Painting of multicoloured rounded shapes with mauvevsky above.
Video installation - everchanging abstract with leaves and other natural shapes in many colours, especially green and fuschia, against a dark background
Still time to catch #SublimeSpace at the #HeathRobinsonMuseum #Pinner Landscapes by Heath Robinson and other artists - works by Daniel Sturgis and Barnaby Barford below
Professor Dan Sturgis is speaking
I’m at the Italian Cultural Institute, where @danielsturgis.bsky.social is introducing the research of the @researchual.bsky.social artists Eva Sajovic and Juan Bolivar, who have undertaken a fellowship at @bsrome.bsky.social
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
Jean Arp, Constellation with Five White and Two Black Forms: Variation 2, Meudon 1932
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136646
Wassily Kandinsky ‘Squares, Concentric Circles’ watercolour, gouache & crayon 1913.
Kandinsky was born on this day.
This Friday - free but you need to book - with Dawn Ades, Eric Robertson, Daniel Sturgis, Jan Teuscher, Greg Thomas
Just opened at Crux Gallery in Athens - group show - Units of Attention - Hayley Tompkins works on paper on the table & a large canvas of mine on the wall.
Stunning ceramics by Lucio Fontana (who is best known for his slashed canvases). Current exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
Tomorrow at NYU Washington Square- speaking about Arp and Ian Hamilton Finlay
Gift of Philip Johnson
Peter Young, "#1 - 1966", 1966
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134874
I am speaking at 2 upcoming events on Hans Arp… NYU 30/31 Oct & Tate Britain 5 Dec… come for a dose of Dada poetics and concrete forms
And taught there
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
10 years before Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’… ?
Fine Arts at the British School at Rome
At the BSR, our Fine Arts Programme supports artists in exploring, expanding, and reimagining their practice.
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This view of St Paul’s is still visible from Nunhead cemetery- the trees being cut to maintain it - and although not in one of London’s ‘protected sight corridors’ it has not been obscured by buildings.
The British School at Rome is seeking a new Chair of the Council of Trustees, as Mark Getty approaches the end of his term: bsr.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
Julian Schnabel’s plate paintings from late 70s early 80s made when he was working in a kitchen-there’s a great one called Notre Dame (1979)
Lita Hornick Bequest
Al Held, Maltese Cross, 1964 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136044
Virginia Woolf’s portrait at the National Gallery - floor mosaic The Awakening of the Muses, by Boris Anrep
Sienna at the National Gallery is wonderful - a once in a lifetime grouping
Our application season is here! Apply for a seven week writing residency at Jack Kerouac’s historic home in Orlando! $600 stipend. Fiction/ Creative Nonfiction/ Poetry/ Plays/ Scripts. Six writers chosen per year. Apply at Kerouacproject.org
Vollmond - & water, rain, rocks & Pina Bausch & Sadlers Wells
Daniel Buren from 1965 to 1966
Bumping into people here!
Hope your painting is going extra well… to combat the US news…
Amazing exhibition of Dom Sylvester Houédard and Futurist & Concrete Poetry at the Estorick Collection
Call for 10 minute presentations for the online symposium The Curatorial + Painting - about how contemporary paintings relate to the way they are curated. Organised by the Journal of Contemporary Painting. Deadline for Open Call 3rd Feb
Talking soon about Supports/Surfaces, material subversion & trans Mediterranean dialogues in Luxembourg…
You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, printed in a book with a wood block. The book titled Robert Fludd "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617), Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm
You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
I wondered that as well
A big screening of De Sica’s wonderful Miracle in Milan at the Italian Cultural Institute
