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Thicket — a curiosity-led journal of the arts, humanities, and everyday wonder. Read on substack!
Curated by Laura Steavenson. Based in Japan.
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Curated by Laura Steavenson. Based in Japan.
https://readthicket.substack.com/
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Hello, Bluesky!
I'm Laura—writer, educator, and humanities nerd. I'm launching Thicket, a curiosity-led Substack about art, history, music, and cultural connections.
What’s a topic you once stayed up too late researching just for fun? I want to know what you've been learning!
#humanities #substack
I'm Laura—writer, educator, and humanities nerd. I'm launching Thicket, a curiosity-led Substack about art, history, music, and cultural connections.
What’s a topic you once stayed up too late researching just for fun? I want to know what you've been learning!
#humanities #substack
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A note and some reading for your Thanksgiving. No politics, no stress, just art and gratitude.
A note and some reading for your Thanksgiving. No politics, no stress, just art and gratitude.
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Woke up far from home today on Thanksgiving (Japan-time), but art provided comfort that dreaming of mom’s homecooked feast could not. Today’s newsletter explores Andrew Wyeth and the quiet comfort of ...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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A note and some reading for your Thanksgiving. No politics, no stress, just art and gratitude.
A note and some reading for your Thanksgiving. No politics, no stress, just art and gratitude.
Thicket Presents: Pastorals -- a new Substack series exploring art, music, film, and the cultural spaces where nostalgia meets melancholy. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/readthic...
Thicket Presents: Pastorals
Welcome to a late autumn theme, pastorals. No shepherds or sheep required (though both are welcome).
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November 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Thicket Presents: Pastorals -- a new Substack series exploring art, music, film, and the cultural spaces where nostalgia meets melancholy. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/readthic...
We write to preserve, but the act of writing always changes us. Ink freezes thought, then thaws it for someone else to find.
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Ink & Apples No. 4: Marks that Stay
Ink and Permanence: Reflections on the power of writing as a mirror and a memory
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October 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We write to preserve, but the act of writing always changes us. Ink freezes thought, then thaws it for someone else to find.
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Lots to do, but this is the mood. Listening to Mac DeMarco all week and simply drifting. Anyone else in this boat? #artbots #arthistory
Painting: James Tissot, The Dreamer (Summer Evening), c. 1876. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France. Image via wikiart.
Painting: James Tissot, The Dreamer (Summer Evening), c. 1876. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France. Image via wikiart.
July 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Lots to do, but this is the mood. Listening to Mac DeMarco all week and simply drifting. Anyone else in this boat? #artbots #arthistory
Painting: James Tissot, The Dreamer (Summer Evening), c. 1876. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France. Image via wikiart.
Painting: James Tissot, The Dreamer (Summer Evening), c. 1876. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, France. Image via wikiart.
In case you can't travel to Paris for a glass of something sweet and bubbly on the rooftop in the evening sunshine...I'll bring Paris to you instead!
#history #paris #substackwriters #arthistory
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#history #paris #substackwriters #arthistory
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The Green Hour No. 1: Absinthe & Liminality
A brief history of the drink that became cultural ignition and the impressions it left behind.
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July 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In case you can't travel to Paris for a glass of something sweet and bubbly on the rooftop in the evening sunshine...I'll bring Paris to you instead!
#history #paris #substackwriters #arthistory
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#history #paris #substackwriters #arthistory
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I’ve always loved Cézanne’s depictions of fruit. The colors catch and mingle while remaining distinct. Nothing says mid-summer like a plate of peaches!
Still Life: Plate of Peaches by Paul Cézanne, 1879 #artbots #guggenheim
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July 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’ve always loved Cézanne’s depictions of fruit. The colors catch and mingle while remaining distinct. Nothing says mid-summer like a plate of peaches!
If fairy lights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and eventing dinners out in the yard with friends that stretch into hours-long affairs sounds nice, this is for you 💚✨🌿 #substackers #goldenhour #writing
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Thicket Presents: The Green Hour
Opening a month-long inquiry into leisure, imagination, and the magical hour of dusk.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
If fairy lights, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and eventing dinners out in the yard with friends that stretch into hours-long affairs sounds nice, this is for you 💚✨🌿 #substackers #goldenhour #writing
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Thinking about how we spend our evenings. Who do we share those sacred after-work hours with? When time is so limited, what do we choose? Will your Friday evening look something like this?
'Evening in a Parisian Café.' (1903) A pupil of William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Elie Anatole Pavil was born in Odessa in Ukraine in 1873 and later gained French citizenship. In 1923, he exhibited at the Peinture Moderne Group III, with Picasso, Utrillo, Van Dongen, and Vlaminck.
June 27, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Thinking about how we spend our evenings. Who do we share those sacred after-work hours with? When time is so limited, what do we choose? Will your Friday evening look something like this?
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Spring flowers & produce in unlikely yet fab arrangement in a window. Love that hanging cherry basket! By Juan Sanchez Cotán, whose day has been today.
June 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Spring flowers & produce in unlikely yet fab arrangement in a window. Love that hanging cherry basket! By Juan Sanchez Cotán, whose day has been today.
Hello, Bluesky!
I'm Laura—writer, educator, and humanities nerd. I'm launching Thicket, a curiosity-led Substack about art, history, music, and cultural connections.
What’s a topic you once stayed up too late researching just for fun? I want to know what you've been learning!
#humanities #substack
I'm Laura—writer, educator, and humanities nerd. I'm launching Thicket, a curiosity-led Substack about art, history, music, and cultural connections.
What’s a topic you once stayed up too late researching just for fun? I want to know what you've been learning!
#humanities #substack
June 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Hello, Bluesky!
I'm Laura—writer, educator, and humanities nerd. I'm launching Thicket, a curiosity-led Substack about art, history, music, and cultural connections.
What’s a topic you once stayed up too late researching just for fun? I want to know what you've been learning!
#humanities #substack
I'm Laura—writer, educator, and humanities nerd. I'm launching Thicket, a curiosity-led Substack about art, history, music, and cultural connections.
What’s a topic you once stayed up too late researching just for fun? I want to know what you've been learning!
#humanities #substack