Totally fascinated by this post (and last year's) on P. Klee, R.H. Quaytman, M. Luther, and W. Benjamin, all of which provides a sidenote to one of the great works by Gustav Metzger: "Eichmann and the Angel" which brings together, Klee, Benjamin, Eichmann and Hannah Arendt + mass-media and much more

As the #smallpublishersfair25 nears. This open letter in The Bookseller from a group of small independent publishers makes telling points about the current landscape for independent publishing and what the future may hold. @smallpublishers.bsky.social www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Three weeks today! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube) Further details: smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Directed by writer and artist Erica Van Horn and poet, artist and editor Simon Cutts, Coracle is a printer-publisher and editor of spaces based in Tipperary. They return to #smallpublishersfair25 on 24 /25 October: this year's exhibition also draws on several decades of work by Erica Van Horn.

Interesting photos marketing Tom Phillips house on Talfourd Road "last on the market in 1953". Long shots of his living and working spaces "adorned with decades of its previous occupant's creative process - a living historical record of one of Peckham's most-celebrated artists" (look at the ceiling)

Q: What is the role of art in society? A:

Won't be long now before there is talk about the benefits of bleach, again. history ... farce ... etc etc, again and again

Looking forward to the Small Publishers Fair next month, to seeing new books and new people, and hope that some exhibitors who weren't there last year might be there this year. But also thinking of the Mark Pawson-shaped hole there will be at Conway Hall. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/2024-small-p...

Informative signs from the Ministry of Works

some more gates

Some gates

The great concrete poet Eugen Gomringer died last week aged 100.

Alert Blackcurrant ice cream just about to drop

Looking forward to this in a month's time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patricia-l...

Not just something I want to see Something I have to see studiovoltaire.org/whats-on/hil...

"Only those people practice destruction and betrayal who hunger to accept completely the values of the establishment in which they seek a place. It’s the establishment that makes people predatory." Barnett Newman in his 1968 foreword to Kroptkin's Memoir of a Revolutionist greg.org/archive/2025...

Gonna see the river man Gonna tell him all I can About the ban On feelin' free If he tells me all he knows About the way his river flows I don't suppose It's meant for me www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2bb...

Optimistic fortune cookie from the other evening.

Saw Tim Price's Nye on Monday night and it, the staging, the ensemble company acting, the affecting brilliance of Michael Sheen just wont stop bouncing around in my mind. I haven't been so wrapped up in something I have seen on stage for some time Thank you www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/...

"The Handloom Weaver" : fantastic film by Sam Hanna of Kathleen Heron (an aunt of Patrick Heron) spinning and dyeing wool (collecting lichen for dyeing) and weaving at her home near Skipton in 1947/48. From the North West Film Archive www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/viewVideo.ph...

Sheila Robinson and @thegentleauthor.bsky.social at Great Bardfield spitalfieldslife.com/2025/07/13/a...

John Martin of Black Sparrow Press (1930-2025) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/b... “Since I am a totally literary person, I have no desire to publish anything in any other area. I want to die never having been to Las Vegas, gone to Disneyland or watched a whole TV show, except for sports.”

Happy Birthday David! 88 years young today

Anybody interested in the work and life of Alfred Wallis needs to read the new biography by Matilda Webb. An utterly compelling read - the depth of research is unparalleled and changes the understanding of his painting in so many ways. www.alfredwallis.co.uk

Great to see the Barry Flanagan exhibition at Ruthin Craft Centre this afternoon - a beautiful reading by Bedwyr Williams of The Names of the Hare by Seamus Heaney to kick things off. (Until 31 August.) www.barryflanagan.com/exhibitions/...

📣SAVE LIVERPOOL STREET STATION If you objected to the old scheme in 2023, you must write a new objection to the current scheme from Network Rail & ACME. You've just 9 days left to do so. 4th JULY: is the deadline to write your objection. Our Guide to writing your objection is here bit.ly/3ZQRkk8

I wonder what this scene will look like when Network Railway have despoiled the Liverpool Street station with its planned 'Refurbishment' with added retail and housing units😟

Guardian quick(ish) crossword again says it like it is re current politics (and contract bridge) : NO/TRUMP (6 down)

Sign the petition and help save Leila's on Calvert Avenue docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

... and better than everyone says

This is a reference to the iconic, Pulitzer-winning image of a Vietnam War protester. He later moved to SF, renamed himself Hibiscus and formed a drag troupe called the Cockettes. Happy Pride!

From about 17.46 ... Caroline No www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6N...

Ron Atkins great obituary of a great jazz critic for whom "Analysis and heartfelt enthusiasm elegantly segued" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Spoiler Alert The Guardian telling it like it is in today's Quick Crossword (13 Down)

At the same time as establishing a 'VIP-Lane' to fast-track contracts to Ministers' friends, the two Nobel Prize winners at the Crick Institute were being ignored. Yet another example of profit prioritised over public safety, and our loved ones paid the price. #Covid

Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2

Somewhere I must have photos of this in situ in the early 80s from my one and only visit to Père-Lachaise - Jim Morrison, Isadora Duncan, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Marceau, et al www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

“We’re in an era where the image is no longer grounded in a certain way. Either with or without our permission, it slips and slides … into other means or methods… It’s a profound shift that begs the question: can independent voices still exist with purpose today?" www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

A sad farewell today to an old friend of mine, American artist Dara Birnbaum (1946-2025). Dara was especially known for her video art, and her piece “Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman” (1978–79) in particular. She will long continue to inspire others!

A newly redeveloped Getty Provenance Index is now available. This resource contains over 12 million records that allows a window into a vast growing universe of data available on shared cultural heritage. [🧵7/8] www.getty.edu/research/pro...

How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/8]

Last night was May Bug time ... a bit early.

Gustav Metzger became one of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, engaging with and illuminating its key issues. (The text image is from a speech I gave last year in Frankfurt - too many words.) Holocaust Memorial Day 27 January 2025

Gates that still work and what can happen to them

On Sunday we walked about 12 miles in the sunshine, hearing two cuckoos near the end of our walk

Will London never learn the importance of its cultural culinary history www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ap...