakland CA!!) within a week of ordering! If you can distro whistles get on it yall

Shocking news! I don't wanna go to work :(

If I was rich I would go on a tour of all of Oakland's sister cities just because I think the concept of sister cities is really cute

Art by • Don Maitz

Peter Max, Reclining In Red, 1988

"[T]he number of people on probation in the United States (2.9 million) is even bigger than the total number of people behind bars. ... Over half of people on probation earn under $20,000 per year, which is below the SNAP income eligibility cap of $22,352."

Tamara de Lempicka, Woman With Dove, 1931

mangosteens, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1904

Today is Tridi the 3rd of Germinal in the year 234. Germinal is the month of sprouting. Today we celebrate asparagus.#JacobinDay More information on asparagus

Everybody's asking

John Dowd, East End Twilight, 1995.

The Sprocket store staff could really use the help after their short notice layoffs!

I am such a sucker for a Ry Cooder soundtrack like how am I watching a movie about army guys right now?

Keith Haring, Untitled, 1981

Takashi Murakami, Chaos, 2013

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

is that a vibrator in your pocket or is your penis just really scared of me

Gustav Klimt, Garden Path with Chickens, 1916

More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide. buff.ly/ZlOmxuF

Virgil Finlay, Astral Man, 1963

"Flora", Fresco, 4th Century BC, 15" x 12 1/2" or possibly"inspired by" images from that period and dates from 1C CE National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

René Magritte, Le sens des réalités, 1963

Mayumi Oda, Snow Goddess, 1976

no one even TOLD me that you had to feed your squire

Ursula Barnes, Cat and a Ball on a Waterfall, late 19th - mid 20th century

Lot of Wyeth-heads on this website I guess

Caravaggio, Bacchus, 1596-97

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

Sidney Nolan, Carcass, 1953

i've given it some thought, and we're bringing back the phrase "i've taken a lover"

Marvels of creatures and Strange things existing, Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203-1283) عجائب المخلوقات و غرائب الموجودات

Yokohama-e (literally “Yokohama pictures”) are a type of Japanese woodblock print depicting the foreigners who flooded through Yokohama during the 1860s and 70s, in particular North Americans: https://buff.ly/2eSwcac