Laura Cumming

My favourite in the Mauritshuis. His regard - heart-stopping. And also learned so much more about him, & about Dutch C17 painting - which I loved already - from @lauracummingart.bsky.social Laura Cumming’s book, which I found in Delft & bought.

Can’t wait Rose!

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

'...slathers of custard-yellow paint, white icing that casts shadows like Arctic snow: his painting is as calorific as cream, as smoothly spread as lemon curd.' @lauracummingart.bsky.social 's delicious piece will make you want to go see these cake paintings.

The LRB published many of Tony Harrison’s poems over the years, including, most famously, ‘v.’ To mark forty years of the poem, and in tribute to its author, live readings will take place in Holbeck on Sunday 12 Oct, in association with Slung Low. More info/tickets: www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...

My bit on Lee Miller - so much better when she gets away from the leering Surrealists!

Truly THRILLED

Go to @fitzmuseum.bsky.social !

Bless you!

Can’t help thinking @lauracummingart.bsky.social should be on commission, but at least the book is sold in the @mauritshuismus.bsky.social gift shop!

Especially wonderful to go in winter!

The making of Lee Miller | The Observer Her early work is nothing special, but the American photographer’s response to war and its aftermath stun at Tate Britain

THE OBSERVER: ‪ The making of Lee Miller observer.co.uk/culture/art/... @theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ @lauracummingart.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

My bit on Lee Miller - so much better when she gets away from the leering Surrealists!

Chris!! Hello!

Season of mists rolling in…

Subscribe — Damian Barr

I’m curating an exhibition of the Two Roberts at Charleston in Lewes. It opens Oct 15 and will be very gorgeous and very gay and very Scottish and that’s for starters. I’ve got a nice wee discount for my newsletter subscribers:

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As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body? I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

Please read this piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social
about his daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. It's important and impacts so many more people than most of us realise. Get well soon Milly ♥️

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Happy to be with you in Spain

Star Wars: Starfighter – what the new picture of Ryan Gosling tells us Will the Shawn Levy-directed instalment, set five years after The Rise of Skywalker, offer a radical reinvention or return us to a period no one particularly wants to revisit?

No one should pay to see this movie until Disney stops censoring employees who say things disagreeable to the regime. That will be no great sacrifice as this movie will be dull as rocks. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

What a beautifully written article that made me feel the heat of Egypt. 😱 I have always dreamed of going there, to see the pyramids and other wonders. We should never forget the ancient artists that left their mark on the walls and ceilings. Thank you for sharing your journey!

Baalbek Roman ruins

Baalbek

Book cover of Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski

Trio of book covers: Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski on Cats Charles Bukowski on Writing

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.

~Charles Bukowski

#Quote #Booksky #CharlesBukowski
#Writer #Poet

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC.

If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

Yes that’s the layout for all the pictures. I am only the writer. Try the editors instead

This is from that wonderful piece by @lauracummingart.bsky.social in the Observer re the upcoming Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition on Ancient Egyptian artists - a painting I've never seen before of a monkey scratching a woman’s nose, believed to be a parody of the Opening of the Mouth ceremony

Thank you Ian!

Read and be transported.

Face to face with the pharaohs’ tomb artists | The Observer The painters and stonemasons of ancient Egypt have been erased from history, but a groundbreaking new exhibition brings them fully to life

The most significant trip I've ever taken in terms of a new history of art. Ancient Egypt as we've never seen it before! @theobserveruk.bsky.social @nealspencer.bsky.social
@timadamswrites.bsky.social rhttps://observer.co.uk/culture/art/article/face-to-face-with-the-pharaohs-tomb-artists

Or indeed where it hangs: I don’t have the word length…