Laura Brown

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

Bayeux Tapestry to return to British Museum on loan after 900 years Bayeux Tapestry will be shown at the British Museum, which will lend treasures to Normandy museums.

BIG EMBROIDERY-NOT-A-TAPESTRY NEWS! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fun to be had this afternoon for my course @rarebookschool.bsky.social on ‘The photographic book from 1843’ from our amazing collections @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

Glasgow, Scotland-based documentary, editorial and portrait photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert Photography portfolio reviews with acclaimed documentary photographer Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, in Glasgow, Scotland. In a day of collaboration with Wex Events, in their Glasgow camera store on 31st July...

Team!
I’m collaborating with Wex Events, hosting free in-person #photography #portfolioreviews, in their #Glasgow store on 31st July.

Some more info here.

Let’s chat photos!

www.jeremysuttonhibbert.com/glasgow-base...

A grand house stands in the distance viewed through a garden

Just arrived at #AmericanMuseumGardens #Bath for the @swfed.bsky.social event. Blue skies and an amazing garden to welcome you. 🌸🌺

If there are any @museumsassociation.org coming along please say hi 👋

New tool to identify ‘toxic’ green books

Developed by @physastrostand.bsky.social and the University of St Andrews Libraries and Museum, the new device is transforming how cultural heritage institutions identify toxic pigments in historic books.

Read more 👇

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#EverToExcel

Entries from Collins Nature Guide to the Seashore. The entries are: Fan-bristled Robber Fly, Calcareous Tube Worm, Yellow-plumed Sea Slug, Dune Chafer, Great Scallop, Stinking Iris, Thick-lipped Dog Whelk and Sea Potato

Remembering that time we catalogued a Collins Nature Guide to the seashore and found all the new insults we could ever need.

Three women wearing long aprons pose for a formal photograph. All have their hair pulled back tight. ‘Three women herring gutters July 1884’, Wick Society, Johnston Photographic Collection.

This is a portrait of a woman worker in the herring industry. She smiles but her mouth holds a wire she is pulling as she tightens a bandage on her fingers. ‘Portrait of a woman with bandaged fingers’, courtesy Waterlines Lybster

This wall construction is at the heart of the exhibition at Timespan. It is freestanding, with wooden frame visible. It has been covered on the outer side in a thick red plastic. Archival photographs and images are pinned to the interior surface of the framework

This is a black and white photograph by Joanne Coates of a figure in a dark dress making her way through the landscape. It is a close up, with the composition cutting off the head, to show the figure in movement. ‘Trajicere’, 2024, Joanne Coates

Very glad to have seen Joanne Coates exhibition ‘Red Herring’ at Timespan in Helmsdale, Scotland, the result of a 6 month residency. The work focuses on the migrant female workforce in the herring fishing industry from 18th-20th centuries, linking back to Helmsdale, with its ties to the industry.

George Eastman Museum to acquire and preserve the complete master recordings for the moving image works of Bill Viola | George Eastman Museum The Viola-Perov Trust has agreed to donate the complete set of the master recordings for the moving image artworks by Bill Viola to the George Eastman Museum for the purpose of creating the definitive...

Archives news! The @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social has acquired and will be preserving the complete master recordings for the moving image works of Bill Viola!

www.eastman.org/george-eastm...

The Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio but with sheep

The Calling of St Matthew by Caravaggio

You've not really appreciated Caravaggio's The Calling of St Matthew until you've seen it with sheep 🐑

duolingo recently declared they are now an AI-first company. well, here at The Museum of English Rural Life, we pride ourselves in being EI-first. EI EI O

for every immigrant tethers two worlds together with embroidered garlands of words, of sweets, of flowers, of children, of dreams, turning strangers into friends and planting seeds of incalculable good.

#DrCarlaHayden is a wonderful librarian who we had the pleasure of hosting at our event #LibrariansChangeLives just a few weeks ago.

Dr Hayden spoke eloquently about the importance of libraries as equalisers, as centres of community, and bastions of truth.

We look forward to what she does next.

please do not attempt to fight the collections (you will lose)

a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a microphone and smiling .. ALT: a woman in a blue dress is standing in front of a microphone and smiling ..

I mean, come on…

And if you take any of these, add ‘utterly’ before and ‘ed’ onto the end of the word, you get an expression for being drunk

Many thanks for the interest, and sharing my work! #Glasgow #photography #photographer

‘The Women Who Changed Modern Scotland’ is back on iPlayer.
I was interviewed about the ‘Violence Unseen’ campaign made in the spirit of Franki Raffles.
Timely to see Mridul Wadhwa talking about our feminist, collaborative approach.
@zerotolerancescot.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Seven questions with Anita Taylor | Art UK Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 500,000 artworks by over 55,000 artists.

Artist, educator, curator and writer Anita Taylor has been making drawings for four decades.

Read our new seven questions interview by Nichol Keene 👉 buff.ly/UzdIo01

© the artist. 📷 Anita Taylor

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.

I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for ‘improper ideology’ JD Vance to lead plan as Trump says there’s been ‘concerted’ effort to rewrite US history with ‘distorted narrative’

What a surprise - the attack now is on the independence of the great Smithsonian Institution, which has strong connections to @ox.ac.uk. Asserting control over its curation is an attack on knowledge itself. Solidarity from Oxford’s Gardens, Libraries and Museums. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thinking about studying Art History or History of Photography at St Andrews? Postgraduate Visiting Day - April 5th! Scan QR code to secure your place now!

Image of cameras from the George Eastman Museum technology collection.

Take a look through the world’s leading collection of photographic and cinematographic technology 👉

How did @uniofstandrews.bsky.social benefit from, participate in, or support, British colonialism? Our report 'The University of St Andrews and the legacies of empire, 1700-1900' is now available legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk #history #skystorians

#WomensHistoryMonth Celebrating the 226th birthday of photographic pioneer #AnnaAtkins by revisiting my 2024 blog for the @linneansociety.bsky.social. A rare photo of all three volumes of Photographs of British Algae, Cyanotype Impressions courtesy of Linnean Society.
www.linnean.org/news/2024/12...

This land is your land: leaf portraits of Ecuador’s female farmers – in pictures Photographer Yinna Higuera uses chlorophyll printing to celebrate women who have a profound bond with their environment

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We already feel this sounds like by far the most accurate management simulation game of all time.

Strongly expect the Trustees will spend 30 minutes on it and assume they can take over direct control.

The National Science and Media Museum are looking for a fixed term Curator of Photography & Photographic Technology (I'm off to grow a small human). It's a great job, wonderful collections, best colleagues and an exciting time to be in Bradford. Please share. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

literally every time I talk to friends