Jeremy Millar

Beautiful, aren’t they?

Robot walks into a bar
Orders a drink, lays down a bill
Bartender says, "Hey, we don't serve robots"
And the robot says, "Oh, but someday you will"

When you look over Christ's shoulder you can see another angel and even when it's in front of you it looks like a pencil drawing, it's so precise and delicate, and then you realise it's a carved relief perhaps a few millimetres in depth. Donatello is one of those artists who made impossible objects.

I saw this in the Donatello show in Florence a few years ago and just found myself transfixed, tears running down my face, completely unexpectedly. I mean, the exhibition was masterpiece after masterpiece but this one in particular absolutely floored me.

'Camp is the paintings of Carlo Crivelli, with their real jewels and trompe-l’oeil insects and cracks in the masonry.'
— Susan Sontag

The weight of the head 😭

And this, which is one of the most moving works of art I think I've ever seen

And this one

There are already some beautiful works in this thread, and there'll no doubt be more. Here's my particular favourite. Just look at how Christ's fingers are leaving the earth behind them…

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

William Gaddis, 'J R' (1975)

I love this painting

The last twenty minutes were extraordinary

You should check the result

Even if Liverpool do somehow win this they should have three points docked for Szoboszlai's corn-rows

Until a few minutes ago I thought that the best edit in all cinema was the one of the fighter jet in the first minute of 'Sans Soleil'

The word 'draught' in a beautiful italic font

Join us to celebrate the launch of draught issue 1.2.3
With readings by
Elsa Court
Fi Churchman
Octavia Bright
and others.

Wednesday 4 March
ArtReview Bar, 1 Honduras Street London EC1Y 0TH
Doors 6:30, readings 7:15
BYOB (it's called a bar, but bring your own drinks please!)

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I ❤️ Daunt so much, what they publish and who they are as readers and as people. It's as good as it gets! Feel lucky beyond measure to get to publish books with them myself.

An Enchanted World: The Shared Religious Landscape of Late Antiquity by Michael L. Satlow. Uncovering the vibrant spiritual life of Late Antiquity.

In An Enchanted World, Michael Satlow uncovers the shared spiritual landscape of Late Antiquity that stretched beyond the confines of Judaism, Christianity, & the pantheon of Greek & Roman deities.

Out now (31 March UK pub).

Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History

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That 'what if' is doing Atlas-like amounts of heavy lifting

A photograph of rich, purple magnolia buds just opening in our back garden. There is a tangle of branches and, in the background, the horizontal slats of the fence.

'magnolienstündige'
— Celan

I'd also add a 'third' for Louisiana. And Juno and Riviera for pastries.

Declan Rice done it to them again 😭

It's so much worse in the stands. It was my first time at the Emirates and I'd like to say I enjoyed it, but…

The woman sitting next to me was a Austrian pensioner who flies over for every home match.

You must enjoy punishing yourself, I said.

You should see how bad the football is in Austria, she replied.

I’m glad I don’t go every week. Couldn’t afford the private healthcare let alone the season ticket.