An interestingly critical review of Parr’s work

If you think he's going to make a sequel then you've another thing coming

It seems that Ballad of a Small Player is another bad film I've seen this week.

Why the Humanities are Important: an ongoing series

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

Lee Dorrian has had quite the glow-up

Exactly right. To be fatalistic in the face of this is negligent, at the very least. I wonder if the thought of being accused of legal culpability might focus the minds of a few VCs, or Council members.

Extraordinarily, the BFI player on my TV has been updated and now it is even worse to use. And still no watchlist.

If you think he's going to make a sequel then you've another thing coming

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Does anyone know what the legal jeopardy is for a UK institution to encourage people, for whom it has a duty of care, to use a tool if it then causes them grievous harm? Negligence? I mean, obviously it's morally wrong.

Sam Altman should be charged with murder.

I love him even more

Cy Twombly, By the Ionian Sea, Naples 1988 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137298

I love them

Fanny and Susan (Sukey) Howe, c1945

Bridget Riley: ‘I want my paintings to make people feel alive’ on.ft.com/3JH3iYW

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem

What a queen

Also, my younger daughter (Sixth Form) told me yesterday that they recently has a consultation on AI use in their school, and at the assembly on Monday to present the results, the teacher in charge said, 'So I've gathered your submissions, put them into AI, and made a video of the results.'

Met a friend (and former colleague) today who teaches in an art school and he told me that a lot of their undergraduates refuse to engage with any tasks they're given if they involve the use of AI *in any way at all*, so even if they don't have to use it but the tutor has.

Wong Kar Wai’s BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI | Official Trailer 🌹 ✨ Mark your calendars! The first-ever TV series from Wong Kar Wai — visionary director of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and CHUNGKING EXPRESS — will premiere exclusively on our streaming service, The Criterion Channel, on November 24 at 8pm ET.

I enjoyed this show enormously, and while I hope you enjoy the photographs in the thread below, they cannot do justice to the lusciousness of the paint. But, it is a rather small show, and it is also rather expensive, so if you are thinking of going, do check if you are eligible for a concession.

Went to the Wayne Thiebaud exhibition today and, inevitably, it was absolutely delicious. Cup of Coffee, 1961

THIS IS SO GOOD

A visit to the hospital this afternoon — all fine — but was intrigued to see that the pharmacy which was in the lobby, where all the patients collected their prescriptions, has been replaced by a Greggs.

A visit to the hospital this afternoon — all fine — but was intrigued to see that the pharmacy which was in the lobby, where all the patients collected their prescriptions, has been replaced by a Greggs.

Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...

I'm really looking forward to the time when I can visit NY again

Once more the picture quality on Prime is dogshit

For the Cy Twombly and Diane Keaton fans amongst us

One of my PhD students wrote about this

will he ever make a campaign video that doesn't make me cry? i guess we'll never know

Raise a glass

A movie you’ve seen more than seven times - with a gif

if you are waiting for your own copy, perhaps you might like to read @maiakotro.bsky.social's open access piece in the most recent issue of #ResDiffJournal? "The Matter of Form: Rewriting Our Way to a Changed Field" ancienthistorybulletin.org/wp-content/u...

Actually Kemi Badenoch is very good at PMQs actually

"And the REF is a nonsense, bless the king!'

Over the past 50 years, the artist John Smith has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it artreview.com/being-the-on...

Patti Smith and Lizzy Mercier Descloux as Arthur Rimbaud and his sister, Isabelle, New York, 1976 by Michel Esteban

A few weeks ago, to mark the completion of a substantial piece of work, I treated myself to a print by Helen Chadwick (auction; cheap) and it’s just gone up on the stairs.

I cannot tell you how much I’m looking forward to seeing the Fra Angelico exhibition in a week or two. (Gelato might also be consumed.)

Such a great film

'When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.' — a short story by Augusto Monterroso

Still annoyed by how bad Frankenstein was