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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This week on the Garlic&Pearls podcast, a ’Summer Postcard’ from me and @suzanneraine.bsky.social - how this drink became so central to French apéritif culture! Link in reply 👇

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This week on the podcast - hydration before all else!

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Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hopper visited Paris three times, studying Impressionist light and urban life but filtering it through American detachment. In Le Bistro (1909), patrons sit in shadow while the street beyond dissolves into haze—public life observed at a distance.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On this day in 1902, Venice's famous Campanile collapsed into a pile of rubble, taking out the Logetta as well.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Joyeux 14 Juillet - Vive la France! 🇫🇷

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Anne of Cleves looked deceptively attractive in this portrait in 1539. At least, it fooled Henry VIII into agreeing to marry her. Not for long! By Hans Holbein, whose day is today.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So familiar and yet irreducibly strange.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two French ambassadors, Jean de Dinteville & Georges de Selve, pose w/ science, art, & death, along with faith at the edge. Entirely brilliant painting by Hans Holbein, 1533. Today is his day.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Life, death, knowledge. And grooming, don't forget grooming! By Sebastian Stosskopf, born OTD 1593.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

With all this talk of Anglo-Gaullism, do refresh yourself at the 🇫🇷 source. On Garlic & Pearls we revisit, with our guest @charlottefaucher.bsky.social, the fascinating pivotal times when @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social rallied around De Gaulle and the Free French in London in 1940. Link in reply.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

If you asked me who was the most enjoyable interview I’ve ever done. It was Sam Neill. We discussed what James Mason taught him & being in that truly terrible FIFA film.🎬 Afterwards he came back to tell me it was a really fun experience for him too… such sad news. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Little White Lies @lwlies.com · 13/07/2026

A conversation with the Pope of Trash following new @criterion.bsky.social restorations of the upbeat/downbeat duo, Hairspray and Desperate Living. In conversation with John Waters:

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John Waters: ’I’ve always been a les bro‘

A conversation with the Pope of Trash following new restorations of the upbeat/downbeat duo, Hairspray and Desperate Living.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Portrait of a young lady; beautiful and elegant later work (c. 1560) by Catharina van Hemessen of Antwerp, whose day is today.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

This week on the Garlic & Pearls podcast, I tell @suzanneraine.bsky.social the story of THE STRIPY BRETON TOP, or how a satanic pattern became the epitome of French chic! Zebras get a mention too. Join us on Garlic&Pearls!

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A view of France from Ladybird Land, 1969. Artist: John Berry

A scene of a market in a town, perhaps in Brittany. Many people stand around surrounded by heaps of fresh fruit and vegetables. Many of the men are wearing black berets

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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ten years after the Sagamihara killings, the worst act of violence against disabled people in modern history, Japan's attitudes to disability are slowly changing. Recording Japan’s disabled lives | Christopher Harding engelsbergideas.com/notebook/rec...

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Recording Japan's disabled lives

Ten years after the Sagamihara killings, the worst act of violence against disabled people in modern history, Japan's attitudes to disability are slowly changing.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This will sell out.. Sunday.. Sept 27th Hosting this @c20society.bsky.social event about Listing, Love and hate for Brutalism.. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/bru...

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Brutal(ism) Love and Hate | Southbank Centre

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D B Webb @dbwebb.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The best pub quiz name is "And in Second Place Are".

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Going to a pub quiz this week? What's your team name? Agatha Quizteam? Quiz Hurley? The Quizzard of Oz? If not, (and why ever not?) then the next best thing (in preparation for your next quiz) is to find out all about PUB QUIZZES on the Garlic&Pearls podcast! Tune in with me and Suzanne Raine!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, looking splendidly military & valorous as painted by me in 1629. Today has been his birthday.

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1867–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Woodblock, 40 × 55 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Alethea Talbot, wife of the Earl of Arundel (whose day is today), paused on her Grand Shopping Tour of the continent to let me paint her with her entourage. A great lady.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mary Cornwallis, her face entirely overshadowed by the vast, fantastical expanse of ruff, pearls, sleeves. Especially sleeves! As painted by George Gower, whose day was today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Historical hottie du jour: Richard Drake, Equerry of the Stable & Groom of the Privy Chamber to Elizabeth I. She did like handsome men! Painted by George Gower, 1577.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today's artist w/out a (known) birthday: Hugo van der Goes of Ghent. Starting right off with his Portinari Altarpiece of 1475. In so many ways a masterpiece!

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

For The Telegraph I wrote about the mega-banquets of Le Canon Français 🇫🇷 and the ways in which cheese and charcuterie have become politicised. France is sadly riven, it seems, but I hope for better things! Link in reply.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Re-upping an article I wrote for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social in the wake of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, about divergent French ideas of what the ‘roman national’, or national narrative, should be. engelsbergideas.com/notebook/wha...

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This week on the Garlic&Pearls podcast: Pub Quizzes! Biros at the ready as @suzanneraine.bsky.social takes me on a tour of a very British obsession. Are the best pub quizzes where the British sense of terroir is located? Warning: this episode contains an avalanche of punning. ⬇️

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Music, love, sensuality, 1633. At left, a younger version of me (a man can dream) leads his sweetheart into the garden of love. Today is my birthday.

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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Edward Hopper Compartment C, Car 293

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

On tonight's BBC Front Row: John LLoyd and Mel Giedroyc rememeber Dame Penelope Keith, Russell Tovey on The Guilty, Katherine Rundell on Cinderella and the Duke, and a dive into the visual world of Lartigue... 715pm R4 or link after: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

For The Telegraph I wrote a comment piece suggesting that French food isn't, in fact, far-Right! www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The usual quince, cabbage, melon & cucumber. And then the game fowl. An evening's offering from Juan Sánchez Cotán, who day was today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Born on this day in 1560, Juan Sánchez Cotán. Painter of religious works and spiritual still lifes. Here, game fowl & fruit (suspended) and vegetables (especially the cardoon!), 1602.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One of my top five favourite paintings.

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

On Garlic & Pearls , I explore the INSTITUT FRANÇAIS in the company of our wonderful guest and guide the historian @charlottefaucher.bsky.social. Find out all about this hub of French soft power and diplomacy! Charismatic founder Marie d'Orliac and De Gaulle and the Free French guest star!

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Look who's got a big big sword! David prepares to behead Goliath, 1608, by Orazio Gentileschi. It's his day today.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Good morning! Annunciation, another masterpiece of composition and color by Orazio Gentileschi, 1623. Today is his day.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This week on the podcast! ☔

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Muriel Zagha @murielzagha.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In this week's episode of Garlic & Pearls, I tell @suzanneraine.bsky.social the dramatic story of the Great 1910 Paris Flood: the City of Light pitted against Nature and the roiling raging Seine! Tune in!

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