Someone had sex with that frog-faced creep? Amazing.

Stars descend on the BAFTA film awards, with 'One Battle' and 'Sinners' leading the race The BAFTA Film Awards have a tight race, with “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners” leading the nominations.

Politically charged thriller “One Battle After Another” and blues-steeped epic “Sinners” lead the race for Sunday’s British Academy Film Awards as the two movies jostle for awards-season supremacy.

Ah, no, we don’t.

Florida is a cesspool of corruption.

Happy Birthday to Leontyne Price —The Queen — born February 10, 1927 in Laurel, Mississipi …

Leontyne Price photographed by Brian Lanker, 2011. Photo © Brian Lanker 2011

#leontyneprice
#BrianLanker
#leontyne

Happy Birthday to Leontyne Price —The Queen — born February 10, 1927 in Laurel, Mississipi …

Leontyne Price photographed by Marvin Koner (American; 1921–1983), ca. 1963. © Marvin Koner/CORBIS

#leontyneprice
#marvinkoner
#leontyne
#corbis

@hirschsprungskesamling

P.S. Krøyer: ‘Hornbæk ved vintertid’ , 1891. Fridolin Johansen: ‘Gasværkshavnen, Vinter’, 1899. L.A. Ring. ‘Tåget vinterdag. Karrebæksminde.’ 1897. Johan Rohde: ‘Uden for domkirken i Ribe. Vinterdag’, 1892.

#hirschsprungske

On the Beach at Coney Island, 1959. Bruce Davidson (American; b. 1933). Image © Bruce Davidson, courtesy of Seven Stories Press.

#BruceDavidso
#coneyisland
#sevenstoriespress
@7storiespress

Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin (French, 1699-1779), ‘Basket of Plums’, 1765, oil on canvas 32.4 x 41.9 cm.

#jeanbaptistesiméonchardin

#chardin #chryslermuseum

@chryslermuseum

“La Falaise.” Henri Rousseau, known as Le Douanier (French; 1844–1910). Oil on canvas, ca. 1895. Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. © RMN-Grand Palais (musée de l’Orangerie) / Franck Raux.

#ledouanier
#ledouanierrousseau
#rousseau
#HenriRousseau
#museeorangerie
@museeorangerie

“La Plage à Trouville” (The Beach at Trouville). Gustave Courbet (French; 1819–1877). Oil on canvas, ca. 1865. Association Peindre en Normandie, Caen, France. © Association Peindre en Normandie.

#Trouville
#GustaveCourbet
#Courbet
#peindreennormandie
@peindre_en_normandie_

@carnegiemuseumofart

Édouard Manet, Still Life with Brioche (Nature morte à la brioche) (detail), 1880, Carnegie Museum of Art, William R. Scott, Jr. Fund.

#édouardmanet
#manet
#edouardmanet
#carnegiemuseumofart

Immortalata nel bianco marmo carrarese per ben due volte dalla mano di Antonio Canova, Tersicore è Musa della danza e del canto corale, come ci suggerisce la cetra che stringe nella mano sinistra.

@museocanova
@clevelanmusemofart
#AntonioCanova
#Canova
#clevelanmusemofart

@neuegalerieny

Max Beckmann, “Paris Society,” 1925/1931/1947, oil on canvas. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. © 2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

#neuegalerie
#beckmann
#neuegalerieny
#maxbeckmann
#guggenheimmuseum
@guggenheim

@yoyomaeght Et si je faisais une série chapeaux, voilà peut-être mon préféré, parfois les autoportraits témoignent, avec infiniment de sérieux, de l’humour des artistes, c’est le cas de cette toile de James Ensor : “Autoportrait au chapeau fleuri”, 1883.
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#ensor #chapeau #autoportrait
#jamesensor

A letter from Philip Glass, with his name at the top. "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. [signed] Philip Glass

Three cheers for Philip Glass, whose Solo Piano record has been my boon companion for decades whenever I'm painting. (I notice that Glass didn't use the current administration's name for the center in his letter.)

“Baigneuses à Bandol” (Bathers at Bandol). Amédée de la Patellière (French; 1890–1932). Oil on canvas, 1928. Musée de l’Oise, Beauvais, France.

#amedeedelapatelliere
#amédéedelapatellière
#lapatellière
#lapatelliere
#bandol
@mudooise

“Vue d’une falaise” (View of a Cliff). Jean-Baptiste Antoine Guillemet (French; 1841–1918). Oil on canvas, n.d. Musée national du château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France.

#JeanBaptisteAntoineGuillemet
#Guillemet
@chateaumalmaison
#chateaudemalmaison

“Jeune femme en tenue de bain assise sur la plage de Deauville” (“Young woman in swimwear sitting on the beach at Deauville”). Photo by Agence Rol. Glass plate negative, August 1921. Bibliothèque nationale de France

#deauville
#bibliothèquenationaledefrance
#bibliothequenationaledefrance
@labnf

@cooperhewitt

Collage, Plan and Elevation of The Gates, Central Park, New York, NY; Designed by Christo (American, b. Bulgaria 1935–2020), Jeanne-Claude (French, b. Morocco, 1935–2009)

@prinseugenswaldemarsudde

Kersti slädfärd från 1901 skildrar konstnärens femåriga dotter Kersti i full fart på väg till kyrkan i Sundborn.

Carl Larsson, Kersti slädfärd, 1901. Lärarstiftelsen

#waldemarsudde #carllarsson

#christmas

@theartbystander The light is soft at the Fondation Maeght @fondationmaeght in southern France.

📸 Alberto Giacometti, Les Femmes de Venise, 1956 - 1957 et Fernand Léger, La Partie de Campagne, 1954 - Archives Fondation Maeght.

#albertogiacometti #fernandleger
#fernandléger
#fondationmaeght

@staedelmuseum

Degas presents a cheerful and festive scene, but from an unusual perspective – one theater visitors usually don’t get to see: the view of the musicians in the foreground to the dancers in the spotlight.

Edgar Degas, Orchestra Musicians, 1872 (1874 – 1876), Frankfurt, Städel Museum

@hamburger.kunsthalle

Otto Speckter (1801-1871), Ein Knabe mit einem Brezel in der Hand, vor ihm Brot (Illustration zur Fabel »Kuchen und Brot«), 1833 (?), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett/ bpk

#hamburgerkunsthalle
#kupferstichkabinett
#ottospeckter

@ilmedievista

🇮🇹 Jean Colombe, Il mese di novembre, Très riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1485-1489 ca., Chantilly, Musée Condé.

#jeancolombe
#muséecondé
#museeconde
@chateauchantilly
#tresrichesheuresduducdeberry
#trèsrichesheuresduducdeberry

“Surf, Prout’s Neck.” Winslow Homer (American; 1836–1910). Watercolor, 1883. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.

#proutsneck
#winslowhomer
#yaleartgallery
#yaleuniversityartgallery
@yaleartgallery

Henriette Sontag, born 1806, was one of the leading sopranos of her time. At the age of 18 she sang the solo soprano parts in the first performances of Beethoven’s 9thSymphony.

This miniature of Sontag is by Alessandro Fiocchi, after Franz Winterhalter.

#henriettesontag
@wallacemuseum

“Salty dog . . . a wintry walk on the beach at Tynemouth.” Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA.

#owenhumphreys
#tynemouth

@fineartsbelgium In this study of chicks dated 1858, Verboeckhoven succeeds in illustrating our feathered friends in great detail. The work exudes charm and spontaneity. 
 
Eugène Verboeckhoven, Chicks (1858), RMFAB, Brussels.

#eugeneverboeckhoven
#eugèneverboeckhoven

So, this is where the media’s sanewashing of Trump — including that of the @nytimes — has brought us.