Saw the legendary Buddy Guy last night on the eve of his birthday, he turns 90 today and still plays amazingly. Happy birthday to Blues legend and RnR Hall Of Famer, Buddy Guy.
#Mythology Apollo & Daphne (2022) by Italian artist Marco Araldi (date of birth unlisted) who is based in the UK. Acrylic, ink, gold leaf, canvas 101 x 61 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.
An etching titled "Mountain Village Number 1" (1992) by renowned Japanese printmaker Tanaka Ryohei.
She outscored ALL the men but they wouldn’t let her into space. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Wally Funk obituary
Pioneering American aviator who was the oldest woman to fly into space aged 82 in 2021
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At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1890
I made this because as far as I can see nobody else has?
lda Ten Eyck O'Keeffe, American (1889-1961), Variation on a Lighthouse Theme VII, 1931-32, oil on canvas, c 26.13 x 20.25 in, The Buck Collection at the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, Irvine, California, USA
@frenchie.bsky.social Budget friendly Parisian hotel suggestions welcome, Alexa.
Norman ships were projected onto the White Cliffs of Dover as the Bayeux Tapestry arrived at the British Museum last night. #MedievalSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.
Yoshida Hiroshi (Japanese, 1867–1950) "Sailing Boats in the Morning, Inland Sea", 1926. Woodblock, 40 × 55 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
“I remember years ago Ringo saying to me he’d love to have a Number 1. And I said, What for? You are the Number 1. It doesn’t matter about the record.” - George Harrison, Q Magazine (1988) Celebrating Ringo and George’s friendship at harrisonarchive.tumblr.com/post/8214985....
Nigel Farage's brilliant by election wheeze is horribly backfiring on him. Currently fewer prospective candidates than guests at a Toby Young stag night
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Akihiro Miwa was also a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and a lifetime activist against militarization.
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last mo.Just read that Akihiro Miwa, the great Japanese singer/actor/drag queen, passed away at 91. You might have known him as the voice of Moro the wolf goddess in Princess Mononoke.
Not sure who created this, but it made me laugh out loud. 😏🤭😆
@imanimosley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... I met Anita Lasker-Wallfish at Wigmore Hall after the concert to celebrate her 100th birthday.
The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write
Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played tog...
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Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.
‘Reflections’ Mark Rothko ( Latvia ) 1903
Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.
For the last three years in Devon, I’ve been learning how to ring the bells in our local church tower. But the tower is cracking, and we’re going to have to sell off our lovely bells unless we can pay to fix the tower 😭 Can you help us, with even a fiver? 🙏 www.gofundme.com/f/save-bovey...
Oh! The first record I ever bought! Still have it too. Saw him play once. Rest in Peace.
Nate Chinen@natechinen.bsky.social · 2mo agoRest in Power, maestro Abdullah Ibrahim. Here is a fine NPR Music obit by Martin Johnson.