mumby road

  • As impersonal systems play increasing roles in information-gathering and decision-making, the personal element can be summed up as “human error.” … [T]hen of course the fields concerned with human nature—specifically, all the ways it is not predictable—are unseated, too…

    [I]t is simply better to be a human when a personal God is at the heart of the universe. Human lives are easier to defend. Human joys have cosmic significance. Human foibles are “a feature, not a bug.” Human creativity is more arresting. Human language can be savored. Human stories must be told.

    Abigail Woolley Cutter

  • A Treasure

    Malcolm Guite is posting poems he’s collected in his Advent Anthology, Waiting on the Word. I love to hear Malcolm read (and speak). Today’s offerings, a poem by Robert Hayden, and art by Linda Richardson, are particularly lovely.

  • Mind the Gap

    Auto-generated description: A framed painting hangs on a wall, bathed in warm sunlight that casts dappled shadows.

  • What Might This Look Like in America?

    An imaginative conservatism should see in Scruton’s centring of beauty in architecture and design a natural affinity with the articulation of craft as a political and economic ideal in the likes of William Morris. There is a politics and an economics of conservatism to be forged, but it requires making of itself more than an aesthetic gloss of Reaganism.

    Sebastian Milbank, “Don’t Idolise Roger Scruton”, The Critic, 03.Nov.2024

  • Verso

    a painting of a woman in a long green dress looking out a window

    Caspar David Friedrich - “Frau am Fenster”

  • The Leheriya Gate at the City Palace, Jaipur, India
    Golden doors surrounded by ornate green plasterwork in an Indian style

    Image: Wikimedia/Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Roses | P.S. Krøyer, 1893

    Oil painting of a bush of white roses in the foreground and a 19th century woman wearing white and reading in the rose garden in the background

    Yes, please. Some of that.

  • Kräuterbuch - “Book of Herbs” | Johannes Hartlieb - 1462 1462 painting of a hosta plant

    Hosta [really?!] 🌱

  • Richard Diebenkorn, c. Nineteen fifty-seven

    Happy Easter!

    Painting of single-stem flower against a blue-green and yellow background.
  • Ruth Orkin
    Black and white photo by Ruth Orkin of two young women on a New York City street in 1948

    From a wonderfully illustrated review of a book of photographs by Ruth Orkin (1921-1985)

  • Who? Hoot.
  • London's East End in the Last Century
    From the wonderful Spitalfields Life: "In the seventies, while living in Mile End Place ... photographer Philip Cunningham took these tender portraits of his friends and colleagues."


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  • from The Other Side of the Alde | Reynolds Stone, Wood Engraver
    Wood engraving of wooden boat on a rocky beach
  • Public Art
    "Tree Sleeves" on Kneeling Bois d'arc, Tietze Park, Dallas, Texas, USA bright blue, red, and pink chalk markings on the branches of a Texas bois d'arc tree in a Dallas park
  • Sorolla

    Really lovely paintings. “Spanish Light: Sorolla in American Collections” through January 7, 2024, Meadows Museum, SMU Campus, Dallas, Texas - Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Spanish, 1863–1923) 🎨

    Oil painting - seashore with a small boat with a billowing sail and small naked children playing in the waves

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