could someone help identify this bird please?

Leigh Bowery’s diary is not entirely as I’d anticipated - which I suppose is exactly right…

Can’t be repeated often enough ‘The UK’s creative industries are vital to the economy. Valued at £124bn, they are worth more than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive industries combined. Arts and culture alone contribute an impressive £34.6bn.’ on.ft.com/42hzVmL

one-woman-marmalade-factory 🍊

cherry pie and a movie kind of an evening 🖤

messaging old friends with memories of seeing Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart at the cinema together - hard to explain now how thrilling it was to be seventeen and to fall in that space. All our changes were there. RIP David Lynch

I don’t think “the kids” can understand how radical it was that Twin Peaks was on network tv. It premiered to *34.6 million* viewers. Crazy, man. Agent Cooper was on to something when he said “Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen.” RIP

A new indie bookshop opened today in Norwich. The Holloway is on St Lawrence Steps, St Benedicts Street. Second hand, zines, indie, radical and nature writing... records, film & music nights too. The good stuff. #supportsmallpublishers

Peter Kennard’s Filofax, recto and verso. It is just as you’d imagine.

6 words I hate: playful vibrant literary gobsmacked passed (died) date (verb)

Media consumption of the past.

snow day from the Oxford Tube ❄️

A great little video explaining conservation from Buffalo Public Media and the Garmin Art Conservation program.

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

What is one of your comfort movies ? (I pretty much have only comfort movies these days)

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

conservation is about loss- documenting it, imagining it, attempting to manage it- so this collage is an *extra* example- types of loss listed in words set down by now obsolete machinery, and the passage of time described in the discoloured adhesive Carolee Schneemann collage

Also: the materials you use speak, you should be aware of what they say. / they have narrative, implications, they are freighted / and everything sways meaning in the close read

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Steam-train fire-girl Recording studio manager Dealer of vintage cowboy boots Forklift driver Men's tailoring consultant Potato farmer in Ukraine

one of the sketchbook pages not on display in the Mike Kelley exhibition at Tate Modern - this was one of my favourites. what do you hear - a big voice - wrong

thinking about breathing in the essence of JMW Turner by smelling his sketchbooks reminded me of this video, where the makeup artist Lisa Eldridge 'eats' molecules of Audrey Hepburn ♥️ a material culture/makeup clash - pure heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkK...

we took down the Expressionists vinyl at Tate Modern and it was briefly this beautiful ♥️

I'm planning a session exploring artworks via touch and smell. For the invitations I'd like to capture some Turner sketchbook scent in tiny glass vials - is this likely possible? If I left the smelliest book in a sealed plexi box for a while with an open vial would some scent just sort of fall in?

what just happened? Exhausted and a little stunned waking up this morning post-Mike Kelley install at Tate Modern... Applauding the registrars, art handlers, technicians and conservators who helped make it happen - what an astonishing team we have.

prompted by @jeremymillar.bsky.social’s recent Turner tweet I got this out for a closer look. The light brown splodge - I like to think he dipped his finger in the bloody waves and just splatted it on the paper. A Harpooned Whale 1845 JMW Turner. Graphite and watercolour on paper. Tate collection.

sitting watching sunlight pass across agate ware 🩶

*obsessed* with the person that lived in this house, the contents of which are being sold this evening. I know nothing about them, but I really wish someone would take the whole lot and keep it together 🙏 www.easyliveauction.com/catalogue/dc...

ridiculously gorgeous Ruth Asawa shadows at the de Young, SF - petition for Ruth Asawa work to always be shown against concrete 🤍

lovely little Eva Hesse/Sol LeWitt catalogue from Moe’s in Berkeley, CA - I need a whole extra luggage allowance for all the wonderful things I found there…

day four of the install at Tate Modern 🙌 #exhibitions

here's Carolee's Hearts and Hands for Ana Mendieta today.

I've been deconstructing old polaroids for work..and in the process made an instagram account with my son of some of the nicest from our collection instagram.com/smallandolda...

The only valiant way to complain is to create. —William Blake

Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner

I've long been infuriated about the price of a brew and a biscuit in our leading cultural institutions and now have decided to do something about it – the campaign for a #onequidtea starts here, with my op-ed in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Morley College & Bloomsbury: together with a young Virginia Woolf who taught at London's Morley College (a working men's & women's college), her sister, Vanessa, taught drawing, her brother Thoby & his friend Clive Bell taught Latin, & brother Adrian taught history & Greek.

Six thousand bombs dropped on two million people people, half of them children, in an area twenty-five miles long by five miles wide. Forty-eight bombs per square mile, one every two hundred metres or so.

artist folk - if you were to make a collage on a canvas that is already under tension on a strainer, would you perhaps make small incisions in the canvas to compensate for the differing tensions in slightly damp collage pieces as they dry? I'm trying to find an explanation...

The old dialects often hold a more intimate language to map our relationship with the stones. Hookland gifts us 'hicud' – a word for the specific skin-tingle you experience while crossing the threshold of a stone circle. – Dr. K. Brophy

Today I visited a gallery and saw the cover of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction.

conservation is about loss- documenting it, imagining it, attempting to manage it- so this collage is an *extra* example- types of loss listed in words set down by now obsolete machinery, and the passage of time described in the discoloured adhesive Carolee Schneemann collage

accidental Twombly behind the cheese shop in Rosendale, NY

spending my summer vacation conserving Carolee Schneemann collages in upstate New York - the best time! #conservation