Making a new Philadelphia memory: Calder Museum and (still budding) Garden.

I’ve been enjoying a day at the Newberry Library today, enjoying the trove:

For all my Scottish friends, spotted at Munich Airport:

As to whether they’ll get me to Chicago on Sunday 🤷‍♀️

I had to miss a day of vacation in Sweden in order to get to my conference and pay out of pocket for new self-devised arrangements 😤 but as things go I also like long train rides!

My crib for the next 17 hours from Stockholm to Berlin (thanks to the combined tomfoolery of Lufthansa and Eurowings). Two canceled flights, no assistance, no refunds.

Would love to tune in!

1826 Forget Me Not dedication page, an embossed floral scroll on blue paper. Inscribed to Henrietta Dawson by P. M. French.

Blank 1827 embossed Forget Me Not frame on orange paper. Artsy women appear at the top of the frame.

Embossed Fountain design on olive paper for 1828. Inscribed with the words I will never forget, in French, and signed illegibly.

Embossed frame on orange paper with a bust of maybe Socrates on top, standing women to the sides. Inscribed lightly with the name Grace Robson?

Forget Me Not?

We have a run of this annual set of gift books from 1823 to 1846 @newberrylibrary.bsky.social. Several have embossed dedication pages, most of which have been filled in by or for women! Many thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social for this excellent rabbit hole!
#WomensHistory #WHM

Prove this place is good for culture and post a good book cover

What I like to see

It’s too bad Mead didn’t note the devastation of the clearances on the Buccleuch estates - she observes oddly casually that many tenant farmers have family migration histories making them somehow more worldly and open-minded.

there are simply very, very few days where the UK gets to be Better than the usa at anything, let us enjoy this

Maybe that's why they quietly "moved on."

See, I thought it was high comedy (intentional).

Sadly no :(

Absolutely; on BBC live stream.

Did you see the people in the crowd in front of Buckingham Palace brandishing gold 66 party balloons?

Opens popcorn, streams BBC live

We've just published a new special issue of Word & Image which promises to be a major contribution to our understanding the photo book (ed. Alice Morin, Jens Ruchatz, and Vanessa Schwartz).

No-one in rural Scotland uses the front door except for funerals. It has a purely symbolic or decorative function.

There is a certain towering verticality to the frozen lake.

Open This End: Behind the Iconic Andy Warhol's Paper Dress The Rich History of the Iconic Andy Warhol's "Open This End" Paper Dress

open.substack.com/pub/landerde...

Not planning to leave home for the foreseeable.

Done!

Reposting as an arts administrator but mainly as someone from Lewis who knows the value of An Lanntair to the community. Art is not an ornamental "nice to have." lanntair.com/support-us/

When I've borrowed a book four times from ILL is it time to buy it?

This one does seem more on brand.

R F Kuang’s world building of nineteenth-century Oxford in Babel is overly reliant on scone consumption.

I was just going to describe it as a cross between the Vicar of Dibley and Midsomer Murders.

This must be the most English Christmas story ever: a friend had her plans disrupted because the vicar of St Boniface required her presence at the pop up Christmas choir.