Frieze art fair thoughts: does anyone still collects art for the pleasure of it or is it just an investment and nothing else?
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Salvador Dalí, Autumnal Cannibalism,1936. 2 faceless figures are devouring each other. As their heads and bodies merge, they dig knives and spoons into each other’s flesh. The mutually destructive embrace may be a comment on the Spanish Civil War, which began a few months before.
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Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Historian (FRHistS), author of THE BOSS OF BETHNAL GREEN, a true foundation story of London’s East End and biography of Regency godfather Joseph Merceron.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bethnal-Green-Merceron-Godfather-ebook/dp/B086XFTWXK
👸🏻Queen of Tapas, Sherry Educator
🍷Unique food & wine experiences
✍🏻 Decanter Magazine Contributor
💃🏻Sevillana since 1993
☀️Sevilla Spain
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Archaeologist, Curator.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
I write mysteries (contemporary, 1920s), romance (contemporary, Regency), poetry (as the mood takes me). New tag: "Putting the heart into cosy mystery".
Writer, director.
NYC / London
Features journalist - NYTimes, Financial Times, Telegraph. On a book break, writing about the Beatles.
https://www.helenbarrettjournalist.com/
https://open.substack.com/pub/helenbarrett
Proud & Humble son of East Bergholt, SUFFOLK. Painter and ROMANTIC. Painting is but another word for Feeling.
Part of the X-odus and feeling better for it.
London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
This week's theme: Winter ❄️
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
X Twit refugee... Space Karen finally ended the remaining fun. Occasionally sweary. For avoidance of doubt, Brexit is pants. Feet on both sides of the Atlantic. So long USA, the land of my grandfather, it was nice knowing you. 249 years; so close.
altruism, botany, nature conservation & long term thinking. sustainable economics & business. research new thinking on housing design for biodiversity & wellbeing. Pro Europe. #FPL predicted team line ups (Mute #FPL if you don’t like football.)
I'm a Welsh writer of two novels about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa set during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. 🏴
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https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
Instructional designer, stage manager, reader, fantasy-lover. Super nerd. @KatiTrottier on Twitter.
Author of the Nathan Sutherland Venetian mysteries. Currently investigating "The Magus of Sicily" with Nedda and Calogero.
Here for Italy, music, old horror films and prog rock!
https://linktr.ee/pgjonesvenice
https://philipgwynnejones.com
Once called the “Etsy Ryan Reynolds.” Texas lawyer with three kids and a husband I love very much. I'm here to share a laugh or two with others, not at them.
Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Used to work with homeless people. Now retired & volunteer for greyhound rescue. Hate the Tories & Brexit
Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in international refugee law, human rights policy, comms and advocacy. Also posting about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.