Tom Overton

@SheffMuseums It's free!

Matt Harle & I are doing a lunchtime talk (hopefully with interesting enhancements) about this at Weston Park Museum @SheffMuseums on 2nd July sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/lunch…

I co-edited a collection of John Berger’s work on miners & strikes. It’s based around a hard-to-find film he made about Zola’s novel Germinal; we turned into a visual essay + added other things inc. a wonderful JB interview with a miner called Joe Roberts canongate.co.uk/books/5120-the…

This is a fine book. And very much in the Berger style. Thank you. As part of our legacy work we’re planning a project on Berger and hope to show this film.

This👇 is a great little book Brilliant how Berger's Open Uni documentary essay on Zola's Germinal is rendered through stills from the recording on the page

New! The Underground Sea - brings together for the first time John Berger's work on mineworkers and the miners’ strikes, edited by @tw_overton & Matthew Harle as a set of actions for today. Looking forward to reading canongate.co.uk/books/5120-the…

A real sense of urgency and that voice still resonant. Hopefully only the first volume to come out of Berger’s archives. Thank you ⁦@canongatebooks⁩ ⁦@tw_overton⁩

I had a go at summing up 40 years of @Complicite for their new website: complicite.org/about-us/our-h…

I wrote a short @guardianobits piece about Libby Hall -- photographer, writer, collector of dog photographs and dear friend of John Berger theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Alain Tanner (1929-2022) was a pioneering filmmaker who helped make Swiss cinema possible. theb.fi/3C0Mg1g

I wrote @SightSoundmag an obituary of Alain Tanner, Swiss filmmaker & long-term collaborator with John Berger bfi.org.uk/news/alain-tan…

We're excited to launch 2021 with a first! A Listening Eye: The Films of Mike Dibb. Across 11 weeks, in 52 films and 3 live online conversations, we celebrate the work of multi award winning documentary filmmaker Mike Dibb. Watch this space every Friday bit.ly/3biiLuM

Hans Memling, Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin, 1475 or 79

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John Berger's mentor Frederick Antal owned this when he was visiting him every week 'like a messenger reporting to a general' in the 50s. Francesco Solimena, Portrait of a Lady, c.1740, donated to @NationalGallery by Antal's widow in 1955

'Zurbarán's art of the interior suits our fear of the outside' - John Berger, 1988 (The House in Nazareth, c.1640, @ClevelandArt)

@GregoryEvans It seems entirely possible but I don't have any evidence in front of me, sorry!

@tw_overton I have a slightly random question about John Berger. Do you know if he ever read Jenny Erpenbeck?

John Berger, notes on being drunk, 1950s