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But there is a way to get a little culture and education while you’re confined to your home. According to Fast Company, Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 500 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world..

Now, you get “go to the museum” and never have to leave your couch.

Google Arts & Culture’s collection includes the British Museum in London, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Guggenheim in New York City, and literally hundreds of more places where you can gain knowledge about art, history, and science. This collection is especially good for students who are looking for ways to stay on top of their studies while schools are closed.

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Turned Sheet by Gerhard Richter

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joy is underrated as an artistic objective

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alice b. toklas and gertrude stein in their legendary salon at 27 rue de fleurus. photographed by man ray, 1922

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due to personal reasons, i will be ignoring the express wishes of the people around me and singing sea shanties

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Here’s the link.

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when oscar wilde wrote “there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands” i felt that

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“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

— Oscar Wilde

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Mirror Ice Lake, USA

Glass Lantern Slide. Picture from the Arthur Boswell’s Collection of Early Victorian Phtography. Bexley Heritage Trust

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Autumn Sprite by  Margaret Tarrant

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James Hobart and Austin Malleolo (X)

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Jardin à Vaucraisson ,  1920   Édouard Vuillard ( 1868-1940)

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Henri Matisse’s studio, Hotel Regina, Nice, ca. 1952.

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James McNeill Whistler, Green and Silver: The Three Clouds, 1885

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Mirna Valerio

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Axel Kasseboehmer (German, b. 1952), Meereslandschaft 8 [Seascape 8], 2003. Oil on canvas, 120 x 160 cm.