Stunning ceramics by Lucio Fontana (who is best known for his slashed canvases). Current exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

Tomorrow at NYU Washington Square- speaking about Arp and Ian Hamilton Finlay

Peter Young, "#1 - 1966", 1966 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134874

I am speaking at 2 upcoming events on Hans Arp… NYU 30/31 Oct & Tate Britain 5 Dec… come for a dose of Dada poetics and concrete forms

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

Fine Arts at the British School at Rome At the BSR, our Fine Arts Programme supports artists in exploring, expanding, and reimagining their practice. youtu.be/BbGyhyIsfM8

The British School at Rome is seeking a new Chair of the Council of Trustees, as Mark Getty approaches the end of his term: bsr.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Al Held, Maltese Cross, 1964 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136044

Virginia Woolf’s portrait at the National Gallery - floor mosaic The Awakening of the Muses, by Boris Anrep

Sienna at the National Gallery is wonderful - a once in a lifetime grouping

Our application season is here! Apply for a seven week writing residency at Jack Kerouac’s historic home in Orlando! $600 stipend. Fiction/ Creative Nonfiction/ Poetry/ Plays/ Scripts. Six writers chosen per year. Apply at Kerouacproject.org

Vollmond - & water, rain, rocks & Pina Bausch & Sadlers Wells

Daniel Buren from 1965 to 1966

Amazing exhibition of Dom Sylvester Houédard and Futurist & Concrete Poetry at the Estorick Collection

Call for 10 minute presentations for the online symposium The Curatorial + Painting - about how contemporary paintings relate to the way they are curated. Organised by the Journal of Contemporary Painting. Deadline for Open Call 3rd Feb

Talking soon about Supports/Surfaces, material subversion & trans Mediterranean dialogues in Luxembourg…

You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians

A big screening of De Sica’s wonderful Miracle in Milan at the Italian Cultural Institute

Francis Alÿs, '1943,' 2012, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.

From the the British Library exhibition “Medieval Women in their own Words”

Open Call for Bothy Project Creative Residencies on Eigg. For practitioners in visual art, craft & design, music, literature, performance & those working across disciplines or in collaboration. Application deadline: 12 January 2025, midnight. More info at buff.ly/4fZxM2M

Morton Feldman and a live version of Beckett’s Quad on the South Bank last night - wonderful in so many ways

So helpful when an artist states on the back of a work the height that a painting should be hung at - which is of course the height it was hung when it was painted in the studio - Carmengloria Morales exhibition opening tomorrow at the British School in Rome

Going down the rabbit hole thinking about the role of abstract painting in Zurich Dada at Stiftung Arp archives in Berlin.

Beacon (without words I found myself home on your stomping ground) 2022 - by the artist Sharp - 15 pairs of cherry red Dr. Marten boots on rope

Sylvie Fleury, Garbage Can, 2003, 24-karat gold leaf on steel, edition of 25

Call for papers for the next themed Special Issue if the Journal of Contemporary Painting - ‘The Curatorial and Painting’ ….

Call for papers for the next themed Special Issue if the Journal of Contemporary Painting - ‘The Curatorial and Painting’ ….

Sherrie Levine, Large Check: 2, 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136971

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line. Happy Birthday Sol LeWitt, 1928-2007. Photograph by Jack Robinson Sol LeWitt, New York August 1969 Wall Drawing #370, 1982

Enzo Mari - ends tomorrow - wonderful

Piazza d’Italia in the rain. Charles Moore, New Orleans, 1978.

visiting the city of bookshelves in Charles Jenks’s library…