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KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social · 12h

𝟏.) 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 This gift option isn’t just 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴, it’s 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 —with the added benefit of being perfect for the woman who has it all! 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 fits your requirements that your present be 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 and 𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘺, but 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 for a budding courtship.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2h

Odilon Redon, The Battle of the Bones, 1881, Charcoal on paper, 44.7 x 37.3 cm (Kröller-Müller Museum) 💀

A charcoal drawing of a skeleton at a table with a plate, a glass, and a wife carafe. Another skeleton leans its head out of open bed curtains

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 19h

For those who think Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" isn't gross enough, thankfully there's also his "Anatomy lesson of Dr. Jan Deijman," painted about 30 years later, showing the dissection of a criminal call "Zwarte Jan" by renowned anatomist Jan Deijman 🎃💀🧠

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Joan Deyman
1656, Oil on canvas, 100 x 134 cm (Historisch Museum, Amsterdam). A scene of a body being dissected with the brain exposed and a doctor looking on.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t know exactly. I think it was just an amazing fashion shoot

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Adolph Menzel, Death as an Unwelcome Guest, 1844/1845. Watercolor and gouache. 5.1 x 3.6 in. (Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Death politely recognizes that this is a shoe-free house.

Death, dressed in a top hat and overcoat, rings the doorbell as he removes his shoes. Inscribed: "1844: Plusquamperfectum" ("more than finished")

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I wonder who he's going to blame for his inevitable cancer 🙄

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

— “You got types?" — “Only you, darling. Lanky brunettes with wicked jaws." Myrna Loy & William Powell in THE THIN MAN (1934)

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They look almost like toothpicks, but I've been puzzling over them myself

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pensionante del Saraceni, The Fright, c. 1615-20, Oil on canvas 65.4 x 52.1 cm (72.5 x 86 x 5.4 cm) (Gaudium Magnum Foundation). I'm not sure what's going on here, but such a great study in characteristically baroque extremes of emotion and some dazzling optical effects. 🎃

A young man in a shadowy interior suddenly recoils in fright, causing his fear to erupt in an agitated cry, almost as though he were trying to tell us that it is we, looking at him, who are the source of that fear. The young man, shown in a half-bust pose in the foreground, is accompanied solely by a clear, half-full carafe that reflects his image in a sophisticated play of echoes in an optical-scientific vein.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Minyoung Kim, Milky Ghost, 2023, Silkscreen gloss varnish, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle museum etching paper, 26 × 24 in (66 × 61 cm) 🎃🐈‍⬛ www.artsy.net/artwork/miny...

A print portraying a kitchen floor from above with a black cat resting nonchalantly after having spilled a glass bottle of milk. The spilled milk is in the shape of of a ghost

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you’re near Hartford, be sure to catch this lecture, “Conserving Artemisia Gentileschi’s, Hercules and Omphale” by Ulrich Birkmaier, Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Getty Museum, at the Wadsworth October 22

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Public Lecture | Conserving Artemisia Gentileschi’s Hercules and Omphale September 3, 2026 | The Wadsworth

Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Hercules and Omphale was severely damaged in a 2020 explosion in Beirut. Over 200 people died, and cultural heritage

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October date idea Calcedonio Reina, Amore e Morte, or Two Lovers before the Desiccated Corpses of Monks in the Capuchin catacombs of Palermo, 1881. Oil on canvas, 119 x 149 cm, signed on bottom left- Cal(cedo)nio Reina (Catania, Museo Civico Castello Ursino) 💀❤️

A painting of two lovers, all dressed up, kissing in the catacombs of Palermo, surrounded by the desiccated corpses of Capuchin monks

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@rijksmuseum.bsky.social and @museodelprado.es Launch Landmark Partnership on Women in Art and History "The Rijksmuseum and the Museo Nacional del Prado announce an in-depth research partnership focusing on women in art and history." www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/pre...

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Rijksmuseum and Museo Nacional del Prado Launch Landmark Partnership on Women in Art and History - Rijksmuseum

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Religious Scholars Met with this Church with a Face. What They Saw Stunned Them.

A church in Tampa Bay, FL, that, from the right angle, looks like a face, maybe of a chicken?

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trophime Bigot, The Screaming Man, 1625, oil on canvas. Canvas, 79 x 100 cm Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna 🎃

A man in 17th-century costume and holding a paper lantern screams, surprised by a carved jack-o'-lantern behind him. Another man concealed behind him smiles

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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🎃Let the countdown to Halloween begin with Myrna Loy...

This classic 1930 Halloween publicity photograph features legendary actress Myrna Loy sitting at a table with cards, a skull, and an ominous jack-o'-lantern shadow projected onto the wall behind her.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't think of a better way to start October than with Max Klinger's Der Tod am Wasser (Der pinkelnde Tod), c. 1880. Yes, that's Death taking a leak. Remember your mortality and stay hydrated! 💀

Max Klinger, Der Tod am Wasser (Der pinkelnde Tod), c. 1880, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. A vertically formatted landscape painting with the figure of Death as a skeleton resting his scythe on the ground and taking a piss

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you buy an art historian a drink or two, they may let you in on the insider knowledge that Michael Sweerts is secretly one of the best

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Georges de La Tour, The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, c. 1630-34 (Kimbell Art Museum). Someone's been looking at Caravaggio.

"La Tour’s dazzling colors and elaborate costumes create a brilliant tableau. His characters enact a psychological drama that unfolds through the cues of their sidelong gazes and the measured gestures that signal their next moves. The cheat tips his cards toward the viewer, who thereby becomes complicit in the scheme, knowing that in the next moment, the conniving trio of cheat, maidservant, and courtesan (identified by her low-cut bodice) will prevail." https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198106

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never been to Giverny? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you in front of a Monet! [SMITH]: That is a Manet

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm ready for the ultimate NYT higher-ed think piece: "I'm a College Professor. Thinking Isn't as Important as We Think."

Screenshot of latest annoying NYT op-ed: "Opinion | I'm a College Professor. Writing Isn't as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to..."

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why not throw vegetables at a waiter?

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy birthday to Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, born on this day in 1571. Why not celebrate with glass of wine and some decaying fruit?

Caravaggio, Bacchus, c. 1596, Oil on canvas, 95 x 85 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
A painting of a model posed as Bacchus, wearing a crown of grape leaves and a toga and offering a glass of wine to the viewer as he leans on an old cushion. On the table in front of him are a decanter of wine and basket of decaying fruit

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Animated skeleton just hanging out with his similarly dead friends and their favorite stuff in this bizarre memento mori by Carstiaen Luycks. It's his day.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

André Breton, Self-Portrait, c. 1938, collage of photos by Man Ray

A surreal photo collage of André Breton in front of a microscope in a suit and tie, miniature horses on the table in front of him, and a blonde woman behind bars behind him

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Commedia del arte or quack doctor? Hard to tell, but audience and dog are having a good time. Big question: what is the horse wearing? Painted 1657 by Karel Dujardin.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just saw F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" (1927) in a theater with live organ accompaniment. Silent films almost impossible to watch streaming at home and so beautiful and fun in their intended setting.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Torn between Magdalene and Poppins.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jean Michelin, The Baker's Cart (detail), 1656, Oil on canvas, 38 3/4 x 49 3/8 in. (98.4 x 125.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm always fascinated by the old representations of foodstuffs, like loaves of bread and eau-de-vie, in this painting of rural French peasants selling goods in the city

A detail of a painting of a weatherbeaten old woman sitting on bench selling medicinal liquors and large loaves of rustic bread from a wagon https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437082

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Reverse side of a painting, 1670, Oil on canvas, 67 x 87 cm (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)

A trompe l'oeil painting of the back of a canvas, and a little (illusionistic) tag attached with a wax seal that says "56)

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 24/09/2026

✨FELLOWSHIP ALERT!✨ 🏛️I Tatti / Museo Nacional del Prado Joint Fellowship 🕐Nine month fellowship 🗓️Application due November 16 (1/3)

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the arts partied a little too hard last night

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of the best I got was: "There appears to be a warm glow over the painting giving it a urethral quality."

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They were probably a medievalist

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's quoted in the article linked in the original post

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Crime reporting in my time: murder of the jeweler Jan van Wely in 1603, as vividly laid out (featuring eventual execution before large crowd!) by W. Buytewech and Esaias van de Velde.

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A carved "pillar-biter" from the church of St. Bavo in Haarlem, from 1509-1517. With roots in Medieval iconography, pillar-biters represented hypocrisy and false piety. More here: www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/dev...

A polychrome wooden carving of a man in pilgrim's garb with a priminent rosary grotesquely gnawing on a church column

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What would you like to hold for your portrait? Maybe a little bird? Perhaps a cup-and-ball? A wee drum? No. Fetch my sword. (American, 1841, attributed to Henry Inman) www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2399684...

portrait of a young child (maybe 3 years old) in a burgundy dress, drawing a sword longer than its legs

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fall is when you feed each other grapes

François Boucher, An Autumn Pastoral (detail), 1749, Oil on canvas, Wallace Collection, London. A shoeless shepherd with a basket of grapes feeds them to a girl who leans on him. Beside her lies a little dog

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