The Empire State Building celebrated 92nd anniversary on May 1st as it was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover on May 1, 1931. To help celebrate this landmark building, we are highlighting the Empire Diner in Chelsea tThis photo which appears in our book “New York Nights”.

A quick stroll before sitting down at the drawing desk

Courtyard of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, Italy. harvardartmuseums.org/collections/ob…

Temple of Denderah wikiart.org/en/john-singer…

A harbinger for the future? Surely the best kind of harbinger

Mad to think this extraordinary creature was shot just metres from a shooting estate. The landowner and gamekeepers will be furious that yet another bird has decided to die and dispose of it's own tag so close to a grouse moor.

'More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows' theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

There's nothing more beautiful than the house on a sunny day 🌞

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18. Panlong Road in China🇨🇳

11. Bike path through a lake in Belgium🇧🇪

Majestic #Lviv

A bit of research

#graffiti #brokenwindows #connecticutgraffiti

Campo San Agnese, Venise wikiart.org/en/john-singer…

Perfect listening for yet another gloomy rainy Saturday night (in this Year Without A Summer)- the chaps & Stephen Fry on Troy

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'Design for a stage decoration'. Koloman Moser. 1901.

Having a huge clear out of Paintings on Etsy listed 15 half price

Banshee Pearls (2) collections.artsmia.org/art/113163/

Driving around our small town which is basically an extension of Tunbridge Wells, & there are no signs whatsoever of support for the Conservatives in the upcoming elections. Only Lib Dems & Labour (& actually more Labour signs particularly in the 'nice' streets)

'Two Girls on a Cliff.' (1917) Laura Knight moved to Cornwall in 1907 and began to paint a series of views of the coast, resplendent with bright colour and lit by radiant summer light.

The series of clifftop and coastal paintings she produced over the latter period of WW1 are…