Daniel Culpan

We’re delighted to welcome Daniel Culpan (@danielculpable), who joins @emily_glenister’s list. Based in London, Daniel is a freelance arts and culture writer whose work has appeared in Art Monthly, Frieze, The Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, i-D, and more.

So happy that @danielculpable is joining my list for his debut, which is a super-unsettling mash-up of Leila Slimani’s LULLABY & Black Mirror…

We're shocked & deeply concerned for the safety of our friends Mahmoud Muna & his nephew Ahmed, of the Educational Bookshop, Jerusalem, who were last night 'arrested' ('taken hostage' more like) while their shops were raided &books confiscated. We call for their immediate release

When I’m 85, I pray I’m as horny and articulate as Edmund White. He had lots to say to @danielculpable in this profile for @i_D, shot in his home by Jackson Bowley. i-d.co/article/edmund…

Dawn Powell, New Year’s Eve, 1940

@Glamorous_Matt I visited the graves of Peggy's Lhasa Apsos when I was last there, hahah

Going to Venice tomorrow

Nobody wrote a sentence like Gary Indiana.

'The publication "An Exorcism: A Photo Romance" by Penny Slinger has been nearly half a century in the making'. Daniel Culpan @danielculpable reviews Slinger's book, published by @fulgurpress to coincide with her recent exhibition @Richard Saltoun. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/reviews/review…

@Glamorous_Matt Loved it!

Ready for Imelda

@BarryPierce yeah, definitely a lot of awkward tittering...which I thought was telling, given that I don't think the scene was supposed to be entirely comic...

@danielculpable that scene got a lot of laughs at my performance, perhaps nervous giggles?

back from a wild night at The Years at the Almeida. had three (3) fainters during the abortion scene. one poor lady, in an attempt to leave the stalls, literally fainted at my feet. they had to stop the show for about 10 minutes. have never witnessed anything like it.

Happy Father’s Day from William Faulkner

@bitter69uk Have you read the Ian Penman book about him that recently came out? It's 🔥

“Seeing a Fassbinder retrospective is better than drugs, liquor and sex put together”. John Waters. BOTD: turbulent New German cinema visionary #RainerWernerFassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982). Expressions like wunderkind, monstre sacré & enfant terrible are all applicable.

@garethharr @Tate Yesssss! Can't wait

Can’t wait - “Tate Modern’s first exhibition of 2025 will focus on the boundary-pushing career of artist, performer, model, designer and musician Leigh Bowery. The show will span his emergence in London’s 1980s club scene through to his outrageous performances” @Tate

Mahmoud Darwish

There are no tents for those who survived the massacre in Rafah. They have no where to go. 1000s others who were displaced from Rafah northward are also still without tents. All have no access to water, sanitation or health services. The conditions of life are simply not there.

They are the most important and brilliant cultural workers on the planet right now.

"Our animal impulses - to prey upon, to consume - are never far from the culture's surface after all..." Check out @artmonthly's review of Candice Lin 'The Animal Husband' 😍 The exhibition is open Tue - Sat, from 10am - 5pm until 1 June 🐈 → Read full review in May's magazine

@HettieJudah @theipaper Hope the next chapter is just as fruitful, Hettie; always love reading your writing!

It is with sadness that I announce that after eight years as Chief Art Critic on @theipaper (and many before that on The Independent on Sunday) that I have today stepped down. Thanks to all who have followed my writing and supported the paper over the years