David Surman
davidsurman.com
David Surman
@davidsurman.com
Painter. South London.
www.davidsurman.com
Going to America on Thurs to open a new exhibition in New Orleans. Curious about how many things have changed in the year since I've been.
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Takashi Miike is directing Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. Give it to me now, please.
via @neon-rated.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If America can recruit German scientists after WW2 then perhaps Europe can recruit American scientists after ..whatever the fuck is going on over there.
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.

By @arthurallen202.bsky.social

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
March 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), «Amselfluh», 1922, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 170.5
March 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This
gotta keep making stuff, if you can

the oligarchy and the nazis are flirting at the bar, yea, and it's pretty hard to tell what to do about it, but if you can make stuff and send it to people and feel joy and pay attention to something else for a minute, that's none of their business
March 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Kind of wanna make a game again and stick it in a gallery and on switch and connect those two dots.
March 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Deleted the automatic Threads account that was generated -- couldn't tolerate any longer the dreadful bot click bait it was filled with.
March 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Oooof
March 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
That's great writing
March 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🙏🏻✨✨thanks @thisiscolossal.com
With sweeping brushstrokes, David Surman examines our tendency to ascribe human emotion and feeling to other species.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/davi...
March 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Particularly shocking detail here, suggesting reasons why the Mayor and the Culture Secretary might be looking the other way on this. www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025...
The Prince Charles Cinema and the death of the West End
No city has as flagrant a disregard for its own culture as London.
www.newstatesman.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Climate action globally is under threat. It’s hugely urgent to seize initiative from rightwing populists. We need to change tactics: start by building climate resilience in local communities where people can feel tangible benefits – we’re calling it climate popularism. @rupertread.bsky.social & me🧵
It’s time for climate populism
As politics turns against net zero, we need to mobilise a genuine mass movement against ecological catastrophe.
www.newstatesman.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Let's go!!! 🚀
Here's a link to the Open Beta for Flashes (iOS-only for now)
Join the Flashes for Bluesky beta
Available on iOS
testflight.apple.com
February 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It isn't that stars disappear but whole constellations
Marianne Faithfull was a Twin Peaks fan and did a whole album with Angelo Badalamenti (her favourite of all her albums)

Read: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Listen:
She
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull - Topic
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Mixed up this pink for a Californian sky
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So so great! 🩷
January 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Oh Okami ✨🩷
existing in the world right now
January 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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For more information on the situation, we have set up an FAQ here :
princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
#SaveThePCC
princecharlescinema.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...
Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's an oxide of chromium green and french ultramarine blue mix.
January 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Today was a day with a lot of green going on
January 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I guess... I'll give it ten minutes... before I walk to the studio.
January 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Here's a painting I made of Picasso's Afghan hound Kaboul (2023, 160x140cm)
#art
January 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Love Sophie T!
January 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM