AA Pollock 🇨🇦 @aapollock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.” Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem 010
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026'An English Holiday, a Village Inn,’ was one of several panels of a mural depicting scenes from rural life that Lord Beaverbrook commissioned from Mary Adshead in 1928 for the dining room at his house in Newmarket; the mural was cancelled, the panels were later shown in London. 14510
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seen a lot of these, but this one is my favourite 😎 27498682396
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 20/09/2026#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🎨 #dragons Happy Sunday, Bluesky Discover how three master painters turned the legend of Saint George and the Dragon into a masterclass in human psychology—and a study in how cultural norms take root New from me: theshymuseumgoer.com/2026/09/16/saint-george-and-dragon-paintings/ 1377
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com · 12/09/2026#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡 🎨 Saturday vibes... A tribute to everyday chores. A woman and a child hold hands, having just collected something for dinner in a bowl and the child's pinafore. A broom leans on freshly swept cobblestones. 🧹✨ Pieter de Hooch, "Courtyard of a House in Delft" (1658) 4568
AA Pollock 🇨🇦 @aapollock.bsky.social · 19/09/2026“encourager les autres” The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. Virgil 000
AA Pollock 🇨🇦 @aapollock.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“These with a thousand small deliberations Protract the profit of their chilled delirium, Excite the membrane, when the sense has cooled, With pungent sauces, multiply variety In a wilderness of mirrors.” “I an old man, A dull head among windy spaces.” TS Eliot Gerontion 000
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦Laugh About It cartoons @laugh-about-it.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A true story for you, my lovelies. #Trump #Gas #LakeOntario #PoliticalCartoons #Google #Food 03616
AA Pollock 🇨🇦 @aapollock.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Imho this is like a contemporary Edward Hopper painting: 000
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange celebrates Scottish art with West Sands (St Andrews), July by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004). Born in St Andrews, she became a leading figure in British modern art despite the challenges faced by many women artists of her generation. 1317
Reposted by AA Pollock 🇨🇦Alexandros Tzirkotis @atzirkotis.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The Party That FailedBY CAI XIA. Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2021 tzirkotis.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/t...tzirkotis.wordpress.comThe Party That FailedBY CAI XIA. Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2021An Insider Breaks With Beijing. BY CAI XIA. Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb 2021 CAI XIA was a Professor at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party from 1998 to 2012. This essay … 001