If you had a friend like Édouard Manet, you might get letters like this, instead of emails (1879-80)

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Conductor, composer, teacher, and humanitarian born #otd in 1918, his influence on music is incalculable. Do you know: in 1948 he led a 17-member Holocaust survivor orchestra boosting morale of refugees in DP camps. My father was the cellist! Read more in ‘The Cello Still Sings.’

Life advice from Goethe (b otd 1749): “Everyone should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of their life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”

Gustav by Rodin. Alma’s piano. Inspirational stuff.. Mahler Foundation

Legendary conductor Karl Böhm was born #onthisday in 1894. What is your favourite recording by him? Let us know in the comments!

Trouble at t'mill. Cant get the right paint. Trying to just block the colour in but acrylic is wrong, so i tried a bit of gouache, and that's unsatisfactory too. Think i didn't sand the board enough. it's rough....ah well. Time to sew instead i think.

Violinist Rachel Podger begins her tenure as Principal Guest Director of Tafelmusik with an all-Mozart program next month - we’ve got details rebrand.ly/8l9aapi #classicalmusic #mozart #toronto rebrand.ly/8l9aapi

Nicolas de Staël, L’Étang en forêt de Soignes à Bruxelles, 1930.

Warning from M. Gorbachev (d otd 2022): "Never before has so terrible a threat loomed so dark over mankind. The only reasonable way out of the situation is agreement on an immediate termination of the race in arms, above all, nuclear arms, on Earth and its prevention in Space."

Alongside the silks, here are a few linens I’ve dyed this summer. From left, indigo leaf x2 (lighter in real life), meadowsweet x2, reed flower and willow leaf.

Stone 10. done i guess - but it needs a good finishing - dry out, fix, varnish, and maybe polish....but you get the idea...

BREAKING: Brazil's authoritarian censorship judge, Alexandre de Moraes, orders X banned in all of Brazil within 24 hours. Also ordered Google and Apple to remove X from its stores within 5 days.

An example from a series of paintings on the theme of the seamstress that Édouard Vuillard made during the 1890s, the period of his association with the Nabi circle, which resulted in his most challenging and sophisticated work. The pictures from this period typically depict

Last one for #drawingaugust it’s the fabulous Noggie from Galgos del Sol thank you everyone who has shown enthusiasm- see you next year

Florence

Georgia O'Keeffe, Morning Sky, 1916 #WomensArt

Girls reading, 1939 by US photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt

Today is Keanu Reeve's 60th birthday. You may not know that he was abandoned by his father at 3 years old and grew up with 3 different stepfathers. He is dyslexic. His dream of becoming a hockey player was shattered by a serious accident. His daughter died at birth. His wife

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