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Nancy Cunard "Up and at 'em!" [photo by John Banting @Tate tate.org.uk/art/archive/it…]

#Constable250 How Constable inspires today's landscape artists: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Review of #RogerFry exhibition at Charleston c/o @BurlingtonMag: burlington.org.uk/archive/exhibi… NB also @Tate Nov. 2026: tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-…

Essay on artist #Vorticist #HelenSaunders c/o Court Gallery Journal: courtgallery.com/blog/39/

Gorgeous #Bonnard paintings & essay c/o @ChristiesInc! christies.com/en/stories/wor…

Édouard Manet - Le Promeneur 1879

Look what just turned up. This beautiful but also brilliant & important book. Its a must read. It brings a world to life As Edmund de Waal says: a revelation! @CatherineOstler @simonschuster

"Folk art, a universally enduring practice, often forms the foundation of local and national identities. But by championing unmediated creativity outside academic traditions, it not only preserves heritage but can also reinvigorate artistic language. It was this potential that Exter wholeheartedly tapped into when developing her modernist aesthetic." - Art historian and IWM Visiting Fellow Katia Denysova on Alexandra Exter, a trailblazer of Ukrainian modernism: iwm.at/news/alexandra…

I've never been to @FreudMusLondonl but this might be the impetus I need - starting today they've got an exhibition of Leonora Carrington drawings freud.org.uk/exhibitions/le…

Joyed-up to the max to be selected for the Women's Non Fiction shortlist. It's an honour and a thrill to be in the company of such extraordinary and talented writers, even more so because all the women on the longlist were, and are, fabulous.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” —William Blake

By 1950 (the date of this work), John Craxton was exploring the ancient Greek world of the Eastern Mediterranean, abandoning a semi-Cubist approach to jagged, rugged topography in favour of a singular style that encompassed mythology, archaeology, and Byzantine mosaics.

'Shepherds at Night.' (1949) Rejected for military service late in 1941, soon after his 19th birthday, John Craxton turned to the drawing and paintings of poets and shepherds as projections of himself sheltering from a world of turmoil. 'They were my means of escape, and I identify with a shepherd and poet as lone figures,' he said.

A retrospective of Henri Matisse’s late work opened at the Grand Palais, called 'Matisse 1941-1954,' and showcases more than 300 pieces from his prolific final years

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns another act of barbarism and a cultural crime committed by Russia against Ukraine – a deliberate drone attack on the central part of Lviv, which resulted in damage to UNESCO World Heritage sites within the Historic Centre of Lviv. As a result of drone strikes on civilian buildings in the city centre, people were injured. This attack is not only a war crime against civilians, but also a direct assault on the cultural heritage of humanity, which is under international protection. It was in Lviv that, with the support of international partners and UNESCO, the first UNESCO Cultural Hub in Ukraine was established. This centre was created specifically to protect, restore, and support Ukrainian culture in times of war. By striking at the heart of Lviv, Russia has demonstrated its barbaric disregard for the efforts of the international community and UNESCO itself. We emphasize that Russia continues to systematically violate the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. We call on UNESCO and all international partners not to limit their response to yet another expression of concern. An aggressor that deliberately destroys world heritage in a city hosting an official UNESCO Cultural Hub must be deprived of any influence within international institutions and face severe consequences. Ukrainian diplomats are officially addressing the UNESCO Secretariat and the Member States of the World Heritage Committee, calling for the consequences of this attack to be documented and for additional cultural sanctions against Russia to be initiated. We express our sincere condolences to the injured residents of Lviv and assure that every instance of destruction and damage to sites of global historical significance will be documented to ensure accountability of the aggressor state and those responsible in both national and international jurisdictions.

"Amid the news the world is drowning in every day, we will not let Ukrainian grief get lost, become just another statistic, a headline that will be casually skipped over," wrote Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska on social media. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Les Porteuses d'eau, 1939, Leopold Survage.

@TheLondonLib Glorious artistry of... Dame Edith Sitwell, Order of the British Empire #WorldPoetryDay

Blue Woman with a Guitar (1929) by Tamara de Lempicka #WomensArt #FridayFeeling

'Old Age.' (1922) Marianne von Werefkin was one of the most remarkable women at the centre of Munich’s avant-garde circle at the turn of the 20thC. Her use of non-naturalistic colours freed its descriptive role in painting and deepened her personal connection with the landscape.

Today is #InternationalWomensDay! 🌍♀️ Celebrated modernist Vanessa Bell challenged convention through bold colour, form and collaboration. Explore her pioneering work here: bloomsbury.com/uk/vanessa-bel… Published with @MK_Gallery 🎨 #IWD #HerStory #WomenInArt #BritishArt #ModernArt