Erika Holmquist-Wall
@curatrice.bsky.social
Art museum chief curator and curator of European and American painting and sculpture. Provenance nerd. Magpie. Your friend and colleague. Nordic art and design, English miniatures, knitting enthusiast, histories of collecting.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
August 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
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Roses are red
Dangling fruit hang
Dangling fruit hang
Talking parrot helps bring down Blackpool drugs gang
Talking parrot helps bring down Blackpool drugs gang
Raids in Blackpool uncovered the bird which had been taught to say drug dealing phrase, "two for 25".
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August 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Roses are red
Dangling fruit hang
Dangling fruit hang
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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.
RFK Jr is destroying research on vaccine technology that has saved millions of lives in favor of antiquated vaccines that don’t work as well and take longer to produce.
Killing mRNA vaccines will kill people.
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Killing mRNA vaccines will kill people.
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What's Old is New and What's New is Dead
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for mRNA vaccines
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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.
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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
July 8, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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
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Amazing knots of words by Georg Bocskay, with pears and shell and a butterfly provided by Joris Hoefnagel, whose day is today.
July 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Amazing knots of words by Georg Bocskay, with pears and shell and a butterfly provided by Joris Hoefnagel, whose day is today.
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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.
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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.
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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
🏛️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum
More here: heraklionmuseum.gr/en/exhibit/l...
🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #cat
July 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
🏛️ Heraklion Archaeological Museum
More here: heraklionmuseum.gr/en/exhibit/l...
🏺 #archaeology #ancientbluesky #cat
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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
Sean Duffy: "The truth is, transit across America is dangerous. And these liberals -- liberal mayors -- they want everybody out of cars and into trains but they made the trains unsafe so nobody really wants to ride them ... even big men don't want to ride the subway at those times of night."
April 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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
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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!
www.metmuseum.org/press-releas...
December 5, 2025-April 5, 2026!
The Met Announces First Major U.S. Exhibition of Works by Finnish Painter Helene Schjerfbeck - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
www.metmuseum.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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!
www.metmuseum.org/press-releas...
December 5, 2025-April 5, 2026!
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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
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
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...
events.iu.edu
April 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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
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
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"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...
March 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"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...
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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.
March 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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.
Maybe the moment has finally arrived where the price of eggs in China is relevant.
March 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Maybe the moment has finally arrived where the price of eggs in China is relevant.
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George Grosz, The Agitator, 1928 www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectio...
March 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
George Grosz, The Agitator, 1928 www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectio...
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What can museums do right now to support their trans and queer staff and visitors?
It’s Time for Museums to Step Up for Queer and Trans People
Amid ceaseless attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, art institutions have a responsibility to center and support their queer and trans staff and visitors.
hyperallergic.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What can museums do right now to support their trans and queer staff and visitors?
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🏺 Texture in this is astonishing - the irises and pupils with the lightest touched (except for a tiny white highlight) make you feel like you're looking *into* her eyes, while her pearl earrings gleam tangibly out of the 4th dimension
(high res image : commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mu...
(high res image : commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mu...
February 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🏺 Texture in this is astonishing - the irises and pupils with the lightest touched (except for a tiny white highlight) make you feel like you're looking *into* her eyes, while her pearl earrings gleam tangibly out of the 4th dimension
(high res image : commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mu...
(high res image : commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mu...
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If you need some escapism, a glimpse at summer 1789:
💄Writer Hester Piozzi is wearing MAKE-UP
🎨 Artist Joshua Reynolds is going BLIND
💖 Jack Byron – father of the poet – is waltzing around France being "AS HANDSOME AS EVER"
(surely something bigger was going on? No...? 🤔🇫🇷) #18c
💄Writer Hester Piozzi is wearing MAKE-UP
🎨 Artist Joshua Reynolds is going BLIND
💖 Jack Byron – father of the poet – is waltzing around France being "AS HANDSOME AS EVER"
(surely something bigger was going on? No...? 🤔🇫🇷) #18c
January 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
If you need some escapism, a glimpse at summer 1789:
💄Writer Hester Piozzi is wearing MAKE-UP
🎨 Artist Joshua Reynolds is going BLIND
💖 Jack Byron – father of the poet – is waltzing around France being "AS HANDSOME AS EVER"
(surely something bigger was going on? No...? 🤔🇫🇷) #18c
💄Writer Hester Piozzi is wearing MAKE-UP
🎨 Artist Joshua Reynolds is going BLIND
💖 Jack Byron – father of the poet – is waltzing around France being "AS HANDSOME AS EVER"
(surely something bigger was going on? No...? 🤔🇫🇷) #18c
Growing angry thinking about how much of my one wild and precious life is wasted working out of the email inbox. ☠️
January 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Growing angry thinking about how much of my one wild and precious life is wasted working out of the email inbox. ☠️
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Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory?
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum
For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !
www.bayeuxmuseum.com
December 29, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory?
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS:
www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...
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Remind me to spend Christmas downstairs ("HOW CHRISTMAS IS SPENT DOWNSTAIRS," Illustrated Police News, London, January 1, 1898)
December 22, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Remind me to spend Christmas downstairs ("HOW CHRISTMAS IS SPENT DOWNSTAIRS," Illustrated Police News, London, January 1, 1898)
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Interested in historic documents?📜
Want to improve your reading of old handwriting (palaeography?)✍️
Enjoy bite-sized puzzles like Wordle? Looking for a new challenge over Christmas?🎄🎅
Help us transcribe 25,000 Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills on Zooniverse: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
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Want to improve your reading of old handwriting (palaeography?)✍️
Enjoy bite-sized puzzles like Wordle? Looking for a new challenge over Christmas?🎄🎅
Help us transcribe 25,000 Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills on Zooniverse: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
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The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation
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December 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Interested in historic documents?📜
Want to improve your reading of old handwriting (palaeography?)✍️
Enjoy bite-sized puzzles like Wordle? Looking for a new challenge over Christmas?🎄🎅
Help us transcribe 25,000 Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills on Zooniverse: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
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Want to improve your reading of old handwriting (palaeography?)✍️
Enjoy bite-sized puzzles like Wordle? Looking for a new challenge over Christmas?🎄🎅
Help us transcribe 25,000 Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills on Zooniverse: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
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Remedios Varo, Spanish surrealist who fled war-torn Europe for Mexico during World War II, was born on this day in 1908. Varo created one of my favorite pictures about looking (and its limits), this 1935 gouache entitled Ojos sobre la mesa (Eyes on the Table)
December 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Remedios Varo, Spanish surrealist who fled war-torn Europe for Mexico during World War II, was born on this day in 1908. Varo created one of my favorite pictures about looking (and its limits), this 1935 gouache entitled Ojos sobre la mesa (Eyes on the Table)