Alison Shipley

What a beautiful cover!

Least surprising photo line up of all time

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist.

Tove Jansson’s art reflects her belief that dreaming and playfulness were vital for coping with the hardships of World War II.

So important that these stories get told.

Surely as a *bare minimum* the government should be able to protect people's rights to get paid while they go to the toilet?

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...

Impressed that the collective outrage over this terrible piece of writing has even eclipsed the moral outrage at the whole thing.

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Barbara Hepworth, Vanessa Bell, Gwen John

A bookshelf showing the colourful spines of the Modern Women Artists series between lots of other books

Which other artists do you think we should add to our Modern Women Artists series? Here's who we have so:

Sylvia Pankhurst
Frances Hodgkins
Marlow Moss
Laura Knight
Lee Miller
Eileen Agar
Nina Hamnett
Eileen Mayo
Lucie Rie
Tirzah Garwood
Mabel Nicholson
Ithell Colquhoun

All ideas welcome! 💙📚

I mean, it's probably not inaccurate, but... 🙈

I feel the intro is going to leave a lot of curators paralysed (for want of a better word, argh!) with anxiety. (Possibly rightly so... )

The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissick How politics destroyed contemporary art

So many dryly funny lines in this @Harpers piece about how the art world became fixated on artists’ identities and art as political resistance.

Starting with the intro, which made me GASP:

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Always loved that map!

Incredible

Just started this - a pretty devastating view of Nazi Germany 'from below', based on a true story of resistance. Powerful to know it was written so shortly after the war (1946/7) by someone who had just lived through it. It feels relevant.

‘We’ve become distrustful of each other’: Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance Her last book sold 2m copies. Now the Native American ecologist is taking on capitalism. She talks about how the ‘gift economy’ could heal divisions across the US

“If my self is the economic me, supposed to maximise my return on investment, that’s a very different notion than if my self is permeable, if it includes the trees whose oxygen I am breathing, and those birds and the soil.”

Excellent piece on Robin Wall Kimmerer
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Just started this - a pretty devastating view of Nazi Germany 'from below', based on a true story of resistance. Powerful to know it was written so shortly after the war (1946/7) by someone who had just lived through it. It feels relevant.

For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, found in La Serre, Aveyron (#France). The lines on the cheeks are interpreted as facial #tattoos or scars. Dating 3000-2500 BC.
In the late neolithic period several cultures living....1/2

🏺 #archaeology
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YouTube video by Local Psycho & The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra Local Psycho and The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra - The Hurdy-Gurdy Song

How many standing stones have their own song? youtu.be/WRxbmAi4e14?...

#standingstonesunday

The Gurdy Stone, Kingston near Lewes, East Sussex. A magnificent two-tonne monolith of Welsh slate, raised in 2023 by Jimmy Cauty of the KLF and Jem Finer of the Pogues, allegedly sitting on a modern ley line that sees “every Amazon fulfilment centre in the country”.

Glad you like it! Truly a labour of love!

My husband, Jonathan from Assistant, made this lovely record, out today!

This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the Met Tong Yang-Tze is reviving an ancient but disappearing practice and making it contemporary — writ large.

Excited to be editing a book about the magnificent calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze and taking a pleasurable deep dive into the history of literati culture.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/a...

Hello Bluesky (ie my husband and my one other follower). This is nice isn't it? Like during the pandemic when we all got Zoom and remembered we could talk to each other.

Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark