Presenting the shortlist for the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. Find out more about the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026

In Mada Primavesi (1912), youth meets a bold, modern confidence. Klimt painted the spirited daughter of his greatest patrons to capture her defiant energy. Choosing her own dress for the sitting, Mada stands in a wide, powerful pose that feels entirely modern.

And this skit is a must-watch!

Read all the way to the end for a surprising bit of Sliwa lore.

funny that establisment Democrats are still sulking about running a preordained loser like Andrew Cuomo and looking everywhere but their own choices for blame. Sliwa was very clear that he hates Cuomo’s guts! Mamdani is likeable! no need for conspiracy/collusion fantasy

“I haven't been this close to the 1% since the Emerson poll in February 2025” - Mamdani at the Inner Circle dinner, where the city’s bigwigs and press roast each other with skits and songs. www.cityandstateny.com/personality/... Also he did a sketch with ex opponent Curtis Sliwa

The Orange Room - Hanne Schmidt , 2022. Danish , b. 1970 - Oil on canvas, 70 x 80 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

So India just sentenced a woman to lifetime jail for thinking. Literally all Asiya Andrabi did was say that Kashmir should be free. maktoobmedia.com/india/delhi-...

Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) in India by Shubhra Roy Das

With US-Israeli strikes on universities in Iran, a reminder of the widespread scholasticide of Gaza

Everything happening now in Lebanon & Iran—the killing of schoolchildren, the targeting of hospitals & healthcare workers, the murder of journalists & its open justification, the bombing of universities—every single war crime that has been normalized was forced upon our consciousness first in Gaza

Sunday plans: 🖼️ The Eight Lives of Mr. Tybalt (after Nicolaes Eliaszoon’s Portrait of Nicolaes Tulp, 1633, DD McInnes.

🖼️ Gennady Spirin

Aix-en-Provence by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, 1958 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137733

Cat v excited about the fish in this jolly arrangement by a follower of Juan van der Hamen. Just couldn't resist the cat!

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

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Illustration to "A Week of Kindness" https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/illustration-to-a-week-of-kindness-1934-164

Lita Albuquerque, Southern Cross from Stellar Axis: Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, 2006 #Womensart

What is marketed as AI “innovation” is, in practice, a consolidation of global labor hierarchies and a commodification of African knowledge, write Marché Arends and Kathryn Cleary, drawing on their year-long investigation supported by the Pulitzer Center and published by Africa Uncensored.

Persian Quatrains (Rubayi) and Calligraphic Exercises https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.1115.a

Two Girls With An Oleander https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28449

Rapper Balendra Shah has been sworn in as Nepal's first Madhesi and youngest prime minister following the Gen-Z revolt last year. His in-tray includes restoring political stability and creating jobs in the economically fragile Himalayan nation.

Argus https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21350

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Jamacian artist Ebony G Patterson creates mixed media atworks including jacquard-weave tapestry to tell the untold stories of her homeland in her mixed media artworks #Womensart

This 16th century Korean painting of a puppy playing with a pheasant feather is the pinnacle of human artistic expression

A history of British birds. London, Groombridge and Sons, [1862?-1867?] (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13551878) #nature #illustration #art

Before the haystacks and water lilies, the teenage caricatures of Claude Monet: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

In 1430's Italy we're totally going with the gold in this Annunciation by Bicci di Lorenzo, for today's Feast of the Annunciation.

2/2 On the other hand... patterns, patterns everywhere in this fab Annunciation from the Boucicaut Hours.

It doesn't get more purely gorgeous than this. Rogier van der Weyden, 1435, for the feast day of the Annunciation.

📣 The University of Iowa invites applications for the Spring 2027 Translator in Residence. The 5-week residency is divided between creative production & engagement with students. It includes a $8,000, plus a combined accommodation & travel allowance of $3,000. Apply by April 15.

Gorgeous Annunciation from France, 1370s, for Lady Day today. Liking Mary's little boxy throne-church with fine textile assortment.

I Feel This River Flowing In My Soul (2024) by Cameroonian artist Maurice Mboa (born in 1983) Acrylic spray paint and gold leaf on engraved steel plate 103 x 77 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

William Degouve de Nuncques, Belgian, 1867 - 1925 Bay of Palma. 1900 Oil on canvas #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

BREAKING: Two police dogs at two separate airports have reportedly bitten ICE agents today.

It's here! Happy pub day to @sanarch.bsky.social, whose translation of Fahmida Riaz's Fortress of the Forgotten Ones, the 2024 winner of the Armory Square Prize, is officially available today. We couldn't be prouder to hold this incredible work in our hands. www.openletterbooks.org/products/for...

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

Harmony in Yellow, 1927 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16796

Farmhouse in Upper Austria https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28557

Never not shouting that this is DOUBLE wage theft, from the staffer who should be doing the work, and from the reimbursee forced to do it, purely for the purpose of channeling often public university funds into private app developer coffers and it sucks.

Usually a tiny sum that I’d happily give up in return for being left alone by these sadistic websites. I know one university administrator who quit because she couldn’t stand the new system and it took up all her time

Four doses of an experimental vaccine to protect against Lyme disease reduced the number of tick-borne infections by more than 70 percent, according to Pfizer and Valneva. If successful, it could become the only Lyme disease vaccine available for people.

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It's appalling that this is considered a scholarly project. It's not. If you look at the author, his portfolio is just websites for oil well drillers, paving contractors, the American Racing Pigeon Union... this guy is just a tech bro. He's not a digital humanist. craigvandergalien.com

Invocation https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19691

Israel has struck hospitals, emergency services orgs, K-12 schools, residential homes, sports stadiums, historical and cultural sites, energy infrastructure, desalination plants. Now they are attacking Iranian universities. Just like in Gaza & Lebanon www.instagram.com/p/DWLuPK8jk-...

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Singer by Vasily Kandinsky, 1903 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137539