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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Agree or disagree?
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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
‘Whatever lost ghosts flare, Damned, howling in their shrouds across the moor Rave on the leash of the starving mind Which peoples the bare room, the blank, untenanted air.’ 📕 Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard 🖼️ Leonora Carrington, Samain #BookWormSat #ghosts #poetry
Ghosts of different shapes an sizes, floating
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birdsinmuseums.com @birdsinmuseums.com · 06/11/2025
雞啼 (2004) Mei Yu Cheng 鄭梅玉 National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
雞啼 (2004)
Mei Yu Cheng 鄭梅玉
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birdsinmuseums.com @birdsinmuseums.com · 25/11/2025
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE) Harvard Art Museums, Boston
Griffin Protome from a Cauldron (Greece, Samos, 650-640 BCE)

Harvard Art Museums, Boston
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International Alliance for Art and Culture @iaacworld.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DHYhzTf...
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
A rare wild monkey with floppy arms
Purplish monkey in Myanmar in mostly oil pastels in green trees, ghosty face
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MisanthropeLovesBirds𓄿𓄿 @bird-nerdco.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Petrified wood from a Pecan tree (Miocene geological epoch)
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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Extremely rare White Auroras like never before spotted in the skies of Alaska last night👀 🌌✨
Extremely rare White Auroras like never before spotted in the skies of Alaska last night👀 🌌✨
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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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GC Gi @caldeiragiselle.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Antonio Canova, Hércules, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome (detail).
close look at the powerful right foot of Antonio Canova’s ‘Hercules’ (1795) a masterpiece of marble realism now displayed at Rome’s National Gallery of Modern Art.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Here's a groundbreaking report that examines how countries around the world have successfully expanded abortion access and protected reproductive rights. The reports offer U.S.-based policymakers proven strategies to counter restrictions and treat abortion as essential health care.
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New Reports Bring Global Solutions to Bolster U.S. Lawmakers in the Fight to Protect Reproductive Freedom - O'Neill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the State Innovation Exchange (SiX) and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health, released Beyond Borders, a groundbreaking report series that examines how countr...
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Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Agate is common in the basalt flows of the Jurassic Period here in Nova Scotia, which form the spectacular hills around the Bay of Fundy. Agate became the provincial gemstone of Nova Scotia in 1999. #NovaScotia #geology
A close-up studio shot shows a roughly rectangular rock with intricate, swirling patterns of white, pink, and reddish-brown. The top and right sides of the rock are a rougher, more solid reddish-brown and orange, while the front face reveals the polished, concentric, wavy bands. The patterns resemble a topographic map or the rings of a tree, with lighter colors in the center of the swirls. The rock sits on a plain white background.
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Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Ancient body art wasn’t fashion — it was identity, power, and story. ✨🗿 Marks that meant something… and still echo today. #Brewminate #History #Anthropology
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Ancient Body Modification: Ritual, Identity, and Culture
Ancient societies reshaped the body through tattoos, piercing, scarification, and cranial shaping to express identity, power, and sacred meaning.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Jaguar god mask carved stone Chavin culture Peru 1000-700 BCE #jaguarmask #carved #stone #mask #handmade #art #ancientart #chavinculture #peru #andes #religion #ritual #precolumbian #prehispanic #ancientculture #ancientreligion
The Chavin culture was a pre-Columbian civilization that flourished in the northern Andean high-
lands of Peru from around 900 to 200 BC, known for its sophisticated art, religious influence, and engineering. Its ceremonial and pilgrimage cen-ter, Chavin de Huántar, was the source of a religious and cultural cult that spread across a wide area, making it an influential "mother culture" for later Andean civilizations. Key aspects include its religious system, centered on a powerful priesthood and complex multi-sensory rituals; its advanced art, seen in striking stone carvings and textiles; and its engineering skills, evident in the complex architecture of Chavin de Huántar, such as its drainage system.
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AliceInTheSky @theotheralice.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Art challenge part 2: Choose 20 sculptures that have stayed with you or influenced you — one per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just sculptures. #blueskyartchallenge #art #sculpture 8/20 Jacques Lipchitz, Man with Mandolin, 1917
Cubist limestone statue. One human holding what the title suggests to be a mandolin but which looks very much like a second human figure.
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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Via Michael Gregory
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Chess game, 1555: the artist's three sisters & their nurse. Mischievous youngest, calm & knowing eldest, middle one who always gets fooled by them. Painted by Sofonisba Anguissola, whose day is today.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Mask of Oceanus the god of the waters bronze 4-500 BCE Greece #ancientart #greekmythology #bronzesculpture #archaeology #mythandart #ancientgreece #oceanus #bronze #mask #ancientworld #culturalheritage
Depicting the bearded face of a deity, likely Oceanus or Zeus-Ammon, the mask radiates both strength and mystery. Oceanus, in Greek mythology, was the divine personification of the endless river encircling the world — the primordial source of all life. His flowing beard, rendered here with almost hypnotic rhythm, evokes the waves and currents of the sea itself.
Bronze works like this were created by master artisans over two thousand years ago, often to adorn ships, fountains, or sacred spaces. The crown of ivy leaves and berries hints at divine vitality and eternal renewal — a symbol that transcended cultures from Greece to Rome. The patina, now a mix of green and gold tones, tells its own story: centuries of history etched into metal.
Looking at it today, one can almost imagine the flicker of torchlight dancing across its surface during ancient ceremonies — a reminder that art was never just decoration, but a bridge between mortals and gods.
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Patrick Kapty @patrickkapty.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
'Malagan' Figure carved wood, pigment Papua New Guinea late 19th century #tribalart #oceanicart #malagan #papuanewguinea #newireland #carvedwood #sculpture #tribalsculpture #art #culture #figure #ancestor #ritual #initiation #belief
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
threads.com/@sophieandlili
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Aya Tarek, Egyptian street and mural artist from the city of Alexandria who creates outdoor art to be accessible to all #WomensArt
Photo featuring a mural artist up a tall stepladder in the act.of painting a large scale painting on a building of the head and shoulders of a woman
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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Mary Cassat @marycassat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Portrait of Ellen Mary Cassatt www.wikiart.org/en/mary-cassatt/por…
Portrait of Ellen Mary Cassatt
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mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#Flyday #CrittersThatFly #eastcoastkin @worldwildlife.bsky.social @stewartguy.bsky.social Founder of wildlife.net 📸Martina Olivia, UK
"European Robin (Erithacus rubecula): The "Robin Redbreast" was given its nickname long before a distinction was made in the English language between "Red" & "Orange". Superb photo taken by Martina Olivia of this fluffy Robin taken in the UK."
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Zac Lindsey @arkeogato.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
A fabulous #Maya #ceramic bowl. The puffed cheeks, the closed eyes, the content smile—I love it. Cute was an intentional aesthetic and this piece shows a playful side of indigenous Americans that we are told didn’t exist. From the Cancun Maya Museum. #ancientamericas #mayanwarrior #archaeology 🏺
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883–1957) "Rain in Shinagawa", 1931. Woodblock Print, 39.5 × 26.4 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Autorretrato con monos (Self-Portrait with Monkeys) by Frida Kahlo (Mexican) - Oil on canvas / 1943 - Gelman Collection of Mexican Art (Mexico City, Mexico) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomenArtists #arte #art #artText #BlueskyArt #pintura #MexicanArt #Monkeys #Symbolism #FridaKahlo #Kahlo
Inspirational Mexican artist Frida Kahlo appears frontally, filling the frame from chest up against a dense curtain of glossy green leaves that press forward like a living wall. Her warm brown skin, direct dark gaze, and almost-joined brows are rendered with meticulous clarity, framed by sleekly braided black hair threaded with pale ribbons. A crisp white blouse lifts her figure out of the foliage, while four spider monkeys cluster intimately around her (two at her shoulders, one peering over her left side, another tugging near her neck). Their dark fur, slender fingers, and bright black eyes encircle her without fully eclipsing her self-possessed presence. The structure around her shoulders and the monkeys’ paws, suggesting a fragile tether between artist, animals, and jungle. The space is shallow, quiet, and airless, heightening the feeling that we have stepped into her private, watchful world.

Painted in 1943, when Kahlo’s health was deteriorating yet her fame was rising, this self-portrait turns her animal companions into complex emblems of care, control, and self-mythology. The monkeys were actually real gifts from friends and from Diego Rivera. They had appeared as playful familiars in other works, but here their closeness reads more ambivalent: affectionate guardians who also clutch and claim her, echoing how love, public attention, and nationalist expectations pressed in on her life. 

The luxuriant foliage situates her within an idealized, Indigenous-inflected Mexicanidad, while the looping vines hint at both rootedness and constraint, echoing her experience of chronic pain, medical harnesses, and life increasingly confined to Casa Azul (aka the “Blue House” which was Kahlo’s cobalt-blue home in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City and now the Frida Kahlo Museum). Her unwavering gaze refuses victimhood; instead she stages herself as author and icon, using the monkeys and jungle not as decoration but as proof of autonomy, vulnerability, and power.
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Abode of Angels @somnium-scipionis.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Sufi whirling dervishes. #Sufi Sufi dance - whirling dervishes are performed counterclockwise. They depict the planets around the Sun, unity with the Universe and God. History 🔜 www.historytoday.com/archive/whir... ✨ youtube.com/shorts/A41gA...
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Whirling derwishes #Sufi #суфизм #кружение суфиев
YouTube video by Космический
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
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There’s a Monumental Cosmic Map Hidden beneath Mexico’s Oldest Maya Site
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers
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Eli~Journal Sauce @eliharlan.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I love being surprised when finding really different and cool forms of art here. This qualifies!! #repost3aday #supportartists #glass #fusedglass #artyear #eastcoastkin #fullmoon #waterfall #inspiredbynature #getoutthere #onlybeautifulthings
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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Orchard by Gustav Klimt, Leopold Museum, Vienna #TreesOnTuesday
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ellen Neel (1916–1966), a Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations artist and woodcarver, who was the first woman known to have professionally carved totem poles #WomensArt
Photo of s totem pole with symbolic animal carvings in an outdoor setting with trees behind
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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The Image at the head of this thread is 'Ariadne on Naxos' by Joseph Edward Southall, 1925 (Birmingham Museums Trust: 1948P3). Link - artuk.org/discover/art... #LatinForTheDay #Ovid 🧵🏺
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Ariadne on Naxos | Art UK
Ariadne on Naxos by Joseph Edward Southall (1861–1944), 1925, from Birmingham Museums Trust
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Marion Boddy-Evans @marionbe.eurosky.social · 03/11/2025
Today's drawing. Pen with water-soluble ink, plus a water brush. #pleinair #Portsoy #art #inkdrawing
Pen and wash drawing of a piece of coastline at Portsoy, northeast Scotland, with row of houses at the top of the hillside.
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Brian Matthew Duff @brianmatthewduff.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#stilllife #pen #acrylic
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 02/11/2025
Now breathe
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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
On this land lived creative artists 🏺 Have you ever stopped to contemplate the grandeur and mastery of ancient Egyptian civilization? It's not just about pyramids and colossal temples; it's a story of art and craftsmanship that reached the pinnacle of creativity.
On this land lived creative artists 🏺 Have you ever stopped to contemplate the grandeur and mastery of ancient Egyptian civilization? It's not just about pyramids and colossal temples; it's a story of art and craftsmanship that reached the pinnacle of creativity.
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
No words today. #cemetery #graveyard #sorrow #statue #photography #goth
A statue in a cemetery. The face of maybe an angel. She is looking down in sorrow with her hand on the side of her face. The stone is lightly mottled with green and yellow lichen.
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