There's always someone worse off than yourself.

Alexander Calder performing his miniature Circus. Filmed by Jean Painlevé in 1955 youtu.be/t6jwnu8Izy0?...

This is a really stupid idea. #lightpollution #wildlife www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ele...

Bruce Conner’s Visionary Experimental Films Take Over the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles deadline.com/2026/03/exhi...

Toothsome? Pierre Fresnay with a smiling horse.

2/2 Detail of child-spirit at Jacob Vrel's window. So unsettling! Not your normal Dutch Golden Age moment.

#BOTD Patrick Hamilton Love, Sorrow, and Going to The Pictures in 1920s London. Patrick Hamilton’s "Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky" www.ballooonmeinherr.org/home/to-hide...

‘We can’t avoid the fact that, if Chantal Akerman’s is a bedroom cinema, it might well be because she spent months at a time in bed. And if it’s also a manic, joyful cinema, this might be indebted to her highs.’ Daniella Shreir (@shreir.bsky.social) on the director. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Fear of portrait photography: Victorian magic lantern slip-slide showing an apprehensive (and possibly drunk) sitter and his worst fears being realised. mp4 animation from original slide

The train window is one of the best cinema screens It forces us to stitch together narratives from the briefest glimpse. In a blurred moment whole stories race into us. We see a track and know it is older than the line we travel. We see a track and all of its treading ghosts wave to us. – #DAKilroy

#BOTD Lotte Eisner, 5 March 1996 #film #Expressionism #Germany #Weimar

Michèle Morgan, born 29 February 1920. With Jean Gabin in Le Quai des brumes (Marcel Carné, 1938) and with Ralph Richardson in The Fallen Idol (Carol Reed, 1948}

Michèle Morgan #BOTD (well, nearly) 29.3.1920. "T'as des beaux yeux tu sais"

Womensart supports and posts real art by real artists...

Great to see the Carry On franchise has been revived again. #WutheringHeights

Animation from a Victorian Magic Lantern slip slide. A clown throwing a baby up and catching it.

Emil van Hauth (German, 1899–1974) "Portrait of Grit Hegesa", 1925. Oil on Canvas, 93 × 73.5 cm. Grit Hegesa (1891–1972) was a German Dancer and Silent Film Actress. The National Gallery, London. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Maude Adams (1872-1953) as Napoleon the Third. Original vintage postcard.

#War #Patriots

"UNDEAD WRONG" My letter about the ending of Del Toro's Frankenstein . #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #arctic

‘Who did the first monochrome? The first black painting? Whose pictorial ground was the first to be “incident-free”? Who invented “the open space concept”? Newman claimed them all.’ Hal Foster on the Abstract Expressionist painter Barnett Newman. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"THE FOOTPRINTS OF A GIGANTIC HOUND" In the Soviet version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, Lenfilm 1981), the discovery of the body is located in a snowy wood and not, as in Conan Doyle's novel, a formal yew alley. Yevgeny Steblov as Dr. Mortimer.

PIPE DREAM Alla Demidova as Laura Lyons in the Soviet (Lenfilm) Hound of the Baskervilles (Igor Maslennikov, 1981). Probably the coolest Mrs Lyons in any filmed version of Sherlock Holmes' most well-known novel.

Trump engages Russian design consultancy to oversee the refurbishment of the Kennedy Centre.

3. The Expression of Hands (1987). "Would film have developed its own sign language had silent film lasted longer?" Farocki asks this in a work all about the expressive labor performed by hands in film. This is a wonderful film, that finds poetry in moments made for utility and visa-versa.

Máret Ánne Sara: 'Goavve-Geabbil' in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern

Essential reading for anyone who cares about the presentation of classic film (or, indeed, get irked when subjects better filmed in landscape format are shot in portrait). Great article by @pamhutch.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/film/comment...

Facade of the Atlantic Cinema, St-Martin-de-Ré, Île de Ré, France. 2004.

HAND SHADOW PUPPETS: Pig, Woman in bonnet, Turtle, Wolf, Man in felt hat, Small dog. If you try this at home always be sure you have a fireman standing by. Also a physiotherapist.

BTD - Conrad Veidt - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - 1920 - German release poster

A scene from the 'Freak Ballet' choreographed by George Balanchine, 1930

would anyone like to appreciate my collection of 100 year old Sessue Hayakawa trading cards

If you were going to be teleported there and back, and could only enter one place, I’d suggest Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate Street, a Spitalfields row house refurbished to look and feel as if its 18th/19th century residents have only just stepped out for a moment. Extraordinarily experience.

"Here. Hare. Here".

Dressing up and pleased with it. #BOTD Kathleen Byron (1921) and Valeska Gert (1892) share a birthday. Byron in Black Narcissus (Powell Pressburger, 1947) Gert in Joyless Street/Die freudlose Gasse (Pabst. 1925)

Who nose? Christel Bodenstein as the Princess in The Singing Ringing Tree/Das singende, klingende Bäumchen.(Francesco Stefani, 1957, GDR). #film #fairytale #prosthetics

Lindsay Kemp as a (the?) Devil in Kate Bush's "The Line the Cross and the Curve". (1993, Kate Bush. DOP Roger Pratt) As well as Kate Bush and Kemp, the film stars Miranda Richardson and a lot of flames and studio fog. Kemp was once described by a critic as "a legend in his own programme notes".

Béla Tarr

Magic lantern slip slide. Sliding glass plates in a hardwood frame provide a simple animation when projected. A crossing sweeper holds out his hat for a tip.

The great Ethel Barrymore. Edwardian fan postcard and as Mrs Warren in Robert Siodmak's gothic thriller The Spiral Staircase (1945)

Jonathan Jones here, polishing his credentials as the Liz Truss of art criticism. The point of the scale of Máret Ánne Sara's installation is that it doesn't "impose itself" on its environment, in contrast to the former oil-fired power station it sits in and the industry that fed it.

Harpya (1978) Raoul Servais www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFo2...

The first full moon of 2026 is known as the #WolfMoon when the wolves howl with hunger. Kiki Smith, Cathedral, 2012,  jacquard tapestry #WomensArt

My latest Substack is out, some "picks" to listen to, read and otherwise enjoy, ranging from classical column forms to Mexico City waste water, but majoring on wolves as agents in their own, and our, future nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...