‘THIS,MY CHILD, IS HOW THE WORLD LOOKS, THAT IS WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN BORN INTO, THERE ARE THOSE BORN TO SHEAR & THOSE BORN TO BE SHORN. THAT, MY CHILD, IS HOW IT LOOKS IN THIS WORLD OF OURS & IF YOU, MY CHILD, DO NOT LIKE IT, THEN YOU WILL JUST HAVE TO CHANGE IT’ - Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, c.1934
I revisited Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern for a conversation w/ @janescimeca.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Listen to us chat about Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the Baroness Elsa & other women of New York’s Smock Colony -
newbooksnetwork.com/radicals-and...
The Quick and the Dead by @lwhalen.bsky.social
In her profoundly affecting essay, Lottie writes about her great-grandmother's youth during the blitz, the historical forces shaping reproductive rights and her own experience of giving birth.
GLASGOW!
This FRIDAY 13th 👻 join us at Mount Florida Books for our second launch!
Expect fabulous readings from fabulous @lwhalen.bsky.social and Suki Hollywood
Delicious wine from Smith and Gertrude
Please do join us — we are so happy to be back we have to party twice 🥳
Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
And she’s here!!! Issue Nine is currently winging her way out into the world 🐟 🦷
We are so excited about this issue; not only is it a massive banger but it is so good to be BACK!
In homage to Audre Lorde, the artist’s exhibition at SCAD Museum of Art explores whether subsistence itself can be a form of resistance artreview.com/diedrick-bra...
Actor's Mask http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80094
‘I love pushing mediums into the monumental and the monstrous’ 🍃
Read our latest interview with artist Jonathan Baldock, who pushes craft to its limits:
decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/myth-and-m...
MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle.
Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385...
Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word!
#zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines
And last but extremely not least: LAUNCHES!
We are very excited to be hosting TWO launches, one in Edinburgh with the fab @portybooks.bsky.social and one in Glasgow, with the equally fab Mount Florida Books!
Please join us in launching Issue 9, and let us celebrate the ET comeback in style 🎉
Thrilled to have my essay The Quick & The Dead - on reproductive rights, my great grandma, her abortionist neighbour & histories of other working-class women’s lives, birth, death & the borderlands between - in this gorgeous new issue of Extra Teeth. In brilliant company! Available to preorder 👇
🚨 NEW: Opportunities for the poorest young people in London far outstrip the rest of England, we have found.
Our new Opportunity Index reveals how the area young people grow up in shapes their life chances, with huge differences between constituencies across the country 🧵⬇️
Guess it's a good time to let people know that in 1969 Air France commissioned artist Sheila Hicks to create series of unique panels in Chinese silk for business-class sections of their 747 aircraft. Hicks hand-embroidered 19 in all; only remaining one is now at MoMA www.moma.org/collection/w...
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During his life, Willy Ley predicted the dawn of the Space Age with remarkable accuracy. How did his remains end up forgotten in a co-op on the Upper West Side?
Are you working on a piece of writing, unsure of whether it’s ready to send out? Or are you ready but you don’t know where your work might fit? Have you always wondered how the submission process works?
Enchantment by Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
poets.org/poem/enchant...
#poetry #dadaism
My Fane talk with the brilliant author @sineadgleeson.bsky.social is still available to stream for free until tomorrow eve.
Watch it here for more on art, feminism, communes & community in Sinéad's #novel #hagstone:
www.fane.co.uk/sinead-gleeson
Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink Moon Over Water, 1924
(Smith College Museum of Art collection)
It’s a lovely project!
Variant “Adobe: Gray Turns Violet” by Josef Albers, 1958 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137803
Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
🌳🍃Larkin on a glorious spring day in Glasgow, via @calligraphyoutside.bsky.social 🌳🍃
"It felt important to honour the fact that motherhood doesn’t finish when you’ve weaned the baby"
Touring exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood comes to @dcadundee.bsky.social this summer – read @lwhalen.bsky.social's interview with curator Hettie Judah
Towards the end of her long, colourful life, Beatrice Wood became known as the Mama of Dada and attributed her great longevity to ‘art books, chocolate & young men’! Read more in @decodissidence.bsky.social newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/decorati...
Beatrice Wood (March 3 1893-March 12 1998). A co-conspirator in Duchamp’s Fountain scandal, she became a ceramicist in mid-life after training with Gertrud & Otto Natzler. Alongside luster glazed vessels, she crafted kitsch, playful figurines that channeled the spirit of Dada.
🩷This is tonight🩷
Book for free & watch online this evening & in the next 2 weeks.
www.fane.co.uk/sophie-haydock
