Beth Hughes

📝CALL FOR PAPERS 📝

Who does not envy with us is against us: A conference on working-classness as method in creative practice at Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, 10 April 2026

Contact wcbritart@gmail.com for more info

#WorkingClassArt #BritishArt

Three new fully funded PhDs, in arts & humanities, at DJCAD and the University of Dundee.

www.dundee.ac.uk/phds/funding...

Hahaha, I know you! I did, it is over 10 years since I’ve been in Cartwright Hall but it felt great. How are you?

Hiya wall 💔

Eileen Daly is really great www.instagram.com/eileentdaly?...

[uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds Challenge your expectations in this landmark group exhibition.

Uz, Uz, Uz: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds opens at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds University on 19 Nov.

As far as I know, this is the first public collection to survey their holdings through the lens of social class.

library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Holy moly. Just the Courtauld asking for a PhD for an Assistant Curator job.

Dana Shultz at Thomas Dane is unmissable. Love the mix of the history painting tradition with a totally mad subject matter

Last week of #JohnLyons at Felix and Spear. John is most definitely an overlooked artist, now 92 years old its so good to see momentum gather around his work

Maurizio Cattelan, BEING AN ARTIST IS NOT A JOB, IT’S A MALFUNCTION, 2025 @perrotingallery.bsky.social #ArtBaselParis

‘I will take money for the arts from murderers, from rapists, from anybody’: The British state as cultural patron This paper examines the growth of arts policy in post-war Britain.

Join us tomorrow 5.30pm at the IHR or online (link below). We're super excited to host Dr Scott Anthony on the history of arts funding! All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And then there is Peter Doig’s show, House of Music, paintings you can take your time over alongside huge 1950s speakers, comfy chairs and soft lighting just being an oasis of calm. Perfect show for Frieze week. @serpentinegallery.bsky.social

Outside the big shop in a tent there are lots of great exhibitions open in London this week:

Cosima von Bonin at Raven Row is pretty special

Cue Harry Hill 🥊 🥊

Beau Greaves: Rise of darts star, who beat Luke Littler The spotlight is on Beau Greaves after her landmark win over Luke Littler on Monday, but who is the 21-year-old from Doncaster?

BEAU 'N' ARROW. What a nickname that is. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/darts/...

Typos you say …

Which sport is most elitist? 🔎

Our research shows that the elite level of many sports are still only reached by a select few. This includes cricket, men's rugby, and top Olympians and Paralympians.

Football and women's rugby are representative of the wider population.

Some of my favourites from the John Moores Painting Prize this year

1. Play - What we need right now by Abby Cocovini

2. Agnes’ Hanky by Christina Niederberger

3. Trailblazing by Samantha Fellows

4. Evening Light by Caroline Gorick

@walkerartgallery #JohnMooresPaintingPrize

Wild Uplands - a four-artist sculpture trail across the moors near Haworth.

99 Butterflies by Meherunnisa Asad, carved from pink Pakistani marble. There’s also a sound work with Opera North you can download to go with. It shifts around & adds to that eerie feel of the moors. #bradford2025

YES! This looks amazing 👏

Also long been a fan of Zadie Xa, her exhibition really transforms this gallery. Loved these little layered moments. School group in there were proper mesmerised.

#ZadieXa

Turner Prize: Cartwright Hall, Bradford
(The site of my first curatorial job)

Mohammed Sami’s paintings. Incredible use of paint, all that texture disrupting the flow. Gives lots to stare at and try and work out.

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#MOHAMMEDSAMI
#TurnerPrize @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social
@tate.bsky.social

The validation I’ve been waiting for.

We invite applications for British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships 2025. The scheme supports established and senior researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to complete research through a sustained period of leave for one year. Apply now: https://bit.ly/3VMeTZ9

Venetian minimalism in aisle three

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New evidence on international inequality of opportunity - how does the UK rank? - The Sutton Trust A new OECD measure offers insights into the state of opportunity in the UK.

🗨️ "According to these findings, opportunity in England is determined by inherited circumstances more so than compared to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland."

What does the OECD's new measure of inequality say about the state of opportunity in the UK? ⤵️

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion...

Me on Hillsborough Law.

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