Angelica Hankins

Thank you, Melissa!

“…to move through the world with eyes open, to never stop looking.”

This wonderful review by @angelicahankins.bsky.social!📚❤️

the cover of Long Distance

“There’s a disconnect in these stories, as in life, between the way one would like to be seen and the drudgery of the everyday.”

Angelica Hankins reviews Aysegül Savaş’ “Long Distance”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/long-distance-aysegul-savas-short-stories-hankins-review/

Sounds wonderful! Please teach one in DC soon!

Moving Through the World with Eyes Open | Los Angeles Review of Books In her latest short story collection, Ayşegül Savaş considers lives lived apart.

"At times, her characters mull over the past, lamenting all they didn’t say, but more often, they are breathless, eager to see what lies ahead. That, for Savaş, is a kind of redemption: to move through the world with eyes open, to never stop looking."

lareviewofbooks.org/article/long...

Monet refused to leave Giverny, even through illness. “What I need most are flowers, always,” he said— and so he stayed, painting the life that bloomed just beyond his window.

"...when your eyes
freeze behind
the grey window
and the ghost of loss
gets into you,
may a flock of colours,
indigo, red, green
and azure blue,
come to awaken in you
a meadow of delight."

John O'Donohue, "Beannacht" #BookwormSat

John Frederick Kensett, "Sunset on the Sea"

I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
~ T.S. Eliot

Belle Tout Lighthouse (1939)
🎨 Eric Ravilious

A woodcut depicting the symbolic remains of a family's history - items include a broken pram, scattered books and household items.

A woodcut depicting an image of an arm and hand, made up of multiple human hands, against a background of skeletal figures.

Works by German-born Jewish artist David Ludwig Bloch (1910-2002), who spent 4 weeks in Dachau following the pogrom night of 1938. He was able to leave, first to Shanghai, and from 1949 to the USA. Others were not so lucky. 'My Family History'; 'Crying Hands', late 20th c. #HolocaustMemorialDay

Thank you, Melissa!

“…a singular delicacy, an attention to subtlety and play that is all her own.”

Check out @angelicahankins.bsky.social’s wonderful review of Sufie Berger’s solo show! 🖼️💚

Two books turned at angles on top of a stack of books so that you can see the red ink, stylized floral design on the light green cover of a 1930s novel by Warwick Deeping called "Old Wine and New", and also the white irises, edged in gilt, on the lavender cloth cover of a 1900s novel by Myrtle Reed called "The Master's Violin"

the bookseller impulse to document early 20th century cloth hardcover design

"Berger relishes that freedom. Her figures move through the world with intention, never stopping for air."

My review of Sufie Berger's solo show for Artforum www.artforum.com/events/sufie...

"All his life, Salviati instilled in his glassmakers a devotion to traditional artistry, to the fanciful, to work that dazzles."

My essay on Antonio Salviati for Smithsonian magazine www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Landscape with Thunderstorm, Vetheuil, 1880
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9555

“All empty souls tend to extreme #opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability.” - #WBYeats

Photo-realistic drawing of a cat snoozing on a cane-seated chair

I'd never known of this artwork before, but with so much going on I think it's one we need right now: detailed 1934 drawing in black crayon by American modernist Charles Sheeler entitled "Feline Felicity," currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums harvardartmuseums.org/collections/...

"There’s a harmony to the picture, a taupe ground tinged with gold, tree trunks striped with delicate crosshatches. It’s not so much a study of nature as a delight in it, the eye snaking between branches."

My latest review for the Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

A New Yorker cover portraying a servant, known as Fay, leaning out the attic story window of an aristocratic New York mansion, smoking a cigarette, with a view of the city around her. More here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/the-mysterious-cover-artist-who-captured-the-decline-of-the-rich

New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.

'Two Women,' (1914) is an early Diego Rivera masterpiece. The picture depicts his first wife Angelina Belloff and the painter Alma Dolores Bastian. The year he made this painting, Rivera began a new phase in his life, focusing on landscapes and rediscovering colour.

Emily Brontë, 1846

#BookWormSat #Poetry #Poem #EmilyBrontë

"No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear."

🎨: The Jesse Window, Chartres Cathedral

"Brady had an artist’s eye. He knew what light, what turn of the elbow or shift of weight, could transform a person into a vision."

My review of two National Portrait Gallery shows for the Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Catherine of Aragon w/ her pet monkey. The most fun she ever had! Painted in 1525 by Lucas Horenbout, whose day is today.

Browne homed in on people as they are: "at a standstill," unknown to themselves. To her, the role of the artist was to tease out the grotesque, what’s hidden under the surface. To see should not "invoke fear so much as interest, action."

My review for the Post www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Thank you, Melissa!

“Hemphill found that transient home in his writing.”

A wonderful review of Essex Hemphill by @angelicahankins.bsky.social. Check it out, friends!💙

"It’s his gaze that holds you, shadowed in fleshy peaches and fixed on something temptingly, frustratingly out of frame."

My review of Essex Hemphill at the Phillips Collection
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Seeing God in nature: US National Gallery exhibition celebrates art from the dawn of European natural history

Works by the Flemish artists Joris Hoefnagel and Jan van Kessel, among others, charm audiences with their enchanting depictions of nature’s “little beasts”

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