Mattea Gernentz
@thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social
art curator • poet fascinated by memory & landscape • PhD student researching Impressionism & women artists in parks & gardens 🪷 (she/her) https://linktr.ee/matteagernentz
When I’m empress public spaces will be allowed to play gentle piano jazz or nothing at all. And we will all be at peace.
How does fashion shape modernity—and how does modernity shape what we wear? tinyurl.com/9fwmhxvu explores dress and modern life from the 18th to early 20th c., drawing on literature, art, media, and material culture to reveal clothing as an archive of memory, identity, and desire. #MLA2026 #ReadUP
Performatively reading a book? Level up. I’m performatively writing a book
Peggy Guggenheim (born #onthisday) wearing a Schiaparelli dress in Kay Sage’s Paris apartment. Photograph by Rogi André.
The gutted forest falls to ash; Appalled by secret want, I rush
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
Toorop created a sparkling portrait of a woman on the threshold of a new century. Here we see Marie Jeanette de Lange. She was the chair of an association that championed hygienic, loose-fitting, natural clothing that allowed women greater freedom of movement. https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200475283
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
after a long stint as a computer science major, I switched to art & never looked back. I got my bfa in photo & FRANCESCA WOODMAN became my fav photographer. The ALBERTINA Museum in Austria has her work on view through July 6th! www.albertina.at/en/exhibitio... woodmanfoundation.org/francesca/wo...
congratulations to Marie Howe on the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry!! i’m thinking again of this moment from an interview— Sometimes I open a book that’s so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can’t stand it. It’s like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart.
Take a moment to explore these natural details in all their glory. 🌱🐇🐌
Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion
The Paradise Buckle, 1905 by Edith Dawson (and partner Nelson), leading Arts and Crafts artist and jeweler #womensart
I don’t need to go into space, it’s none of my business. I’m a big Earth guy, I can’t get enough of her work. Daffodils! Are you kidding me? Bison! Miraculous. Sending a slinky down the stairs? Incredible. Mariachi music? Yes, please.
i want more art. i want more conversation, constellations. i want more time with trees. i want more of my own heart. more pasta shapes! and the shapes of song! i want paintings so huge we have to build a new space. i want tiny paintings only baby pigeons can properly appreciate
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited 12 artists to respond to the novel. The exhibition is on in London (Mayfair) from 3-8 June & Somerset (Castle Cary) from 14 June - 12 July. www.davidsimoncontemporary.com/exhibitions/...
FOR THERE SHE WAS | 3 June - 12 July 2025 - Overview
LONDON: 3 – 8 June 2025 SOMERSET: 14 June – 12 July 2025 Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, David Simon Contemporary has invited twelve contemporary...
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This is such a wonderful opportunity! Being a Young Makar enabled me to receive invaluable mentorship and writing feedback, share my work for the first time at festivals around Scotland, and connect with brilliant emerging poets I still interact with today. So grateful. Dear poets, apply! 💚
Scottish Poetry Library@byleaveswelive.bsky.social · last yr.Our young makars' mentoring programme for poets living in Scotland aged 16 to 25 years is open for applications. There is a £500 bursary for 3 sessions. We welcome applications from poets working in Scottish Gaelic, Scots & the Spoken Word form. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/scotlands-ne...
When I was lecturing today on books of hours as a book produced in large quantities, a student (understandably!) said she thought most people were illiterate in medieval Europe, so it’s not my fault we got behind because I had 20 minutes of Things to Say.
For National Garden Day, take a read of our Women’s History Magazine special issue on gardening. womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
Women’s History Summer 2019 – Special Issue: Gardening
Special Issue: Gardening The Summer 2019 special gardening issue of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Conte…
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evenings are for kisses and reading maybe 2 poems out loud and forgetting you made a pot of tea and lying all the way down
Some #1930s whimsy, consisting of broad multi coloured stripes and a puffy bustle style arrangement at the back of the otherwise straight silhouette. It is Schiaparelli, deploying some playful details @philamuseum.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.
If this regime is dragging us back to the 1800s they should have to bring back the good stuff too. I want investment in high-speed railways. I want federal buildings redone in Art Nouveau. I want streets clogged with flâneurs walking tortoises on leashes. I want the de-extinction of Oscar Wilde
"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful
Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.
Torsten Kathke@kathke.com · last yr.We won't just lose the archives they want us to lose but also the ones they couldn't back up properly.