Bath time. Oil on canvas. 150x200cm.

Work in progress. ‘Bath time’. Oil on canvas. 200x150cm. Detail.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Anselm Kiefer in Kiefer / Van Gogh at the Royal Academy

Proud parenting moment: blasting Coltrane’s Giant Steps in the car, when it comes to an end my 2yo pipes up from the backseat “again!”

About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)

Sunday Morning. Oil on linen. Private collection. I think this is the only time I've had an image of how I wanted a painting to be in my imagination and managed to create it. Usually my paintings kind of find themselves. I love the sleepy smokiness of it.

My latest painting. A study of childhood ephemera.

"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Extraordinary and chilling moment at the UN. Relief chief Tom Fletcher accuses Israel of using starvation “as a bargaining chip.” Urges the Security Council to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza.

So tired of all this. There's zero evidence that more punishing terms of entry discourages entry. But it does hamper life chances, child poverty, productivity and integration.

Jenny Saville at the Albertina in Vienna

Celia Paul @ Victoria Miro

Russian internet users searched for “Michael Stürzenberger stabbed” before the knife attack on him in Mannheim, Germany, in May 2024. 1/5

Philosopher study. Karl Popper. Oil pastel on paper. Did this one last year.

Noah Davis @ the Barbican. Wonderful exhibition. Catch it if you can.

Brasil! Brasil! @ the RA

There's absolutely no evidence to support Starmer's claim. Overall immigration increases wages. Where there are negative impacts it tends to be on lowest paid 5%, overwhelmingly existing migrants. In terms of undocumented migrants there is no evidence of impact wages due to nature of employment. 1/

*head desk* *endless screaming* *Gen X face*

I started teaching myself to paint about ten months ago. This is my latest. Self portrait, oil on wooden panel.

Last week of the Van Gogh exhibition at the National Gallery.

The fact that we appear to treat Russian attempts at sabotage, assassination and murder as somehow less significant than other forms of terror is baffling to me. Attempting to blow a plane up in mid-air is bad regardless of whether the ones responsible are doing it for Putinism or Wahhabism.

David Hockney lithographs at Halcyon Gallery, New Bond Street

Russia officially started massively conscripting 🇺🇦youth on territories occupied after 2022. Young men from occupied part of Zaporizhzhya region were officially sent to serve in 🇷🇺Armed Forces. This is what the West underestimates: occupation of 🇺🇦land will add mobilization resources for RU

#r4today already getting it wrong in its coverage from Turkey: 1) Turkey has never been "welcoming" to refugees. The EU paid it, a lot, to prevent people reaching its borders, and Turkey has been shown to repeatedly abuse them. 2) Refugees are not "illegal". Nothing about what they do is illegal.

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

Wonderful exhibition at Offer Waterman. Frank Auerbach 1931-2024