Kim Vertue
@kimvertue.bsky.social
Artist in progress, find me on Medium: https://medium.com/@vertuekim
🌧️ 🛤️ 🐇 'Rain, Steam & Speed' "Can our #art meet exponential technological developments such as quantum computers & AI?" @kimvertue.bsky.social explores Turner’s lasting impression of rapid change - an image of the Industrial Revolution’s sublime momentum 😶🌫️ medium.com/signifier/ra... #ArtHistory
RIP Yayoi Kusama ...here's @kimvertue.bsky.social on the relationship between the individual & the infinite through the work of Japan's globally renowned artist: 🍓 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #fashion #kawaii #ContemporaryArt #sculpture #Japan
![‘Filled with the Brilliance of Life’ (2011) one of Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinity Mirror Rooms’ [images courtesy of Tate Galleries, presented by the artist, Ota Fine Arts and Victoria Miro 2015, accessioned 2019 © Yayoi Kusama]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26iv3vskltgo3gtrng6qypss/bafkreicstm6twpqe6kr2zurm3wjtb5a6bbnxdg5p4zbwvmjg3dqku6nfni)
🪨⚒️🪽 'Jacob & his Angels' "the huge figures shocked many of Epstein’s contemporaries just as his first commission for the façade of the BMA Building had shocked Edwardian sensibilities in 1908" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Jacob Epstein's monumental #sculpture of Angels 👼 medium.com/signifier/ja...
designing our homes away from homeworld travelling light & building with what's there to provide habitats & workspaces plus privacy & comfort when everyone is remote & working from home... on the Moon or Mars DesignBoom 🚀 www.designboom.com/architecture... #design #space #science #architecture
"During the most recent Ice Age, when much of the British Isles were beneath a vast continental glacier, the depleted sea levels opened a walkable 'lost land bridge' between modern-day Pembrokeshire & the south-east tip of Ireland, around Rosslare..." BBC 🦣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cave art discovery suggests first humans in Ireland came from Wales
During the most recent Ice Age, researchers believe there was a "lost land bridge" between Wales and Ireland.
bbc.co.uk
#RemyReviews 'My Man Godfrey' (1936) • 90 years old today! "...will certainly appeal to fans of P.G Wodehouse’s & anyone who enjoys a top-hole classic screwball #comedy. But I don’t think its appeal is limited to nostalgia." my #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🎬 medium.com/framerated/m...
🌼 🌷 🏵️ 'Preserving Paradise' - how we can manipulate the environment to suit our aesthetics @kimvertue.bsky.social discusses Marc Quinn’s ‘The Garden’ & our eternal desire to capture & keep the essence of beauty. 🌻 medium.com/signifier/pr... #art #ArtHistory #flowers #landscape #sculpture
![‘Wilder Shores of Desire’ by Marc Quinn [photographed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2018 by Remy Dean] is a large white sculpture of an orchid flower](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26iv3vskltgo3gtrng6qypss/bafkreieoozrzpckrsrhschggn2niidv3fm3vf5onrtosyhrgtxokvkei7m)
lovely short [14.min] film about local artist Falcon Hildred whose drawings & watercolours document the area in & around Blaenau Ffestiniog... with cameo appearance from fellow #artist Carole Shearman (we often meet them & chat on dog walks) ▶️ youtu.be/f2m2BK0PcCg?... #art #hustory
FALCON HILDRED 2026
YouTube video by Llechi Cymru
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Hello World!👋 This is the Bluesky debut of 'Found Worlds' a Medium Publication for diverse writers & readers. Let's share our journey of discovery as we explore global culture, arts, languages, travel tales, histories & media - a search for knowledge, beauty & connection. medium.com/found-worlds
#butterflies #conservation Explore what makes each British butterfly unique, pick your favourite & help them take flight 🦋 you can learn & vote @savebutterflies.bsky.social until 7 June 🌼 britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk #illustration by Richard Lewington⬇️ www.richardlewington.co.uk
🪟 👗 📷 'Lady of Light' — a new fashion in photography @remydean.bsky.social on how Clementina, Lady Hawarden, forged her own genre to light the way for #fashion & fine #art #photography "In the mid-1800s, becoming a photographer was like joining a cult" 🪑 medium.com/signifier/la...
🐛 🏵️ 🦋 'Merian’s Metamorphosis: Discovering the Cycle of Life' @kimvertue.bsky.social takes a closer look at the #art & #science of C17th illustrator & pioneering entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian 🐜 medium.com/signifier/me... #art #illustration #イラスト #biology #botany #entomology #ArtHistory
At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972. Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.
Watching butterflies slows time - so why not take a break and notice their beauty 🦋 You can also let us know when you’ve seen a butterfly on the #SignsOfSpring survey: www.field-studies-council.org/signs-of-spr... In partnership with @fieldstudiesc.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth
🪨 🧚♀️ 🐕 🏰 🧁 🐉 🦄 🔥 🛩️ #ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel 📚 🆓 free to subscribe for a limited period Chapter 11 published today! "You’ve seen that face, haven’t you! No way was I going into the woods on my own – at night – to say, ‘Hi,’ to that creepy thing!" threerealms.substack.com/p/wanted
Wanted
THAT REALM, WHEREIN WE HUME DO DWELL: Chapter Eleven
threerealms.substack.com
🐣 💎 ❄️ 'Cracking Spring Bling!' @kimvertue.bsky.social tracks the success of Alma Pihl & her exquisite Fabergé #jewellery #design that grew out of #folklore to rank among the most coveted & costly creations craved by collectors 🥚 medium.com/signifier/cr... #art #history #WomensHistoryMonth
🪞 ✂️ 🕴️ revisiting this insightful article by @kimvertue.bsky.social about Frida Kahlo & some of her revelatory self portraits that challenge feminine stereotypes for #WomensHistoryMonth 🪑 medium.com/signifier/al... #art #ArtHistory #painting #illustration #Mexico
RIP Len Deighton - a great author & chef here's an archival interview from 2014 when he spoke to @kimvertue.bsky.social for our sister publication 'The Scrawl' 🖋️ medium.com/the-scrawl/l... #BookSky #writer #writing #fiction #movies
Len Deighton — In Spy Ring Writer
Len Deighton talks with Kim Vertue about his long and varied writing career.
medium.com
'A Romance of the Little Forest' 两个人的小森林 (2022) is a feel-good, silly, cute, will-they-won't-they romcom. Esther Yu as a beauty-vlogger & Vin Zhang as a botany professor. Took a few episodes to settle into, now deeply immersed as regular ‘comfort food’ viewing. on Viki: www.viki.com/tv/38805c-a-...
'KPop Demon Hunters' sequel confirmed @netflix.com & you can read read my #review of the first #movie @framerated.co.uk 🎤 medium.com/framerated/k... via BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #KPopDemonHunters
KPop Demon Hunters to return as Netflix announces sequel
The sequel brings back the co-directors of the first film, which was a smash-hit for the streaming service.
bbc.co.uk
"largely overlooked since her death, a major retrospective at the Pompidou Centre in 2023 helped to place Richier centre stage once more & acknowledge her #art" @kimvertue.bsky.social on Germaine Richier’s Hybrid Beauty & the human form in extremis ✝️ medium.com/signifier/ge... #WomensHistoryMonth
currently watching the rewarding Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest + fluff-lump chick! 🪶 www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2... #birds
🌹 🌷 🌺 'Mother of the American Modern' No one painted flowers quite like Georgia O’Keeffe. @kimvertue.bsky.social looks at some of the artist's early blooms & "a totally new approach to still life, one that merged realist elements with abstraction" 🌼 medium.com/signifier/mo... #art #painting
👩🍼 🎨 🖌️ 'This Woman’s Work' Paintings by Berthe Morisot now command some of the highest prices at auction of any woman #artist, but @kimvertue.bsky.social discovers that it wasn’t always this way… 🖼️ medium.com/signifier/th... #art #ArtHistory #painting #history #WomensHistoryMonth
#RemyReviews 'Forbidden Planet' (1956) • 70 Years Later looking back on the development & legacy of the Shakespearean #scifi classic that brought the Golden Age to the screen & changed everything, maybe inspiring #StarTrek my retro #movie #review @framerated.co.uk 🛸 medium.com/framerated/f...
📚 📖 🐦 for #WorldBookDay listen to Red Sparrow Writer Remy Dean re-tell a traditional #FairyTale from the #folklore of #Wales 🐕 it features #fairies🧚 & their magical #dogs 🐶 watch the video of @remydean.bsky.social reading from the epic #fantasy novel #ThisThatAndTheOther ⬇️
Remy Dean 🏴☠️@remydean.bsky.social · 6mo ago#ThisThatAndTheOther #WebNovel 🆓 Chapter 9 published today! 🐕 🎞️ With bonus #WorldBookDay video reading 📖 "I can grant you the wish you would make today… Or, I can grant you the wish you would make tomorrow. – which wish would it be? Today’s wish or tomorrow’s?” ▶️ threerealms.substack.com
#RemyReviews John Boorman's excellent 'Excalibur' (1981) my #movie #review of the mythic epic masterpiece remastered @arrowvideo.bsky.social 4K #Bluray & it's never looked better! "For it is the doom of men that they forget." @framerated.co.uk 🐲 medium.com/framerated/e...
