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Maoka Ueda — Wonky Mandala (acrylic on canvas, 2024)

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Vintage Espresso Cups by Joe Colombo for Arno

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copper fox head | c. 300 - 400 CE | moche (modern day peru)

in the linden-museum stuttgart collection

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It’s dangerous to go alone, take this 🐰

It’s going to be available this Saturday, April 5th :) join the email list for updates 🐇

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Headpiece by Masakatsu Shimoda

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earthenware bowls, american southwest, mogollan, mimbres, pre-contact period c. 1000-1150.

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Someone living in Sweden during the Iron Age wore this cloak. Unfortunately, they wore it while they were murdered: forensic analysis found the holes in the cloak match how stabs would have penetrated the folds of the cloak when it was being worn.

Dating to 360 to 100 BCE, is also the oldest known example of a houndstooth pattern!

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do you want to play substance abuse with me after work

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Crocheted Seafood and Knitted Loaves Top the Menu of Kate Jenkins’s Food-Focused Exhibitions

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Richard Seewald (German, 1889-1976) - Katze mit Salamander (Cat with Salamander) (1933)

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“You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.”

— Paul Auster, Winter Journal

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my favourite thing about history (and the reason why social history matters to me above anything else) is the reminder that there's no emotion i've felt, no grief or trauma, no joy or laughter, that hasn't been experienced by other people across time and space, and the idea of slipping into another life so different on the surface and yet so fundamentally similar to my own, and understanding them as a life like my own, with inner worlds that can't be easily articulated, with loved ones and favourite foods and days they woke up having slept wrong and the acute experiences of standing in a quiet room and watching the light catch on dust floating in the air, of the smell outside after it rains heavily, of mornings after having dreamt something feverish and strange, or the knowledge of an impending loss and trying to prepare for it emotionally. peeling fruit and giving a piece to a friend. being awake at an hour that feels like you're the only person alive in the world. that feeling when you know you need to eat and that you're hungry but you just don't find it appealing at all and it kind of makes you feel nauseous. i like imagining people in all different places and times experiencing those things, it makes me feel less alone and afraid of myself and my experience feels less daunting if that makes sense. others have lived with experiences like this too, and do, and will.

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Seated Buddha

Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara), 1st to mid-2nd century

This small bronze Buddha is probably one of the earliest iconic representations of Shakyamuni from Gandhara. He sits in a yogic posture holding his right hand in abhaya mudra (a gesture of approachability); his unusual halo has serrations that indicate radiating light. His hairstyle, the form of his robes, and the treatment of the figure reflect stylistic contacts with the classical traditions of the West. This Buddha shows closer affinities to Roman sculpture than any other surviving Gandharan bronze.

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Dress

c. 1937

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

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Chioma Ebinama (Nigerian-American, b. 1988 MD, USA, based Athens, Greece) - Making Out While an Empire Burns, 2019, Paintings: Watercolor, Sumi Ink on Handmade recycled cotton Rag Paper

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1928 Armchair designed by Marie Louis Sue. From Art Deco, Art Nouveau & 20th Century Decoratif Arts Group, FB.

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Pelos de Cusco

Braids of Quechua women seen and photographed in Cusco, Peru by Olaf Unverzart