Vania Schiff

This photo shows an oval clock face integrated into the rich, dark wood paneling typical of Two Temple Place. The clock numbers are in gold or brass tones. The hour and minute hands are made of an ornate metal and form a diagonal line indicating that the time is 1:38pm.

time is a dagger

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 50 people State media says Israeli attack on girls' school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens.

Killing children, attacking schools has been normalised

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Monday mood (Harold Offeh snaps like a diva) @kettlesyard.bsky.social

Sign on a door at the Ashmolean pointing towards Room 62. It reads ‘Modern Art’ and ‘No photography’.

Btw, you can find many artworks related to Kettle’s Yard’s collection and a few fab Heptworths here — unfortunately not a single one of them can be photographed @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Barbara Hepworth’s ‘Three Personages’ on the foreground of a photo of Kettle Yard’s mezzanine.

Ha, I’ve posted elsewhere a pic featuring this very sculpture :)

I turned sideways and there it was, much better than the photo I had planned. Inspiring place, will go back.

Light switch.

Light switch @kettlesyard.bsky.social

Room with a vintage Bechstein piano and a Brancusi sculpture.

Music @kettlesyard.bsky.social

Decorated glass and ceramic plate next to a green glass ball.

Still life @kettlesyard.bsky.social

Sculpture of a woman’s head.

Faces @kettlesyard.bsky.social

Two abstract paintings (green, blue, and black and red, white, and black) next to a red-striped curtain.

Abstraction @kettlesyard.bsky.social

Seen from above: an asymmetrically placed lit candle on a rectangular chocolate cake, daffodils, two tea cups, and side plates on an iroko wood table.

Happy Cakeday!

The Resurrection of Christ with added landscape around its original format, turning it into a rectangular painting.

Schade’s photo of the altered version for comparison.

Tintoretto’s work next to two Renaissance paintings.

Tintoretto in very good company @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Tintoretto’s Resurrection of Christ in its new carved and gilded octagonal frame.

As Tintoretto intended. Some Peter Schade magic this morning on my way to collect a special cake — and I had the room to myself! Love the new octagonal frame @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Tintoretto’s work surrounded by two Renaissance portraits.

Tintoretto in very good company @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

John Piper, Mohammed Sami and David Bomberg meet in a corner of a room with panelled white walls. There’s a small round table made of wood in the centre of the space.

In an adjacent white panelled room, Victor Willing looks up.

John Piper, Mohammed Sami and David Bomberg meet in a corner. Victor Willing looks up.

View of the works shown in the rooms at the back of the house.

Captivating

Profile of a young person wearing a red jacket looking at the white model of Pallant House Gallery.

The other side of the model shows abstracted coloured shapes by Lothar Götz.

The 2020-21 Model Art Gallery is one of 3 miniature art galleries inside Pallant House. Inspired by the 34 Gallery (a 1934 show with artworks deliberately made on a small scale) and prompted by the first coronavirus lockdown, it includes an homage to Khadija Saye.

Rana Begum’s multicoloured Mesh erupts in the Queen Anne’s house’s stairwell.

Lothar Götz’s multicoloured, geometric work surrounds the staircase in the new section of the gallery.

The many faces of Pallant House Gallery. To no one’s surprise, I didn’t want to leave. Also a joy to chat to Melanie irl for a change.

"This is vibes-based policy making, not evidence-based policy making" — me talking on BBC Radio Scotland Breakfast just now about the MPs pushing for a social media ban for under 16s.

A capybara in the dark, head raised, looks towards us. Part of the Trailer I for the film O Agente Secreto (The Secret Agent).

A (literally) dark scene in The Secret Agent starts with a glimpse of sth that turns out to be a capybara. It’s the beginning of a brief fantastic/cheap-horror-film-like segment. Capybaras as harbingers of doom, playing against type — a few arresting seconds in a fab 2h40m film.

Cinema screen showing the BBFC age certificate card for the film The Secret Agent.

Mission accomplished! Found a preview (bus replacement service a small price to pay) 🍿

This reader is v much in flux

Light-blue cover of Adam Phillips’s book The Life You Want. The image under the author’s name and book title is Joachim Patenier’s painting Charon Crossing the River Styx. A golden pencil is next to the the book.

Adam Phillips by candlelight — the “significant difference between a possessive, acquisitive individualism & a collective political project (the phrase ‘the life I want’ implies a stability & a degree of certainty in myself; the idea of the life I want fixes the flux of myself)”

All the right answers

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More Mamdanis, please

Evening view of the illuminated Old Vic’s façade showing the current play’s name, Arcadia.

a side of beef, a shoulder of mutton, a haunch of venison

Very good insights by @eryk.bsky.social on the UK Skills Hub — especially on how the division of users between ‘AI workers’ and ‘AI leaders’ affects content 🧵

A golden candyfloss swirl of clouds dominate the blue sky over parkland.

Light (4:30pm)