@kenjohnperry.bsky.social
Why did 20th Century English councils collect art?
It was called 'Pictures for Schools'. Aimed at providing children with art.
"As council budgets were slashed, the works ceased to be school resources and became assets for sale to pay for essential services."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A film about my 'Haunted Paper' exhibition at Dorothy, Jamaica Street Liverpool. The film was made by Matt Bell at Bellboy Studio and the music is by Joe McKechnie. The exhibition is on until September 19th, Monday - Friday, 9pm to 5pm.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CARO...
You know that classic Edward Hopper painting evoking isolation and despair? We used AI to make it look terrible for no reason
08.08.2025 19:48 — 👍 4060 🔁 602 💬 294 📌 514
It is debatable as to whether or not contemporary art has any major impact on politics at all. But recent antiauthoritarian protests suggest otherwise artreview.com/the-painters...
08.08.2025 10:18 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
How Politics Destroyed Contemporary Art.
"When the world’s most influential, best-funded exhibitions are dedicated to amplifying marginalized voices, are those voices still marginalized? They speak for the cultural mainstream, backed by institutional authority."
harpers.org/archive/2024...
Pencil drawing of the entrance of a former office building. Above the doorway is a decorative panel and then an arched window.
For #AdoorableThursday the entrance of Grand Hotel and Spa, Station Rise, York. Built 1899-1906 as the head office of the North Eastern Railway Company. Designed by William Bell of the NER and architect Horace Field.
#ArchitecturalIllustration
#pencil #drawing
#ArtYear
Evening light on Tio Pepe sign, in Madrid, Spain, Community of Madrid
Tio Pepe, Madrid
Prints: https://jon.framer.art/s/image/60029?source=bluesky
London’s National Gallery Creates Panel of Citizens to Shape its Future.
“The gallery aims to shape its programmes and priorities around the needs and aspirations of communities across the UK,”
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Mark Leckey, "Dream English Kid 1964 - 1999AD", 2015.
Dream English Kid is a collage of what Leckey calls ‘found memories’. It explores ideas around identity, the status of the individual, matters of subjectivity and collective memory.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yS18...
Wednesday's Guardian cartoon on #PalestineAction
#Gaza
theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why No One Likes the Tate Anymore.
Maybe it’s Brexit. Maybe it’s COVID. Maybe it’s just a solemn event space-cum-speaker’s corner with nobody listening.
artreview.com/why-no-one-l...
Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment References From History Exhibit.
"Trump’s second-term policies aim to strip U.S. arts funding."
Here's how the Trump administration is drastically reshaping the arts landscape.
news.artnet.com/art-world/tr...
Critics Blame Tate’s Programing for Footfall Decline, But ‘Socioeconomic Factors and Brexit Also to Blame’.
"Footfall is shaped as much, if not more, by external socioeconomic factors, national and international.”
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Manolo Millares, Cuadro 18 (1), 1957.
31.07.2025 23:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tate Modern to stay open until 9pm on weekends.
"Tate confirmed earlier this year that it had been working to reduce its staff costs by 7%. Tate’s statutory accounts for 23/24 show that the charity carried a deficit budget into the new financial year."
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Salman Khoshroo, 2019.
29.07.2025 13:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Report highlights ‘stark’ English regional funding inequalities.
A new report has found a “chasm in cultural funding” between London and the north of England and calls for a devolution of Arts Council England (ACE) funding responsibilities.
www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
Untitled (brown and gray)
Untitled (brown and gray) #artbots #rothko
https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4934
Light as a medium, space as a canvas.
28.07.2025 07:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is the Art world in a Crisis?
"Word on the street—or at least on social media—is that the art world is crashing. Fairs are being cancelled, major galleries are closing, and the global art market is experiencing a 12% decline - is it true?"
www.contemporaryartissue.com/is-the-art-w...
"Feel the Burn". Portrait of Andy Burnham.
27.07.2025 00:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UK Court Rejects Artist’s Final Appeal.
On free speech: "Artists must be able to express themselves on matters of public concern."
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Exhibition over Censorship Concerns.
"Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition, at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery after the museum considered removing her painting of a Black transgender Statue of Liberty."
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
25.07.2025 01:16 — 👍 134 🔁 43 💬 6 📌 3
"An artificial intelligence system forced to deny a segment of reality is not a biased system; it is a broken one. The ideological mandate creates a fundamental conflict between the model’s programming and the data it must process, triggering a cascade of well-understood AI safety failures."
24.07.2025 21:30 — 👍 344 🔁 82 💬 10 📌 0
Laura Quinn Harris, "Queen of the Eyesores", (2024).
www.lauraquinnharris.com
24.07.2025 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
i wrote a little something abt theatre and money, and being working class. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
23.07.2025 21:45 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1KIM KITSURAGI - “The pinball machine?” The lieutenant glances at the machine. “Gurdi's Goats. A classic.”
REACTION SPEED - Oh it's more than just a classic -- a must-play. All serious pinballers have attempted a *tempo-run*.
