Guy Moreton

Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

This is emblematic of the consumer culture that fees have engendered.

What the hell did the students expect? It was a ONCE IN A CENTURY PANDEMIC. There were LAWS against congregating in public. Staff worked themselves to the bone to get online delivery working.

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Purchased 2009

John Riddy, Chandigarh (Capitol Complex 4) 2006, 2008
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1123121

Michael Wood · Spellbound Gloaming: Bachelard’s Dreamwork Gaston Bachelard is inviting us to go beyond what we think we know. That is, how to counter boring intuitions with...

‘There were too many times, Gaston Bachelard says, when thinking he was thinking (“croyant penser”), he was dreaming. Is that so bad? Hadn’t he spent much of his life, if not dreaming, then defending the power of dreams?’

Michael Wood on the philosopher of science.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A close up of wide thick brushstrokes of pink oil paint streaked with white, on a buff/ neutral background. The corner of a paperback with a yellow cover extends into the upper edge of the image

The full painting, piles of mostly yellow novels on a pinkish table

Candy-pink brushstrokes, in Piles of French Novels, Van Gogh, 1887

BBC Radio 4 - Winter Well A survival guide to winter, offering advice on how to get through the dark months.

Coming everyday next week, on Radio 4, Hayden Lorimer's expanded vision of our work on wintering well and SAD. The nights are fair drawing in www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On the subject of Melvyn Bragg, I think of this Private Eye cartoon more frequently than I care to admit, when I’m struggling to raise the energy for a lecture or graduate supervision

this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029

150. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from Under the Floorboards — Backlisted Welcome to the 150th episode of Backlisted! To mark the occasion we are joined by authors Alex Christofi ( Dostoevsky in Love ) and Arifa Akbar ( Consumed: A Sister's Story ) for a discussio...

This….? www.backlisted.fm/episodes/150...

Starbank

We follow the sun
into the corner
of the garden.

When the shadow
comes we know (with-
out knowing) to

slowly walk ’til
we find it (or
were we letting

it find us), again?
Finding (without
looking), and looking

(without finding), may-
be a beautiful way
of living (of loving).

Presented by Tate Members 2008

Tacita Dean, Majesty, 2006 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1133995

JJ ‘opened’ a IHF show we did in the Millais Gallery (long gone…) Southampton in 2008-ish. That review is beyond awful.

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.

Moriz Nähr’s portrait of Ludwig Wittgenstein, nd 1930s, and LW118, the ruins of the LW house in Skjolden, Norway 2001-2005.

Happy Birthday Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951

Poet Ian Hamilton Finlay’s sacred garden inscribed the Scottish landscape with verse The garden Ian Hamilton Finlay created in Scotland’s Pentland Hills represented a hankering for his lost childhood, as the poet’s own son, Alec Finlay, remembers

Alec Finlay's recollections of his early life at Stonypath, published in the May issue of 'The World of Interiors', is now available online (saving you buying a copy, or finding a branch of WHSmiths to read it for nothing).
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/ian-ha...

Easter Sepulchre, Lincoln Cathedral 1895.

Lantern slide by Frederick Evans.

Happy Easter

Verse Verso: Visual Poetry and Artist Books Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Join us 30 May for an afternoon of readings, discussion & display celebrating artist books & visual poetry.

Verse Verso brings together poets, artists, curators & more to explore the material word today.

Book now → warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/verse...

#VisualPoetry #ArtistBooks

I’m showing some works in ‘Cabane’ in Le Delta, Belgium, opening this Friday until 20 July 2025 with Atelier Van Lieshout, James Benning, Gregory Crewdson, Hrein Fridfinnsson, Nathalie du Pasquier, Ryan Gander, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Sophie Nys, Joanna Piotrowska et al; curated by Anaël Lejeune.

I’m showing some works in ‘Cabane’ in Le Delta, Belgium, opening this Friday until 20 July 2025 with Atelier Van Lieshout, James Benning, Gregory Crewdson, Hrein Fridfinnsson, Nathalie du Pasquier, Ryan Gander, Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Sophie Nys, Joanna Piotrowska et al; curated by Anaël Lejeune.

Presented by A.E. Anderson 1910

Thomas Gainsborough, Wooded Landscape with Peasant Reading Tombstone, Rustic Lovers and Ruined Church, 1779 #artbots #tate
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1112567

Head and shoulders b&w photo portrait of W.G. Sebald, in heavy coat, scarf and spectacles, on a stone river bank.

A rare interview with W.G. Sebald by the brilliant James Wood, in July, 1997 (when Sebald’s only book in English was The Emigrants).

It was from a series called The Writer, The Work, hosted by the PEN American Center, New York.

brickmag.com/an-interview...

Edvard Munch Portraits review – in search of the master of jealousy, neurosis and despair There are some tremendous works in this first UK show focused solely on the Norwegian artist’s vast output of portraits – but the omissions are glaring

What a turn up…an unexpected problem with Munch’s portraits…https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/16/edvard-munch-portraits-national-portrait-gallery-london-review

Biloxi? I had a postcard of this for years, I think from a visit to NYC late 90s… tho’ White Ceiling Fan from WC’s home is gorgeous….

Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘The Falling’

who
will be right

in the end, who
will have fathomed
the right. Of chance they sing
descending. Of chance.

And the winds blow.

And the motives hiss.

‘The Falling’, a poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

‘Between austerity and empathy’: UK show celebrates late New York photographer Peter Hujar Hujar warmly captured gay life in downtown New York in the 1970s but was little known in his lifetime

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A profoundly moving—and at times touchingly funny—but very beautiful portrait of Julian’s mum who has Alzheimer’s (& no or very little memory) by @julianlass.com just broadcast on Radio 4 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Rediscovered Munch painting with ‘intriguing mystery’ to go on display in UK for first time Striking image will be unveiled at National Portrait Gallery in March, as part of a major exhibition of the Norwegian master’s portraits

‘Ramon described the hidden landscape in the Lütken portrait as “a mystery left by Munch only for the sharpened minds.”’
There should be more hidden landscapes like this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

B&w image of old man rowing a small dinghy on waters filled with reeds and lillies, surrounded by trees.

The present order is the disorder of the future."

– Ian Hamilton Finlay

The poet, artist, and garden designer afloat at Little Sparta, Pentland Hills, Scotland, 1996.

Photo by Robin Gillanders.

Little Sparta from the air.

Lavinia Greenlaw · Poem: ‘Outside the Work’

I have lost faith
in space, depth, dimension, completion,

in the act of moving through the world in one piece.
In being one piece.

‘Outside the Work’, a poem by Lavinia Greenlaw: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Colm Tóibín · In LA

‘It might have looked as though we were now surrounded on three sides by fires, but it didn’t feel like that. Pacific Palisades and Santa Monica were far away. The worry, however, was that the Altadena fire would spread.’

Colm Tóibín writes from LA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

T. S. Eliot's empty desk, with the chair pulled slightly out as if he has just stood up to leave.

T. S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photograph showing his empty desk was taken at the Faber office on Russell Square the day after Eliot's death.