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Made a list ✅ Checked it twice ✅ Found out who's naughty or nice ✅ It's official—Santa Claus is coming to town tonight. 🎅 🎨 Edward Penfield (American, 1866–1925). Harper's Weekly: Christmas, 1894. Lithograph. https://t.co/rVXmVm2aux

Hans Holbein and the Basel lawyer Bonifacius Amerbach together devised this provocative portrait that captures Amerbach’s erudition and Holbein’s portrait skills. https://t.co/mt6xq8qG8A

See it soon 👀 Take advantage of special holiday hours to see "Yoshitomo Nara" before it closes on 1/2/2022. Spanning over 30 years from 1987 to 2020, this exhibition views Nara’s work through the lens of his longtime passion—music. Sponsored by @united. https://t.co/68BH4YHMop

Want to learn more about our 'Poussin and the Dance exhibition'? Make sure you watch our Curator's Introuduction with Francesca: https://t.co/eWSHcJd6TB The talk is also available with #BSL interpretation: https://t.co/zUPXbLYMw0 https://t.co/THVpw79ke1

With Omicron on the rise, museums on America’s eastern seaboard are shuttering or reducing admittance as protective measures: https://t.co/3jjs9RnLxD https://t.co/SJzxNzpoED

Divine similarities ✨ Explore themes of compassion, mercy, and love as interpreted by artists in feudal Europe and imperial China when depicting the Christian Virgin Mary and the Buddhist Guanyin. https://t.co/QDZxUghXhN

Amerbach’s expressive features are juxtaposed with an epigram (witty saying) that he composed himself, in which the likeness attests to its own accuracy. Whether words or images best represented a person’s character was a subject of lively debate in the Renaissance. https://t.co/oalmMstfbu

Artist Yuki Kawae crafts his own DIY zen garden to relax and clear the mind. https://t.co/emNarEv8OP

A book by Sarah Archer explores the influence of the Space Race and Cold War on America’s midcentury Christmas celebrations. https://t.co/6yhUa36dYk

Breathtaking Purple Sunset Over New York https://t.co/E42tlLN6OR https://t.co/6o7dQ7sfLg

Enjoy this portrait at the Getty Center through January, 9, 2022, as part of the exhibition “Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance.” https://t.co/wGLwd2srm5

Zaha Hadid Architects has won the design competition for Vilnius Railway Station in Lithuania. https://t.co/paHrhCLDLs

Whether your December resembles a winter wonderland or not, reindeer, chipmunks, and one-horse sleighs in Christmas songs serve as metaphors for the jollities of the season. But what if the season is not jolly? https://t.co/9lLfPpoVtE

Alpacas in Dreamy Colors https://t.co/SZJPOcA4eA https://t.co/Ri6PsAazDE https://t.co/Eb5X4NOuQx

Slowmade and Handmade Colorful Embroidery https://t.co/9bzm27vMny https://t.co/4x6ZoNonrZ https://t.co/eSa6fx1Rc8