This year’s perfect #pear. I count the blossoms in the spring, watch the fruit grow all summer, knowing only one or two will survive to ripen in September — but that it will be indescribably delicious and worth the wait. #pearsofbluesky #autumn #bounty

Hoping you all find a bit of #serenity this evening, and the opportunity to renew & refresh xx Platinum print by Thomas Eakins of students at PAFA in classical pose & dress. #pafa

The 2026 Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife will take place on June 26–27 here at Historic Deerfield. That will be the seminar’s 50th year, so there will be celebrations and reminiscences. The topic will be how New Englanders have envisioned and shaped the future.

Excited to start my new read, especially after hearing Zara Anishanslin speak at @dublinseminar.bsky.social this weekend! She was gracious enough to sign her book for my fangirl self 😉 #nerdalert

More of #EdwardSteichen's fashion photography for Vogue Magazine. He was especially adept at capturing the essence of his subject via stylish footwear of the 1920s & 1930s. Here fresh & fabulous 1930s sandals appear so contemporary. For more: silkdamask.blogspot.com/2014/07/edwa...

You cannot hide the soul.

#FootcandyFriday Archive: Edward Steichen created iconic fashion photography for #Vogue Paris Here, a 1920s classic 'barrette' shoe with revived French or Louis heel. Romantic skirt floats at the knee. Lovely. Read on: www.silkdamask.org/search/label... @vogueparis.bsky.social

#SummerVibe afternoons are perfect for reading. #ChildeHassam #isleofshoals

Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.

Looking for your next creative fix? Wolsey Art Gallery has just what you need. ✨ Colour Shape Pattern is open through winter. Don’t miss it: ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/colour-shape-pattern

12 Women Old Masters to Know by Karen Chernick www.artnews.com/list/art-new... To learn more about premodern #womenartists, visit: A Dozen Great Women Artists, Renaissance and Baroque artherstory.net/a-dozen-grea... Another Dozen Great Women Artists from Long Ago artherstory.net/another-doze...

Happy summer Monday 🌞🌞🌞 “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

About to say goodbye to #SHEAR2025 and Providence, so here is another bank note for you. It features a portrait of Samuel Slater and a vignette of mills by the Pawtucket Falls on the Blackstone River. Slater Bank, North Providence, RI, $10, July 1, 1862.🗃️

The proofs are turned in and the website is up!🎉 📖 "Canal Dreamers" is now available for pre-order with delivery in August (just in time for classes 😉). Use code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout to save 30%! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social #history uncpress.org/book/9781469...

To Woolwich to the Rope-yard; and there looked over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great survey of seeing the working and experiments of the strength and the charge in the dressing of every sort.

Constitutional crisis is here

Hello Seacoast New Hampshire #fiberfolk Join the UNH #FlaxFiles at the Newmarket Historical Society’s Stone School Museum for a #flax processing #demo & try your hand at #braking & #scutching flax. Let’s talk about #sustainability & #circulardesign #saynotofastfashion

Good morning #SHEAR2025! WE’VE GOT BOOKS.

"The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power." Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Up very early, and got a-top of my house, seeing the design of my work, and like it very well, and it comes into my head to have my dining-room wainscoated, which will be very pretty.

This was the order of events: 1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s extortion by paying a bribe. 2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that. 3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump. 4. Proving Trump’s bribe worked.

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ― Charles Bowden

Excited to share my article ‘Combing History: Flax & Linen in New Hampshire’ [Tiny Studio #27] The issue created @fiberygoodness.bsky.social is thoughtful, engaging & beautifully designed tinystudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Issue27Digi_... tinystudio.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Issue27Digi_...

And now for something completely different..
Lars Lerin, Swedish, b. 1954
At Home, 2011
Watercolor on paper
100 × 150 cm

Katharine McCormick funded the research that led to the first birth control pill. Her investments were guided by a long-term vision of societal advancement, not just immediate results. She empowered generations of women to take charge of their futures. #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM tiny.cc/ovap001

New book announcement! Daring: The Life and Art of Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun by Jordana Pomeroy Getty Publications 2025 This book presents the dramatic life story of #ElisabethVigéeLeBrun, one of the greatest portrait painters of all time. #newbooksaboutwomenartists #womenartists #artherstory

Sunday sunshine in #Spitalfields silk by designer extraordinaire #AnnaMariaGarthwaite. Yellow silk is brocaded w/ colored silks, silver & silver gilt thread. Her skill in rendering botanical subjects is in evidence in the floral sprays. Image reproduced from the Grantham Times, May 2013. Via #V&A

This is the sort of smoking gun connection between a decision and outcome that gets people fired in a normal government

Homan saying ICE can attack, gas, arrest, kidnap, and disappear people based on nothing more than physical appearance is the kind of thinking you'd expect from the KKK, not a government agency.

#research #roadtrip #newhampshireedition #stoneware #crockery #usefulandbeautiful #formfollowsfunction

I stop in my tracks every time I see this lovely, thoughtful profile— #Bronze #basrelief of Marion Reed the daughter of Ida Reed, Assistant Director of Saint-Gaudens Memorial bronze, 1912; artist, Gaetan Ardisson (1856-1926) Studio Assistant to Augustus Saint-Gaudens from 1884-1907. #saintgaudensnps

Visit to #Aspet, home and studio of #AugutusSaintGaudens #NPS was a balm for soul and spirit

So to the office all the morning, where very much business, but it vexes me to see so much disorder at our table, that, every man minding a several business, we dispatch nothing.

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

This is FKN brutal 🤬

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Here’s Abrego Garcia’s amended complaint. It alleges that Abrego Garcia “was subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture..” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In a mere matter of days, we can house migrants, but not our homeless. Because being cruel is always the motivation. #AlligatorAuschwitz

How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is “immaterial”?

“Incredibly rich,” is an apt description for whom this bill benefits. And they know it.

“Depriving adults and their kids of healthcare and saddling our grandkids with crippling debt is ‘immaterial’ as long as we get to keep kidnapping people with darker skin.” What sick bastards.

This from @jbendery.bsky.social

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.