A reference photograph of Peter Cushing during filming of “The Revenge of Frankenstein’,1958 taken by Tom Edwards

Procuress (Kupplerin) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/105745

The thumbnail for this Misfits Market ad is really not a great way to sell food:

Angry woman -- the beer jug is empty! By Pieter Huys, another Bosch follower. It's their day.

Last few days of the exhibition. Pick up a bit of contemporary art at reasonable prices. Last day is Saturday 25th October.

The famous brick spiral staircase in Moot Hall’s tower, built around 1420. Moot Hall is a grade I listed property in Maldon, Essex. The term "moot hall" itself refers to a meeting place for local decision-making, a tradition dating back to the Anglo-Saxon era. Photo is by Chris Harvey

A mad art installation near Alexanderplatz, Berlin

No. 5/No. 24 https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1135985

Remembering Lotte Lenya on her birthday 🎂 📷 Lotte Jacobi, 1930 "Through her shaky failings, or perhaps even because of them, she projected an individuality, a vulnerability and a defiance that her more technically adroit successors were hard put to match." - John Rockwell

José Belmonte artwork with selfie Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas, Madrid October 2025 #selfreflection #retiropark #madrid #maninthemirror #art #sculpture

Just returned from my first visit since '92 to the Prado to see the Velázquez, inspired by The Vanishing Man. Fairly sure the room was almost empty last time but memory plays tricks. Started this last night. Probably takes longer by train to get to Chapel Sands from Manchester than plane to Madrid.

The Vanishing Man. The tale of a Victorian obsessive John Snare told in tandem with a biography of Velázquez. I hope I'm not too late to the party (published 2016) but this superlative reading by Siobhan Redmond of a superlative book by Laura Cumming is making my year. @lauracummingart.bsky.social

Do you have a moment to talk about our Sweet Lord Satan?

Illustrations by Arnold Lobel for “The Mummy” and “The Spectre on the Moor” in Jack Prelutsky, “The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep” (NY: Greenwillow Books, 1980).

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

Damn this trumpeter busker. He keeps playing the same few bars over and over. The real musician must have died and left the instrument to him. I'm too footsore and my bag is too heavy to move further away from him.

Anthony Burgess article from 1989 on ten years of the Thatcher government.

(UK political journalists finish wiping the clay from their hands as they look up at the amphibian-faced, pint-brandishing golem in a Barbour jacket) "The govt is failing to deal with this golem. Isn't that right, golem?" (They lay offerings at its feet & stick a microphone under its nose). "SPEAK"

2/2 Somebody refused to comb her hair this morning! And Jan Gossaert just went ahead and painted little Dorothea that way. ❤️

Feeling GHASTLY! 💀 Cover art of Haunt of Fear no. 14 by Graham Ingels, 1952

Who’s responsible for probably the greatest environmental disaster this century in Ireland? Nobody! What caused it? Nothing! What are we going to learn from it…? Just take a guess… www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Totes Meer (Dead Sea) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nash-totes-meer-dead-sea-n05717

The modern world in old Ladybird books. "Carriages get very dirty inside from all the tobacco ash" (On the Railways, 1972) Artist: John Berry

The best way I can describe House of Guinness is that it's like an off-form Baz Luhrmann directing the first draft of a nightmare sequence in Downton Abbey where a lord is terrified of visiting Ireland.

Fish ‘n’ Chip Van, Otley Road, Bradford, photo by Ian Beesley. 'The chip shop owner told me he had to fire one of his assistants because he kept parking the van the wrong way round.'

In 1945, artist NC Wyeth was killed when hit by a train at a railway crossing. His stricken son Andrew’s tribute/farewell to him was this enigmatic ‘Winter 1946’, set over the hill from where the accident occurred, and showing himself as a young man running, erratically

The Shore Collective show, Confluence 2.10.25 to 25.10.25 Strule Arts Centre, Omagh. I have two pieces in it. Please pop along if you are anywhere near the vicinity. #shorecollective #art #artexhibition #omagh #struleartscentre #painting #sculpture #ceramics #jewellry #northernirishart #irishart

Brendan having a laugh.

27 Sep 75 Tennis. Ugh!... Ringo out of his skull. Very unhappy man.

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth. Acrylic paint on paper. A3 #painting #art #manchesterartist #irishartist #bear

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 881: If you’d like to broaden your vocabulary, read. Read widely, and often. That way you’ll absorb new language organically and use it naturally…

We have to keep teaching the lessons. It’s more important today than ever.

My heroes

Today is T. S. Eliot’s birthday. He was a poet, playwright, critic, & editor. From ‘Preludes’: “One thinks of all the hands That are raising dingy shades In a thousand furnished rooms.”

My dear friend @thememoryband.bsky.social has put together a little tribute to the recently departed Danny Thompson in the form of this YouTube playlist peppered with gems from the great man's career. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Some recent paintings on paper. Better stages are buried under some of the layers but you gotta crack a few eggs... 29cm square and a couple are A3 #manchesterartist #irishartist #worksonpaper #art #painting #workinprogress

Portrait of a “guild boy” by the great Frans Floris of Antwerp. Today is his day.

MAYOR: Did you do that sculpture solemnly honouring our civil war dead SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked MAYOR: What

Some recent paintings on paper. Better stages are buried under some of the layers but you gotta crack a few eggs... 29cm square and a couple are A3 #manchesterartist #irishartist #worksonpaper #art #painting #workinprogress

Piet Mondrian, Mill in Sunlight, 1908

celebrities out walking characters they’ve played instead of their dogs: thread

2/2 More goings-on in the palace, or is it a church? In any case now there are dogs, so that's alright.

Just cracked an egg straight into a recycling caddy. No drink was taken.

Copa 71 by Claire Foley #Copa71