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Today (Feb. 24) 4pm EST Online Mondays at Beinecke: Taught by the Pen: The World of Islamic Manuscripts with Roberta Dougherty, Özgen Felek, and Agnieszka Rec yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @bintalbalad.bsky.social

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Take part in the UK’s national festival of the humanities (6–15 November 2025) and help to demonstrate and celebrate the importance of research in the humanities. Funding grants available! Find out more: https://buff.ly/4hIC1RF

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Are you an art admirer, enjoying a weekend in #Oxford? Come join me at James St. Tavern today for an #art market! Myself and a bunch of wonderful local artists are displaying today!

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I’m SO excited to announce my new yearly creative challenge: mARTch! 🌈🎨 Whether you’re looking to shake off the winter slump, try new things, or just make more art, this challenge is for you.

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I took part in a local art event yesterday; it was a joy to see a community canvas. The wizard and the fancy pants warrior are mine! #Lines25 #art

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🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴 Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists. If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter. openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

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NEW ESSAY — “The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London” — As cats evolved from feral ratters into beloved Victorian companions, a nascent pet-food economy arose on the carts of so-called “cat’s meat men”. Kathryn Hughes explores... publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ca... #cats

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Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope! Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C. www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

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We are very grateful indeed to Dr Natasha Hodgson for her excellent RHS Lecture - 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World' - which took place yesterday evening bit.ly/3WS7FUa Video and audio recordings of the lecture will be available shortly. #skystorians

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Hey friends. Posted this a while back on my everything account, but this is biz specific, so here it is again! Every creator needs a personal website! Yeah, we all know. But during this collapse of social media, it's even more true. The good news - it's not THAT hard! gregpak.com/how-and-why-...

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Only 1 week to go until our medieval lecture by Dr Natasha Hodgson on the travels of medieval women! You can join to watch online on 7 February by registering here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1118707587...

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Time to share my current historical obsession: Clarice Orsini de Medici’s EXTREMELY ILLEGAL HAT! A cool reflection on performing social class, and part of my release countdown to “Inventing the Renaissance” 1/?

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Blog post! Delving into the history of asylum patient art. A manuscript volume titled ‘Bruised Reeds’ contains illustrations from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and is named after a Bible passage: ‘a bruised reed he will not break, and a smouldering wick he will not quench’ rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/bru...

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A little thread of quotes from yesterday History of Art lecture by brilliant Patrick Doorly (of @kelloggoxford.bsky.social) 🧵

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Am I late to the party? No? Cool! HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 💚

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You can't escape #sexism even on top of #Everest. Here is a fascinating investigation of Sandy Hill Pittman's experience of the 1996 summit disaster: youtu.be/wy1cpOI6fYw #mountaineering

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A page of gold. BnF Supplément grec 610, f252r, Psalter, 11th century

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In case this is brand new information and also a huge relief to anyone else: type -ai after all of your google searches to stop getting an AI overview

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Day 2 of cool #Art : another one by Aivazovsky, he painted spectacular nights! #Skystorians

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Okay Bsky, let's start the year with some amazing #Art : today I present you Ivan Aivazovsky, 19th c. marine painter. #Skystorians

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Practising some Roman Capitals and absolutely failing to understand why it doesn't come out perfect on the first stroke.... #art #calligraphy

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A little experiment. I wanted to replicate a vibe of the illustrations from the One Thousand and One Nights book I read as a child. This is to illustrate a story from the #DnD universe I have. I am in particular happy about the font I came up with for the writing in the corners. #art #illustration

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Cast of Laocoӧn and His Sons, 18th c, 📸 by @MichaelMReaves

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