This handbag would EAT at Paris Fashion Week

RT @ArtButSports: The Death of Cleopatra, by John Collier, 1890

RT @william_whyte: A truly nightmarish thing, this was one of the hits of the Great Exhibition

One of the most perfectly executed "letters to the editor" I have ever seen

This was the only logical thing to do actually

I know nothing about this type of trompe l'oeil — a curtain, painted over the main part of the composition. Can anyone enlighten me? I'm rather in love with it...

Has anyone done research on the importance of the "minute paper" to communications within the UK Civil Service of the twentieth century?

"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others."

RT @Shreyagupta1280: My article in the @HisJournalHA on the state of the (future) field of the history of collecting and institutions writt…

Vacancy for Project Curator: Documentation and Recovery (British Museum). Fixed term (until 31 January 2028), £35,165 per annum. Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 22 November 2024.

Looks like there's been an influx of people joining Bluesky. Give me a follow if you like

Geographically nonsensical headlines like this—west as distinguished from global south—epitomise the problem with the currently accepted terminology used to distinguish rich countries from poor countries

Every so often MS Word randomly picks a word with which to gaslight me

Oh how one longs to be the arty couple in the queue for the Van Gogh show @NationalGallery, standing side by side silently reading the @LRB and @TheEconomist

The vomitification of beverages! Whenever you mix fizzy drinks, they always converge toward the colour of vomit.

RT @wwxwashere: me: i only write for my own enjoyment me writing:

RT @LuciaLobosvilla: Someone else said: “Art Nouveau is when it looks made by elves. Art Deco is when it looks made by dwarves.” And a…

I’ve been sitting here trying to think up a witty caption to undercut the message expressed in this image. But I can’t. Because it’s 100% accurate.

The Internet Archive is being hacked. A truly atrocious act that would, if successful, sabotage our collective memory of the more recent past. I explored the importance of the IA in an article published in 2020, "Notes on a Re-Enchantment". Free to read:

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