Daniel Sturgis

YouTube video by British School at Rome What is the British School at Rome? Pt. 5 Fine Arts

Fine Arts at the British School at Rome

At the BSR, our Fine Arts Programme supports artists in exploring, expanding, and reimagining their practice.

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This view of St Paul’s is still visible from Nunhead cemetery- the trees being cut to maintain it - and although not in one of London’s ‘protected sight corridors’ it has not been obscured by buildings.

The British School at Rome is seeking a new Chair of the Council of Trustees, as Mark Getty approaches the end of his term: bsr.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Julian Schnabel’s plate paintings from late 70s early 80s made when he was working in a kitchen-there’s a great one called Notre Dame (1979)

Lita Hornick Bequest

Al Held, Maltese Cross, 1964 #artbots #moma
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Virginia Woolf’s portrait at the National Gallery - floor mosaic The Awakening of the Muses, by Boris Anrep

Sienna at the National Gallery is wonderful - a once in a lifetime grouping

Our application season is here! Apply for a seven week writing residency at Jack Kerouac’s historic home in Orlando! $600 stipend. Fiction/ Creative Nonfiction/ Poetry/ Plays/ Scripts. Six writers chosen per year. Apply at Kerouacproject.org

Vollmond - & water, rain, rocks & Pina Bausch & Sadlers Wells

Daniel Buren from 1965 to 1966

Bumping into people here!
Hope your painting is going extra well… to combat the US news…

Amazing exhibition of Dom Sylvester Houédard and Futurist & Concrete Poetry at the Estorick Collection

Call for 10 minute presentations for the online symposium The Curatorial + Painting - about how contemporary paintings relate to the way they are curated. Organised by the Journal of Contemporary Painting. Deadline for Open Call 3rd Feb

Talking soon about Supports/Surfaces, material subversion & trans Mediterranean dialogues in Luxembourg…

You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, printed in a book with a wood block. The book titled Robert Fludd "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617), Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm

You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians

I wondered that as well

A big screening of De Sica’s wonderful Miracle in Milan at the Italian Cultural Institute

Gary Stephan’s steadfast modernism Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / Gary Stephan has been an abstract painter for over fifty years. His command of that vocation – touch, line, color, concept – is duly acknowledged. But he is far …

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Francis Alÿs, '1943,' 2012, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.

From the the British Library exhibition “Medieval Women in their own Words”

Open Call for Bothy Project Creative Residencies on Eigg. For practitioners in visual art, craft & design, music, literature, performance & those working across disciplines or in collaboration.
Application deadline: 12 January 2025, midnight. More info at buff.ly/4fZxM2M

Morton Feldman and a live version of Beckett’s Quad on the South Bank last night - wonderful in so many ways

So helpful when an artist states on the back of a work the height that a painting should be hung at - which is of course the height it was hung when it was painted in the studio - Carmengloria Morales exhibition opening tomorrow at the British School in Rome

Going down the rabbit hole thinking about the role of abstract painting in Zurich Dada at Stiftung Arp archives in Berlin.

Beacon (without words I found myself home on your stomping ground) 2022 - by the artist Sharp - 15 pairs of cherry red Dr. Marten boots on rope

A metal garbage can with lid, plated in 24-karat gold

Sylvie Fleury, Garbage Can, 2003, 24-karat gold leaf on steel, edition of 25

Call for papers for the next themed Special Issue if the Journal of Contemporary Painting - ‘The Curatorial and Painting’ ….

Call for papers for the next themed Special Issue if the Journal of Contemporary Painting - ‘The Curatorial and Painting’ ….