Andrew Wilson
@andrewgwilson.bsky.social
Art historian, curator, editor.
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
Currently author/project editor Patrick Heron catalogue raisonné. Also writing about Gustav Metzger, Yoko Ono and others. Weeding, pruning, mowing, Cymru.
https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/membership/members/andrew-wilson/
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40 years ago today, right about now i.e. after school, I was listening to Psychocandy for the first time, as was anyone within fifty feet of my bedroom. Still one of the most exciting things ever to have happened to me.
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
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Happy Birthday to the JAMC's Psychocandy, which turns 40 today!
buff.ly/nflmjN6
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
40 years ago today, right about now i.e. after school, I was listening to Psychocandy for the first time, as was anyone within fifty feet of my bedroom. Still one of the most exciting things ever to have happened to me.
I don't know, every day there is something - no, there are lots of things.
So to remind us of what we are dealing with, here again is a postcard made by the great Derek Boshier back in 2016:
"I must not lie about my life - Donald Trump"
So to remind us of what we are dealing with, here again is a postcard made by the great Derek Boshier back in 2016:
"I must not lie about my life - Donald Trump"
November 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I don't know, every day there is something - no, there are lots of things.
So to remind us of what we are dealing with, here again is a postcard made by the great Derek Boshier back in 2016:
"I must not lie about my life - Donald Trump"
So to remind us of what we are dealing with, here again is a postcard made by the great Derek Boshier back in 2016:
"I must not lie about my life - Donald Trump"
Livestream starting at midday
#REMEMBERNATURE 4th November 2025
A Nationwide Day of Artist‑led Action to Stand Up for Nature
www.remembernature.art
#REMEMBERNATURE 4th November 2025
A Nationwide Day of Artist‑led Action to Stand Up for Nature
www.remembernature.art
Remember Nature 25
www.remembernature.art
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Livestream starting at midday
#REMEMBERNATURE 4th November 2025
A Nationwide Day of Artist‑led Action to Stand Up for Nature
www.remembernature.art
#REMEMBERNATURE 4th November 2025
A Nationwide Day of Artist‑led Action to Stand Up for Nature
www.remembernature.art
Tonight the best place to spend Halloween was at Music We'd Like To Hear: Symphonies of John White at St Mary at Hill.
The best evening for music I have had in a while and a great stage for the Return of George W. Welch.
A truly exciting programme for a wonderful evening. Thank you.
The best evening for music I have had in a while and a great stage for the Return of George W. Welch.
A truly exciting programme for a wonderful evening. Thank you.
November 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Tonight the best place to spend Halloween was at Music We'd Like To Hear: Symphonies of John White at St Mary at Hill.
The best evening for music I have had in a while and a great stage for the Return of George W. Welch.
A truly exciting programme for a wonderful evening. Thank you.
The best evening for music I have had in a while and a great stage for the Return of George W. Welch.
A truly exciting programme for a wonderful evening. Thank you.
Honey magazine (December 1960) looks at "The Artists of St Ives". Photographs by Cornel Lucas, words by Denys Val Baker.
Here is Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron
Here is Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Honey magazine (December 1960) looks at "The Artists of St Ives". Photographs by Cornel Lucas, words by Denys Val Baker.
Here is Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron
Here is Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron
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ah so not merit based, just racism.
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
ah so not merit based, just racism.
Chalk and cheese, reform and Greens
Fascinating digest of arts policies.
Fascinating digest of arts policies.
Feed: "The Art Newspaper - International art news and events"
By: John-Paul Stonard on Friday, October 17, 2025
By: John-Paul Stonard on Friday, October 17, 2025
Cultural issues define the Greens and Reform, so what are their arts policies?
Zack Polanski, the new UK Green Party leader, has big plans for the culture sector, while Reform’s Nigel Farage is giving little away
www.theartnewspaper.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Chalk and cheese, reform and Greens
Fascinating digest of arts policies.
Fascinating digest of arts policies.
I don't see anyone else quite doing what @greg.org does. It is art history in motion dayafterday of the pastnowpast nowpastnow. Can't recommend it enough.
greg.org/archive/2025...
greg.org/archive/2025...
Hesse’s Lewitt Table & Lewitt’s Hesse Table – greg.org
greg.org
October 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I don't see anyone else quite doing what @greg.org does. It is art history in motion dayafterday of the pastnowpast nowpastnow. Can't recommend it enough.
greg.org/archive/2025...
greg.org/archive/2025...
Great words from the wonderful Catherine Slessor.
We are entering into Speer-construction-land where the ballroom and all its phoney gilding will occupy more space than the main bit of the White House, already suffocated by fake gold paint and faux-stucco.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
We are entering into Speer-construction-land where the ballroom and all its phoney gilding will occupy more space than the main bit of the White House, already suffocated by fake gold paint and faux-stucco.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Great words from the wonderful Catherine Slessor.
We are entering into Speer-construction-land where the ballroom and all its phoney gilding will occupy more space than the main bit of the White House, already suffocated by fake gold paint and faux-stucco.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
We are entering into Speer-construction-land where the ballroom and all its phoney gilding will occupy more space than the main bit of the White House, already suffocated by fake gold paint and faux-stucco.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Michaela Melián:
Bringing Gustav Metzger Back to Nürnberg
michaelamelian-gustavmetzger.de
Zwei Metallplatten, dazwischen ein Foto vom Reichsparteitag 1938.
Die Skulptur ist eine Hommage an den 1926 in Nürnberg geborenen jüdischen Künstler Gustav Metzger.
Bringing Gustav Metzger Back to Nürnberg
michaelamelian-gustavmetzger.de
Zwei Metallplatten, dazwischen ein Foto vom Reichsparteitag 1938.
Die Skulptur ist eine Hommage an den 1926 in Nürnberg geborenen jüdischen Künstler Gustav Metzger.
September 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Michaela Melián:
Bringing Gustav Metzger Back to Nürnberg
michaelamelian-gustavmetzger.de
Zwei Metallplatten, dazwischen ein Foto vom Reichsparteitag 1938.
Die Skulptur ist eine Hommage an den 1926 in Nürnberg geborenen jüdischen Künstler Gustav Metzger.
Bringing Gustav Metzger Back to Nürnberg
michaelamelian-gustavmetzger.de
Zwei Metallplatten, dazwischen ein Foto vom Reichsparteitag 1938.
Die Skulptur ist eine Hommage an den 1926 in Nürnberg geborenen jüdischen Künstler Gustav Metzger.
Totally fascinated by this post (and last year's) on P. Klee, R.H. Quaytman, M. Luther, and W. Benjamin, all of which provides a sidenote to one of the great works by Gustav Metzger: "Eichmann and the Angel" which brings together, Klee, Benjamin, Eichmann and Hannah Arendt + mass-media and much more
saw this on tumblr this morning and couldn't stop wondering what the world might be like if instead of Angelus Novus, Walter Benjamin had gotten inspo from a different Paul Klee drawing greg.org/archive/2025...
October 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Totally fascinated by this post (and last year's) on P. Klee, R.H. Quaytman, M. Luther, and W. Benjamin, all of which provides a sidenote to one of the great works by Gustav Metzger: "Eichmann and the Angel" which brings together, Klee, Benjamin, Eichmann and Hannah Arendt + mass-media and much more
As the #smallpublishersfair25 nears. This open letter in The Bookseller from a group of small independent publishers makes telling points about the current landscape for independent publishing and what the future may hold. @smallpublishers.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK
The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.
www.thebookseller.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
As the #smallpublishersfair25 nears. This open letter in The Bookseller from a group of small independent publishers makes telling points about the current landscape for independent publishing and what the future may hold. @smallpublishers.bsky.social
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...
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Three weeks today! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Three weeks today! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
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Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.
October 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.
Interesting photos marketing Tom Phillips house on Talfourd Road "last on the market in 1953". Long shots of his living and working spaces "adorned with decades of its previous occupant's creative process - a living historical record of one of Peckham's most-celebrated artists" (look at the ceiling)
September 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Interesting photos marketing Tom Phillips house on Talfourd Road "last on the market in 1953". Long shots of his living and working spaces "adorned with decades of its previous occupant's creative process - a living historical record of one of Peckham's most-celebrated artists" (look at the ceiling)
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Q: What is the role of art in society?
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"In Washington he dropped in on one of Trump’s crypto advisers at his office near the White House and presented him with a replica of a piece of conceptual art: a duct-taped banana. The original, by Maurizio Cattelan, had cost Sun $6.2 million at Sotheby’s." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
A Crypto Billionaire’s Path From Pariah to Trump Moneyman
Justin Sun was facing an SEC fraud case, but $90 million of Trump coins later, he’s doing business with the president’s family.
www.bloomberg.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Q: What is the role of art in society?
A:
A:
Won't be long now before there is talk about the benefits of bleach, again.
history ... farce ... etc etc, again and again
history ... farce ... etc etc, again and again
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Won't be long now before there is talk about the benefits of bleach, again.
history ... farce ... etc etc, again and again
history ... farce ... etc etc, again and again
Looking forward to the Small Publishers Fair next month, to seeing new books and new people, and hope that some exhibitors who weren't there last year might be there this year. But also thinking of the Mark Pawson-shaped hole there will be at Conway Hall.
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...
2025 Fair - Small Publishers Fair
An update on plans for this year's Small Publishers Fair 2024 in London plus tips on how to be in the loop.
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Looking forward to the Small Publishers Fair next month, to seeing new books and new people, and hope that some exhibitors who weren't there last year might be there this year. But also thinking of the Mark Pawson-shaped hole there will be at Conway Hall.
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...
2025 Fair - Small Publishers Fair
An update on plans for this year's Small Publishers Fair 2024 in London plus tips on how to be in the loop.
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Looking forward to the Small Publishers Fair next month, to seeing new books and new people, and hope that some exhibitors who weren't there last year might be there this year. But also thinking of the Mark Pawson-shaped hole there will be at Conway Hall.
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...
smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...
Informative signs from the Ministry of Works
September 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Informative signs from the Ministry of Works
some more gates
September 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
some more gates
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The great concrete poet Eugen Gomringer died last week aged 100.
August 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The great concrete poet Eugen Gomringer died last week aged 100.
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August 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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