We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
2/2 Dead, dead, utterly dead. Deadly still life by Tomás Yepes of Valencia. Today is his day.
Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Tomás Yepes. Painter of wonderful things during the age of Philip IV. Here, 2 bowls of fruit, 1642.
@exhaustdata 2 months ago Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence @chillextremist 3 months ago When I'm in the suburbs for too long I start to think about dying
People need to understand that one of the reasons they struck today, rather than next week, is bc the House is planning on a vote early next week.
Trump had to shift dynamics of that vote.
scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe?
AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe
Garden of Earthly Delights
Garden of Earthly Delights
Major fashion statement of 1630: the cartwheel ruff, here worn by an unknown woman and painted by Nicolaes Pickenoy, born OTD 1588.
Catherine Carey, Countess of Nottingham. First Lady of the bedchamber to her cousin Queen Elizabeth. Painted in 1597 in extravagantly fab dress by Robert Peake, whose day is today.
Young man in a lot of shirt, painted in 1661 by Isaack Luttichuys of London and Amsterdam. Today was his day.
Mark Carney’s overall economic approach has been backward-looking: an emphasis on natural resource extraction and reliance on low-tax, market-led, small-government economic ideology that was stale in 2008, and is definitely not suited to a world of geostrategic competition.
You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."
Today’s artist without a (known) birthday: Alejandro Loarte, from Toledo. Painter of still lifes. And sometimes other things. Here with marvelous not-quite-symmetry.
It’s starting to become clear to more people that Carney’s Plan A amounts to an attempt to implement traditional Conservative policies when what’s called for is radically different policies. It’s currently unclear whether Carney can switch gears. The tell will be whether he abandons austerity.
Lucas van Leyden, died (alas!) OTD 1533. Painted the first real Dutch genre scenes! They are all about chance, knowledge, and prediction, as in this Game of Cards. Very bourgeois to worry about money & the future.
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
Hey @thestar.com has a massive Walking Toronto package coming out this weekend (some stories already up online). I contributed two walks for this list of Toronto walks (Bendale in Scarborough and Dupont). Check em all out.
Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Hugo van der Goes of Ghent. Starting right off with his Portinari Altarpiece of 1475. In so many ways a masterpiece!
Infanta Margarita Teresa without all the fuss, painted by Diego Velazquez. And three years later, in blue, with some A+ accessories. Today is Velazquez's day.
The thousand little deaths my heart has died
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Marriage portrait: young couple, each wonderfully characterized in 1615 by Jacob Jordaens, who was born on this day in 1593.
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets
Some cattle on a Dartmoor country lane, having a snack before embarking on the long journey to Todmorden in West Yorkshire, which one of them had heard was nice.
The same cattle further on the lane, including Carol at the rear, who is already having misgivings and missing home.
People in cities think nothing dramatic ever happens in villages but that’s not true. In our village the summer before last the cattle pushed over a fence and escaped from John and Rita’s field and lots of people still talk about it to this day and some of those people don’t even live in the village
Our loss will be Canada’s gain. 🤡
#EmptyShelves
What an amazing experience! Trying to explain Darger is impossible, so seeing the works in person is key. Thanks for sharing your writing!
Happy Henry Darger's birthday!
