84% of HNWIs surveyed this year remained optimistic about the short-term future of the global art market.

The Art Basel and UBS Art Survey of Global Collecting 2025 by Arts Economics reveals how HNWIs are thinking about the global art market’s short-term future – and their https://t.co/aIs1YheJfs

The volcano - Arnold Böcklin

Egyptian mummies: tomb toxin threat

Some suggested that the pharaoh's curse was biological in nature.

• Lab studies have shown some ancient mummies carried mold, including Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus flavus, which can cause congestion or bleeding in the lungs.


• Bacteria such as Pseudomonas and Staphylococcus may also grow on tomb walls, causing lung problems.

However, the idea that an underground tomb, after 3,000 years, would have some microorganism in it that would kill somebody weeks later is highly unlikely.

The Red Bridge - Julian Alden Weir

Pressed

Were you thinking of me today
Am i ever what your thinking to say
Do you ever wonder about where i go
Ever wish you were there with me though?
I wonder where you are right now
Am i all alone somehow
No trust in myself
Not looking for help
Just wondering about all the things that were said
Did you mean what you said in my bed
Sorry for putting you there
All i wanted to do was care
Now you are lost and ive gone missing
Was it in my mind you and i were kissing
What have i done did i do it again
Did i fuck it all up to lose another friend
Now can i stop trying
Cause in this house im dying
They give me shit day in day out
All they ever fucking do is shout
Im trying to forgive myself for what ive done
These bruises and cuts have just begun
They settled me down pressed the pain within
Pressed in so deep it broke through the skin
Oh how it burns blood mixed with tears
Of all the pain i held through the years
Im cold weak and lonely
Im not waiting for you to start actin phony
Here we go i take my last breath
Wonder what theyll say now that i left...

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Sumana Roy’s book is a love letter to places not quite on the map https://t.co/DwkpZzdRZG

Andy Paley, a music producer, composer and rock ‘n’ roll chameleon who worked with Madonna, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jonathan Richman and helped resuscitate Brian Wilson’s career in the 1980s, dies at 73. https://t.co/ScBukt0iLN

Winter landscape. Behovo. - Vasily Polenov

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