David Surman
@davidsurman.com
Painter. South London.
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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
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.
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Takashi Miike is directing Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. Give it to me now, please.
via @neon-rated.bsky.social
via @neon-rated.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Takashi Miike is directing Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo. Give it to me now, please.
via @neon-rated.bsky.social
via @neon-rated.bsky.social
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.
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...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
March 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
If America can recruit German scientists after WW2 then perhaps Europe can recruit American scientists after ..whatever the fuck is going on over there.
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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
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), «Amselfluh», 1922, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 170.5
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
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
This
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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
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
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
Kind of wanna make a game again and stick it in a gallery and on switch and connect those two dots.
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
Deleted the automatic Threads account that was generated -- couldn't tolerate any longer the dreadful bot click bait it was filled with.
🙏🏻✨✨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...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/davi...
March 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🙏🏻✨✨thanks @thisiscolossal.com
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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
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...
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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
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🧵
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Let's go!!! 🚀
Here's a link to the Open Beta for Flashes (iOS-only for now)
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
Let's go!!! 🚀
Here's a link to the Open Beta for Flashes (iOS-only for now)
Here's a link to the Open Beta for Flashes (iOS-only for now)
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:
Read: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Listen:
She
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull - Topic
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 12:56 AM
It isn't that stars disappear but whole constellations
Mixed up this pink for a Californian sky
January 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Mixed up this pink for a Californian sky
Oh Okami ✨🩷
January 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Oh Okami ✨🩷
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For more information on the situation, we have set up an FAQ here :
princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
#SaveThePCC
princecharlescinema.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
For more information on the situation, we have set up an FAQ here :
princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
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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...
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
#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...
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...
Today was a day with a lot of green going on
January 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Today was a day with a lot of green going on
I guess... I'll give it ten minutes... before I walk to the studio.
January 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I guess... I'll give it ten minutes... before I walk to the studio.
Preparing to make some additional large works to supplement what I already have for my March show and give me more options on the final selection.
January 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Preparing to make some additional large works to supplement what I already have for my March show and give me more options on the final selection.
Painted this fox a week or so ago just before hearing @chrisgpackham.bsky.social speak at Rebecca Hossack gallery. After catching up on yesterday's executive order to pull out of the Paris Agreement, I now feel the mood this painting all the more.
January 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Painted this fox a week or so ago just before hearing @chrisgpackham.bsky.social speak at Rebecca Hossack gallery. After catching up on yesterday's executive order to pull out of the Paris Agreement, I now feel the mood this painting all the more.
Watching Queer. Luca Guadagnino is not as good a director as he thinks he is. He has no feel for time passing.
January 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Watching Queer. Luca Guadagnino is not as good a director as he thinks he is. He has no feel for time passing.
Today I realised that Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960) and Roadhouse (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) are essentially the same movie.
January 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Today I realised that Pollyanna (David Swift, 1960) and Roadhouse (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) are essentially the same movie.
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For a guy old enough to have been etched by Rembrandt, Mick Hucknall is looking pretty good.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Rembrandt etching exhibition to open in Birmingham
Birmingham Museums says it will present the full range of the artist's etching output.
www.bbc.com
January 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
For a guy old enough to have been etched by Rembrandt, Mick Hucknall is looking pretty good.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...