NEW ESSAY — In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. Thea Applebaum Licht charts the course of this alluring aesthetic tradition: https://t.co/kR21ktnkFK

Lotus — Ogawa Kazumasa, 1896.⠀⁠ ⠀⁠ One of the many exquisite hand-coloured flower collotypes featured in Kazumasa's 1896 book Some Japanese Flowers. Much more on the site and several of his flower photographs available in our online shop — https://t.co/f27Cjyv1Zz

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Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of the poet Phillis Wheatley, the first ever African-American woman to be published: https://t.co/WOioXDeS0L

#SundayReads: Peter Sahlins explores Jean Denis’ controversial animal-to-human blood transfusions driven by his belief in the moral superiority of animal blood: a substance that could help redeem the fallen state of humanity: https://t.co/juk8FvYB4O

Photographs of captured Modoc warriors taken by Louis Herman Heller during and after the The Modoc War, a war between the Native American Modoc people and the US Army between 1872-1873: https://t.co/sMHkZHeCGH

You may not know it's there, but Fusarium ear rot can hit your yield & crop quality hard. 🌽 Hear tips from Tyler Harp on how to protect your corn with Miravis Neo.

Entering the US public domain in 2026: Hermann Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund. More info behind window 7 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://t.co/LKfE9F9T0R #PDin2026

Harry Macdonough (tenor) and Joseph Belmont (bird song) perform Reginald De Koven's "Robin Redbreast" in 1907: https://t.co/MBkkS64VtH

Experiment carried out according to the ideas of the French physiologist Charles Richet (1850–1935) who believed in thought transmission. One person makes a drawing, after which another person tries to copy it without seeing the originally drawn picture: https://t.co/oS66e6Vvwz

Happy #StNicholasDay! Born in Patara (in what is now Turkey), the saint known for his secret gift-giving became over time the inspiration for today's figure of Santa Claus. See the visual journey undertaken in our "Pictorial History of Santa Claus" — https://t.co/SMideBE0rJ

So incredibly proud of this team. Thank you coaches and teammates for a great senior season. Went 9-3 and 6-0 in district. First district championship in a decade and first playoff win in 4 years. @coachfanning93 @CadeBell_AHS @CoachGood_2 @J_ChristensenQB @CoachTyeFrancis

This week we launched our Fundraiser! https://t.co/wGPn1gebjk We are a not-for-profit project and rely on your donations to stay alive. If you like what we do then please do lend your support! We've lovely postcard packs up for grabs: upcoming theme on... ATTENTION.

Entering the public domain in 2026, in countries with a "life + 70yrs" copyright term: The works of Wallace Stevens. More info behind window 6 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://t.co/LKfE9F9T0R #PDin2026

Two Hummingbirds with Their Young, by Martin Johnson Heade, ca. 1865. Part of our “Feathered Friends” themed set in our online prints shop: https://t.co/x3O20julx8

One of the earliest uses of intertitles, the climax of Cecil Hepworth’s How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) is followed by text flashing almost imperceptibly before our eyes: “?!!!? ! Oh! Mother will be pleased”. The full 42 seconds of the film here: https://t.co/6AmMGX7gJI

Account of meeting an 8-year-old Mozart (who would die only 27 yrs later, #onthisday in 1791). As well as dazzling the narrator with his musical genius Mozart "would also sometimes run about the room with a stick between his legs by way of horse" https://t.co/qIJO8EOGiL #OTD

Careful out there tonight for it's #Krampusnacht! Popular in German-speaking Alpine folklore, the figure of #Krampus is a devil-like horned creature who punishes badly-behaved children the night before St Nicholas' Day. More Krampus cards here: https://t.co/L57E2dwg2y

Entering the US public domain in 2026: Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter. More info behind window 5 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://t.co/LKfE9F9T0R #PDin2026

John Bevis explores the various feats of cunning and subterfuge undertaken by the Kearton brothers — among the very first professional wildlife photographers — in their pioneering attempts to get ever closer to their subjects: https://t.co/QiirPSah8E

"Woodblocks in Wonderland: The Japanese Fairy Tale Series", @chrisdecou on how a pioneering cross-cultural endeavour gave rise to a magnificent chapter in the history of children’s publishing: https://t.co/pHsSpVSsLt

Pages from Ruth McEnery Stuart and Albert Bigelow Paine’s Gobolinks (1896). More on the microgenre of "inkblot books" in our latest books post, including the original in the genre, Justinus Kerner's Kleksographien (1857) — https://t.co/FpXSZeYSpc

Illustrations of snow crystals as "actually observed and sketched with the aid of the microscope”, from the 1863 book Snowflakes: a Chapter from the Book of Nature — https://t.co/EP7u20Hjzm

Entering the US public domain in 2026: Nan Shepherd's The Weatherhouse. More info behind window 4 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://t.co/LKfE9F9T0R #PDin2026