In short, it's stolen valor... by a traitor to democracy. "Such monuments attempt to rewrite political reality through symbolic assertion. They declare victory where history might record defeat." quillette.com/2026/03/26/t...

Happy birthday to Vincent van Gogh, born March 30, 1853. He painted the moth from a drawing he made of what he believed was a death's-head moth, depicting a small skull on the insect's thorax. But the moth's four large eyespots are distinctive of the giant peacock moth, Europe's largest moth.

"Vile arrogance," indeed. And continued misappropriation and misunderstanding of the music co-opted. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

💔🤍💙 U2 - American Obituary youtu.be/Y3ziTSYyook?...

Happy holidays!

Happy Easter to those who celebrate. 🌸 Pansies from the Missouri Botanical Garden a few years ago... #flowers #bloomscrolling #pansies #photography #spring

I came across my pictures of William from a few years ago, but they don't do him justice, so here is an official photo. #Art #Adorable Standing Hippopotamus ("William"), ca. 1961-1878 BCE (Middle Kingdom) Egypt. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Don't worry, everyone. I've come up with a solution...

More miniature art, this time a graceful ivory horse netsuke. #art #adorable Grazing Horse Netsuke, 18th c. (Edo period) Japan. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O14579/...

I remember standing in front of this painting for the first time, feeling wholly transported to another place and time. Franz Marc, The Bewitched Mill, 1913. The Art Institute of Chicago. www.artic.edu/artworks/902... #Art #Chicago

I've been lax in posting art, so I'll share something by a highly imaginative artist I enjoy: Charles Burchfield. I love this portrayal of the seasons as a literal passage through time. I just wish I could see a hint of sunlit spring in the snow swirling outside my window. #art #spring

Happy holidays to all! This is a beautiful cover of one of my favorite Christmas songs. Just lovely. Daniela Andrade - Christmas Time Is Here youtu.be/_iAaEH_dR_Y?...

This expresses my feelings about Winter rather well, I'd say. And there are woolly black-faced sheep, even if they were totally invented by the artist. Joseph Farquharson, The Joyless Winter Day, 1883. Tate Britain, London. www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks... #Art #Winter

I recently read a little about trans Danish artist Lili Elbe, the subject of the 2015 film The Danish Girl, and I discovered this lovely painting she created a century ago on the island of Capri. #Art #EndHate

Seeing lots of little guys in my feed recently. I think this one reflects the current mood pretty well. Found in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Chess-piece from the Lewis Chessmen, ca. 1150-1200. British Museum, www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #Art #Adorable

Seeing lots of great bird images today... Here's one of my favorite birds in art history. Vincent Van Gogh, Kingfisher by the Waterside (detail), 1887. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collectio... #Art #Birds #VanGogh

Because protest is in the air... Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People (detail), 1830. Louvre, Paris. collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335... #Art #Protest #Authoritarianism

For some inexplicable reason, I have been thinking lately of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's allegorical murals of government, specifically his representation of bad leadership. #Art #Government #Kakistocracy #DumbestTimeline

Happy Turkey Day! A delightfully unique subject for Monet... and TIL a flock of domesticated turkeys is technically called a rafter. #Art #Thanksgiving Claude Monet, The Turkeys (Les Dindons), 1877. Musée d'Orsay. www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/l...

These draconian laws hurt all women.

Urban isolation at its finest. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Street at Schöneberg City Park, 1912-13. Milwaukee Art Museum. collection.mam.org/details.php?... #Art

Gustav Klimt. Church in Cassone–Landscape with Cypresses (Kirche in Cassone–Landschaft mit Zypressen), 1913. Private collection. #Art Klimt used a telescope to capture this view of Chiesa di Cassone on Lake Garda. Recovered Nazi-looted painting: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign....

Franz Marc. Cats on a Red Cloth (Katzen auf rotem Tuch), 1909-10. Private collection. #Caturday