Reposted by archelectRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5hIn Herbert Badham's 'The Night Bus,' (1943) the interior lights highlight the different figures and their gestures, all still, fixed in the moment. A woman reads a magazine, a man smokes, the conductor chats to a passenger. 113729
Reposted by archelectNjal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 7hBroken Water: Twenty Nordic Seas (1862–1970) 4. August Strindberg – Packis i stranden (1892, Swedish) 19420
Reposted by archelectJo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 6hLovely to see this - the story of butterfly collectors Fountaine & Neimy is extraordinary He was her guide for a 1901 Syrian expedition - they then travelled the world together for 28 years See the Fountaine-Neimy collection www.museumscollections.norfolk.gov.uk/article/3024... 092
Reposted by archelectJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 19hA room with a view ~ here we see the busy village of Portofino through an open window, with a balcony in the foreground (1956), painted by Italian artist Michele Cascella 0745
Reposted by archelectBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 17h🛡 The wild beasts of the world /. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, [1909?]. [Source] 0436
Reposted by archelectDr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 18hMonday #morningread Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ 2114
Reposted by archelectThe TLS @thetls.bsky.social · 11/10/2026An unpublished story by Sylvia Townsend Warner, with a commentary by Peter Swaabthe-tls.comThe Pursuit and the End 061
Reposted by archelectRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Paul Klee, Messenger of Autumn (1922) 17520
Reposted by archelectPaula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026This week in clouds. #MentalHealthMatters 💙 322245
Reposted by archelectNjal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Broken Water: Twenty Nordic Seas (1862–1970) 20. Einar Jolin – View over Stockholm’s inlet (c. 1914, Swedish) 07512
Reposted by archelectRichard White @rhwhite.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Matsuura railway line linking Imari and Arita in Kyushu, Japan, is a single-car line that connects the two towns. On the Arita station platform are displays of locally-made modern decorative porcelain tiles showing flower designs first made over 400 years ago. My kind of train station. 162
Reposted by archelectwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Harlinah Teoh, creates botanical ceramic art inspired by walking in the Australian landscape #WomensArt 71270212
Reposted by archelectJames Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Variegated grey clouds sail above the flowerless mead, & the wind kisses colder than of late. Every other step through dew-weighted grass causes craneflies to take flight & scatter low. From a backwater willow, a light burst of chiffchaff song evokes spring, while autumn romances the heart. 2255
Reposted by archelectClaude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Monet’s heavy use of white was groundbreaking—but dangerous. His “snowy peaks” were painted with lead, a toxic metal. Today, conservationists handle Monet’s works with caution. 012529
Reposted by archelectThe Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Start in the middle. It’s the only rule I have. ... Whatever you take that to mean, find the middle, start there." Congrats Anne! 0104
Reposted by archelectLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 09/10/2026‘James I was given an elephant by Philip IV of Spain with instructions that it was to drink only wine between autumn and spring.’ Malcolm Gaskill on zoos and menageries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukMalcolm Gaskill · Squawking at the Gate: The Last MenagerieThe spirit of modernity would influence zoos for generations. Dialogue between reformed conceptions of society and the... 093
Reposted by archelectLee Coursey @lee-coursey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026#photography #photograph #photo Before I moved to San Diego, I roamed across my home state of #Georgia for five years with a camera and took pictures. Here is image number 461 from the series. 📍 Thank You Jesus - Tyrone, Georgia 0446
Reposted by archelectPaula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“To see something ordinary, something you’d see every day, and recognise it as a photographic possibility – that’s what I’m interested in.” Stephen Shore. 524028
Reposted by archelectJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s easy to lose yourself in these landscapes by 20th century Scottish artist James McIntosh Patrick ~ Glamis Village / Tay Bridge / City Garden / Stobo Kirk 412423
Reposted by archelectPup & Tiger @pupandtiger.co.uk · 08/10/2026Another contribution to today’s #OnlineArtExchange theme, ‘queer joy’, hosted by @artukdotorg.bsky.social : Vlad Cohen, Queer and Faithful Hound, from Soft Territories: pupandtiger.co.uk/exhibitions/... Join in with the hashtag! 0173
Reposted by archelectEl Eremita @dinamitteros.bsky.social · 08/10/2026En el ferry desde Helsingør. 1915. Paul Fischer Danés, 1860-1934. 0236
Reposted by archelectChris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Light in the darkness - the Radcliffe Observatory, wrapped up for renovation, catches a gleam of light. The dome at the right is on the Oxford University Humanities Building 0122
archelect @archelect.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When people casually dismiss the elderly, remember there's someone just like this, with that joy and hope and promise, inside every one of them. 020
Reposted by archelectRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In 1951 Gerard Dillon stayed at a house on Inishlacken, a mile off Roundstone in the Atlantic Ocean. This work shows two men, the one of the left identified as Dillon, bartering with another in Roundstone Harbour, perhaps negotiating the loan of a boat to go lobster fishing. 1807
Reposted by archelectNjal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wild Color North: Twelve Fauve Landscapes (1909–1916) 5. Isaac Grünewald – Green Fields against Blue Mountains (c. 1914, Swedish) 15213
Reposted by archelectAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This beautiful amethyst-tinted serving bottle is made from a type of glass developed during the 1670s that contained a high percentage of lead. This so-called ‘lead-glass’ or ‘crystal’ was much heavier, less fragile and more brilliant than that produced previously in either England or Europe. 215634
Reposted by archelectPersiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The accidental alignment of thick ground fog and blazing sunshine above, with three bonus horses grazing in Port Meadow on Sunday (October 4th) morning at 8.15am. I've never before seen such thick intense ground fog before, so it stopped me in my tracks. #DailyNature #JournalPrompts 032
archelect @archelect.bsky.social · 06/10/2026New life plan to qualify as a cat burglar, just so that I can make this the first painting I steal. 030
archelect @archelect.bsky.social · 06/10/2026No child in history has been painted with more delight than this middle sister. 030
Reposted by archelectKelly Rebar @kellyjeanrebar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Old barn #windows on a fall evening. #abstract #light #reflection 2434
Reposted by archelectJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Impressed by the realism and precision of this tiny detail of foliage in the massive Ghent Altarpiece, created by the van Eyck brothers almost 600 years ago (1432) culturetourist.com/destinations... 5829
Reposted by archelectRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026'The Brothers.' (1928) A child prodigy, Joan Manning-Sanders was aged 15 when this work was painted and was the youngest artist to have shown at the RA Summer Exhibition in the late 1920s. 822536
Reposted by archelectAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me 321365328
archelect @archelect.bsky.social · 05/10/2026STOP CALLING OLDER WOMEN GRUMPY!!! Thoughtful, sad, serene, determined, philosophical, tired, preoccupied, and many others are available. It's what natural ageing looks like. 030
Reposted by archelectJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 05/10/2026An evocative landscape, with the hazards of driving through the countryside on a wintry night, by 20th century Birmingham illustrator Michael Reilly. He specialised in transport-related scenes and travel posters (1930s) 117731
Reposted by archelectChris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026A rare sight here now - a lapwing OTD in 2025 0112
Reposted by archelectDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Luis Melendez, loving the lumpiness of a pile of pears. Or a quorum of quinces? Today was his day. 4919
Reposted by archelectDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Some very ebullient grapes sizzle over the more pedestrian plums in this beautiful still life from 1762 by Luis Egidio Melendez. It's his day today. 212014
Reposted by archelectRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Matisse is a lemon 1283
Reposted by archelectJournal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Images often show animals entering Noah’s Ark, but here’s one showing their exit. From top R, God gestures that it’s OK to come out / Noah makes a fiery sacrifice / restarts growing vines / makes & drinks wine / as drowned bodies float (15C Bedford Book of Hours) 2679
Reposted by archelectRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Olafur Eliasson, the Weather Project, 2003 Monofrequency lights, projection foil, haze machines, mirror foil, aluminum, and scaffolding 26.7 m x 22.3 m x 155.4 m 1185
Reposted by archelectNjal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The Long Light: Twenty Nordic Landscapes (1880–1920) 6. P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening on Skagen’s Southern Beach (1893, Danish) 15915
Reposted by archelectEdward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Tables for Ladies - 1930 botfrens.com/collections/173/conten… 0488
Reposted by archelectRabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026David Hockney Yosemite I, October 16th 2011 (1059) iPad drawing 1151
Reposted by archelectAshmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026🍐This beautiful pear-shaped porcelain bottle from Japan is covered in a distinctive green flambé glaze. It was made by Ishiguro Kōkō of the Sumida Pottery in Tokyo, named after the nearby Sumida River. 112333
Reposted by archelectRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Eero Jarnefelt's cloud study (1893) is a view over Lake Pielinen near Koli in North Karelia in eastern Finland - creatives of Järnefelt's generation, from Sibelius to Akseli Gallen-Kallela, saw Karelia as a lost paradise and an embodiment of the authentic soul of Finland. 011217
Reposted by archelectArt Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yellow Hibiscus and Aster, from the Flowers of the Twelve Months: October, 1670-1710, by #YunBing (#Qingyu 清於; Haoru 浩如; Chinese, Qianlong era, active late C17th–early C18th). Held by Asian Art Museum, searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/5437... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory 02511