He’s at the pub and tells us he’s feeling “cold rage”. Classy.

Still life with apples and green vase https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12659

Bye bye Paris and all your glances

Now also remembering when I found a can of tuna in my bag at the opera

Soviet film posters of the 1920s

Richard Brody on Sonny Rollins. 🎷https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-force-of-sonny-rollins

Robert Hughes over on BBCFOUR. 🎉

🤩 open.spotify.com/track/5UCXl5...

Regent’s Park at dusk.

Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) "Gas," 1940 Oil on canvas Museum of Modern Art, New York City

To Regent’s Park to gawp at the roses. 🌹

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

Gone fishin’

Sun in an Empty Room, by Edward Hopper, 1963.

If you haven't seen the doc on "A Great Day in Harlem," you will not regret spending an hour of your life on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vao...

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

Tomatoes, cheese, melon, olives.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) Hibiscus with Plumeria, 1939. oil on canvas.

Chopin and his Preludes here in Mallorca.

Self portrait with palette https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/13070

Take me to New York before this closes tomorrow? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Painting by Henni Alftan ‘Corduroy’ 2020. Oil on canvas. Size 60.3 x 73.4 cm. prixjeanfrancoisprat.com/en/artiste/h...

Jeanne Moreau 'La Notte'

Clothes hangers at home.

Josef Albers goes to Mexico. www.davidzwirner.com/artworks/jos...

This 100 Best Novels thing means I’ve been out to buy Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus. “It’s a beautiful book, Proust said, that gives us new desires, not merely new answers.” www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/b...

Twee in spades at Centre Point. Who writes this stuff?

I promise to be tough on choices and tough on the causes of choices

And life after football used to be about opening your own pub. 🌹 www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/sir...

Fifteenth best novel my arse. This is the absolute motherlode

Four from Seville.

www.maptap.gg May 13 96🔥 96🔥 100🎯 100🎯 98🎯 Final score: 986

Some say this country's ungovernable I say we just haven't found the right leader yet

It’s clear that Wes Streeting only ever drinks an espresso. ☕️

In other news, apricots are back and they taste like summer.

Shocked that “febrile” hasn’t yet made an appearance #R4Today

Architectures of Memory: The Enclosed Worlds of Joseph Cornell internationaltimes.it/architecture... Ade Rowe

Farage channeling his inner Berlusconi. 😎 observer.co.uk/news/politic...

'For the first time in his career as an informer he had given the carabinieri a thread to pull which, if they went about it in the right way, could unravel a tissue of friendships and interests interwoven with his own existence.' #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/t...

The shtick about Andy Burnham.

Perhaps the only reason to get the Piccadilly Line from Heathrow: the chance to see Tom Eckersley's beautiful mural.

Like they’ve run out of their Scrabble vowels. 🚙

🎥 Meek‘s Cutoff #MUBI #kellyreichardt youtu.be/rmLwOct6q90?...

Hurvin Anderson at Tate Britain, mine round the back.

Or even the Single Market would do me fine. www.thetimes.com/article/a831...

Life-drawn pencil portrait of Sarah (this was a sitting of about 30 minutes)