Taide on silkka ylellisyystavara - näin on lausuttu suomalaisessa kulttuuridebatissa ainakin vuodesta 1872 alkaen. Ajatus ei siis ole uusi, eikä nykyisten ”tiukkojen” aikojen tuottama, vaan vanha ja periaatteellinen. Taiteesta ei leikata huonojen aikojen tähden, vaan ideologisista syistä.

Two Brown Frogs, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, C17th. #FrogForYesterday

I looooove this painting by P.S. Krøyer of his wife, Marie... he painted her quite often but this one is just so natural

Hello Saturday. 🖼️ The Flapper, F. X. Leyendecker, 1922.

#Poetry #Painting #Morning It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

2/2 Winners and losers in the card games of Lucas van Leyden, inventor of genre painting (and so much else!). His day is today.

Lucas van Leyden, died (alas!) OTD 1533. Painted the first real Dutch genre scenes! They are all about chance, knowledge, and prediction, as in this Game of Cards.

Interior with Woman at the Spinning Wheel https://botfrens.com/collections/216/contents/1003339

Vain työssään epäonnistuneet brittihallinnon virkamiehet puuttuvat kuvasta 🎩🌂

Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 9h ago

Old Phone Box, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, painting by Ron Lawson, Scottish landscape artist.

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Orpon hallituksen veroalet hyödyttävät lähinnä huipputuloisia, joiden tulot reilusti yli 10 000 €/kk. Muilla verotus jopa nousee, kun huomioidaan alv-korotus ja vähennysten leikkaukset, jotka eivät kuvassa mukana. Lähde: www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

So much to love about the Swedish History Museum today. Perhaps my favourite was the Buddha figure found in a Viking settlement near Stockholm after being made in the 6th century in what’s now Pakistan. I’d read about it but still striking to see. Now I want to build an enquiry around it for KS3!

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

Hyvää huomenta ☀️ Lapsi toivoi leipä & jogurtti -kauden päättämistä ja puurokauden avausta, en vastustellut

Exceptionally low water levels on the Danube have exposed parts of the foundations of the ancient ​Constantine Bridge, giving archaeologists a rare opportunity ‌to document what they describe as one of the Roman Empire's most impressive engineering achievements. www.reuters.com/business/env...

The only news source I trust 🎨 Sarah Graham

This is so true..... #BookSky

Goodnight. The Soft Descending Night, Catherine Hyde.

A 4th century AD stamp-impressed colour coated New Forest Ware bowl found in a 6th century grave at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset in 2014 The heavily worn nature of bowl suggests it was a prized possession A family heirloom? #FindsFriday #Roman #Archaeology

Look up in Parma's cathedral and glimpse a drama: Mary, borne aloft by a host of angels, while her son drops down from empyrean to meet her. Amazing illusion by Antonio da Correggio, whose day is today.

The late Roman 'Lycurgus Cup' (dated 4th-century CE). Made of dichroic glass. The glass appears green when lit from the front and red when lit from the back. The glass depicts scenes from the death of Lycurgus (as described in Book VI of Homer's Iliad). British Museum (1958,1202.1) 📷 me.

Elina Annolan teos Kunnes kukkivat puut (Bazar 2022) oli puhutteleva teos: sai aikaan syvää ahdistusta, mutta lopulta huojennusta ja iloakin päähenkilön puolesta. Elämä voitti 🐶🕯️🌊 #kirjataivas 📚

Death Struggle https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/60163

Helsingin yliopiston unihelpin captcha-tehtävä. Enää ei tarvi kuin tietää, mikä juukeli on "spraitti". #Tunkkinne

Kanske har inte denna kopian av Landshöfdingen friherre Gabriel Kurcks lefnadsminnen (upptecknade af honom själv) vårdats på så bra sätt som man kunde ha hoppats men man kan ändå fortfarande läsa boken och lära t. ex om hur det var att studera vid akademin i Åbo 1641 när han var bara 11 år gammal

Carnations in a glass, by my colleague Jacob van Hulsdonck. Today has been his day.

Exactly, totally relatable, this along with the infinite numbers

cade@caderedkey.bsky.social · 3d ago

One of my most vivid nightmares was the vastness of the universe. What is it expanding into? What existed before the big bang? And i didn't even know how to explain it to my parents. Luckily my adult brain has learned to not think about those things

Still highly relatable, even though I can adult on such a level that the thought does not cause tantrums anymore

Elizabeth Nolan Brown@enbrown.bsky.social · 3d ago

My 4-year/old just learned about the concept of infinity and is now throwing a tantrum over it. “It’s weird! I don’t like it. I just want numbers to stop!”

It's always tea time 🎨 Ana Jiménez