Aleks Koutny
@koutny.bsky.social
art historian | author | tutor at cambridge uni | VISUAL CULTURES OF DEATH (out now) | https://www.instagram.com/aleksauthor/ | photo by Philippa James
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.
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 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
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
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...
On until Sunday 1st June: 'A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska' @hundredheroines.org . Ania Ready and two artists’ collectives have created photographic responses to Sophie’s work, including a display that also references the paintings of Susanna by the Italian artist #Artemisia #Gentileschi
May 31, 2025 at 8:04 AM
On until Sunday 1st June: 'A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska' @hundredheroines.org . Ania Ready and two artists’ collectives have created photographic responses to Sophie’s work, including a display that also references the paintings of Susanna by the Italian artist #Artemisia #Gentileschi
Another portrait from the #Wyspiański #exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London: this one is of the actress Irena Solska in Japanese-style dress. It was drawn in 1904, the year she performed at the #Lviv Theatre in a production of 'Skarb' (Treasure) by the Lviv poet Leopold Staff.
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Another portrait from the #Wyspiański #exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London: this one is of the actress Irena Solska in Japanese-style dress. It was drawn in 1904, the year she performed at the #Lviv Theatre in a production of 'Skarb' (Treasure) by the Lviv poet Leopold Staff.
On until 13th July: bold and evocative pastel #portraits by the #Polish modernist artist Stanisław #Wyspiański (1869-1907), a free #exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, #London
May 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
On until 13th July: bold and evocative pastel #portraits by the #Polish modernist artist Stanisław #Wyspiański (1869-1907), a free #exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, #London
Rembrandt's earliest known paintings, depicting the Five Senses, on display at the Museum De Lakenhal in #Leiden, the #Netherlands
April 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Rembrandt's earliest known paintings, depicting the Five Senses, on display at the Museum De Lakenhal in #Leiden, the #Netherlands
April 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Follow the signs to find this exquisite Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Fra Angelico, newly acquired and on display at the Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford. It is painted in egg tempera on wood and still has its original #frame @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Follow the signs to find this exquisite Renaissance painting by the Italian artist Fra Angelico, newly acquired and on display at the Ashmolean Museum, #Oxford. It is painted in egg tempera on wood and still has its original #frame @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
Now open: 'Stanisław Wyspiański: Portraits' #exhibition. Travelling to the UK for the first time, 16 of Stanisław Wyspiański’s most admired portraits, many of which have never been seen outside Poland, will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk/whatson/disp...
March 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Now open: 'Stanisław Wyspiański: Portraits' #exhibition. Travelling to the UK for the first time, 16 of Stanisław Wyspiański’s most admired portraits, many of which have never been seen outside Poland, will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk/whatson/disp...
Walking in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter's Tailor of Gloucester today
March 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Walking in the footsteps of Beatrix Potter's Tailor of Gloucester today