The scene from a ladies dressing room, preparing for the crinoline. ondon Stereoscopic Company Comic Series, circa 1860

One of those slightly ‘get it in the neck from all sides’ positions but @artscouncilengland.bsky.social is looking for a new Chair. £60k / 2 days a week apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9064

Have just paid £3.45 for a tea with no milk 🙃

Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!

Our new Autumn / Winter programme is out - an abundance of @womenslibrary.bsky.social joy to behold! Check it out here: womenslibrary.org.uk/2025/09/12/a...

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Eight years married today to this wonderful human. I know more about conservation architecture than I ever thought I would and he knows more about pop culture than I think he likes to admit.

Fountains Abbey providing some October atmosphere (dwarfing me and Finbar)

Halloween delights from Betty’s Harrogate.

As part of Open House we are opening up the home of @britishacademy.bsky.social next Sunday 21 Sept. It’s a gorgeous building with a lot of history www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/livin...

Bon voyage Bernadette. Very sad that this may mean the end of Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2.

The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

The Trust seeks to appoint an Assistant Director, a newly-created position in our centenary year. This broad-ranging grants leadership position will cover three major activities: grant-making, representing the Trust and leading on key areas of policy development. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/current...

I am beyond thrilled to announce I have been awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship from @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social and a Visiting Fellowship at @ucl-ias.bsky.social to write a book on ‘Queer Ecologies and Abundant Aesthetics in Sri Lankan Art, 1926-2024’. Pictured: Chathuri Nissansala, ‘Saudade’, 2024.

Unctuous lips at the Jenny Saville / National Portrait Gallery show.

Afternoon Festive Tea and icing workshop at Biscuiteers Notting Hill. The sugar high continues.

Mail Rail Postal Museum Christmas Fun with the Courtauld Research Team.

💫Call For Applications: Mongol Connections💫 Applications are open for a three-year (2025-2027) research network project and travelling seminar hosted at The Courtauld, led by the wonderful Professor Sussan Babaie courtauld.ac.uk/research/mon...

The face of a boy plotting how to take down a Christmas Tree.

Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it

One of the best galleries in the country is looking for a curator

Another 352,000 images have been #digitized from the Witt Photographic Collection at The Courtauld bringing the total now online to just over 1.25 million. Take a look: photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/browsetree

cfp for special issue about photo albums, deadline December 10th www.pismowidok.org/en/cfp/41-fo...

Behind the scenes of FW Murnau's 1926 film Faust. Here, the crew ready the Angel of Death enveloping a German town, built in miniature.''

🚨One for the conservationists on here 🚨 Records of Care: informing approaches to the conservation of Britain’s wall paintings A symposium to mark the first major phase of digitisation of the National Wall Paintings Survey. courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/rec...

Specimens of beauty.

Wouldn’t mind my own collector's cabinet. This one belonged to William Bragge (1823-1884). A civil engineer, antiquarian and author…he eventually established a museum and art gallery. Mostly sliced and polished specimens of agates in this one.

we have a Hugo Ball made by our friend Kitty

Have ordered a million samples for the new place already. Somebody save me from myself.

The waiting room at East Finchley - a glimpse of everyday architectural glory on a wet Tuesday evening.

all that hard-won/hard-worn looking, second sheet adhered under the first so he could work right through the picture plane to get lower... RIP Frank Auerbach 1931-2024

a starter pack of conservators from various disciplines - please let me know if you'd like to be added, and who I've missed... go.bsky.app/4HjAJJX

The best house in Birmingham covered in the best weather type.

Moor Pool Looking like a postcard.

Happy snow day!

We have bought a house directly opposite a chocolate factory. We haven’t moved in yet but every visit smells of pure melted chocolate goodness and I have no regrets.

A rainbow of squash for your Sunday evening.

Worcester Cathedral yesterday proving to be the perfect playground for a two year old.

I made this contemporary art starter pack a couple of days ago. Sharing again for new followers and joiners. It’s currently UK-centric, with its outer parameters reflecting my own interests rather more than all the possibilities it could do. go.bsky.app/H6CKvTy

If you are a researcher who could do with £10k to build partnerships so you can apply for Horizon Europe funding, take a look at our Pump Priming scheme www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/Hori...

Hi Bluesky. I’m a curator at the government art collection, where I’m always looking to hear from interesting artists / filmmakers and other creatives looking to collaborate! Get in touch 👋

#WitchcraftThursday “How do you conjure up a devil?” Alan Whicker interviews Cecil Williamson, founder of the Museum of Witchcraft. www.bbc.co.uk/videos/ce77d...

I would quite like to be appointed artistic director of Bal d’Été, Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris but I guess I’ll make do with Sofia Coppola.

WIRED is hiring a culture editor, which means you can be my boss. my boss! I'm a delight condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

That creativity should be unbridled from material conditions is an argument that has always felt decadent to me and flimsy, but also inaccurate in its assumption […] that creativity is something absolute, as opposed to being continually redefined by circumstance. artreview.com/the-problems...

Such sad news about Frank Auerbach, a privilege to see his Charcoal Heads at The Courtauld earlier this year. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

✨Job Alert ✨ Head of Research, National Gallery London Closing Date: Monday 18 Nov 2024 Full details www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

No one tells you how truly grim house hunting is.

It is so quiet in the garden today, you can hear the leaves falling.