Super depressing to hear a 2022 Teacher of the Year say AI is inevitable & students need to "learn to use it." Tech bros and AI-struck economists traumatize us the same way Enclosure Acts of the 18th century did. #historysky #edsky branchcollective.org?ps_articles=...

Ellen Rosenman, “On Enclosure ...

🎨 Before Monet dominated the narrative, Pierre Dumont and the Rouen School brought a heavy, striking texture to early modernism. This 1912 oil on canvas captures the cathedral’s towering architectural presence with incredible mood & mass.
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🎨 Classical myth meeting Les Nabis styling. Maurice Denis’s “Eurydice” (1905) uses the vertical rhythm of coastal trees to split a luminous shoreline into dreamlike, flat planes of vibrant color.

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Something colourful to start the week with: Albrecht Durer's illustration of Livonian ladies in their spectacular form of dress, painted in 1521. Livonia, I learn, was a former province which would now straddle the borders of Latvia and Estonia. #Durer #medieval #costume #historysky #Latvia #Estonia

Just picked up Mortlake, a new novel by Adrian Lavelle — about the Renaissance occultist John Dee (who invented a language just to talk to angels?) The first chapter title made me laugh: "The Exorcism of Ann Frank". Should be good! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT44S11N #booksky #historysky #books

Mortlake

On #MothersDay, a sculpture depicting the Matres, or mother-goddesses. This was found near Hadrian's Wall; the figures are holding vessels and (possibly) fruit #historysky #archaeology @[email protected]

On this day in 2005, Roger Federer and Andre Agassi played a friendly match on a helipad 650 feet above sea level. #TennisSky 🎾 #historysky