Aleks Koutny
@koutny.bsky.social
art historian | author | tutor at cambridge uni | VISUAL CULTURES OF DEATH IN CENTRAL EUROPE (out now) | https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/aleks-koutny/ | photo by Philippa James
Listening to the raindrops as I write made me think of 'Cab in the Rain' by Polish artist Józef Pankiewicz. Painted in 1896, but it feels so immediate. This artwork is in the collections of the National Museum in Kraków. Can you spot the cab?
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Listening to the raindrops as I write made me think of 'Cab in the Rain' by Polish artist Józef Pankiewicz. Painted in 1896, but it feels so immediate. This artwork is in the collections of the National Museum in Kraków. Can you spot the cab?
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We are very excited to announce the launch of our new digital library platform which will host all of our digital content, including curated exhibitions and featured collections. Find out more here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/?cid= #EYADigital
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We are very excited to announce the launch of our new digital library platform which will host all of our digital content, including curated exhibitions and featured collections. Find out more here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/?cid= #EYADigital
Sorting out my reviews folder and found these cover shots of recent issues of the Burlington Magazine that I've contributed to. Meanwhile, the current issue explores the latest findings about the work of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi: www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sorting out my reviews folder and found these cover shots of recent issues of the Burlington Magazine that I've contributed to. Meanwhile, the current issue explores the latest findings about the work of the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi: www.burlington.org.uk/current-issue
Going through my photos from the fascinating 'Anatomy of Antiquity: The Body and Movement in Sculpture' #exhibition at the Royal Castle, #Warsaw, which I saw this summer. It explored, among others, the legacy of classical art in 18th and 19th-century Europe.
November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Going through my photos from the fascinating 'Anatomy of Antiquity: The Body and Movement in Sculpture' #exhibition at the Royal Castle, #Warsaw, which I saw this summer. It explored, among others, the legacy of classical art in 18th and 19th-century Europe.
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MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Just visited the excellent 'John le Carré: Tradecraft' #exhibition at the Weston Library, #Oxford, which presents le Carré's literary work in an international context and draws upon extensive archival material from the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just visited the excellent 'John le Carré: Tradecraft' #exhibition at the Weston Library, #Oxford, which presents le Carré's literary work in an international context and draws upon extensive archival material from the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
'Marie Antoinette Style' @vamuseum.bsky.social features objects that are both sumptuous and moving, guiding you through MA's life, dramatic death, as well as her 'afterlives' in art and film, using sensory exhibits in key places. Plenty of stunning jewellery, fans, porcelain and lavish gowns!
October 17, 2025 at 9:57 AM
'Marie Antoinette Style' @vamuseum.bsky.social features objects that are both sumptuous and moving, guiding you through MA's life, dramatic death, as well as her 'afterlives' in art and film, using sensory exhibits in key places. Plenty of stunning jewellery, fans, porcelain and lavish gowns!
Bookings are now open for my 7-week online Art Theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which will run from 27th Oct to 14th Dec 2025. We will explore how art has been written and thought about from classical antiquity to the modern era. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Bookings are now open for my 7-week online Art Theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which will run from 27th Oct to 14th Dec 2025. We will explore how art has been written and thought about from classical antiquity to the modern era. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...
Just opened: Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at Cantor Arts Centre
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026
Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior
museum.stanford.edu
September 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Just opened: Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior at Cantor Arts Centre
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026
museum.stanford.edu/exhibitions/...
September 17, 2025–January 25, 2026
Just visited the recently-opened new building of the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) - vast rooms containing a range of 20th and 21st-century art, with stunning views towards the Palace of Culture
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Just visited the recently-opened new building of the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw) - vast rooms containing a range of 20th and 21st-century art, with stunning views towards the Palace of Culture
Spotted in Ghent: the house where Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer lived when he stayed in the city in the 1520s
September 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Spotted in Ghent: the house where Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer lived when he stayed in the city in the 1520s
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Join us this evening for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition!
🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI
🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI
Join us for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition! Our panel of experts will 'dissect’ the medieval body, revealing how our ancestors thought their bodies functioned.
⏰12 August, 7-8pm
📍Online
🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI
⏰12 August, 7-8pm
📍Online
🔗Register: https://loom.ly/ck4iTmI
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Join us this evening for an online discussion inspired by our Curious Cures exhibition!
🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI
🔗Register: loom.ly/ck4iTmI
The 'Discovering Dürer' #exhibition has just closed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It showcased the printmaking of the Northern #Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer, and gave an insight into the conservation of historic printed images @fitzmuseum.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The 'Discovering Dürer' #exhibition has just closed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. It showcased the printmaking of the Northern #Renaissance artist, Albrecht Dürer, and gave an insight into the conservation of historic printed images @fitzmuseum.bsky.social
CURIOUS CURES: MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD free #exhibition on until 6th December at the University Library, #Cambridge - highly recommended @theul.bsky.social!
August 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
CURIOUS CURES: MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD free #exhibition on until 6th December at the University Library, #Cambridge - highly recommended @theul.bsky.social!
A couple of intriguing literary objects on display at the TREASURED exhibition, now on at the Weston Library, #Oxford: a gold and coral rattle which belonged to the infant Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a portrait of Mary Shelley painted from a death mask @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
August 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A couple of intriguing literary objects on display at the TREASURED exhibition, now on at the Weston Library, #Oxford: a gold and coral rattle which belonged to the infant Percy Bysshe Shelley, and a portrait of Mary Shelley painted from a death mask @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible
Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...
www.lib.cam.ac.uk
August 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Over 3 years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has conserved, catalogued and digitised 190 manuscripts, containing 7000+ pages of medieval medical recipes. These recipes are now freely available on Cambridge Digital Library: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/curi...
Bookings are open for my online art theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which starts in October 2025. The course is suitable for those who are new to art history, as well as students who have studied it before. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Bookings are open for my online art theory course at PACE, University of Cambridge, which starts in October 2025. The course is suitable for those who are new to art history, as well as students who have studied it before. More info here: www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/appr...
Modern art collection at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge
July 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Modern art collection at the Møller Institute, Churchill College, Cambridge
Farne Islands, Northumberland. Inner Farne is famous for puffins, kittiwakes and arctic terns, as well as the medieval St Cuthbert's Chapel which, surprisingly, has 17th-century woodwork from Durham Cathedral. There's also a monument to Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from a shipwreck in 1838.
July 30, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Farne Islands, Northumberland. Inner Farne is famous for puffins, kittiwakes and arctic terns, as well as the medieval St Cuthbert's Chapel which, surprisingly, has 17th-century woodwork from Durham Cathedral. There's also a monument to Grace Darling, who rescued survivors from a shipwreck in 1838.
Starts tomorrow: my one-week course on art collecting at the International Summer Programme for PACE, Uni of Cambridge.
July 20, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Starts tomorrow: my one-week course on art collecting at the International Summer Programme for PACE, Uni of Cambridge.
Ceramic highlights (decorative tiles and 18th-century vases and plates) from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, a port city on the Baltic coast
July 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ceramic highlights (decorative tiles and 18th-century vases and plates) from the National Museum in Gdańsk, Poland, a port city on the Baltic coast
Just a few more days to catch this free #exhibition - 'The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making' - @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social Well worth it!
July 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Just a few more days to catch this free #exhibition - 'The Carracci Cartoons: Myths in the Making' - @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social Well worth it!
New open-access publication of historic sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century, free to download from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...
June 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
New open-access publication of historic sermons by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century, free to download from @degruyterbrill.bsky.social brill.com/display/titl...
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A painting by renowned Polish artist Jacek Malczewski has sold for 22.2 million zloty (€5.2 million) – a new record for an artwork sold in Poland.
A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.
A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.
Malczewski painting becomes Poland’s most expensive artwork after €5.2m sale
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June 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A painting by renowned Polish artist Jacek Malczewski has sold for 22.2 million zloty (€5.2 million) – a new record for an artwork sold in Poland.
A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.
A previous sale - also for a record price - collapsed amid doubts over the legality of the work's ownership, which have now been dismissed.
Reposted by Aleks Koutny
Christ teaching the elders in the Temple, from The Small Travel Book (a portable Ruthenian breviary) printed by Francis Skaryna in Vilnius (1522)
June 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Christ teaching the elders in the Temple, from The Small Travel Book (a portable Ruthenian breviary) printed by Francis Skaryna in Vilnius (1522)