Miguel Murphy

A new chapbook, JUNE!, by Miguel Murphy (@MiguelMurphy) is now available for preorder! Coming June 12, 2026. andchangepoetry.com/books/p/june

Florissantia was an extinct flowering plant that disappeared around 30 million years ago, and scientists are still unsure exactly why 📹burkemuseum

Matisse painted 'Pansies' (1903) during his ‘dark period,' as he went through near financial ruin and family scandal. He wrote of being moved by the pansy's melancholic grace; like Dutch flower painters of the 17thC, he saw the cut flower as a symbol of the vanity of human life.

約80年前のテクニカラーが、妖しく美しい。絵画のような画面と、異様な感情の変化を混ぜ合わせた怪作。その迫力の多くがスタジオと美術の魔法。 x.com/i/status/18792…

Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky

Monica Vitti 1973

This account is insane. Classic Twitter vibes.

“I only exist when I am working on a film.” - Marcello Mastroianni

The tender things are those we fold away.

Kristi Noemi’s husband did what? # BoobGate

“… you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon …” —Wallace Stevens, The Motive for Metaphor

With 'Reading at Supper,' from 1957, we are reminded of the importance Joan Eardley put on finding what she called the story behind human subjects - for her, a truly successful painting had to go deeper than a mere visual record.

Philip Larkin

'Man Reading.' (1904) John Singer Sargent's portraits balance looseness and definition, what might be called Old Master-casual; faces and hands rendered just tightly enough to stay alive. The sitter is Nicola d'Inverno, Sargent's Italian valet and a frequent model.

“They say that the system devours everything, that it assimilates everything. That is not true. There are things the system cannot assimilate, cannot digest. One of them, for example, is precisely poetry. In my view, it is unconsumable.” — Pier Paolo Pasolini

'Raskolnikov in his room' Illustration (1985) by Mikhail Shemyakin for Dostoevsky's ''Crime and Punishment''

Le cheval de Vogelherd, en ivoire, est la plus ancienne sculpture équine connue (entre 37000 et 28000 ans)

The ancient Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and to give them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription reads: “I am in tears while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.”

🖋️🌹 « Je suis un homme ancien, qui a lu les classiques, qui a récolté les raisins dans la vigne, qui a contemplé le lever ou la chute du soleil sur les champs. (...) Je ne sais donc pas quoi en faire d'un monde créé, par la violence, par la nécessité de la production et de la consommation. Je déteste tout de lui : la précipitation, le bruit, la vulgarité, l'arrivée. (...) Je suis un homme qui préfère perdre plutôt que de gagner par des manières déloyales et impitoyables. Et la beauté, j'ai l'effronterie de défendre cette culpabilité, de la considérer comme une vertu. » Pier Paolo Pasolini 📷 © Elio Cool Pier Paolo Pasolini, Assise, Italie, 1963.

Cy Twombly Proteus 1984