This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Off to a super start @mcrlitfest.bsky.social @whitworthart.bsky.social @hansulrichobrist.bsky.social Keeping this beauty for Jólabókaflód 📚

I love this image.

Hop not Hate

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Nostalgia right there.

Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists (BIA) is to become a permanent fixture, with research showing that every €1 of public money invested in its pilot form, wider society received €1.39 in return.

I hereby declare war on premature Christmassing. Any shop caught doing this before 1st December must be shut down and turned into affordable housing. Choose sanity. Vote Binface. (Photo dated 9th October 2025)

Instead of mascots, England and Wales take to the field with 22 men and women who are living with Alzheimer's disease or dementia ❤️ The players will also wear shirts without names in the second half to help raise awareness 👏

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT." -Faith Ringgold (1930-2024) #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

Today’s uplifting & illuminating chat with @ntarnopolsky.bsky.social.

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

In a nod to #TheBigDraw celebrating 25 years of promoting the joy of drawing, we’ve embraced the #DrawnTogether at Barlow Hall PS Chorlton @minimastersart.bsky.social by creating a BIG Lowry TOGETHER. We link with their Year 3 @accessart.bsky.social learning on markmaking with pastels and charcoal.

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight... the Fieldfare! 🍒 Flocks arrive from Scandinavia, filling UK hedgerows and fields with their speckled breasts and blue-grey heads, feasting on berries and insects.

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🗨️ "The truth is that experience isn’t free...It costs more than anyone with a financial safety net will ever understand." Read about the problems with the prominence of unpaid work in creative careers ⤵️

This Saturday (11th) is Bookshop Day, and for the occasion we have a prize giveaway courtesy of our friends at @libro.fm!

🎊CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF LITERARY MAGIC - FULL #MLF25 PROGRAMME OUT NOW!📚 From internationally acclaimed authors and cultural icons to bold new voices, our 20th edition is set to inspire, challenge and delight anyone who celebrates with us. 🧵

Excited to hear it directly from the donkey’s mouth @ledbydonkeys.org at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social

His legacy will live on in the curious minds of the Irish and beyond, in those who seek a deeper and more fulfilling life #ManchanMagan 💚

Ukrainian-born French painter, textile/stage set designer Sonia Delaunay, fashion designs (c.1924) #womensart

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

Public libraries are 'palaces for the people' whose 'ramparts need defending'. #SaveOurLibraries

Art in motion

Yoko Ono, Mended (tea) Cups (2015) on harrowing world events, healing and peace #WomensArt

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective @thenerve.news, the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊 broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve

Light & Shadow I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day. If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor. So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

Jenny Holzer, Times Square Marquee sign installations, 1993 #womensart

@susiedent.com Savouring today’s word tandsmør and I’m sure the wonderful @manchanmagan.bsky.social RIP would have found a delightful Irish equivalent. Here’s a fine example of it from his Arám agus Im (Bread & butter) event 🍞 🧈

Awesome talent : Guillermo Galetti

Hello to the new people who've popped up on here over the last few weeks. 🙂👋 . . . I'm Darrell, I'm a maker/artist/teacher and I've spent over 35 years convincing everyone that 'cutting & sticking' is a valid career. 😆 Please check out my work at www.darrellweakelam.com #edusky

Jon Foreman - Leaf Spiral. #Landart #Autumn

Arám agus Im. Baked and communally churned with #ManchanMagan Offering it up for him tonight.

This is such a shock and loss. Sharing warm handmade bread and freshly churned butter with @manchanmagan.bsky.social in Liverpool as part of the Irish Festival was an eccentric, fully immersive experience like plunging into a holy well. He was unique and wonderful.

Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent" pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...

You’re never too old to start drawing.

“I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night” - US poet Sylvia Plath. #womensart

Wonderful story

Keir Starmer, "Before we left the EU we had a returns agreement (for asylum seekers) with every country in the EU" "These are Farage' Brexit Boats that are coming across the channel"

Enough breaking news, how about some fixing news.

Young Syrian refugees paint murals at Zataari camp Jordan, to overcome trauma and memories of violence #womensart

‘Labour of Love’ installation, 2022, a visual depiction of the 650 times artist Sarah Maple fed her baby over three months to highlight the sheer volume of work that is expected of mothers and to challenge people to rethink the value of the time spent #WomensArt

Chamba embroidery (Indian), traditionally given as a marriage gift #WomensArt

Breaking News: YouTube will pay a $24.5 million settlement to President Trump and others who were banned from the site in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

He was known for his postmodern buildings in London, in particular the MI6 headquarters building in Vauxhall and TV-am studio in Camden artreview.com/terry-farrel...

Vorderman and Cadwalladr discuss how Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg all push right wing propaganda through the algorithms on their social media platforms

Night Skys