Tiny Acer 🤞🏻

Enrique Martinez Celaya, The Music (White Forest) (aquatint in colors on paper, 2002)

[Still Life with a Figure by Balthus (1940)]

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

~Marilynne Robinson

Edward Burra designed costumes.

Caryn Scrimgeour, Forsaken (detail) (oil on linen, 2020)

Woman in yellow in garden amongst sunflowers, pond with lily pads in foreground. She carries a basket.

Happy August!

Août, La Belle Jardinière, Eugène Grasset. 1896.

Pierrot (1884), by Léon François Comerre

#Art #painting #illustration

writing comes from a dialogue
with time: it's made
of a mirror in which thought
is stripped and no longer knows
itself

~Etel Adnan (trans. Sarah Riggs)

Viulisti Eva Mudocci, taiteilijan italialainen ystävätär ja Bella Edvards

Violin Concert (Eva Mudocci and Bella Edvards) 1903 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/993721

🚨BREAKING🚨

WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

The William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A.J. Hall Collection

Two People. The Lonely Ones (To mennesker. De ensomme) 1899-1917 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1158167

The Black Finger Bandage

The Black Finger Bandage www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/the-bl...

Boats - Entry to the Medina in the Isle of Wight

Boats - Entry to the Medina in the Isle of Wight www.wikiart.org/en/berthe-morisot/boats-...

Hard crowd poster, #hardcrowd #fate 2025 #poster

So much this 👇

Linder Sterling at The Hayward Gallery.

Lido Margate 2025.

For nothing was simply one thing.

~Virginia Woolf

At the bottom of everything there is the hallelujah.

~Clarice Lispector (Água Viva, tr. Stefan Tobler)

Being a museum dedicated to vaginas, we get more than our fair share of weird FAQs. One of the weirder ones is this: "Do I need to have a vagina to visit?" The answer is no!!! We're open to all genders and genital configurations! Here's why...

GOOD GRIEF Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't.

Needed words from the brilliant Andrea Gibson.

Painting of house at night with pale green shutters, cat sat on windowsill and the moon is reflected in the window

Goodnight.
On the Windowsill at Night, Quint Buchholz, 1995.

Paysage by Paule Vézelay 1946. On show at RSW Bristol until the end of this month. #paulevezelay

Wonder—is not precisely Knowing
And not precisely Knowing not—

~Emily Dickinson

Of Mice and Men pastiche. Featuring Putin, Musk, Vance, Netanyahu and Trump.

If there is a song you have on repeat to help you get through These Times, share it below? My own current rotation is:
- You Get What You Give (New Radicals)
- Talkin about a Revolution (Tracy Chapman)
- Let Me Down Easy (Gang of Youths)

Emmeline Pankhurst in around 1913. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 3 Apr 1913, suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and announces she will go on hunger strike.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #VotesForWomen 🗃️