Mark M. Weston
@markmweston.bsky.social
The author of "The Art of Wellbeing." Devoted to the healing powers of nature and arts.
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Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
January 20, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961
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America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
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Trump Is Making China Great Again
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
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January 18, 2026 at 4:33 PM
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
Read @crampell.bsky.social's latest Receipts now. bit.ly/4jWowzF
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Parviz Tanavoli
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
January 18, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Parviz Tanavoli
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
Lion on Blue, 1978
Lion and Sword II, 1976
Henry Tonks
Henry Tonks was a teacher of enormous influence at the Slade School, and one of the great defenders against the rapid rise of modernism in the 20thC. This work (c1930) shows the artist Philip Wilson Steer (seated grey hair) at home in Chelsea at an afternoon tea party.
January 18, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Henry Tonks
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'Brocade and Fruit.' (c1960) Patrick Hennessy was one of the most commercially successful artists in Ireland in the mid-20thC; there is no doubting his technical skill though critics often wrote his aesthetic sense was limited and he relied on realist flourishes just for effect.
January 17, 2026 at 8:40 PM
'Brocade and Fruit.' (c1960) Patrick Hennessy was one of the most commercially successful artists in Ireland in the mid-20thC; there is no doubting his technical skill though critics often wrote his aesthetic sense was limited and he relied on realist flourishes just for effect.
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'The greatest portraitist of this or any other time,' Walter Sickert once called Wyndham Lewis. It's quite an accolade; he was certainly one of the best painters of his generation. This picture of John MacLeod was one in a series of portraits of poets from 1938.
January 17, 2026 at 8:15 PM
'The greatest portraitist of this or any other time,' Walter Sickert once called Wyndham Lewis. It's quite an accolade; he was certainly one of the best painters of his generation. This picture of John MacLeod was one in a series of portraits of poets from 1938.
Augustus John
It wasn't until the mid 1920s that Augustus John began painting flowers as an alternative to portraiture; this Begonia (1928) would have been grown in the garden at Fryern Court, John's home on the edge of the New Forest.
January 17, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Augustus John
Rob Rowland
British artist Rob Rowland specialises in railway paintings ~ here, I’m enjoying the night-time atmosphere and lighting effects he achieves in this nostalgic image of a misty, wet Drury Hill, Nottingham in the early 60s
January 17, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Rob Rowland
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Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
January 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Joan Mitchell
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Untitled, 1956
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 × 14 3/4 in.
Klimt
'Portrait of a Lady in Black.'
Gustav Klimt was an early adopter of using photography to help compose a painting, this is the case with this portrait from around 1894 of Marie Breunig, the wife of the owner of a Viennese bakery.
Gustav Klimt was an early adopter of using photography to help compose a painting, this is the case with this portrait from around 1894 of Marie Breunig, the wife of the owner of a Viennese bakery.
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Klimt
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The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
January 14, 2026 at 4:35 AM
The First Amendment protects the public’s right to:
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
1. Film ICE in public
2. Photograph ICE in public
3. Observe what ICE does in public
ICE and DHS officials cannot lay a finger on any American who is peacefully exercising First Amendment rights.
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A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery.
While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 AM
A protester is currently lying in a hospital bed with a piece of shrapnel in his neck 7mm from his carotid artery.
While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
While he lay bleeding on the pavement, blinded in his left eye, gasping for air, agents did not call a medic. They dragged him and sneered: "You're going to lose your eye."
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Marco Rubio, June 2012.
January 14, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Marco Rubio, June 2012.
Robert Borlase Smart
Robert Borlase Smart was a frequent traveller, especially to Italy. From outside the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice, where this picture was painted, he could have chosen a view of the Ponte di Rialto but opted for the more modest Fondaco dei Tedeschi, next to it.
January 14, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Robert Borlase Smart
Dorothy Hawksley
Dorothy Hawksley's paintings from the 1920s are strongly influenced by Japanese prints. She used herself, her sister-in-law and a mannquin she nicknamed ‘Enid’ to model in this work - it's a feminine style; quiet, and delicate in execution.
January 13, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Dorothy Hawksley
Picasso
Stages in Picasso’s depiction of a bull, with progressively increasing degrees of simplicity and abstraction (from ‘Bull’, lithograph, 1945/6)
January 12, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Picasso
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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Map of the World, from Jean Corbichon's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's 'De proprietatibus rerum' (late 15th century)
January 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Map of the World, from Jean Corbichon's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's 'De proprietatibus rerum' (late 15th century)
Isobel Codrington
'Wild Thyme Farm,' (c1925) typifies a series of downland landscapes painted by Isobel Codrington on the estate surrounding her home at Wistler's Wood in Surrey. Rolling hills lit from the left, casting long shadows, convey the atmosphere of early morning or late afternoon.
January 11, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Isobel Codrington
Louis Ginnett
'Sketching in a Wood.' (1926) Louis Ginnett's painting is typical of many British artists who shunned the avant garde between the wars; this work had enormous appeal, with an emphasis on continuity; this picture, as did so many others, features his daughter Mary.
January 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Louis Ginnett
Picasso
The intense gaze in 'Madame Canals,' (1905) is the most remarkable feature of Picasso’s markedly classical portrait - it is a composition inspired by traditional Spanish portraits and evokes the typology of figures in Picasso’s previous works, characterised by their slenderness.
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Picasso
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Jan van Kessel (Flemish, 1626 - 1679), Dragonfly, Two Moths, Spider and Beetles with wild Strawberries. Oil on copper, 9 x 13cm, early 1650s
January 6, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Jan van Kessel (Flemish, 1626 - 1679), Dragonfly, Two Moths, Spider and Beetles with wild Strawberries. Oil on copper, 9 x 13cm, early 1650s
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🖼️ "Five a Day" by British children's book illustrator Alison Jay.
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 AM
🖼️ "Five a Day" by British children's book illustrator Alison Jay.