Has a literary review ever before become news? BBC News reports on excellent piece by @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social in the @lrb.co.uk
John-Paul Stonard
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Bestselling award-winning author. Art historian, public lecturer. Art, books, music, climate. Suffolk and London. New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
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London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A long form, deep dive into the arts of Japan. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Fireworks
A Journey to Japan
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On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Hating the Bauhaus
On the Alternative for Germany attack on modernity.
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As #Bayeux arrives in Britain — thoroughly irresponsible from a conservation point of view, but I rather like that. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
The Mexican Performance
On the Bayeux Tapestry and a curious link with John Constable
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This is the future, and the final line is the most important one of all from @mayor.nyc.gov
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.
This is excellent, by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 via the sculpture of Virgil Ortiz and museums of New Mexico. Most of what is now America was not so in 1776. What are the good fictional accounts of the Pueblo Revolt? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776
In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...
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Isti Mirant Stella! Mexican Bayeux, at a stretch... open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
The Mexican Performance
On the Bayeux Tapestry and a curious link with John Constable
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Same to you, you're a gent. I get zero engagement on here so this counts as a lot for me, thank you.
‘They are portraits of a marriage, but also images of a body approaching the extremes of old age. Flesh folds around a thickened abdomen; limbs are attenuated. Ankles become brittle.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz’s portraits of his wife. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
Baselitz did not make overtly political art. He felt that what mattered in painting existed on a deeper level than...
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This is good, writing writing on art, unusual.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last mo.‘Marilyn Monroe’s image, after Warhol, is still encoded with a vulnerability we instantly recognise, which makes us want to save her or explain her all over again. The real Marilyn has been dust for a long time, but her image has only grown stronger.’ Andrew O’Hagan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘The scumbles of colour are more like floating fig leaves, a form of protection: the rose, cobalt and sienna daubs compensate for the thinness of the aged bodies, giving them back some life, like fruit growing on an old tree.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
Baselitz did not make overtly political art. He felt that what mattered in painting existed on a deeper level than...
lrb.co.uk
On the AfD attack on the Bauhaus in Germany, and why we should take note. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Hating the Bauhaus
On the Alternative for Germany attack on modernity.
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First five pages pretty much everything you want from a book and a secondhand bookshop find.
Best arts podcast out there, and I'm on it! Hope you like it. open.spotify.com/episode/56kg...
S3:E6 Entartete Kunst, Munich, 1937
Shows that Go On · Episode
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‘The scumbles of colour are more like floating fig leaves, a form of protection: the rose, cobalt and sienna daubs compensate for the thinness of the aged bodies, giving them back some life, like fruit growing on an old tree.’ @johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
This was the history that counted: the Nazi attack on ‘degenerate’ art before the war, and the continued presence of...
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‘Georg Baselitz devoted himself to showing the body – obdurately, directly, entertainingly – being reshaped by the catastrophe of ageing.’ @johnpaulstonard.com at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
This was the history that counted: the Nazi attack on ‘degenerate’ art before the war, and the continued presence of...
lrb.co.uk
‘The golden Elkes confirm that Georg Baselitz devoted himself to showing the body – obdurately, directly, entertainingly – being reshaped by the catastrophe of ageing.’ @johnpaulstonard.com at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John-Paul Stonard · At the Fondazione Giorgio Cini: On Georg Baselitz
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... Hester van Hensbergen on pesticides Christopher Kelly on St Augustine David Todd on the Marquis de Morès Philippa Conlon on Sarah Hall’s 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘮 @johnpaulstonard.com on Georg Baselitz and two poems by Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social). Read online now at www.lrb.co.uk
'GOODBYE DAVID HOCKNEY! Few artists have meant more to so many people over the past seven decades in Britain and abroad. His work has been part of life, part of the way we see the world. He made us happy by opening our eyes' open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Goodbye David Hockney!
1937-2026
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Affectionate tribute to the inventive, resourceful, imaginative, ingenious.....David Hockney, who has died.
John-Paul Stonard@johnpaulstonard.com · 2mo ago'GOODBYE DAVID HOCKNEY! Few artists have meant more to so many people over the past seven decades in Britain and abroad. His work has been part of life, part of the way we see the world. He made us happy by opening our eyes' open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
'GOODBYE DAVID HOCKNEY! Few artists have meant more to so many people over the past seven decades in Britain and abroad. His work has been part of life, part of the way we see the world. He made us happy by opening our eyes' open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Goodbye David Hockney!
1937-2026
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I wrote about Knife Edge Mirror Two Piece, and the Dallas Piece, by Henry Moore, and the best sited public sculptures in the world, and an astonishing exhibition a world away at Kew Gardens. open.substack.com/pub/jpstonar...
Henry Moore in America, at Kew
On 'Henry Moore: Monumental Nature' at Kew Gardens, until 31.01.27
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Good to see The Worst Exhibition with wind in its sails.
