'Seven Brussels Sprouts.' (1955) Delicately painted with meticulous detail, Eliot Hodgkin captures the crisp waxy green beauty of a vegetable that in the year this work was painted was very often boiled to oblivion.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

It's 20 December, the day The Dark Is Rising begins, and when I and others usually start to read a chapter a day. We recently read it in our book club, so I'm going to listen to this wonderful adaptation by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social instead. Best Christmas book of all www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Susan’s Cooper’s *Shortest Day* is beautiful but its time for everyone to reread or discover *The Dark is Rising*. A glorious example of the quality of the best children’s literature and this is the time of year to devour this one in the series.

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 20 ‘Winter Sunrise’ Artist: SR Badmin

‘From her pen sprang unforgettable females’: 16th-century Spanish author’s knight’s tale given reboot

Story of Bob Gottlieb having had enough of Roald Dahl here: lithub.com/when-roald-d...

Winter poetry from American model the floodgates from Scandinavia opening into New Year. The interesting thing there's quite good representation in clusters ect. I've always hold believe New Year would carry risk of something more significantly cold and wintry over festive period. (1/2)

'Willow in Winter', Blackheath (exhibited 1928) by Francis Dodd (Manchester Art Gallery)

'View from the Window of 11A North Hill towards Highgate School' (1950s) by Margaret Thomas (Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution)

Don’t believe the fake gloom about London ft.trib.al/Sv4FlVA

Elliott’s bookshop gamble is turning into a page-turner ft.trib.al/jaMQxwm | opinion

When you're told 'no more chocolates' but it's okay because you've got deep pockets... Painting: Captain Sir Thomas Dutton, circa 1605-1615, artist unknown. From the collection at Sherborne Park Estate in Gloucestershire.

For anyone who may be hastily returning certain books they bought as Christmas presents, here's a thread of excellent children's books I highly recommend you buy instead: Loki A Bad God's Guide To Being Good by Louie Stowell Funny, chaotic and a little bit naughty okay, a lot naughty

FT defends London, one of the greatest cities in the world www.ft.com/content/dd79...

Painting by Valerius DeSaedeleer. ‘Snow landscape at dusk’ 1924. Oil on canvas. Dimensions 87 x 96 cm.

This week's theme was Winter ❄️ Hope you enjoyed it! Take a look at the timeline over the past week for full details of these and the rest of the featured pieces.

Good morning! This week's theme is Christmas 🎄🎅 ------ 'Rainy Camden Lock' by Jonathan Stewardson jonathanstewardson.com 👤: @jonathanstewardson.bsky.social

The government has released a progress report on its work on AI and copyright, as required by the Data Act, as well as a summary of responses to the consultation on the new Bill 👇

1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...

Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...

'Wandsworth by Moonlight' by John Atkinson Grimshaw (Private collection)

It is rare to find Hans Heysen's early work from when he was at Académie Julian and Colarossi’s Academy in Paris in the decade before WW1. This work, painted on a cold Parisian morning, is prosaically titled, 'From the Apartment Window, Paris, 1901.'

'The Studio Corner.' (1918) Leo Gestel was one of the most renowned Dutch modernist painters at the beginning of the 20thC. Four years prior to this painting he was working as a cubist then reverted to more traditional style of work.

'A Woman in a Red Dress Knitting.' (1936) Whilst at the Slade School, Jesse Dale Cast took Henry Tonks’s draughtsmanship to heart. His figures have an almost sculptural stillness about them, reminiscent of Dod Procter’s work from a decade earlier.

The novelist Don DeLillo turns 89 today. Throughout his career, the books of this perennial Nobel Prize favorite have overflowed with ideas, language, personas, and historical fragments that, released into the minds of readers, transcend their fictional origins and become part of the real world.

Hoar Frost Forms when the air is still and cold, usually on clear winter nights. Water vapour in the air condenses on solid surfaces, and as the surface temperature drops below 0°C, ice crystals form. Origin is old English for old grey hair

‘Gutenberg seems to have had a habit of falling out with people.’ Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social) on a biography of the printer told through his books. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I’ve been playing Rosalía’s Lux on a loop since it was released. But that switch on the album from ‘Berghain’ to ‘La Perla’ is utterly divine and I am unashamedly and repetitively luxuriating in it.

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

'Victoria Station, 1918: The Green Cross Corps (Women's Reserve Ambulance), Guiding Soldiers on Leave' (1919) by Clare Atwood (Imperial War Museums)

Bar’s open! Cheers all x

Friday

'Camden Town, London' (1940) by Priscilla Ann Siebert (Dresden State Art Collections)

Linocut by Lisa Benson ‘Long Shadows’ Size 30.5 x 40.5cm lisabensonart.co.uk

Deep dives are out. A broader “shallow paddle” approach is in. That means less subject-level triangulation — and more pressure on leaders to show how every part of the school connects. I’ve written about what this shift means and how to prepare: 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...

The future of knowledge is yours to protect. #Wikipedia25 Donate now ➡️ donate.wikipedia25.org

Wayland's Smithy, c1900+, before the stones at the front were installed. Thanks to Stephen Ashwin for this picture, photo from Henry Taunt (Getty).

ICYMI: Andrew Miller’s The Land in Winter is by far the Booker Prize 2025’s leader at the tills heading into tonight’s ceremony, having generated over half of the six-strong contenders’ unit-sales during the shortlist period, and 45% of the sextet’s value 👇

Good morning. This week's theme is London at War. ------ 'London and Wartime: Nocturne' (1918) by Sir Claude Francis Barry (Private collection)

'A Zeppelin Raid, 8 October 1915', Camden by John Fraser (National Maritime Museum)

Ruskin Spear's portrait is of Sir Robin Darwin, the great-grandson of Charles Darwin who as principal in the 1950s made the Royal College of Art a leading force in arts education and changed the image and fortunes of the Royal Academy. He was also a fine landscape painter.

There’s not a day goes past that I don’t miss Tony Bourdain, great man, great friend, great writer. Nothing can make up for the loss of him, of course, but it’s wonderful to hear his voice live from the page in the compellingly brilliant Anthony Bourdain Reader edited by Kim Witherspoon.

‘I have a theory that people tend to have a life-long favorite colour, and that their home and car will eventually be that colour.’ Photographer Christopher Hall.

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

A photograph of the London Underground taken by Bert Hardy in 1952. #london #londonunderground

Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest. ― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest #BookSky #FilmSky

'The Crown', Islington (2025) by Sarah Lundblad sarahbethlundblad.art