Red-figured hydria depicts departure scene: hoplite & woman [wife?] making a a libation before he leaves for battle-an essential ritual aspect in warfare preparation to ensure the gods' favor-he holds a phiale while leaning on spear-vase made ca. 490 BC year of Marathon Battle

Portrait of Louise Bourgeois, 1997 by photographer Annie Leibovitz #womensart

Pitiful excuses top 350 companies have used for not having more women on their boards according to BBC Radio 4 Today include: 1. Women can’t cope with extremely complex issues. 2. The good ones have been snapped up already. 3. We’ve already got one and it’s someone else’s turn Women in Advertising & Communications Leadership

"The men liked to put me down as one of the best women painters. I think I'm one of the best painters" Georgia O'Keeffe #womensart

"Visible beauty is an image of invisible beauty" -Hugh of Saint Victor [1096-1141] Rose Window of Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens built 1220-70 by architects Robert of Luzarches Thomas and Regnault de Cormont

Excellent article on the value of the philosophy of science by prof Michaela Massimi #philosophy #science #culturalhistory x.com/wired/status/1…

Superagers train their memories to recite a story based on pi number sequences #longevity #dementia #memory #maths x.com/japantimes/sta…

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." Virginia Woolf (image by photographer Gisèle Freund, London, 1939) #womensart

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

Ad fraud one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, researcher says which-50.com/ad-fraud-one-o… via Which-50 #socialselling #marketing #advertising #agencylife

"Everything changes, nothing is lost" (2014) by land artist Katie Griesar #womensart

2/2 Twenty years later, lady of extreme elegance painted by Rogier. That high (plucked!) forehead, the pouty lower lip, the ear moved discreetly upward to lengthen effect of neck. The eyes. The hands. Marvels of Burgundian refinement.

6 story archetypes: rags to riches;riches to rages; Icarus;Oedipus;Cinderella;man in a hole #archetypes #stories #writing x.com/maddyosman/sta…

Greek artist Danae Stratou, Desert Breath (1997) collaborative large scale land art installation (Egyptian desert) covering 25 acres #womensart

Alexandra Dillon, Los Angeles-based contemporary artist who paints on found objects #womensart

Chilean artist Livia Marin, from ´Nomad Patterns´ series (2012) #womensart #SundayMorning

Very bad language on this funny video, but how true it rings #marketing #design #briefing

The great Hokusai died #OTD 1849-this ink painting was the master's last creation : "Dragon Flying over Mount Fuji"[1849], perhaps he saw himself as the Dragon rising from mortal ashes into artistic immortality.

the mountain is pathless until we tread on it Hokusai-Poem by Yamabe no Akahito, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)-ca.1835-36