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Good news. ISEA has been a serious forum for emerging media art for decades, and Dubai is a logical host given the planned Museum of Digital Arts. Will follow the programme announcements closely. #ISEA2026 #Dubai #Art
Latifa bint Mohammed inaugurates ISEA 2026 Dubai, spotlighting role of art and technology
#Dubai #Culture #UAE
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artist John Everett Millaisβ study of the face of the tormented Ophelia, singing as she floats down a river to her death / and how she appears in the painting. The model was the artist/poet Elizabeth Siddal (Tate, 1852)
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Just look at this *huge* courtyard social housing scheme inZurich
Impressively thereβs no central corridor. Instead thereβs 15 individual stairs and lifts! This means most of the 210 homes are dual aspect, with views to the street and courtyard
LΓΌtjens Padmanabhan Architects
Love this. The floor grid in the earlier tests already asked the question, so leaning into it makes sense. See you on the 11th.
Replying to @lifeofc @justintrimble
We breaking all the rules on βhow to hang a paintingβ and βwhat is art?β
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Replying to @xmuse_
The exceptional quality of roman concrete is the result of use of volcanic ashes from Vesuvius with lime. Even without the tiles protecting it, it resists to time and men.
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#Nativity #medieval
Ox and ass greet swaddled infant Jesus as he lies in a manger, above reclining Mary and Joseph. Medieval sculpted capital at Pontenx-les-Forges, village in the Landes, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. fineartamerica.com/featured/β¦
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FΕvΓ‘m tΓ©r Metro Station, sporaarchitects, Budapest, Hungary, 2014.
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#archinerds #architecture #sporaarchitects #budapest #hungary
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Replying to @chilltulpa @w_movsum
While we wait: explore the custom exhibition page.
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OfoΓ©: ΓdΓ³ Messenger of Death
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ΓfoΓ© is one of the most prominent entity in Benin cosmology, he's not a god but a messenger who works nomstop in the abode of Ogiuwu the god of death.
Benin cosmology view Γ²foΓ© as an entity without body and entity with only a head, Legs β which he use in pursuit of his victim, Arms β which he use to snatch life from them.
ΓdΓ³ oral tradition recorded him as the younger brother of Amuafuan the entity whose duty like Γ²foΓ© is to snatch life, but unlike Γ²foΓ© who takes ones soul in peaceful way, Amuafuan snatch human souls through horrible circumstances.
The name ΓfoΓ© means β It's Finish, as its the last thing any human sees, as they take their last breathe.
πΌ:Chief Okpame,c.1930s..
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Benin cupboard in ebony with carved panels,1930-1970...
πΈ:Duckworth, E.H.
People have treated social occasions as runways since antiquity. I keep thinking of the Roman mosaics that openly mock fashionable dress. Nothing new here, and hardly an invasion.
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Australian cellist Charlotte Miles, 24, has won the 2026 ABC Young Performers Awards after playing Elgar at the Sydney Opera House. Her prize includes AUD40,000 and an opportunity to record for ABC Classic.
More info at moto-perpetuo.com/charlotte-β¦
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Cross brooch from Lauchhelm π©πͺ, circa 700 CE.
"This cross brooch is decorated with 67 garnet, glass, and enamel inlays on a waffle-patterned gold foil. Golden bosses, imitating pearls, frame the edge. In the center is an antique carnelian cameo depicting the god of love, Cupid framed.
It appears to be a custom-made piece with the maker possessing Mediterranean craftsmanship skills. The brooch was part of the decorative ensemble of the only female burial in grave 24 of the family burial site on the grounds of the manor house of the Lauchheim settlement βMittelhofenβ.
Collection ArchΓ€ologisches Landesmuseum Baden-WΓΌrttemberg
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βͺοΈ Three traditions, three maps: Christian Churches of Europe.
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The Alfred Jewel is a masterpiece of goldsmith's work formed around a tear-shaped slice of rock crystal. Its inscription: AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN β 'Alfred ordered me to be madeβ β connects the jewel with King Alfred the Great r. 871β899
@ashmoleanmuseum #globalmuseum #museums
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The Temple of Artemis (Sardis, TΓΌrkiye) - before and after excavation.
Look at the red line and circled reference holes to see the 1909 ground level. Landslides had buried the lower sections of these columns for centuries until archaeologists finally unearthed the ancient sanctuary floor.
The font framed through the chancel arch is a lovely composition. I love that members fund free shoots at churches and for craftspeople like this. Keeping you on the road is money well spent.
I press the shutter button, but these photographs are made by members. Without their support, the free shoots at churches, skilled crafts and historic buildings would not exist.
Can you help support me and create the next image?
See what membership makes possible - digest.andymarshall.co/geniuβ¦
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πͺβ¨ Celebrate Diwali with colour, culture & devotion!
Bring your family & friends to the BAPS Hindu Mandir, Abu Dhabi.
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Look at the body, not the face.
The face of Senusret III is lined, heavy-lidded and worn. The torso beneath it is smooth, young and strong. Had this been a portrait taken from life, both would have aged together. Instead the sculptors gave an old manβs face to a young manβs body, and that deliberate pairing is the real innovation.
There is a second first here, and it is easy to miss.
This is the earliest Egyptian king shown praying. He stands upright, hands open and laid flat on the front panel of the kilt, in an attitude of devotion rather than command.
Three hundred years later, Hatshepsut had her own statues carved in exactly that pose, at the temple next door to this one.
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The monumental Spanish gothic high altar of Toledo Cathedral, Spain (1504), depicting scenes from the New Testament modelled in gilded and painted larch wood, with gold ornamentation
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