Jeff Brouwns
05.03.2026 18:11
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Jeff Brouwns
Édouard Vuillard, The Newspaper, 1896-98, showing a woman reading a newspaper in a decorated interior
If I were to recommend only a single exhibition in NYC right now it wouldn't be a big, splashy museum presentation but rather a small, ravishing show of Édouard Vuillard's early interiors at Skarstedt in Chelsea. Absolutely stupendous. Open through April 25 (thread) www.skarstedt.com/exhibitions/...
Monk loved his garden. Sometimes he hated it.
From ‘A Prospect of the City of Dublin, from the Magazine Hill’ (1753) James Mason, after Joseph Tudor. Yale Centre for British Art.
#IWD2026 A nice find among the records in the Public Record Office of Ireland (before the fire of 1922!) Katherine Bayly's 'domestic accounts books'. Her daily life with her daughters in 18th-century Dublin.
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Landscape in the Rain - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14814
In Nuenen (1883–85), Van Gogh set out to be a “peasant painter,” following his hero Millet. His empathy for laborers—shaped in the Borinage—deepened as he painted weavers and humble meals. These themes culminated in The Potato Eaters, his raw hymn to rural toil.
Delighted to see this out from a great scholar and an even better human @drreznicek.bsky.social
I’d suggest that the people who use Claude are feeling anxious, and the AI model is mirroring anxiety back to them.
Paddington in The Secret Agent (2025)
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1817
I literally have a small screwdriver for ear scratching and cleaning. Philips head.
I was born deaf and grew up with constant ear infections from the tubs they kept sewing into my ears so make sure the canals could stay open as I grew. I earned the right to scritch my ear drum if I want to.
Ear doctor: Don’t use Q-Tips
Me already imagining putting a screw driver I found in the driveway in my ear when I get home: I womt
finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype
Roma Flower Stall (also known as Flower Stall or Roman Flower Stall), 1899 #impressionism #mauriceprendergast
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Black woman in astreet holding a bike wearing a jacket and short trousers
US, late 1800s, Kittie Knox was among a small group of African American women cyclists in Boston. Kittie broke taboos by wearing knickerbockers,which she designed herself #WomensHistoryMonth
Photographer Hannes Killian, one of Germany’s most significant mid-century photographers. Kilian did not stage his pictures, but used them to mirror his own very personal perceptions.
Leuchtschrift des Tanzes
(Light scripture of dance), 1950
#HannesKillian #Photography
The spinning mill - Alessandro Milesi 🇮🇹 #art
The spinning mill - Alessandro Milesi 🇮🇹 #art
Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book
Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book, 1923
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16664
Sketch of a Donkey - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/15160
Portrait of Marie Cezanne, the Artist's Sister
Portrait of Marie Cezanne, the Artist's Sister, 1867
https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/11421
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
The Tiff
Florence Carlyle
1902
One of the first American Woodcocks of the season began foraging in Bryant Park after sunset, finding some earthworms.
Self-portrait with bottle of wine
Self-portrait with bottle of wine 1906
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25469
Sky Pilot
W.P. Weston
1954
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Fishing Boats, Sestri by Vasily Kandinsky, 1905
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137670
I think a lot about how when "Lord of the Flies" happened IRL, the boys worked together to build a little community until they were rescued. But these were Tongans and not British.
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
