Alixe Bovey

From dark academia to medievalcore: fashion is embracing our need for escapism | Lauren Cochcrane Much is written about how young people no longer form real-world communities. Well, fashion trends are a stark rejoinder to that, says senior Guardian fashion writer Lauren Cochrane

Things are bleak but if the ‘resurgence of libraries’ is an outcome of medievalcore and dark academia trends then there is hope www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Still haven’t really posted/engaged much with it but enjoying the general lack of toxicity!

Same

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BBC Radio 4 - Knight Fights Giant Snail Dr Alixe Bovey presents a surreal journey through the world of medieval marginalia.

Shout-out to @alixebovey.bsky.social wonderful 2020 BBC Radio 4 programme

"Knight Fights Giant Snail":

#AdoreSnails

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Ah this made my day - glad the giant snails still going strong on BBC Sounds 🐌🤺

Geoffrey Luttrell, patron of the Luttrell Psalter, died 650 years ago today - 23 May 1345 also his 69th birthday. Ars longa, vita brevis. (British Library, Add MS 42130). (Speaking of brevis, I’ve posted a much longer blather about this on insta). Happy anniversary, Geoffrey Luttrell.

Glorious - I’d say it was Edenic but images of Eden never include topiary tools

Cuts

Startling too in view of your next post, re UKRI ‘kickstarting economic growth’. Events in Dundee will kick economic growth to the kerb in that great city, no?

I don’t think I follow your analogy. Writing is to thinking, reading, and communicating ≠ SLR is to phone camera. (Also, are everyone’s phone snaps good enough?)

Happy birthday! 🍋🎂

Goya’s luminous salmon steaks are completely ravishing - like he painted them for an hour and a half, then ate them. One of the many extraordinary works on loan to @courtauld.bsky.social from the Oskar Reinhart Collection for Goya to Impressionism, opening on Valentine’s Day.

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Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love (Grove Press, 1998), 71

[Scholarship is] where we’re nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it’s for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn’t matter where on what, it’s the light itself, against the darkness

In Tom Stoppard’s Invention of Love, the young A. E. Housman has a line I can’t get out of my mind since seeing Hampstead Theatre’s production last weekend (so much so that I looked it up):

Why indeed. Painful to hear Michael Buchanan reporting more terrible stories on PM today, this time about faulty antenatal testing.

Such a wonderful book plate. I’m sorry to read this news.

Ah thank you ❤️

Storming on the Castle of Love | Unknown | V&A Explore The Collections Mirror case, ivory, the Storming on the Castle of Love, France (Paris), second quarter of the fourteenth century

The show is on til 16 Feb. A great description and images of the object - Paris, c 1325x50, is on the @vamuseum collection’s website (‘Storming the Castle of Love’) accession no. 1617-1855). collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O120162...

#medievalart #drawing #castleoflove #courtauld #medievalmultiplied

I did this clutch of drawings over a few days, experimenting with scale and focusing on different kinds of detail. It was an interesting thing to do: reminded me that drawing forces a pace of observation that runs completely counter to our high-rate-glimpse culture.

don’t draw medieval art much - unsure why, maybe avoiding work/relaxation cross-contamination. But @tomnickson1981 and @sacharpg’s Medieval Multiplied show @courtauld, which is centred on the most incredible ivory mirror case, made me want to. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/med...

Delighted to see the unicorn horn, once in the treasury of St-Denis, back on display, in an excellent case and perfect location @museecluny 🤩🦄. #unicorn #unicornhorn #medievalsky

Great review - congratulations Matt ⚓️

Was just going to say this! Hope the object list and labels will be archived somewhere

A year old today: Cosmo has been celebrating all day, primarily through the medium of snacks. 🥰 #korthalsgriffon #longhairpointinggriffon

OfS register pause ‘will make sector financial problems worse’ Regulator accused of ‘dereliction of duty’ and faces potential legal action after temporarily shutting down key processes

'Some of those affected are understood to be considering legal action, citing a significant impact on their plans to develop. Politicians including shadow education minister Neil O’Brien and former universities minister Lord Johnson of Marylebone have also spoken out against the move.' 1/2

(Rob is the director of the brilliant Art Academy London; I’m a member of its academic board so I have seen up close how much labour has gone into the suddenly-suspended DAP process)