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Alison Shipley

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Editor (formerly Royal Academy of Arts), occasional potter and sometime anthropologist currently raising two small children in Brighton, UK.

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What a beautiful cover!

29.11.2024 13:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Least surprising photo line up of all time

25.11.2024 10:33 πŸ‘ 386 πŸ” 72 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 52
David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars β€” β€œup at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

24.11.2024 18:57 πŸ‘ 15673 πŸ” 1844 πŸ’¬ 325 πŸ“Œ 175
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Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play Finnish artist Tove Jansson’s childlike worlds are not pure escapism, but rather an expression of a state in which joy and fear are allowed to coexist.

Tove Jansson’s art reflects her belief that dreaming and playfulness were vital for coping with the hardships of World War II.

23.11.2024 19:19 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

So important that these stories get told.

22.11.2024 09:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Surely as a *bare minimum* the government should be able to protect people's rights to get paid while they go to the toilet?

22.11.2024 07:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: β€œI Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significantβ€”and secretβ€”inspirations in literary history...

Impressed that the collective outrage over this terrible piece of writing has even eclipsed the moral outrage at the whole thing.

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

21.11.2024 18:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Barbara Hepworth, Vanessa Bell, Gwen John

20.11.2024 12:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A bookshelf showing the colourful spines of the Modern Women Artists series between lots of other books

A bookshelf showing the colourful spines of the Modern Women Artists series between lots of other books

Which other artists do you think we should add to our Modern Women Artists series? Here's who we have so:

Sylvia Pankhurst
Frances Hodgkins
Marlow Moss
Laura Knight
Lee Miller
Eileen Agar
Nina Hamnett
Eileen Mayo
Lucie Rie
Tirzah Garwood
Mabel Nicholson
Ithell Colquhoun

All ideas welcome! πŸ’™πŸ“š

20.11.2024 11:41 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, it's probably not inaccurate, but... πŸ™ˆ

20.11.2024 11:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel the intro is going to leave a lot of curators paralysed (for want of a better word, argh!) with anxiety. (Possibly rightly so... )

19.11.2024 10:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Always loved that map!

18.11.2024 12:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Incredible

17.11.2024 21:24 πŸ‘ 438 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 8
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Just started this - a pretty devastating view of Nazi Germany 'from below', based on a true story of resistance. Powerful to know it was written so shortly after the war (1946/7) by someone who had just lived through it. It feels relevant.

18.11.2024 07:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜We’ve become distrustful of each other’: Braiding Sweetgrass author Robin Wall Kimmerer on Trump, rural America and resistance Her last book sold 2m copies. Now the Native American ecologist is taking on capitalism. She talks about how the β€˜gift economy’ could heal divisions across the US

β€œIf my self is the economic me, supposed to maximise my return on investment, that’s a very different notion than if my self is permeable, if it includes the trees whose oxygen I am breathing, and those birds and the soil.”

Excellent piece on Robin Wall Kimmerer
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

18.11.2024 08:56 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Just started this - a pretty devastating view of Nazi Germany 'from below', based on a true story of resistance. Powerful to know it was written so shortly after the war (1946/7) by someone who had just lived through it. It feels relevant.

18.11.2024 07:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, found in La Serre, Aveyron (#France). The lines on the cheeks are interpreted as facial #tattoos or scars. Dating 3000-2500 BC.
In the late neolithic period several cultures living....1/2

🏺 #archaeology
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17.11.2024 16:44 πŸ‘ 435 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5
Local Psycho and The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra - The Hurdy-Gurdy Song
Local Psycho and The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra - The Hurdy-Gurdy Song YouTube video by Local Psycho & The Hurdy-Gurdy Orchestra

How many standing stones have their own song? youtu.be/WRxbmAi4e14?...

17.11.2024 09:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#standingstonesunday

The Gurdy Stone, Kingston near Lewes, East Sussex. A magnificent two-tonne monolith of Welsh slate, raised in 2023 by Jimmy Cauty of the KLF and Jem Finer of the Pogues, allegedly sitting on a modern ley line that sees β€œevery Amazon fulfilment centre in the country”.

17.11.2024 09:32 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Glad you like it! Truly a labour of love!

17.11.2024 08:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My husband, Jonathan from Assistant, made this lovely record, out today!

17.11.2024 08:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the Met Tong Yang-Tze is reviving an ancient but disappearing practice and making it contemporary β€” writ large.

Excited to be editing a book about the magnificent calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze and taking a pleasurable deep dive into the history of literati culture.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/a...

16.11.2024 22:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello Bluesky (ie my husband and my one other follower). This is nice isn't it? Like during the pandemic when we all got Zoom and remembered we could talk to each other.

16.11.2024 07:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark

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