“Portrait of a Lady”
Gustav Klimt (1917)
Category Archives: Art
Your Morning Cup of Links
The escape of Charles II to France
THE DOG PATRIARCHY MUST BE STOPPED
Everything about this story is ridiculous. Especially the “I had a bump on my neck once that turned out to be nothing, so now I need an emotional support rodent to fly with me” part.
We’re raising a generation of idiots and calling it progress.
The truth and fiction of Adam and Eve
Massive ancient underground city once housed 20,000 people
Google X and the science of radical creativity
How The Princess Bride built film’s most beloved sword fight
The volatile friendship of Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon
A “horrifying and engrossing” history of madness at sea
Is the traditional Western a thing of the past?
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Your Morning Cup of Links
How photography influenced John Singer Sargent
Your feel-good story of the day
People who shelve their books with the spines facing in are monsters. Who does this?
Glad to see the “let’s be adults instead of wussy garbage babies” movement is growing: “There is a growing sense that we are entitled to have the world adapt to our preferences, instead of the other way around…Put your pet in a damn carrier, as people did for decades in a system that worked totally fine before everyone became incredibly self-centered. Thank you.”
People still pay attention to this talentless fucking idiot for some reason.
Are delivery apps killing restaurants?
How a dodgy German biologist influenced art nouveau
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