Least surprising photo line up of all time

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

Tove Jansson’s art reflects her belief that dreaming and playfulness were vital for coping with the hardships of World War II.

So important that these stories get told.

Impressed that the collective outrage over this terrible piece of writing has even eclipsed the moral outrage at the whole thing.

www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Which other artists do you think we should add to our Modern Women Artists series? Here's who we have so:

Sylvia Pankhurst
Frances Hodgkins
Marlow Moss
Laura Knight
Lee Miller
Eileen Agar
Nina Hamnett
Eileen Mayo
Lucie Rie
Tirzah Garwood
Mabel Nicholson
Ithell Colquhoun

All ideas welcome! 💙📚

So many dryly funny lines in this @Harpers piece about how the art world became fixated on artists’ identities and art as political resistance.

Starting with the intro, which made me GASP:

harpers.org/archive/2024...

Incredible

Just started this - a pretty devastating view of Nazi Germany 'from below', based on a true story of resistance. Powerful to know it was written so shortly after the war (1946/7) by someone who had just lived through it. It feels relevant.

“If my self is the economic me, supposed to maximise my return on investment, that’s a very different notion than if my self is permeable, if it includes the trees whose oxygen I am breathing, and those birds and the soil.”

Excellent piece on Robin Wall Kimmerer
www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

For #StandingStoneSunday a #Neolithic human-shaped stela with a necklace and a belt, found in La Serre, Aveyron (#France). The lines on the cheeks are interpreted as facial #tattoos or scars. Dating 3000-2500 BC.
In the late neolithic period several cultures living....1/2

🏺 #archaeology
📷 me
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#standingstonesunday

The Gurdy Stone, Kingston near Lewes, East Sussex. A magnificent two-tonne monolith of Welsh slate, raised in 2023 by Jimmy Cauty of the KLF and Jem Finer of the Pogues, allegedly sitting on a modern ley line that sees “every Amazon fulfilment centre in the country”.

My husband, Jonathan from Assistant, made this lovely record, out today!

Excited to be editing a book about the magnificent calligrapher Tong Yang-Tze and taking a pleasurable deep dive into the history of literati culture.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/09/a...

Hello Bluesky (ie my husband and my one other follower). This is nice isn't it? Like during the pandemic when we all got Zoom and remembered we could talk to each other.

Do you know how dark Twitter has to be for *STEPHEN KING* to say it’s too dark