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Oxford / London
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Oxford / London
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Floored by this exceptional bit of criticism by Frances Spalding suggesting an echo between Frank Auerbach’s personal history and the mark-making in his Primrose Hill paintings.
artreview.com/how-frank-au...
artreview.com/how-frank-au...
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‘Avigdor Arikha became the archivist of the everyday: not, it seems, because he sought out the ordinary but because each day invited his urgent attention. He spoke about “lying in ambush” until a subject asserted itself.’
Gaby Wood on the Romanian-born artist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gaby Wood on the Romanian-born artist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gaby Wood · At the Fine Art Society: Avigdor Arikha’s Prints
Avigdor Arikha became the archivist of the everyday: not, it seems, because he sought out the ordinary but because each...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
‘Avigdor Arikha became the archivist of the everyday: not, it seems, because he sought out the ordinary but because each day invited his urgent attention. He spoke about “lying in ambush” until a subject asserted itself.’
Gaby Wood on the Romanian-born artist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Gaby Wood on the Romanian-born artist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Allen Jones and David Hockney at the memorial evening for Derek Boshier at the Royal Academy last night. Very much missed.
One former student spoke about Boshier's advice to him: "Don't try to be interesting, be interested."
One former student spoke about Boshier's advice to him: "Don't try to be interesting, be interested."
September 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Allen Jones and David Hockney at the memorial evening for Derek Boshier at the Royal Academy last night. Very much missed.
One former student spoke about Boshier's advice to him: "Don't try to be interesting, be interested."
One former student spoke about Boshier's advice to him: "Don't try to be interesting, be interested."
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Looking for art books to add to your fall reading list? Check out a Louise Bourgeois biography, “Native Visual Sovereignty,” “Robert Rauschenberg’s New York,” Nigerian diasporic women’s art, and more in this season’s recommendations from Hyperallergic.
12 Art Books to Read This Fall
A Louise Bourgeois biography, Joe Sacco’s latest graphic investigation, a Wifredo Lam catalog, a study of diasporic Nigerian women artists, and more.
hyperallergic.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Looking for art books to add to your fall reading list? Check out a Louise Bourgeois biography, “Native Visual Sovereignty,” “Robert Rauschenberg’s New York,” Nigerian diasporic women’s art, and more in this season’s recommendations from Hyperallergic.
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Keren Ann fête ses 25 ans de carrière avec un dixième album solaire, produit en indépendante. Elle nous explique : «Au lieu d’emprunter pour m’offrir une petite maison à la campagne, j’ai choisi de faire un album, parce que c’est là où je vis»
Keren Ann : «Au lieu d’emprunter pour m’offrir une maison, j’ai fait un album»
Avec «Paris Amour», la chanteuse prolifique aux 25 années de carrière livre un dixième album solaire et stupéfiant, placé sous le signe de la maturité. Et le premier entièrement produit en indépendante.
www.liberation.fr
September 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Keren Ann fête ses 25 ans de carrière avec un dixième album solaire, produit en indépendante. Elle nous explique : «Au lieu d’emprunter pour m’offrir une petite maison à la campagne, j’ai choisi de faire un album, parce que c’est là où je vis»
A very rare opportunity to visit the late Howard Hodgkin’s studio in Bloomsbury over 13-14 and 20-21 September.
programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12569
programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12569
Howard Hodgkin Studio
Sir Howard Hodgkin (1932 – 2017) was one of England’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Abstracted yet allusive, apparently spontaneous but in fact highly controlled, his paintings convey feeling ...
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August 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
A very rare opportunity to visit the late Howard Hodgkin’s studio in Bloomsbury over 13-14 and 20-21 September.
programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12569
programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/12569
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
www.openculture.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
I see Jonathan Demme’s rarely available 1979 neo-noir Last Embrace has popped up on Prime. If you love 70s conspiracy thrillers such as Marathon Man or Blow Out it’s a wonderfully unhinged schlocky companion in which Janet Margolin utterly steals the film.
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
Watch Last Embrace | Prime Video
After the death of his wife, Harry Hannan (Roy Scheider) hires a private investigator to help him find the identity of the stalker who is sending death threats, but it only leads to more questions as ...
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July 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I see Jonathan Demme’s rarely available 1979 neo-noir Last Embrace has popped up on Prime. If you love 70s conspiracy thrillers such as Marathon Man or Blow Out it’s a wonderfully unhinged schlocky companion in which Janet Margolin utterly steals the film.
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
Fell asleep while listening to an audiobook of Silvina Ocampo’s short stories and boy was I submerged in some dark magical realist dreams.
July 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Fell asleep while listening to an audiobook of Silvina Ocampo’s short stories and boy was I submerged in some dark magical realist dreams.
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Front page news, ma! It only took us 35 years. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
‘We want to stop in our prime’: Saint Etienne on their final album, turning down Cher’s Believe, and why pop is a dying art
The Britpop-defying indie trio are calling it a day after 35 years. From having their minds blown by techno to fireworks night with Aphex Twin, they recall the highs – and explain their eternal ‘psych...
www.theguardian.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Front page news, ma! It only took us 35 years. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
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🎥 Redécouverte récemment, la glamourissime star Anna May Wong passa sa vie à tenter de repousser les limites de rôles marqués par l’orientalisme et les préjugés.
A la Cinémathèque française, une rétrospective revient sur sa carrière entre Hollywood et l’Europe.
Lire 👇
A la Cinémathèque française, une rétrospective revient sur sa carrière entre Hollywood et l’Europe.
Lire 👇
Anna May Wong à la Cinémathèque française : fée d’artifices sino-américaine
Redécouverte récemment, la glamourissime star passa sa vie à tenter de repousser les limites de rôles marqués par l’orientalisme et les préjugés. Une rétrospective revient sur sa carrière entre Hollywood et l’Europe.
www.liberation.fr
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🎥 Redécouverte récemment, la glamourissime star Anna May Wong passa sa vie à tenter de repousser les limites de rôles marqués par l’orientalisme et les préjugés.
A la Cinémathèque française, une rétrospective revient sur sa carrière entre Hollywood et l’Europe.
Lire 👇
A la Cinémathèque française, une rétrospective revient sur sa carrière entre Hollywood et l’Europe.
Lire 👇
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Seagull update: A Clarion correspondent has shared this video of a seagull on the roof of the Blavatnik, reporting that multiple seagulls had been playing with pebbles on the glass roof 'like basketball' (sound on), passing and dropping stones loudly for a week #wearealltheclarion
April 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Seagull update: A Clarion correspondent has shared this video of a seagull on the roof of the Blavatnik, reporting that multiple seagulls had been playing with pebbles on the glass roof 'like basketball' (sound on), passing and dropping stones loudly for a week #wearealltheclarion
The BBC at least thinks we deserve good things. Dexys Midnight Runners performing live in Newcastle from 1982.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radio 2 In Concert - Dexys Midnight Runners (1982) - BBC Sounds
Dexys Midnight Runners performing live at Newcastle's Exhibition Park in 1982.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The BBC at least thinks we deserve good things. Dexys Midnight Runners performing live in Newcastle from 1982.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”
March 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Deeply strange entering middle-age at a time in world history where things are getting measurably worse. Just a continual psychic struggle of “is this fogeyism or are things just not what they used to be?”
Delighted to discover that the sublime and long unavailable 1995 Guillaume Depardieu and François Cluzet comedy Les Apprentis is now free to watch on Prime.
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
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Watch The Apprentices | Prime Video
Pierre Salvadori's cult 1995 comedy, starring François Cluzet and Guillaume Depardieu as two young adults searching for love and success.
watch.amazon.co.uk
March 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Delighted to discover that the sublime and long unavailable 1995 Guillaume Depardieu and François Cluzet comedy Les Apprentis is now free to watch on Prime.
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
watch.amazon.co.uk/detail?gti=a...
From a few years back, a small selection of Saul Leiter’s unpublished photographs of New York.
www.thetimes.com/article/6248...
www.thetimes.com/article/6248...
Striking unseen photos of New York City in the 20th century
Saul Leiter remained relatively unsung for much of his life, but is now regarded as a pioneer of colour photography alongside his contemporaries William Egglest
www.thetimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
From a few years back, a small selection of Saul Leiter’s unpublished photographs of New York.
www.thetimes.com/article/6248...
www.thetimes.com/article/6248...
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I recommend catching this before it disappears; an Arena from 1980 with Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood. More time is spent with Dunbar, who tragically couldn’t live up to her early promise, than the *electric* Wood, just on the cusp of becoming a household name. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Arena - Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
Programme from 1980 exploring the work of writer and performer Victoria Wood and teenage playwright Andrea Dunbar.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I recommend catching this before it disappears; an Arena from 1980 with Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood. More time is spent with Dunbar, who tragically couldn’t live up to her early promise, than the *electric* Wood, just on the cusp of becoming a household name. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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🎉 Happy International Women's Day!! 🎉
This day feels like an appropriate moment to reflect on how proud we are to be publishing the series Illuminating Women Artists, which brings neglected female figures from the history of art back into the spotlight! www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...
#IWD25
This day feels like an appropriate moment to reflect on how proud we are to be publishing the series Illuminating Women Artists, which brings neglected female figures from the history of art back into the spotlight! www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...
#IWD25
March 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
🎉 Happy International Women's Day!! 🎉
This day feels like an appropriate moment to reflect on how proud we are to be publishing the series Illuminating Women Artists, which brings neglected female figures from the history of art back into the spotlight! www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...
#IWD25
This day feels like an appropriate moment to reflect on how proud we are to be publishing the series Illuminating Women Artists, which brings neglected female figures from the history of art back into the spotlight! www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...
#IWD25
Found this 3-days-in-a-life overview of Ishikawa Prefectural Library in Kanazawa surprisingly moving. Additionally, the public realm in Japan remains a wonder to behold.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
Beyond the Books at a Kanazawa Library - Document 72 Hours | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
A public library in Kanazawa resembles a sublime theater and offers more than 1.1 million books. For three days, we asked people what books piqued their interest and how they spend their time here.
www3.nhk.or.jp
March 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Found this 3-days-in-a-life overview of Ishikawa Prefectural Library in Kanazawa surprisingly moving. Additionally, the public realm in Japan remains a wonder to behold.
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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Unexpected Koyaanisqatsi in London Bridge station this am
February 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Unexpected Koyaanisqatsi in London Bridge station this am
Five of Italo Calvino’s enchanting short stories of the hapless Marcovaldo dramatised by Toby Jones.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Five of Italo Calvino’s enchanting short stories of the hapless Marcovaldo dramatised by Toby Jones.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
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This month’s film of the month is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders in which the poet Seamus Heaney explores an ancient and mysterious stone statue on Boa Island 🌿❤️ 🗿
stoneclub.rocks/film-club
stoneclub.rocks/film-club
February 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This month’s film of the month is an excerpt from BBC Northern Ireland programme Ulster in Focus: The Loughsiders in which the poet Seamus Heaney explores an ancient and mysterious stone statue on Boa Island 🌿❤️ 🗿
stoneclub.rocks/film-club
stoneclub.rocks/film-club