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So, in my dreams TV series opens with the partying Boffins of the Yale. First up, the not-so-perilous tale of two exiled brothers - Basso "gone to sea" and Briffo "removed to Bree". No Sauron, no Orcs just tobacco and scrumping (Image: S. Iukhimov 1988)

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2021-01-27

Shiny Pokémon as Poetry Book Covers

27. Shiny Salazzle as 's Simulacra (Yale University Press, 2017)

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2021-01-19

Anthony Van Dyck, Katherine, Countess of Chesterfield, and Lucy, Countess of Huntingdon c. 1636-40 (Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

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2021-01-15

Wait, what? 😩😳 can someone at Yale ask them why on earth this has happened? Iv never had a twitter interaction with that account. Its not a great look pre-emptively blocking an openly queer practitioner for no reason: it looks like bigotry

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2021-01-11



LONDON CRIES: "BLACK HEART CHERRIES..."
Paul Sandby, ca. 1759

from the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.

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2021-01-06

🚨🆕🚨2021 REBRAND
We discuss the CIA’s embrace of new media aesthetics, diversity recruitment, and how “cyber attacks” are being utilized to justify further murderous interventions overseas. Which art bro is responsible? A net art troll or a Yale MFA? https://t.co/cu7BCcp6kH

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2021-01-06

Francesco Furini.
Artemisia se prepara para beber las cenizas de su hermano y marido Mausolus, 1630. Galería de arte de la Universidad de Yale.

Pasó a la historia como ejemplo de viuda de extrema fidelidad, bebiendo las cenizas de su hermano y marido. Murió en 350 a.C.

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2020-12-28

For this here are a Hogarth 1st state & some Hogarth LWL Curator Cynthia Roman wrote about "Copying The Sleeping Congregation" in "Hogarth's Legacy" (Yale Univ. Press 2016). Can you tell which of these is the Hogarth print?

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2020-12-08

Albert Marquet - Vedette in Hamburg, 1909.
Yale University Art Gallery.

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2020-12-02

“George Jules Taylor” was painted by in 1972 and encapsulates 70s fashion, pop culture, & the assertion of Black identity. The painting’s main subject, Jules, was Hendricks’ lifelong friend and muse who he met while the two were enrolled at Yale 🎨

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2020-11-30

Check out Prospects of Empire: Slavery and Ecology in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain, an online exhibit from Yale University Library, curated by Hazel V. Carby and Heather Vermeulen!

Check it out here: https://t.co/8HT0ah9JwF

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2020-11-20

Christina Dallorso created this illustration for Yale University's, "Celebrating 150 years of Yale Women."

https://t.co/kK9pnn1n2l

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2020-11-15

Apart from birthday, November was not a happy month for the On this day Jane nee Thornhill, his beloved wife, died. She was buried . Here's her coffin plate & Lysons' sketch showing her name on the same face as William's (Yale CBA B1977.14.20299)

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2020-11-14

is considered an unlucky day. Superstitions such as this one go hand in paw with the unfounded belief that black cats are unlucky as well. For centuries, black cats have undeservingly been associated with irrational notions.

More: https://t.co/oCmwzOuRdO

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2020-11-13

Congratulations to art historian Hugh Belsey for being awarded The British Art Journal's William MB Berger Prize for British Art History! His book on Thomas Gainsborough was published by in association with .

Learn more: https://t.co/k31V13x6kM

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2020-11-13

known as Veterans Day in the US, honors all military veterans. It had its origin as Armistice Day, marking the official end of the First World War, at 11 am on 11/11/1918.

Image: C. R. W. Nevinson, "After a Push," 1918
More on WWI: https://t.co/3SDBnIVruV

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2020-11-11

10月に、『合計100km走ったら、優しいフォロワーさんがご褒美にイラスト描いてくれます！』って、冗談半分で言ってたんですけど、

マジで描いて頂きました！サプライズで頂きました！作者はYale様()！

文字数が迫ってますね！？あと数回くらいコメント重ねます！！！

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2020-11-09

Now, THIS lady looks like she'd be a lot of fun!

Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Public domain
Artist: Frans Hals, Dutch, ca. 1582/83–1666
Portrait of an Elderly Woman, traditionally called Mevrouw Bodolphe

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2020-11-05

John Singleton Copley.1738-1815. Richard Heber.1782. Yale Center for British Art.

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2020-10-30

Our series continues with this exquisite portrait miniature in a rose gold locket by English painter George Chinnery. On the back of the locket is an impressive design of curled brown hair (presumably of a loved one).

Read more: https://t.co/V5hCuWjJs9

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2020-10-13