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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 12h

Kurt Schwitters : The Merzbau (The Cathedral of Erotic Misery), 1921 Collage Further description in the alt text 👇

Concept of Space:
Schwitters transitioned from the flat surface of collage and painting (Merzbilder) into a habitable, three-dimensional space. He called it "a sculpture in space in which you can enter and go for a walk".

Materials:
It featured geometric planes, grotto-like structures, and embedded mementos or found objects contributed by friends and fellow artists.

Destruction and Reconstructions:
The original Hanover Merzbau was destroyed in an Allied air raid in 1943. A famous physical reconstruction by Peter Bissegger (1981–1983) is permanently housed at the Sprengel Museum Hannover. Later iterations included the Norwegian Merzbau and the final Merz Barn in Elterwater, England.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Slight stylistic departure in my dad's latest Time Travelling Cat painting.

My dad's cat Bridget joins in with Edvard Munch's The Scream.

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Ben from Spookily Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Peachtober day 12: "bramble" With apologies to @ewacat.bsky.social, whose Bramble I borrowed for this so I didn't have to draw the plant I am endlessly at war with. #peachtober #peachtober26

A small and gruffleish dog named Bramble looks up at the viewer.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

How wonderful 🫶🏼 #BookSky

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Mark M. Weston @markmweston.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Garden by Joan Miro 1925 @marysia_cc

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

UK: "Health bodies ask people to start wearing face masks if they must leave their house after COVID cases rise and flu season starts early." 😷 Source: www.facebook.com/theliverpool...

Liverpool Echo News social media post advising people with COVID-19 or respiratory symptoms to wear face masks if they must leave home.
• UK COVID-19 cases increased by 34.6%, with the XFG variant reportedly contributing to the rise.
• COVID-related deaths increased by 47.4%, with nine additional deaths compared with the previous week.
• Officials warn colder weather and more indoor gatherings could increase winter infections.
• UKHSA advises symptomatic people to stay home and avoid contact with vulnerable individuals.
• If leaving home is necessary, wear a well-fitting, multilayer face covering or surgical mask and avoid crowded places.
• Eligible people are encouraged to receive COVID-19 and flu vaccinations.
• NHS winter vaccination rollout includes older adults, pregnant women and children.

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Den of Scholes @denofscholes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wondered why all the fireworks last night BBC News - Celebrations begin in Oldham for nine-day Hindu festival Navratri - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Celebrations begin in Oldham for nine-day Hindu festival Navratri

Free celebrations are being hosted by the Indian Association in Oldham during the period.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you’re still masking… thank you! It might feel lonely but you’re not alone. Many of us are still wearing masks and still trying to break chains of transmission. As the world falls apart…protecting your health and the health of those around you is paramount. It’s resistance and community care.

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What it’s like to be masking in 2026

In which I answer the burning question everyone is asking – “why are you still masking in 2026”?

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A few more autumnal shots from my trip to the Westfjords of #Iceland in Sept 2019. #AwesomeFoursome

A small river surrounded by hills and landscape covered in red leaves.

A reflection shot of a headland jutting into a fjord, with a layer of fog above the ground - all reflected perfectly below. There is sun on the hillsides in the distance.

A winding road heading off into brown hills. The road can just be seen squiggling off in the distance.

A fast-flowing river surrounded by autumnal grasses with a big brown pointy mountain above and foggy hills in the distance.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026

She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This being the last hours of #WorldOctopusDay is a great excuse to post this superb Mycenaean stirrup jar with a hallucinogenic-stylized octopus. Somebody clearly ate the mushrooms. 😆 🏺 1200-1100 BCE. Met Museum. 📸 me

A stylized octopus with spiral, hypnotic eyes and flanked by fish covers each side of this stirrup jar, named for the shape of its handles. Mycenaean pottery often reflects Minoan-inspired themes and techniques that originated on the island of Crete. Animated marine motifs adopted from Minoan art began to appear on Mycenaean vessels in about 1500 BCE and were initially rendered in a very naturalistic manner. Here, the symmetrical composition and abstract depiction of the sea creatures are characteristically Mycenaean.

Such jars were commonly used to transport liquids.

Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIC, ca. 1200-1100 BCE.

H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); diameter 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)

Met Museum, New York (53.11.6)

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i always wanted to be a professor of tree nuts, and work in macademia

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How is it, then, with the whale?

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Jen_C☆~♡ @jencallister.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Carson called this look "a victorian glory hole for motorboating" and I may have spit my drink out! 😆 #WWHL #RHOC

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Sean Sanderson @hatmanalchemy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We usually just speak it as if it’s english cos we are chauvinistic that way assuming we still have the Empire.

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Story updated with comment from Carson: Asked by The Globe and Mail for a response to winning the prestigious prize, she e-mailed back a one-word reaction in all-caps: “YIKES!!”

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Early Autumn, Castle Hill from the South-West, James Leslie Brooke.

Early Autumn, Castle Hill from the South-West, lane winding up hill painting.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #womensart

Open sketch book with writing and paintings of zig zag designs

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Teenage life, Lancashire, 1957, photo by Bert Hardy.

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Joan Miró @joanmiro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Portrait of Mrs Mills in 1750 (after Constable) www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/portra…

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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Max Ernst : Animals of the Night (Some animals are illiterate), 1973, Vence, France 72.5 × 47.5 cm Created late in his career when he was in his 80s for the exhibition of Max Ernst at the Alphonse Chave gallery. Further info in the alt text 👇

The Subconscious and Dream Logic:
The artwork captures Ernst's lifelong fixation with metamorphosis, primal instincts, and the dream state. The layout features hybrid creatures—fusing properties of birds, beasts, and ghostly apparitions—emerging out of a heavily textured darkness.

Masterful Lithography:
The print utilizes highly refined lithographic layering and smooth gradations to create an atmospheric, otherworldly haze where forms materialize directly out of a cosmic subconscious background.

Late-Career Evolution:
While it retains the biting, youthful experimentation of his 1920s Dada and Surrealist periods, Animals of the Night shifts toward a more meditative, cosmic, and mythic framework where dream logic entirely overrides intellect.

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One helluva good looking family! And not one bit of corruption in sight.

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Sean Sanderson @hatmanalchemy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Mine was Four Feather Falls. Totally terrifying puppets.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Girl on a Bradford street corner, 1969, photo by Nick Hedges.

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Laurie Lipton @laurielipton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every woman you know has taken a longer route, has doubled back on herself, has held her keys in her hand, has made a fake phone call, has rounded a corner & run. Every woman you know has walked home scared. Every woman. ("Inner City 1995", pencil on paper, 27"x38.5", ©LaurieLipton) #iamjanedoe

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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'Women's #Smoke 💃🏾Dance. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino #PowWow - Hollywood, FL' (IG VID: white_corn_wear. Oct 1, 2026) #SmokeDance #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this 👇

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Lilian Marsden and her friend Phyllis, 14-year-old workers at Salt's Mill, Saltaire, in 1930. Lilian is carrying a hook on the string round her waist, which was used to wind yarn on to the spinning frame.

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The Cabin in Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Those shits at Cornell have been living the past 2 years thinking they’d suffered the worst of the consequences of their crimes and were looking forward to bright futures but now everyone knows who they are and they’re terrified they’ll end up in prison. I love that for them.

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3FatCats @3fatcats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today is a good day. We didn't have to put our cat to sleep ❤️

Long haired white and grey ragdoll cat, with blue eyes

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Sid Smith @sidsmith.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw Jon Anderson in concert last night. Quite the event, with the *checks notes* 81-year-old singer sounding about as good as when I last saw him perform with Yes in the mid-70s. Not sure how this is possible, but I was convinced by him and the band that Yes music is in very good hands indeed.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The mother’s hip Is the mothership

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I visited our GP practice today, to see the appropriate specialist nurse (I have diabetes and CKD). I was listened sympathetically, prescribed new meds, and given advice and a follow-up appointment. So this is just a simple thank you to the ghost of Aneurin Bevan, and to our wonderful, unique #NHS!