Mini Masters Art Club

Instead of mascots, England and Wales take to the field with 22 men and women who are living with Alzheimer's disease or dementia ❤️

The players will also wear shirts without names in the second half to help raise awareness 👏

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Today’s uplifting & illuminating chat with @ntarnopolsky.bsky.social.

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

In a nod to #TheBigDraw celebrating 25 years of promoting the joy of drawing, we’ve embraced the #DrawnTogether at Barlow Hall PS Chorlton @minimastersart.bsky.social by creating a BIG Lowry TOGETHER. We link with their Year 3 @accessart.bsky.social learning on markmaking with pastels and charcoal.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight... the Fieldfare! 🍒

Flocks arrive from Scandinavia, filling UK hedgerows and fields with their speckled breasts and blue-grey heads, feasting on berries and insects.

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Unpaid work is killing class diversity in the creative industries - The Sutton Trust Our alum, Bethany, discusses the prominence of unpaid work in the creative professions.

🗨️ "The truth is that experience isn’t free...It costs more than anyone with a financial safety net will ever understand."

Read about the problems with the prominence of unpaid work in creative careers ⤵️

This Saturday (11th) is Bookshop Day, and for the occasion we have a prize giveaway courtesy of our friends at @libro.fm!

🎊CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY MAGIC - FULL #MLF25 PROGRAMME OUT NOW!📚

From internationally acclaimed authors and cultural icons to bold new voices, our 20th edition is set to inspire, challenge and delight anyone who celebrates with us. 🧵

Excited to hear it directly from the donkey’s mouth @ledbydonkeys.org at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social

His legacy will live on in the curious minds of the Irish and beyond, in those who seek a deeper and more fulfilling life #ManchanMagan 💚

Three stylised painted female figures in dresses with bold angular designs in blues, black, white and peach

Ukrainian-born French painter, textile/stage set designer Sonia Delaunay, fashion designs (c.1924) #womensart

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

Public libraries are 'palaces for the people' whose 'ramparts need defending'. #SaveOurLibraries

Art in motion

Photo of a mended white cup on three white saucers with four white saucers to the right partly shown, each saucer has writing on it with names of places and dates, all against a white background

Yoko Ono, Mended (tea) Cups (2015) on harrowing world events, healing and peace #WomensArt

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

The Nerve We've got it. Do you?

We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve

Light and Shadow at Nine Elms London Underground station

Light & Shadow

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor.

So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

Photo of the outdoor of a cinema on a street with sign with text stating "RAISE BOYS AND GIRLS THE SAME WAY"

Jenny Holzer, Times Square Marquee sign installations, 1993 #womensart

@susiedent.com Savouring today’s word tandsmør and I’m sure the wonderful @manchanmagan.bsky.social RIP would have found a delightful Irish equivalent. Here’s a fine example of it from his Arám agus Im (Bread & butter) event 🍞 🧈

Awesome talent :
Guillermo Galetti

A model of a lions head made entirely from recycled cardboard tubes.

Hello to the new people who've popped up on here over the last few weeks. 🙂👋 . . . I'm Darrell, I'm a maker/artist/teacher and I've spent over 35 years convincing everyone that 'cutting & sticking' is a valid career. 😆
Please check out my work at www.darrellweakelam.com
#edusky

Jon Foreman - Leaf Spiral. #Landart #Autumn

Arám agus Im. Baked and communally churned with #ManchanMagan Offering it up for him tonight.

This is such a shock and loss. Sharing warm handmade bread and freshly churned butter with @manchanmagan.bsky.social in Liverpool as part of the Irish Festival was an eccentric, fully immersive experience like plunging into a holy well. He was unique and wonderful.

Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...