Leavitt Admits SAVE Act Will Make It Harder for Married Women to Vote newrepublic.com/post/207593/... via @newrepublic.com

Summer, Dune in Zeeland by Piet Mondrian, 1905 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137926

Out and about.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

I read this twice and there’s nothing about a two faced penis man going on an adventure. Disappointed. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Leonora Carrington : Orpheus, 1953 woodcarving 10½ x 3 in | 27 x 8 cm

Survivors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes face benefit cuts in UK after accepting compensation

A crew installing Helen Frankenthaler’s Guiding Red, 1967 - at 2 World Trade Center, New York, 1977 📸 : André Emmerich André Emmerich Gallery Records and André Emmerich Papers, 1929–2009 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

If you’re in London there’s a great show on of Becher’s typologies. Gas tanks, water towers, winding towers, framework houses and preparation plants. spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/... Ends March 28

On advice, pareing back my website, under the less is more theory. It is quite difficult.

Weird how it's the same people who advocate bombing folk out of house and home who can't be doing with refugees. It's almost as if they're complete cunts or something

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

👏 Hear hear, Ed Miliband! Good to see our Energy Secretary holding strong to the government's commitment on no new oil and gas licences. In an unstable world, we must keep driving towards clean, home-grown renewable power to ensure true energy security! #NoNewOil

Saw advice on open calls today which resonated. So I haven't entered one which means schlepping to London in July, only to go back 2 weeks later when they're rejected. And have entered the one where I deeply respect the curator, who makes it very clear, easy and contributes to a charity fundraiser.

You know that feeling of emptiness and exhaustion after a creative spurt? A new study has a name for this phenomenon — “creative hangover” — plus some surprising findings.

If you need cheering up here’s a photo of a Simon Petter tile of the artists Gilbert and George.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Just put three unframed drawing up on the shop. Expect skeletons, scary waves and tears. clairecansick.com/product/glub...

Sidney H. Sime (1865-1941) #PhantomsFriday

Just took a big spoonful of gone off, fermented, pomegranate seeds. Don't do that.

I think they taste of berries and nightmares, the gravy would have that rich flavour of fear and swan meat, the flesh a texture of eels where they showered too often to scrub the feeling of being disconnected and discontent away. I couldn’t possibly eat a whole billionaire, do you wanna go halfsies?

Weeding day. Wish my back well.

Now open at The Minories, Colchester The Arborealists at Staverton Park, my last show with the group, as my subject matter has veered off in a different direction. My painting Corona, shows one moment in Staverton Thicks, a low sunrise blasting through the autumnal mist.

Dan Christensen, PR, 1967 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135873

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say

Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

I go the beach at dawn to take photos of the sunrise, so you don’t have to.

Just eaten a baked potato the size of my head.

Seven years ago today Keith Flint passed away. He had no idea that his death would be marked with such a touching and heartfelt tribute...

We instinctually know some buildings hold their hurt, release it as shades, coughs of bad memory. We pass them by with almost an expectation of ghost at the glass. Some feel relief when one is not glimpsed, others like myself, feel only an aching disappointment. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982 #Ghosts

An old painting, after Lowry. His seascapes are still and foreboding, repetitive, and drowned in lead white. Look em up. I’ve just fished this out of the ‘dead’ pile, and decided I like it.

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Twiddling with this from last year, I was suddenly aware of the influence of Lowry’s seascapes. Devoid of matchstick people, his are silent and foreboding, but still heavily rely on lead white. They’re calmer than this. Look em up.

I'd better go and stare at 23 unfinished paintings. Harumph.

🔥 Might be a good time to drive this over 100,000. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

The four elements - Fire https://botfrens.com/collections/12055/contents/938587

‘Why can’t the existing railway station be given a gentle and historically sensitive upgrade without the addition of an architecturally redundant tower block?’ Charles Saumarez Smith on why plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station are an architectural train wreck.

Jan Mankes’ Evening Landscape, 1912

Bison cave painting, La grotte de Marsoulas, Haute-Garonne, Pyrénées, France (20,000 years old?). Discovered in 1897

Also coming soon from Waterland Books. Fab front cover painting courtesy of @clairecansick.bsky.social Design by @typejunky.bsky.social Introduction by @kg520.bsky.social We're on a roll!

Start of a portrait.

if you tell an artist "i want a print of that!" and then you actually DO buy the print when they put it up for sale, you WILL enter the kingdom of heaven. this is, in fact, the only way to get in

Coming soon from Waterland Books! It's flat out there.