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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Russell Atkins

Lamps new-lighted now--

making frail realm
against overwhelm

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

When I’m empress public spaces will be allowed to play gentle piano jazz or nothing at all. And we will all be at peace.

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SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

How does fashion shape modernity—and how does modernity shape what we wear? tinyurl.com/9fwmhxvu explores dress and modern life from the 18th to early 20th c., drawing on literature, art, media, and material culture to reveal clothing as an archive of memory, identity, and desire. #MLA2026 #ReadUP

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Performatively reading a book? Level up. I’m performatively writing a book

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Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Peggy Guggenheim (born #onthisday) wearing a Schiaparelli dress in Kay Sage’s Paris apartment. Photograph by Rogi André.

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Sylvia Plath Bot @sylvia-plath-bot.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush

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Gill @crikeys.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Some colour from the garden today 🌱

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

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Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Toorop created a sparkling portrait of a woman on the threshold of a new century. Here we see Marie Jeanette de Lange. She was the chair of an association that championed hygienic, loose-fitting, natural clothing that allowed women greater freedom of movement. id.rijksmuseum.nl/200475283

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Apollinaire in Alice Notley’s translation 💔

GOODBYE

I picked this spray of heather
Autumn is dead remember
We won't ever again see each other on earth
Fragrance of time spray of heather
Remember I'm waiting for you

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

after a long stint as a computer science major, I switched to art & never looked back. I got my bfa in photo & FRANCESCA WOODMAN became my fav photographer. The ALBERTINA Museum in Austria has her work on view through July 6th! www.albertina.at/en/exhibitio... woodmanfoundation.org/francesca/wo...

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview— Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Take a moment to explore these natural details in all their glory. 🌱🐇🐌

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Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The Paradise Buckle, 1905 by Edith Dawson (and partner Nelson), leading Arts and Crafts artist and jeweler #womensart

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Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.

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sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

paintings by Maryclare Foá (R&F Mo) @randfmo.bsky.social maryclarefoa.com

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

i want more art. i want more conversation, constellations. i want more time with trees. i want more of my own heart. more pasta shapes! and the shapes of song! i want paintings so huge we have to build a new space. i want tiny paintings only baby pigeons can properly appreciate

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited 12 artists to respond to the novel. The exhibition is on in London (Mayfair) from 3-8 June & Somerset (Castle Cary) from 14 June - 12 July. www.davidsimoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/...

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FOR THERE SHE WAS | 3 June - 12 July 2025 - Overview

LONDON: 3 – 8 June 2025 SOMERSET: 14 June – 12 July 2025 Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited twelve contemporary...

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Mattea Gernentz @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This is such a wonderful opportunity! Being a Young Makar enabled me to receive invaluable mentorship and writing feedback, share my work for the first time at festivals around Scotland, and connect with brilliant emerging poets I still interact with today. So grateful. Dear poets, apply! 💚

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

When I was lecturing today on books of hours as a book produced in large quantities, a student (understandably!) said she thought most people were illiterate in medieval Europe, so it’s not my fault we got behind because I had 20 minutes of Things to Say.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

evenings are for kisses and reading maybe 2 poems out loud and forgetting you made a pot of tea and lying all the way down

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Some #1930s whimsy, consisting of broad multi coloured stripes and a puffy bustle style arrangement at the back of the otherwise straight silhouette. It is Schiaparelli, deploying some playful details @philamuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A side by side image of a multi coloured horizontal striped dress with shoulder straps and a large bustle alongside a fashion drawing of the front of the same dress

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.

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Wes Bulla @wesbulla.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Detail from previous post. This was a fun piece to work on, as it evolved through reworking and layering while trying to balance various degrees of finish. #art #artwork #painting #layers #portrait #figurativeart

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

If this regime is dragging us back to the 1800s they should have to bring back the good stuff too. I want investment in high-speed railways. I want federal buildings redone in Art Nouveau. I want streets clogged with flâneurs walking tortoises on leashes. I want the de-extinction of Oscar Wilde

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful

Painting: "The Library" by Elizabeth Shippen Green. The image shows a red-haired woman in a long, loose, golden dress sitting in a wicker chair. She has a large illustrated book in her lap. Other volumes are strewn around her and fill the bookcases behind her. The artist studied under Howard Pyle, and then forged a successful career illustrating magazines and children's books. The fourth member of the Red Rose household was Henrietta Cozens, whose management of the house allowed the others to focus on art. (I wish I had a Henrietta in my own life.)

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today's marginal #musicians are a couple of lady lutenists playing in a #garden. From a Belgian #bookofhours, c1490 Morgan Ms S7 #MarginaliaMonday #earlymusic #illuminatedmanuscript #lute #womeninmusic #lutenist #15thcentury #history #historysky

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It ys a such challenging, turbulent, difficult tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh’s Art Nouveau gesso panel ‘The White Rose and the Red Rose’ (detail), 1902 #WomensArt

Artwork with stylised images of two white femake figures adorned with flower motifs and organic lines in an art nouveau style

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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

René Char, translated by Cid Corman

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We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. Rachel Carson

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

How lucky to remain alive, building up one’s hoard of thoughts, ideas, sensations, so that when it comes time to write there is already an abundance of material at hand, waiting for language to make its new arrangements.

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Photographers At Work @photogsatwork.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Francesca Woodman ( April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) #Photography

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The main thing getting me through right now is that it is nearly peony season 🙏

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"The Convalescent" by Welsh painter Gwen John (1876-1939), who trained at the Slade in London and then spent most of her working life in France. #SomethingBeautiful

Painting: A young woman sits in wicker armchair reading; she is wearing a long, loose, simple blue dress. On a table beside her is a brown teapot and a pink teacup and saucer.

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julieinstitches.bsky.social @julieinstitches.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

‘The Blue Bowl’ by John White Alexander (American, 1856-1915), 1898. More here via RISD Museum: risdmuseum.org/art-design/c...

Painting entitled’The Blue Bowl’ by John White Alexander, 1848, depicts the back of a woman in a flowing, floral-patterned dress, RISD

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Mattea Gernentz @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I had a marvelous time at the 2025 NCSA Conference in New Orleans! So many interesting papers and kind scholars. I enjoyed sharing my work on Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet, and the Bois de Boulogne. I also visited NOMA and the historic home of Edgar Degas's family. 🎨 @ncsascholars.bsky.social

Mattea stands behind a podium, giving a presentation on the women Impressionists.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

i just wanna have fun but no i gotta Think

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Spring is springing 💐🌷🪻

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I wish people hated fascism half as much as they hate feminism

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Claire Malroux (RIP), tr. Marilyn Hacker 💜

At the end of the garden a silence
Of the end of the world
The last gardener comes by He turns
The humus over conscientiously
Wisps of straw and dead seeds
Slip between his fingers
And yet the plants did their best
Rooted to the ground they could not
Halt the phantom heady with his own speed.

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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Piet Mondrian (Dutch, 1872-1944) Apples, Ginger Pot and Plate on a Ledge, 1901 #art #painting #painters #pietmondrian #stillife #artinfinitus

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