DB

If you can't be nice, be quiet.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

[DB @TheDonBoz]

@London_W4 Outrageous. That other guy putting in his pointless opinion also frustrating. Still didn't answer the question of how come 'the dispatcher' dispatched them to you and not to an actual crime! Let's just pass the buck to all the 'dispatchers'.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Erika Lee Sears
Orange Slice (2022)
painting #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Japanese artist Mariko Kusumoto turns textiles into delicately sculpted organic looking worlds #womensart #JapaneseArtistsWeek

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Seascape by Alison Holt, contemporary textile artist who creates machine and hand embroidered artworks #WomensArt #SeaArtWeek 🌊

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Landscape-inspired textile art, using hand-dyed fabric, stitching and mixed media by UK textile artist Magz Roberts #WomensArt

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'The jump' quilt by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono, inspired by an illustration by Ukrainian artist Svetlana Dorosheva #WomensArt #Fridayfeeling

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

I think about this every day. In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.

[helen warlow @HWarlow]

Wonderful introduction to the Watercolour paintings by North Yorkshire artist Simon Palmer
One of my favourite artists. These are well chosen selections of his work

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Just a friendly reminder that libraries are free.

Not “free trial” free.
Not “free with ads” free.
Not “free if you give us all of your data” free.

But free free.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

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[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Hazel MacNab, contemporary UK printmaker based in Cornwall #Womensart #PrintmakerArtWeek

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The work of Grete Marks (1899-1990), artist and designer who studied at the influential Bauhaus #womensart

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The Queen of #May, 1900, (detail) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh of the Glasgow School, who pushed the boundaries of Art Nouveau #WomensArt #May1st #FridayFeeling

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Contemporary painter Mary Pym, who was born in the Netherlands but who now lives in the UK #WomensArt

[DB @TheDonBoz]

@JoannaCannon I read it close to publication and breathed it in, it has stayed with me too. I was fortunate to meet Hannah as she did a workshop at our school. I was amazed that someone so young wrote with such maturity. Lovely person.

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Blue Poppies #DeborahLowe

[Sabrina Moro @SabrinaMoro9]

Stanley Spencer 🎨 ( 1891 - 1959 ).
Magnolias, 1938.