Erika Holmquist-Wall

!! Yikes !! That is a great reminder to always use a bit of subterfuge in a dropoff. I hope you are now resting more easily. But it’s all exhausting. Safer travels!

This is alarming and I hope you remain safe and in contact with trusted ppl!❤️😬any learnings to share for the rest of us frequent solo lady travellers?

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Dutch late night TV has its take

This caught my eye; hello from Pewee Valley, KY! Despite the village’s namesake, I have never seen one of these pretty little birds. You are so lucky 💚

A book store with full shelves and stacked high right down to the floor on both sides of the aisle

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

Roses are red
Dangling fruit hang

Just in the last couple of months, there have been at least two promising studies published on using mRNA vaccines for HIV. That’s in addition to mRNA vaccines actively being tested in, eg, colon and pancreatic cancer. He wants us to die, and I don’t know that it could be more obvious.

@artsmia.bsky.social 💚

Horrible fact: these hornets destroy honeybee colonies; they decapitate the heads and bring them back to the nest.

Pretty positive they’re going to find a craterful of honeybee heads here.

"She Had An Inside And An Outside Now And Suddenly She Knew How Not To Mix Them," Amy Sherald, 2018. A Black woman is painted against a bright red background. She’s wearing an orange hat, blue short-sleeved top, rows of white pearls/beads, and white pants with a floral pattern. This is one of my favorite paintings in the exhibit at the Whitney. July 7, 2025.

In the exhibit, Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama gets a lot of attention, but I was more moved by her 2020 painting of Breonna Taylor, which is extremely powerful in person. I struggled not to cry. “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” is on view through Aug 10. #AmericanRealism #BlackArt #NYC

Amazing knots of words by Georg Bocskay, with pears and shell and a butterfly provided by Joris Hoefnagel, whose day is today.

How to construct the letters H & I: calligraphy book by Georg Bocskay, embellished with grotesques, birds, & nice little dog by Joris Hoefnagel. Today is his day.

Cheering you on! Everyone deserves peace of mind and those meds are a perfectly useful tool in the toolbox.

The Devil’s! That detail reveals some unbelievable magic using a paintbrush and pigment.

What an unbelievably gorgeous object! 😻

a smiling stone lion's-head rhyton, Knossos, 1500-1450 BCE. Photo by Cosette, Divine Hours https://cosettepaneque.com/minoan-heraklion-archaeological-museum/

For #caturday a smiling lion's-head rhyton (a ritual vase), Knossos, 1500-1450 BCE. It is made of translucent white limestone & the eyes & muzzle were inlaid w/ coloured materials.

🏛️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum

More here: heraklionmuseum.gr/en/exhibit/l...

🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #cat

Agreed with far right. Her expression in the middle, while she is beautiful, is a little vapid. The one on the far right captures her intelligence in her eyes ❤️

Dang, those boots!!👢

A cartoon Saint Bernard mixes a martini on top of a bourbon barrel

I really enjoyed the blog post; fascinating background on that Landseer painting. Thanks for writing it!

Brilliantly clever and charming! I love the Leaning Chimney property. (And these prints are sweetly adorable)

The story is that the little girl has enough mental and moral fortitude to carry her through her lifetime. She has far more self-control than the cat, whose greedy desire for the fish is…messy.

(There is a canoodling couple in the distance, too.)

Now hanging in the @speedartmuseum.bsky.social as part of its permanent collection!

The gap between the self-image that MAGA has of themselves as tough macho he-men and their constant pants-pissing fear of every goddamn thing in the world is bigger than the Grand Canyon

FINALLY.

The Met Announces First Major U.S. Exhibition of Works by Finnish Painter Helene Schjerfbeck - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The @metmuseum.org Announces First Major U.S. Exhibition of Works by Finnish Painter Helene Schjerfbeck
www.metmuseum.org/press-releas...
December 5, 2025-April 5, 2026!

A Symposium in Celebration of Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light Join us for an afternoon of new scholarship and discussion surrounding the exhibition, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light, on view at the Eskenaz...

Apr 17, in-person and live-streamed
Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University

A Symposium in Celebration of Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light
events.iu.edu/artmuseum/ev...

#womenartists #artherstory

"The Meaning of Social Security," 1940-42, one in a series of murals painted by Ben Shahn for the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, DC www.loc.gov/item/2013634...

Woman at the window of a bare, clean house. Who is outside? Child, ghost, spirit? Friendly, frightening? You say. By Jacob Vrel, whose day is today.