Beauty, terror and awe 🌊 Discover how artists channel the sea through drawing 👉 buff.ly/Li0UxIR 'Sea Rock – Line Drawing' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

New story ✏️ Read 'Living in squares and loving in triangles: drawing portraits of the Bloomsbury Group' 👉 buff.ly/BbYLD6l 'Dora Carrington' by Dora Carrington (1893–1932) 📷 National Portrait Gallery

my piece for @artukdotorg.bsky.social up now - on jenny saville and motherhood artuk.org/discover/sto...

From Instagram feeds to Victorian sketches, interiors have long reflected changing taste. Artistic homes were captured through watercolours and drawings. Read more 👉 buff.ly/pftTR6p 🧑‍🎨 Anna Alma-Tadema (1867–1943) 📷 Russell Cotes

'Exquisite corpse' was surrealism’s Mad Libs ✏️ Discover how this playful drawing game shaped modern creativity in this new story 👉 buff.ly/l3S25JX 🧑‍🎨 Dinos Chapman (b.1962) and Jake Chapman (b.1966) © the artists. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

A joy to write about the Courtauld's 'Louise Bourgeois: Drawings from the 1960s' display for @artukdotorg.bsky.social. You can catch it until September 14th. Thanks so much @elizag.bsky.social for the commission! artuk.org/discover/sto...

So excited to publish an interview with the iconic Louise Giovanelli in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this month!

Happy birthday Beatrix Potter 🎂 Before Beatrix Potter's classic literary figures, she had a strong interest in the wondrous world of mushrooms 🍄 Read more 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 🧑‍🎨 Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) 📷 Armitt Museum and Library

Can confirm that Eliza is an absolute DREAM to work with. If you work on drawings, get in touch with her and the ArtUK team asap ✨

What can drawings reveal about desire? For lesbian artists throughout history, sketchbooks have been safe places to explore intimacy, identity, and longing in ways public artworks couldn't. Read more in this new story 👉 buff.ly/NCyYICO 🧑‍🎨 Gwen John (1876–1939) 📷 @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social

A really exciting interview in Tandem – Joanne Leonard is 85 and only just getting global recognition for her incredible feminist photography and collage practices. We spoke with her ahead of her first UK show at HackelBury Gallery.

'Just like a medieval saint' 19th-century artist, author and philanthropist Francesca Alexander has largely disappeared from history, but she was a celebrity during her lifetime. Read on 👉 buff.ly/oTxZrKc 🧑‍🎨 Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)📷 Sothebys

Museum “rehangs” are everywhere, most recently at London's National Gallery. They inspire furious debate about mixing old art & new politics, but we forget that museums have always done that: their Victorian roots have never been more visible.

Beside the seaside 🌊 This new story focuses on the artists who depicted the town of St Ives in drawings during the 20th 👉 buff.ly/jwoSigS 'St Ives' by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004) © @barns-grahamtrust.org.uk

Just like a medieval saint: Francesca Alexander and Italy by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio for the @artukdotorg.bsky.social blog artuk.org/discover/sto... Pictured: Charity, 1861, oil on canvas by Francesca Alexander (1837–1917)

Excited to now be publishing something every week at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social with the addition of "In tandem with..." – our new series of shorter interviews with artists and art people. Read the first one here!

I interviewed Anna Perach about her amazing tufted carpet sculptures and the drift of modern society away from magical, mystical ways of seeing the word. Her show opens at Richard Saltoun in London today! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Wonderful new story in @tandemmagazine.bsky.social this week with interviews with queer artists about the way they collaborate with and support their partners – a new model for fostering shared, loving creativity in an increasingly relentlessly capitalist art world.

Creating a rebellious blueprint, queer artist couples teach us the importance of the collective, of the shared, and of the community. “It’s a liberation, meeting someone who opens you up,” says María Cuellar. www.tandem-mag.com/its-a-libera...

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I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow... @tandemmagazine.bsky.social

I wrote about Siena's haunting allure. It's story reminds us that art follows power and power follows art – a pattern that continues today. Read more of my thoughts about its forgotten, golden renaissance here: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow... @tandemmagazine.bsky.social

Siena is a story of the path history didn’t take. That is the privilege of the powerful: to write something out of memory, to create the myths of nations, of religions, of power. Read more from @elizag.bsky.social on the what-might-have-been of Siena's renaissance: www.tandem-mag.com/taste-follow...

Really interesting story from Annette Wickham at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social about Turner's early training at the RA Schools – he called it "the place to which I owe everything." @artukdotorg.bsky.social has loads on Turner for his 250th birthday – this thread is a great place to start.

Artist Amy Bravo’s work is animated by one major question: "Would my ancestors like me?" She talks about her multimedia practice, her fraught relationship with her Cuban heritage, and her desire to build an army of queer women in this new interview. www.tandem-mag.com/would-my-anc...

I reviewed the Leigh Bowery show at Tate Modern. It's a stunner, if riddled with contradictions. “You wouldn’t be interested in me if I didn’t look the way I do,” Bowery once said. “Let’s face it, nobody would.” That line encapsulates his own paradox of self-worth. tinyurl.com/mr48fbm9

Read about the Caracci Cartoons – a pair of large late sixteenth-century drawings – as they go on display at National Gallery 👉 buff.ly/4LF5FoD 'Cephalus carried off by Aurora in her Chariot' by Agostino Carracci (1557–1602) 📷 National Gallery

I reviewed the Leigh Bowery show at Tate Modern. It's a stunner, if riddled with contradictions. “You wouldn’t be interested in me if I didn’t look the way I do,” Bowery once said. “Let’s face it, nobody would.” That line encapsulates his own paradox of self-worth. tinyurl.com/mr48fbm9

There is a lot of stuff on the internet, and in real life, and it’s hard to know what’s good. Every month, we’re sending a list of stuff we have encountered digitally or physically that is worthy of a recommendation. Here's the first one – you’re welcome. www.tandem-mag.com/april-bullet...

Artist, educator, curator and writer Anita Taylor has been making drawings for four decades. Read our new seven questions interview by Nichol Keene 👉 buff.ly/UzdIo01 © the artist. 📷 Anita Taylor

"Do we relinquish “beauty” to those who wish to make it signify submission, or do we reimagine and reclaim the complexity, profundity, and spaciousness of the beautiful?" Read about the battlefield over the beautiful here: tinyurl.com/rh9cerpu

Ethel Sands was a mass of contradictions, embodying the paradoxes & dynamism modernity. In both her art and her life, she looked backward as much as she looked forward, weaving together the radical and the old-fashioned. I wrote about her for ARTnews: www.artnews.com/art-news/art...

I reviewed the new Celia Paul monograph for @hyperallergic.com "[The book] evokes a rich sense of who she thinks she is — and how she wants to be perceived. There is a haunting instability about the image that emerges, fraught with competing strands of austerity and audacity." tinyurl.com/mvaucy2p

A great story about the Renaissance obsession with drapery from Amanda Hilliam - read it on @artukdotorg.bsky.social

I wrote about beauty & art, and their strangely fraught relationship today. Politicised, deified, feminised: beauty has lost cultural currency, or gained a new one, and I dig into why for @tandemmagazine.bsky.social. I've been thinking about this one for ages. www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...

I wrote about beauty & art, and their strangely fraught relationship today. Politicised, deified, feminised: beauty has lost cultural currency, or gained a new one, and I dig into why for @tandemmagazine.bsky.social. I've been thinking about this one for ages. www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...

"When did beauty become a dirty word?" asks Eliza Goodpasture in Tandem's first essay. Read her thoughts on the politicisation of beauty, and it's general cultural devaluing, here: www.tandem-mag.com/when-did-bea...

"I see myself as a witness of my generation. By choosing to paint the stories that I do, I am witnessing how the world is evolving. I am also telling a bit of my story through everybody’s stories," says Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman. Read the full interview now at tandem-mag.com

Our first artist interview is out at @tandemmagazine.bsky.social!! Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman talks about her work to bear witness to the migrant experience in Paris. She's such a magnetic storyteller. Read here: www.tandem-mag.com/a-witness-of...

"I was asking them to tell me the story of their exile through the prism of the object." Parisian artist Johanna Tordjman talks to Isabella Fox Arias about bearing witness to her generation of migrants in Tandem's first artist interview. Read now: www.tandem-mag.com/a-witness-of...

I wrote about the forbidden history of women drawing nudes for @artukdotorg.bsky.social – so many amazing examples of women defying the odds to learn how to draw bodies (sometimes drawing their own when they couldn't study life models). artuk.org/discover/sto...

I wrote about the rise (revenge!) of women surrealists for @theguardian.com. There’s such a flurry of interest in their wacky, weird, magical art at the moment, and you can see why. And they’re all so different! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

looking back everything went to shit when Schoolhouse Rock stopped airing

I wrote about the rise (revenge!) of women surrealists for @theguardian.com. There’s such a flurry of interest in their wacky, weird, magical art at the moment, and you can see why. And they’re all so different! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Amazing article. "More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media ... actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of ..fear and anger... instead of organizing against [our oppressors]."

I reviewed the new Paule Vézelay show at the RWA in Bristol for @theguardian.com It's a really rich show that bring's Vézelay's prickly, fierce personality to life www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I wrote about some of the uses of #drawing in the #renaissance for @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Read it here: artuk.org/discover/sto... #arthistory #renaissanceart #arthistorian

I wrote about the recent boom in interest in the previously completely unknown Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint. What's behind her rise? (Spoiler: marketability) www.frieze.com/article/art-...

I commission stories about drawings for @artukdotorg.bsky.social and I'm always looking for pitches! Some fun stories I've published recently: 🧵