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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Off to the National Archives to settle an argument from 1878.

The view from the train - fields, sunshine breaking through clouds.

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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 23m

3 October 1867 - 23 Jan 1947 Pierre Bonnard, French (1867-1947), Le petit déjeuner, 1917, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 45.7 cm), private collection

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 38m

The catalog for “Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame” at the Cincinnati Art Museum is available for preorder and comes out next Tuesday! It includes essays by CAM curator Julie Aronson, @michaelbierut.bsky.social, Julie Zickfoose, and yours truly: www.rizzolibookstore.com/product/art-...

The cover of Charley Harper Creatures Wild and Tame showing a stylized polar bear’s face and with a cardinal perched on his head, yellow type on a glacial blue background.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 22m

Agree. The best place that no-one ever talks about.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 38m

I love, love, love that our 🇨🇦 federal govt supports full employment for lexicographers.🥃🥃🖋

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 48m

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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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 45m

Image is a bit too pale maybe, still I love the morning family mood.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 47m

This is a gorgeous modern UK cover, and there is about a month remaining to place bids. Thanks @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social #UKPhilately #HamptonCourtStamps

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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 57m

Afternoon, Sun, the Inner Harbor, Dieppe botfrens.com/collections/49/content…

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 11h

Tea and puns is the discourse I am here for.

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Jelly 🌻🍁🍉 @jemiaj.bsky.social · 11h

"Turning Time" #Teableau 02_Oct26 Autumn is my favorite. #Tea #Autumn

Fall themed tea tableau showing falling leaves in the tea cozy and tea towel fabrics as well as on the vintage cup and saucer. There is a tiny artwork of a crow in a tree that is turning to fall colors. The tea is Blackberry black tea from Lady Tally's.

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Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social · 11h

Courage, passion and adventure in the turbulent world of the Tudor court - the story of King Henry VIII's youngest sister mybook.to/MaryTudor #Tudors #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 13h

About 40% of the posts on Bluesky tonight don't make any sense to me at all. Another 40% make me cosmically cross, bc they are about a Uni in the Finger Lakes. Thank goodness for vintage cat photos and Renaissance miniatures. And pumpkins.

Colourful poster for Centre for Colorado Women's History in Denver, with cute pumpkins displayed on shallow outdoor steps.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 18h

Today is Duodi the 12th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate strawflower. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Strawflower.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16h

Handwriting on the back of this says “The Watchover”. Photo from my collection, no date.

Black-and-white photo of a short haired white kitten with tabby spots, sitting up on a wooden porch next to a baseball.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16h

Lady costumed for the masque, as a rather racy Flora. Painted in miniature by Isaac Oliver. Today is his day.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 20h

@theatlantic.com For the second time in a row, your fab print magazine arrives and I see no beloved #CalebsInferno. What fresh circle of Hell is this?? 😨

A close-up of an old-fashioned fountain pen nib, made in Germany.

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Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social · 23h

Thd delightful comedian Martha Chaves will be just one of several good reasons to scope out this Toronto local paper.

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The Art Exhibitions Blog @blogexhibitions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New exhibitions in Germany this month: Leonor Fini at the Schirn in Frankfurt Women of the Blue Rider at Museum Wiesbaden Portraits at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin Lots more round Europe in our October preview: art-exhibitions.blogspot.com/2026/09/new-... Pic: Fini's The Train (1975, FAMM Mougins)

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U of T Faculty of Arts & Science @artsci.utoronto.ca · 02/10/2026

Connect with program representatives and learn about potential opportunities at the UofT Graduate & Professional Schools Fair. 📍Hart House 📅October 6 from 10 AM to 2 PM Details here: www.studentlife.utoronto.ca/service…

Students speak with representatives at an outdoor information fair.

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Plymouth Rock of explosions

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!” ― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections | Fujifilm X-E5

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Francis Mouton @auctionaugur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tuscan, ca. 1470-1480, circle of the Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino, est. 4000€. Not the highest quality, but an unusual look. www.interencheres.com/art-decorati...

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵 This is the light that makes you fall in love with Ireland. Waterford at dusk; fields, trees & dancing colours. That same love of colour, rhythm & pattern flows into my contemporary ink drawings, inspired by Celtic art and the Irish landscape. [1]

#ArtForSale #ArtSales #OriginalArt #OriginalArtwork #ArtCollector #ArtCollectors #CollectArt #BuyArt #SupportArtists #ArtistForSale #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryArtist #EmergingArtist #IndependentArtist #FineArt #FineArtForSale #ArtLovers #ArtInvestment #ArtCollection #ArtCollectorsOfInstagram #ArtCommunity #ArtistSupport #SupportArtists #ShopArt #ArtOnline #OnlineArt #ArtBusiness #ArtistBusiness #SmallBusiness #CreativeBusiness #HandmadeArt #HandDrawnArt #InkArt #InkDrawing #PenAndInk #OriginalDrawing #DrawingForSale #ArtworkForSale #IrishArt #IrishArtist #CelticArt #CelticArtist #IrishContemporaryArt #IrelandArt #DublinArtist #MadeInIreland #ArtOfIreland #ArtFromIreland #ArtGift #UniqueArt #OneOfAKindArt #OneOfAKind #SignedArtwork #WallArt #HomeDecor #ArtForYourHome #ArtCollectorsClub #InvestInArt #OwnOriginalArt #ArtMarketplace #EtsyArt #EtsyArtist #EtsyShop #EtsyFinds #ShopSmall #BuyOriginalArt

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join up, get in touch with the natural world & save your brain. You don’t have to know anything about identifying plants but can learn on the go & with support from other members. Some lovely days out being mellow with experts & nature!

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Put it on my tombstone.

"and as there is no modern translation, I’ve made a best effort."

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Studio portrait of a father and child taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan around late 1920s, early 1930s. Almost certainly Chief Joseph Dreaver (WWI veteran, Military Medal recipient, and Indigenous leader), other photos match his appearance as a young man, of Big River First Nation. The child

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Lucy Paquette @hammockauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Landscape with Woman (1907) by José Villegas Cordero (Spanish, 1844-1921) Museo de La Rioja, Spain

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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All are welcome at this talk in Oxford, 14 October. A belated book launch too, so drinks and nibbles generously supported by June and Simon Li. www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/events/ming-... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Francis Seymour Haden, Battersea Reach, 1863 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…

date inscribed
Presented by Ernest Marsh 1909

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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Orchard in Pontoise in Winter botfrens.com/collections/49/content…

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When your bestie & fellow architectural historian goes on holiday to France, she tours Villa E-1027 and sends you these photos (also one of Gray’s E-1027 table that I requested bc I’m obsessed with it, as I also like a snack in bed/sofa but hate crumbs):

A sculptural bust of architect Eileen Gray, with a heart drawn around it and the word Eileen in red ink

Le Corbusier mural at E-10127 with the phrase “Get Back in your Box Corb!” scrawled over the photo in red letters

E-1027 adjustable table designed by Eileen Gray. It is framed in shiny tubular steel with a glass top, can be easily moved, and its height is adjustable. It is positioned next to a low bed with blue cushions

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Vetheuil in Winter - 1879 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Years and years of therapy are not going to be enough for Isaac. Caravaggio, born on this day in 1571, is very clear about that here in 1603.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fruit basket. Just being there. By Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, born on this day, in Milan, in 1571.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wednesday, 30 Sept, Dublin

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Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congratulations to India Wright, winner of the 2026 Stephen Croad Prize! Her winning essay explores the mostly temporary garden structures of the Inns of Court, and the social history and hierarchy behind them. Read more: hbap.org.uk/india-wright...

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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Portrait of Rodo Pissarro Reading botfrens.com/collections/49/content…

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Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interested in Asian collections in UK archives? Come to a one-day conference @thejohnrylands.bsky.social on 4 Dec! Sponsored by the National Committee for Information Resources on Asia, it includes fascinating talks and networking opportunities for only a tenner (to cover biscuits). #skystorians 🗃️

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NACIRA Conference and AGM

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION RESOURCES ON ASIA
CONFERENCE & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 
DECEMBER 2026

John Rylands Library, University of Manch

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Statue of Ruskin by Gutzon Borglum, best known for sculpting the 60-foot-high heads of Mount Rushmore. He described Ruskin as "the most marvellous, magnificent, unappreciated genius the world has ever known" - this small statuette certainly feels monumental. On display at Ruskin’s house, Brantwood

Detail of the bronze statue - Ruskin’s beard is long and flowing and he looks very serious. Behind the statue is patterned wallpaper that Ruskin hard commissioned for Brantwood

Bronze statuette of Ruskin seated; very grandiose - long flowing beard and fully draped in a cloak, he could be an old testament prophet

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