Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May. Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians
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In other news regarding art world residences, the former director of the Louvre has exactly the kind of home you’d imagine
surya bowyer@suryabowyer.com · 6mo agoTONY SUPREME
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My parents holding hands after their assisted deaths: Martin Roemers’ most personal photograph
‘Their lives were getting harder, even with help. They did not want to go to a nursing home and neither wanted to live without the other. So they left this life together’
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I am giving a (free!) talk at the V&A Museum on 3 June with @shreyagupta.bsky.social @libertypaterson.bsky.social & Niti Acharya, on the history of institutional collecting. Sign up to attend here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/Yq2NZK...
V&A Provenance Research Seminar: State of the (Future) Field - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A
This talk will consider the state of the field of the history of collecting and its institutions, looking forward also to the future of this evolving field of study.
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Today I'm looking at: Remedios Varo's "Simpatía (La rabia del gato)" aka Sympathy (the cat's rage).
Today I learned that @theguardian.com is running a contest for “Invertebrate of the Year”. At a time of increasing climate crisis, of course the tardigrade—which has survived all 5 great extinction events—should win www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Lego and tardigrades’: when humans finally destroy the world, what will remain?
Milnesium tardigradum is only 0.5mm long and has survived all five great extinction events – plus it’s cute
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And here’s the research article in The British Art Journal britishartjournal.co.uk/recovery-of-...
Recovery of a stolen Van Dyck – British Art Journal: Online
In July 1951 Anthony van Dyck’s Portrait of Wolfgang Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg (Pl 1) was stolen from Boughton House, Northamptonshire. It is one of thirty-seven oil sketches at Boughton for Van Dyck’s...
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surya bowyer@suryabowyer.com · 2y agoGreat bit of art detective work this www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Does Norman Foster think Manchester United are relocating to Dubai? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Manchester United to build new 100,000-capacity stadium next to Old Trafford
Manchester United have confirmed their intention to build a new 100,000-capacity stadium ‘footsteps’ from their Old Trafford home of 115 years
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Some of us will go to an art gallery this weekend. Maybe it will help us reflect or inspire us. Isn’t that part of a life well lived? ... But what if you didn’t? What if there were no galleries, theatres, publishers or concert halls? What if we got rid of art? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The big idea: should we abolish art?
Down with expensive trophies at art fairs: it’s time to reclaim a more radical vision of creativity
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Today I'm thinking about Ceal Floyer's Working Title (Digging), a stereo sound installation that aurally represents the act of shovelling dirt. freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/en/blog/acqu...
A sad day: RIP to the @britishlibrary.bsky.social's vaguely Italian-sounding, impressively laconic sign which greets visitors on the entrance piazza. Replaced with this much more conventionally grammared yellow sign. Interesting to note the continuing commitment to capitalising "piazza".
"The painting had been hanging in the National Museum in Gdańsk, when on 24 April 1974, a cleaner knocked it from the wall, the frame broke, and she discovered the painting had been replaced with a photograph." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Brueghel painting stolen from Poland in 1974 found in local Dutch museum
Art detective and magazine help crack case of Flemish masterpiece thought to have been stolen by Polish agents
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Will be in New York next week for the College Art Association annual conference #CAA2025 — so looking for NYC recommendations
I would bet on this being a verbatim play at the Almeida within 10 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield?
The city is determined to solve the ‘whodumpedit’ mystery after a huge pile of refuse was discarded, blocking the road. But with fly-tipping across the UK on the up, will it be possible to find the cu...
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Wow, these paintings by Eric Tucker are extraordinary. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... ‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub
‘Secret Lowry’: the ex-gravedigger who painted northern life, from factory to fuggy pub
He repaired his car with Sellotape and kept his trousers up with rope. But Eric Tucker had a hidden life – painting drinkers, smokers and factory-workers without saccharine or sentiment. Now a book ce...
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If you told me this, an image of the Horsehead Nebula captured by telescopes, was a promo image for the film Wicked, I would believe you www.eso.org/public/image...
The Horsehead Nebula*
The Horsehead Nebula*
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'The feeling of the show, then, is of provisionality, of history in the process of being digested and rewritten.' Wonderful encapsulation of what History is and how it 'works'. (And NB the exhibition itself is also a real treat).
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2y ago‘Hew Locke asks us to consider imperial power as a grim yet alluring excess of the symbolic, not just as the exercise of brute force.’ Esther Chadwick on a response to empire at the British Museum: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Like just LOOK at this panopticon... Wonder what Foucault would have thought
surya bowyer@suryabowyer.com · 2y agoEscape from the terrordome: how Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as stunning arts hubs. They were built to instil fear. Now these giant domed jails, which date back to the 1700s, are being turned into creative centres www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
This is a great, Pynchon-esque story: Secretive underground exploration group assists with missing museum artefacts in Melbourne. Members of clandestine group retrieve objects from drains after burst pipe at Australian museum’s storage facility. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/06/s...
Secretive underground exploration group assists with missing museum artefacts in Melbourne
Members of clandestine group retrieve objects from drains after burst pipe at Australian museum’s storage facility
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Escape from the terrordome: how Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as stunning arts hubs. They were built to instil fear. Now these giant domed jails, which date back to the 1700s, are being turned into creative centres www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Escape from the terrordome: how Netherlands panopticon prisons are being reborn as stunning arts hubs
They were built to instil fear. Now these giant domed jails, which date back to the 1700s, are being turned into creative centres – complete with cells for rent and escape rooms
theguardian.com
hi @willpooley.bsky.social just to say I really enjoyed "Sheet Happens" and have found it helpful in my own work. so thank you
